People forget that crashes are a debugging tool indicating an error. Silent errors can be much more dangerous. C and C++ in particular need to be careful not to overwrite random memory for example.

Yes the consequences for JS failures are less severe and so JS can get away with it, but a crash is a way to know your program isn’t doing what you thought it was, properly.

It just so happens that JS is used in contexts where nobody really cares, and errors aren’t a big deal, cheap and fast wins.

Fact: most fictional media takes place on earth. They clearly mean the lore will be shared.

That makes it funnier if true, either the entitled fuck thought he could get in coming late or he got there early but was too much of a dweeb.

I’ll acknowledge my comment was rude, you are expressing humility now that wasn’t present in your original assertive message. You hopefully have a better understanding now.

This misinformation about national debt that you unintentionally spread is used by conservatives around the world to deny people services

Some people when faced with an overly simple explanation doubt their own understanding and try to see why experts and academics say otherwise.

Others assume they know better than the experts and everyone is an idiot but them.

Maybe you know a lot about a topic, and see others choose one of those paths when questioning your area of expertise.

Which kind of person do you want to be?

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One thing we overlook in ideological debates is that most forms of socialism and communism would have no use for advertising and marketing. Imagine all this effort going to productive endeavors and having an IRL adblock.

May my last online purchase be a beret.

While this is true, it’s not difficult to verify. You can inspect the network traffic through your router from that device and see whether it’s communicating more often or with larger data packets while you’re talking near but not to it.

That could be obfuscated with a powerful enough device that’s able to maintain the user profile locally and by sending the full profile each time, or by trickling the information out bit by bit as part of a regular heartbeat traffic, but that would require more expensive hardware and would eat up a lot more bandwidth.

Not impossible, but not undetectable either. I’m willing to bet that studies have been done.

Skepticism is good but without thinking through it, experimenting, or doing research to back it up it’s just paranoia. Conversely you could say my trust that others would have looked into it is naive.

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Italian fascism, i.e. the iconic original fascism, absolutely had corporatism as part of its definition. To their credit, it involved not just business owners and employers but included employees at the table, which is better than American billionaire oligarchy.

It’s not the universal and core definition of fascism but that’s not what I said, it’s an alternate definition which has applied to historical fascist regimes. Fascism is a far right ideology. It’s not just classes and hierarchy or authoritarian government and nationalism, it’s a fuzzy intermingling of many of those things.

The “simple” part of the definition is that it’s a far-right authoritarian regime, which contradicts the oversimplification at the top of this thread.

Fair points, a video response for a definition dispute that isn’t even concise is definitely an odd choice.

Nevertheless it’s good for us all to think about what these terms mean because when the dust settles on this Trump crisis we will really need to think long and hard about what the world needs to look like moving forward.

Considering the issue resolved by voting out or otherwise removing Trump, by attributing the problem to him or to Putin’s influence over him, or any other premature celebration of his removal without systemic change will leave us in effectively the same place.

Fascism is also sometimes described as a union of corporations and the state, I think that definition is very closely aligned with the American oligarchy and with Musk in particular. All of that must be cleaned up when the people regain control, not just Trump. Without systemic political and economic change at best we buy another 100 years.

The pattern of inviting Fascism to roost every few decades with developments in technology is not going to end well. Even this iteration may be what destroys us all.

that person is right. The term for an authoritarian government is… Authoritarianism. Stalin’s USSR was arguably authoritarian but it wasn’t fascist.

Fascism is more precise, it’s a far-right ideology and includes an economic aspect to its definition. I’m not going to link a video or anything else because this is a simple definition that you can easily find.

but surely we have to go back to the Sassanids to find an analogue for current events

how many iterations until you get a minute of video you’re happy with?

I’m sorry I’ve been dragging them into the theater and making them play games they don’t want to play, it’s my fault

and “paralyze”

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In the off chance that domestic producers can make those goods at a price cheaper than overseas_cost+25% guess what they’ll charge? The same high price.

I have such a hard time getting used to “positive anymore”

You’re standpilling my argument.

Anyway I’ll drop it and move on but the thread is about critiquing our society by way of movie references, which is on topic for what I’m saying and kinda proves my point.