You seem to think that letting the more genocidal republicans win would encourage the democrats to be less genocidal, which is bizarre.

They move right when they lose to compete with the republicans because the republicans win with a right wing strategy.

If the democrats won all the time, the republicans would have to move left just to regain power, and the Overton window would move left.

Not voting for the democrats in order to move them left is insanity. They will respond by copying the more successful electoral strategy.

Now my spine is all tingly and I don’t know what it means. I’m having some really weird feelings right now.

In the nineties it produced the cleanest .rtf output of all the editors. Word makes toxic .rtf that unnecessarily turns formatting off and on at every line break and elsewhere too.

If it weren’t for wordpad I wouldn’t have learned how to output .rtf from my code.

RIP WordPad.

Now I had a mischievous long chuckle on the bus and the old ladies near me are a bit worried about me!

Indeed, indeed.

No need to apologise for posting c++ in the channel. The programming world owes a lot to Prof. Stroustrup. I enjoyed your reply a great deal.

You have two choices: firstly, a regular regular attribute, where you can Suckable myThing; and myThing.CheckAndSuck; etc to your heart’s content, and indeed no global variables are being sucked.

But you can also declare static bool unsucked; and what is a class variable if not a global variable by another name?

In fact, what is to stop your innocent-sounding accessor method from nuking the filesystem or calling memLeak.recurse();?

I’m not sure that these things keep you up at night, but you have my sympathy if they do.

If there was anything I could do to help you relax after a stressful day of multiple inheritance and manual memory management, I would.

Well, except that of course. I mean, we all draw the line somewhere.

Unless we’ve had too much to drink or smoked too much weed, in which case boundaries seem less important at the time.

One time in college, my friend…

but no, that’s another story for another thread.

Your naming advice is universally good.

However, if this was a functional programming language, there wouldn’t be any mutable global variables to be unaware were being examined, nor could Suck do any sucking unless it were passed the thing to suck and returned the sucked thing.

In this way the subtle class of bugs that you both are warning against would be impossible to introduce.

Depending on the kind of sucking that Suck does, however, you may perceive the global invisibility and availability of the sucking as an advantage in this case. But possibly not if the code is your girlfriend/boyfriend.

Republicans: literally write “finish them” on Israeli bombs.

Lemmy.ml users: the important thing to learn here is not to vote for the more leftwing candidate. Only by giving electoral success to the most right wing party will we convince the more moderate party to move left. They will see the right win and all the polling show that right wing policies win elections and will realise that they should do the opposite of what the republicans did to gain power.

Endless memes. You rock.

So relatable.

Trump: banks Muslims from the USA as one of the first things he does as president. Muslims: he’s our guy!

You, sir or madam etc, are a genius.

You clamp that ham! Go for it! We’re right behind you. Figuratively, that is, not literally. Literally would be crossing a line.

I don’t think people are upset because he broke the law, that’s a separate ref flag, they’re upset because he did whatever he could to reduce wages for ordinary Americans and boost profits for himself. It’s shitty and he’s saying it out loud.

Imagine

History teaches us that when people are desperate they are more likely to turn to the right for solutions. That’s why right wingers like to keep them desperate. It’s not in their interests to make things better.

Can verify: am Brit.

Liz truss tried the libertarian experiment, sidestepped the Office for Budget Responsibility that her own party set up so that they were prevented from announcing the forthcoming shitshow (because she correctly thought they would be doom and gloom about it), tanked the economy in less than one week, blamed the media for it, blamed not going far enough for it, blamed the Chancellor of the Exchequer for it, sacked him, said she wouldn’t resign but was famously outlasted by a lettuce.

Now she simps for the republicans but is largely ignored by them. She still maintains she was right, which is par for the course for idiot lying right wingers.

They elected him because inflation was awful in Argentina for a long time. He said he would improve it, but he made it much, much worse. It’s starting to stabilise back down to the original awfully high levels he inherited from the terrifyingly stratospheric levels he took it to, simply because the people really have no money left and aren’t buying anything and the shopkeepers can’t raise prices too fast, so of course he’s claiming that his policies are working because it’s getting better.

Economists suspect that shutting down the whole economy for lack of cash after astronomical inflation isn’t the strong long term solution to inflation that the libertarians like to claim they’re creating.

He got rid of rent controls and other price controls. Because it would fix inflation, apparently.

So yeah, he got elected because the economy has been bad for a long time and they haven’t tried far right in quite a while. It’s got even worse of course.

And 3 to 25 bunches is between 30 and 250 apples gone bad, so that A few bad apples could spoill half of the apples, and there you have the problem with the police force, especially of the USA where officially it’s not a crime to drive a car whilst having dark skin tone but you can definitely still be summarily executed for it.

I deduce that your phone never randomly locks while you’re using it as a satnav. Lucky you.

Nice dick, bro, but I should emphasise that this can’t be just anyone’s mouth and you should check that the other person is enthusiastic about it all before beginning.