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@wearykevin19 @LundukeJournal You could’ve cited reified generics, lack of value types, the kludginess of JNI, or any one of a million other things… But, instead, your “big own” is the internal naming convention used by the JVM?

@LundukeJournal C# is Java but better. If you've ever encountered "clazz" as a parameter in Java you know why. Some MS bloat? Sure, but some of the Java decisions are insane.

It’s true. The syntax (and many design decisions) of C# was heavily influenced by Java. In the 1990s Microsoft had their own Java IDE (Visual J++) which added a lot of Microsoft specific functionality. Sun took Microsoft to court, and Microsoft settled… agreeing to stop making Java dev tools. So Microsoft created a “Java-ish” language. C#. In essence, C# was a big “middle finger salute” to Sun. Fun tidbit: The code name for the C# language and project was “COOL” (C-like Object Oriented Language), and used the “.cool” file extension.

@ImHikingToday @HodlMagoo @djthiel411 @Thisworks09 Sorry when we do what?

@HodlMagoo @djthiel411 @Thisworks09 Oh so you don’t even matter. When we win you aren’t allowed back.

You know how stupid the general population is? They just went through draconian Covid lock down measures and are about to allow the government to mandate remote kill switches in all new vehicles.

This is the type of brainrot I’m here for 🤣

@TheDefiantGhost This wins the lowest IQ post of the month award 😂😂😂

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou dropped the scariest sleeper agent story you’ll ever hear. The Russians (and others) take kids basically from birth, rip them from their families, and raise them in fake American towns deep in Russia. American food, American TV, perfect American accent — the whole thing. Then they steal the identity of a dead American baby, get them a legit passport and Social Security number, and drop them into the U.S. They live normal lives for decades — travel agent, dad, neighbor, until one day they get “activated.”A coded radio message. Or a stranger whispering in their ear on the subway: “Report back… or I have to kill you.” One guy turned himself in to the FBI the second his daughter was born. He couldn’t do it anymore. This stuff is happening. How many “Americans” around you right now are actually waiting for that call?

Allow me to rock your world. America has about 6000 hospitals. 5121 of those are publicly accessible and 1224 are completely free. That's twice as many charity hospitals as Canada has Tim Horton's. Literally. Then, when you see a doctor, the doctor speaks English and went to school somewhere you've heard of. Harvard is not the only way to get educated, but it is nice in the fall. We don't push people into medically assisted suicide for cost reasons. We don't ask people with emergency conditions to sit in the ER for 10 hours before they see a doctor. So yes, if you have a cutting-edge disease and you go to a private hospital and get the best care in the world, you're on the hook for it. But note that you are also ALIVE.

@shagbark_hick Also, going back to your example, religion is actually a GREAT example of this. It allowed humanity to survive and thrive through generations of hardship. And every time it faltered was ALWAYS caused by humans (the centralized, organized Church) entering the equation.

@shagbark_hick So to solve society we need a way to bring that into modern paradigms. And get rid of human leaders entirely because they are the weakest link; they can and will act unpredictably (and we’ve seen this play out every single time).

One thing that reverting to Catholicism has taught me is that civilization is GOOD. I say this as a former anarcho-primitivist 'doomer' who used to wish for the system to collapse. In actual fact, our system is pretty good, and we'd do far better to fix it than to let it burn. My own sojourns into places where "the system" really has collapsed have convinced me that a "zero-public-good society" is in no way desirable, and we are better to strive to hold onto the public goods we still have. For example, if the government is cynical, the answer ought not to be to abolish it but to infuse it and its leaders with real virtue. I do suspect that only the Church can do this effectively. If public spaces are riddled with crime, and things like parks, libraries, public baths, or inner-city neighborhoods are unusable because of it -- clean them up rather than retreating to the countryside; overcome whatever forces have ravaged the city and make it great rather than assuming that such cannot be done. If the education system is failing, we should fix it rather than throwing our hands up, withdrawing from society, and glorifying a kind of atomized recreation of the function of the school system at the scale of the family. Far better to have functional public (or better still: religious) schools whose function is to impart lasting virtue on the students above all, and again -- the Church is best-suited to this task. If the food system is pumping out poison, can we fix it instead of abandoning the useful parts of it and withdrawing into survivalist seclusion? If the medical system is corrupt, can we reform it to use the full weight of what the medical arts has to offer instead of retreating into borderline superstitious medical practices? Again, the Church can amply help with these ends, and should. It seems very common for Americans of a certain type to engage in "bunker" style thinking, and to not only indulge but to actually valorize a genuinely anti-civilizational impulse. The "bunker" people actually think you are stupid, if not malignant, if you express any hope in the idea of the public good. The mentality seems to be: "everyone is evil except for the handful of us who are 'in the know,' the sheeple don't get it, let the system crash and burn, become self-sufficient because the very idea of civilization and public good is actually impossible." This mentality may be compatible with (or even caused by) certain strains of informal, primitive, low-church Protestantism -- but from all I have learned from the Church about human nature and the purpose of human society, these ideas are totally incompatible with the Catholic idea of civilization. Though I am a natural "libertarian," at day's end, I cannot help but admit that a robust network of commonly-held systems for the public good is FAR preferable to some sort of anarchic, anti-civilizational network of private, atomized enclaves.

Gaddafi agreed to this and then he was sodomized to death and now you can buy slaves in Tripoli

There is no mass awakening. If there was one people wouldn't allow criminals to rule over them. You have no freedoms. The government only exists to plunder and enslave. That's it.

@Will_W_Welker We don’t do that in the country. That’s the most cityboy shit I’ve ever heard in my life. In the country dogs are used for hunting, herding, transportation, etc etc etc

@lavenderleaf86 If you come to the country, keep your dog on a leash.

Dear City People: When you come to the country and let your dog out for a walk, but never see it again, this is what happened to it...

@yacineMTB It really isn’t if you think about it and play out a few scenarios in your head. Society and morality drastically overcomplicated it but on an animalistic biologic level it’s pretty simple.

Abortion is such a crazy concept

@lmilsfsd @LundukeJournal And “solving today’s real world problems” is churning out Electron slop? Because real companies lose real money (in the millions) daily from all the lost productivity waiting for Slack and Microsoft products to load. These things don’t solve problems, they create jobs.

It's time to move on. Enjoy collecting, tinkering, and the nostalgia, but one's intellectual capacity and finite resources are best spent solving today's real world problems, not satisfying impulses for the late 90s in 2026. There are so few individuals per capita with abilities like yourself. The brain drain into fruitless endeavors is a very real issue in our society.

Up until a few years ago, we were able to browse the modern web, on a PowerPC “Classic” MacOS (MacOS 8/9) system, using a port of Firefox. This is no longer possible. Not because a G3, G4, or G5 systems running MacOS 9 are not beefy enough to handle the task (far from it)… but because of forced (deliberate) obsolescence by software developers. In this case, Mozilla injected a new (*still* unfinished) programming language (Rust) into Firefox. And Rust doesn’t support PowerPC Macs. Thus making a port of any version *after* the inclusion of Rust increasingly (and pointlessly) difficult. Add on top of that the ever changing standards around HTTPS, which render browsers only a few years old… effectively unable to use the modern web. Anyone who has tried to use Netscape recently knows what I mean. Again. Those changes are not because of CPU, RAM, or Operating System limitations. Purely artificial, forced constraints. This isn’t a problem unique to PPC Macs. Similar problems exist with recent UNIX workstations, Windows 2000, and even Linux from only a FEW years back. In some cases these forced constraints and limitations are simply a failure of developers. In other cases it is a deliberate choice… forced obsolescence. Either way… it makes me grumpy.

@leahfiles Lmfao

Meet Henry Cueller, a Congressman from Texas. His story is unhinged. Yesterday 42 Democrats crossed over and voted with the Republicans to continue warrantless spying on Americans. 38 of them changed their mind from two weeks ago, so I started there and found our boy Henry. In May 2024 a Federal grand jury in Houston hands down a 54-page indictment. 14 counts including Bribery, Conspiracy to bribe, Money laundering, Conspiracy to launder, Wire fraud conspiracy, and acting as a secret agent of a foreign government. All while sitting on the House Appropriations Committee. Over seven years he took $600 thousand dollars in bribes from two sources. Azerbaijan's state oil company, and a Mexican bank called Banco Azteca. The money was laundered through fake consulting contracts into shell companies owned by his wife. The companies are IRC Business Solutions and Global Gold Group. His own chief of staff Colin Strother was paid $11K a month from the Mexican bank. Strother kept a thousand and walked $10K straight to the wife FOR TWO YEARS. They claimed it was for testing a Mexican fuel additive that didn't exist. And the indictment quotes the Azerbaijani diplomat texting Cuellar, "You are the best el Jefe" right after Cuellar slipped pro-Azerbaijan language into a bill. They spent the bribe money on credit cards, taxes, and a $12K custom gown. His chief of staff, the middleman consultant, was an Azerbaijani national in Houston. All three pleaded guilty before trial and Cueller was looking at decades in prison. Then on December 3rd 2025, Donald Trump issues a full and unconditional pardon to the Democrat, saying "the Biden DOJ was weaponized" LOL, hypocritical but okay. But, all this evidence and Trump pardons him. All 14 counts erased for not only money laundering, but acting as a foreign agent for a government. If this doesn't tell you anything about how bought our elected officials are, then I don't know what to tell you. Five months later, Cuellar votes yes on letting Trump's FBI read every American's text without a warrant. Wonder why?? These Congressmen need a reality check. We are not allowing corrupt criminals to continue representing us. Texas, this one is yours to vote out.

@ThatDubGuy @rawsalerts And if they’re banned from that then it won’t continue? 😂

@rawsalerts Great, but the stock market is their real prediction market. Until they are banned from that, the insider trading will continue.

🚨#BREAKING: The United States Senate has unanimously voted to ban its members and staff from trading on prediction markets.

@shagbark_hick Yup, same experience when my family moved to a wealthier area in my final 2 years of HS. The shift was mind boggling. My previous school was ghetto, dangerous etc but we were young adults with ideas, common sense, etc. The new one was basically elementary school all over again.

@lavenderleaf86 For real. Years ago I briefly attended a very high-end liberal arts college on a massive scholarship, and pretty uniformly, my classmates were all degenerates, neurotics, coke heads, etc. Most had trusts and so forth

Would this mean that rich kids themselves are a "psyop"? I've met plenty of very wealthy kids, trust-funders, etc, and I've never been impressed. This doesn't strike me as any kind of a contrivance or a conspiracy. It just seems like observable reality.