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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • It’s ironic to watch the self-delusions unfold in countries that have working multi-party voting systems, and a dedicated green party. In self-interest/status quo preservation, voters avoid them like the plague because “they are too extreme”, and rather vote for some other party that puts up a fake eco-friendly front based on some technological pipe dream & shoveling off responsibilities to other countries.

    Previous election in Norway (late 2021), the green party were the only ones who went to election with a pledge to stop search&test drilling for new oil fields (extraction from the currently running & newly prospected oil fields will run well into the 2050’s)- they got below 4% of the votes, and no other party wanted to include them in negotiations for forming a government, because they were “too extreme”.

    Today, the foreign minister of the government lead the Dubai climate negotiations and pretended to be disappointed that other countries blocked the term “end our dependency on fossil fuel”, and that they had to compromise for something vaguer like “start the transition away from fossil fuel” or something like that…

    It’s common for the people who vote these stooges into office to say stuff like “the politicians aren’t doing enough to combat the climate crisis”. The hypocrisy lies thick in the air.






    • Don’t code in a language/style that requires you to write code that makes prefixing necessary - divide and conquer instead
    • Readable code and well written unit/BDD tests is much better than separate documentation that will go out of sync the minute another Dev does some surgical incision into the code
    • Be verbose if you need to in order to convey the relevant semantics, the characters are virtually free
    • Use the casing that is mainstream/recommended by its’ developers for the language at hand