John Purcell

@JohnCleese In no way, shape or form is Viktor Orbán a dictator. Sorry but that's just crazy. Whatever you're reading, it's a pile of hysterical garbage and I recommend not reading it.

The appalling fact is The Trump administration is now the enemy of democracy Supporting dictators like Putin, Orban, and Lukashenko AGAINST the democratic governments of America's former Western allies When are the Americans going to realise that Trump is a Russian agent ?

@ByDonkeys The amazing thing is, at no point did any of you say "Hang on, this is so lame, it makes us look like idiots".

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

@SocialistVoice @itvcorrie She is an icon. Suck it up.

Maureen Lipman is a racist Zionist bigot. She hates Muslims, does not believe Palestinian civilians have a right to return to their native lands, and refuses to work with anyone who is pro-Palestinian Yet @itvcorrie lauds this vile old hag as an icon rather than sack her

In the form of Rupert Lowe Britain's finally got a leader who promises to expel the worst immigrants but isn't trying to get rid of all brown people and isn't antisemitic. Not sure why it's taken so long. I hope he wins at the next election.

@antonioguterres You're saying the thing that brought us global stability and prosperity needs to be got rid of.

The world’s addiction to fossil fuels is one of the greatest threats to global stability & prosperity. That’s why I am calling for a dedicated global platform to deliver a fair, orderly, affordable transition plan away from fossil fuels aligned with 1.5 degrees objectives. Let’s make the clean energy transition unstoppable.

I always used to find Nazis endlessly funny. Leaving aside the death camps and war etc., they're really hilarious. The SJWs came along and they were a gift to comedy, but I missed the obsession with Jews that Nazis had. Now the lefties have gone antisemitic they're perfect.

@LundukeJournal @freebsd Fashlibre 😂😂😂

The Tech Journalist at OSNews is declaring that @freebsd can “go f**k itself” for including an open source X11 server (XLibre, which that Tech Journalist refers to as “fashlibre”… in reaction to the lead developer not being a Leftist) in a FreeBSD repository. This sort of vulgarity and bias (against anything non-Leftist) is overwhelmingly common among Tech Journalists.

@UKLabour There's no freedom of speech, you bunch of jokers. The country is a nightmare. The only way it's turning any corner is if you're gone.

This is the year Britain turns the corner.

@SamaHoole The "science" behind this switch was always lacking.

>Be butter >Used by humans for 10,000 years >The ideal fuel source >1960s: declared public enemy >Replaced with margarine and seed oils >Heart disease explodes >Diabetes epidemic begins >Obesity crisis accelerates >2015: trans fats finally banned >"Oops, margarine was killing you" >No apologies >You were always safe >They were always lying

@dhh Both have their uses. I use Python now for scripts but recently got into Rust, which goes crazy with the static typing, and it's actually quite nice.

One of the longest running schisms in programming is that of static vs dynamic typing. I've heard a million arguments from both sides throughout my entire career, but seen very few of them ever convinced anyone of anything. As rationalizations masquerading as reason rarely do in matters of faith. The rider will always justify the way of the elephant. That's not to say there aren't people who've switched camps. In fact, such individuals usually shout the loudest rationalizations of all. Often with the charm of a livelong omnivore suddenly turning vegan or a traditional banker who caught a lucky ride on crypto. The shorter the faith, the brighter the flame. Personally, I'm unashamedly a dynamic typing kind of guy. That's why I love Ruby so very much. It takes full advantage of dynamic typing to allow the poetic syntax that results in such beautiful code. To me, Ruby with explicit, static typing would be like a salad with a scoop of ice cream. They just don't go together. I'll also confess to having embraced the evangelical position for dynamic typing in the past. To the point of suffering from a One True Proposition affliction. Seeing the lack of enthusiasm for dynamic typing as a reflection of missing education, experience, or perhaps even competence. Oh what folly. Like trying to convince an introvert that they'd really like parties if they'd just loosen up a bit. That actually it's really fun to be in crowded rooms, for hours on end, shouting to communicate, because how about that VIBE! These days, I've come to appreciate the magnificence of multiplicity. Programming would be an awful endeavor if we were all confined to the same paradigm. Human nature is much too varied to accept such constraint on its creativity. Could you imagine if all visual art had to be rendered in the style of cubism? Or realism? Or all novels written in the short, direct flavor of Hemmingway? What a bore it would all quickly be! It would ruin the magic of programming. This unique fusion of art and engineering. But it took a while for me to come to these conclusions. I'm a recovering solutionist. So when I see folks cross their heart in disbelief that anyone, anywhere might fancy JavaScript over TypeScript, I smile, and I remember the days when I'd recognize their zeal in the mirror. That's not to say all matters of programming approaches boil down to equal but different mindsets. There are limits to this relativism. But dynamic vs static typing is certain within its confines. So too is functional vs object-oriented programming. Poles on both these axes have shown to deliver excellent software over the decades (and awful stuff too!). Now people are blessed with a capacity to express themselves equally well from either end. Such ambidextrous nature seems rare, though, as evidenced by the utter disbelief so frequently expressed by either side that the other might hold a reasonable position. I am not ambidextrous. I do not enjoy static typing, and objects animate my mind's eye. But I have come to appreciate the fact that others illuminate their creativity with just as much intensity as I do mine, using functional programming constraints and explicitly spelled out types. As long as I never have to soil my Ruby with type hints or write all front-end code in TypeScript, I can so happily coexist with those who adore Go or can't stand JavaScript. Vive la différence!

Since Elon Musk put Grok in charge of tweets, some of my parody posts get 10K likes and I've got 40,000 followers. People think I'm rage baiting but I literally just like saying stupid stuff.

@LundukeJournal I've been learning it and make videos on it for a while. Seems pretty good. The worst thing I've encountered is the problem of accessing methods of persistent entities in callbacks. Apart from that, not bad. Community sounds absolutely dreadful. I hope I never come across them.

Rust is a Cult Followers of the Church of Rust check almost every possible box in the "Is This a Cult" list: Discouraged dissent, unethical behavior, delusions, self-sacrifice, information control, & more.

@KingVelesI @RustyE83 @beggarsticks This would be my fear with it, since Grok seems to think botulism exactly results from canning at too low a temperature, too little time or too low a pressure. It looks great though. Hope you are doing it safely.

@RustyE83 @beggarsticks Botulism bacteria can't survive pressure canning — that's one of the big pros of the method.

"How do you keep your meat from spoiling without a refrigerator?" We pressure can it — you cut the meat up, pack it into jars, and cook it in a pressure canner (which is essentially just a big sealed pot). No electricity required. Delicious and lasts virtually forever. "Sounds labor-intensive compared to refrigeration!" Quite the contrary — pressure canning is labor-EFFICIENT, as you're combining storage with batch cooking. When you're hungry, you just open a jar and your meal is ready. A big thank you to all the folks who suggested pressure canning back when we inquired about meat preservation methods — your advice made a huge difference!

@HannahDCox I was going to type the following but somehow I made myself slightly nauseous: "I don't care about intelligence, careers, hierarchies, education or any of that stuff. I care if someone's nice." Anyway looks like I have typed it.

Smart men don’t marry bimbos because that would be a very, very stupid thing to do. The men claiming they don’t care about intelligence, education, or status are just revealing where they’re at on the hierarchy more than anything else.

The people who keep banging on about Palestine should just go and live in Palestine. Funny how a lot of people have simply switched from obsessing over the climate to their new obsession of Palestine. Almost like they've got to have some idiot cause to make life worthwhile.

@Glinner @PeterTatchell Thank God I didn't grow up in this fucked up tribe he mentions.

Now that we are acknowledging reality, are people going to finally wake up and realise that @PeterTatchell is a paedophile activist who seems to keep visiting schools?

@DawnTJ90 There's no end to the horrors of climate change!

📢 Climate Scientists Say.... 🚨 Climate Change: Noisier Oceans 🙉 Climate Change will lead to a 7db increase in underwater sound levels by the end of the century. 😳

@thedarkhorsepod @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying Well said. You can very well sense that certain people have a strong need to appear "reasonable", and that will ultimately limit what they can think, and what they believe can be said. Many people like free speech but not when they hear things they consider unreasonable.

Greetings from Podcastistan — @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying discuss a hostage situation in Podcastistan on Episode #272 of The Evolutionary Lens. They explore the strange about-face of some prominent free speech warriors. 00:00 Douglas Murray on Bill Maher 03:15 Douglas Murray for NY Post 05:37 Standards for Podcasts? 06:29 Discussion: How We Reach Conclusions 11:05 Were We Duped? 13:07 You Can’t Just Get Rid of the Woke 14:48 Taking Bari Weiss to Task 16:24 Anti-Semitism on Twitter 18:53 The Only Path Forward Find more from The Evolutionary Lens Episode #272, "Rise of the Cosplaymanauts" wherever you subscribe to podcasts.

Nah they did the right thing. I wouldn't let them in either.

@mattyranks You've got a protest with a bunch of people who support terrorists who want to wipe out Israel. I don't understand how this can possibly make sense to anyone. There are very few far-right people in Britain who hate Jews as much as Hamas.