“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups on Friday.

Hope comes first, births comes second.

You can't fake an indicator and hope for the situation to improve.

I bet he now expects the remaining employees to work overtime because they're "understaffed".

I swear, it's no longer possible to distinguish satire from reality.

My dad's re-learning Python coding for work rn, and AI saves him a couple of times; Because he'd have no idea how to even start but AI points him in the right direction, mentioning the correct functions to use and all. He can then look up the details in the documentation.

I would laugh if it wasn't so painfully true.

Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

Counter point: sex appeal is fine.

It's the people who are pushy irl who are the problem. IMO you can still be very "sexy" and as long as you don't push it, that's not a problem.

the default country

Been doing this for the last 12 years of my life; never realized it had a name.

Damn Biden's on a roll.

Good code is self-explanatory. You should only comment your code if it does something unexpectedly complicated.

That being said, it's always a good idea to write a manual, about how to use the code. Don't document how it works, because those who can code will understand it anyways, and those who can't, have no need to understand it.

Short question: how would they enforce that? What if I use some obscure messenger that nobody has ever heard of? What if I simply use telnet or netcat to send messages to other people?

I personally prefer dialogs.FileDialog.open()

Animals sometimes have very weird, individual behavior. You can't just make any general rule what this specific bird was doing to you. Probably it wanted to communicate with you, tell you something. Maybe you should have observed it a bit, maybe it would have had something to show you, like maybe in the bush that it was coming from.

doing nothing is good for my soul

yessssssss

Yesss.

flying squid

the cooler mia

max

gandalf der 12

ygthur (or sth)

and a lot of german home instance ones (ranslite, nudel, kühe, ...)

and probably a few i forgot rn

I don't really know.

I've made some bad experiences in school when the general narrative was "men are all bad people" so I distanced myself from anyone. But that's a stupid way of society.

Men are not all bad people. You need to look at the person individually. Go out and have some self-confidence. Ask yourself: how would you see yourself? What if you encountered yourself, how would you react? I think answering these questions helps you to find a path in life that works better for you.

Hope that I could help you.

No map in the entire article? Or did I miss it?

I have heard somewhere that some people seemed to believe that behind each human's actions, there is some kind of "daemon" that is invisible, but moving the humans like puppets.

This is conceptualized in the theater mask, through which one can speak.

The daemon speaks through the human as a theater actor would speak through a mask. (The latin word for that mask is "persona" (literally "sound-through") and that's why we call a person a person today (because they are controlled by a daemon who speaks through them)).

eating döner kebab

oh and also some kind of yoga in a park.

It's like a dead tree. The material and volume is still there, but it's dead anyways.

You shouldn't feel pressured into making a wish.

There's nobody that I don't like

I'm worried that Maps will be hit by the enshittification next. We need a good quality maps alternative. OpenStreetMap seems ok, but it lacks a few features, including trip planning.

Very interesting read.

I also like how, at the end, it changed perspective to say "actually, our problem is not software, but politics".

We must be aware of what agents we encourage and discourage through our actions.

"you're pretty"

I was going to upvote but then:

Hopefully it will start leaning into its unique strengths now and become really innovative.

Please stop the corporate garbage talk/pitching bullshit. Can't we have a normal discussion without these buzzwords?

ricey crackers, they have chocolate and rice. everything one needs, besides some water..

From the link:

A species of oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres (100 feet) through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said Friday.

So, what's chasing you?

He's so fat you could use these fat creases like a vagina?

I have always wondered how do you do it: How do you fly?

From the link:

It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

FileDialogFactory

Angel with a Shotgun

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=cvaIgq5j2Q8

Yeah, the question "when to ban something" is indeed a tricky one.

I propose that all good-faith arguments must be allowed, no matter whether they advocate for sovjet communism (so called tankies) or ultra-liberal capitalism or what.ever.

The only reason to ban something is if it's personally insulting (e.g. non-sarcastic name-calling) or having the direct intention to hurt someone.

This sounds like the typical plot of a story from The Codeless Code.

Edit: How about this story specifically?

Yeah, jumping to extremes is indeed a problem for serious, honest discussions.

IMO there's just too much money that "news" sources make by being polarizing. They know it increases their view-counts. And to them, that's all that matters.

I think we need neutral, neutrally-financed news sources. Question is just, how do we organize that?

wearing makeup or earrings

turns out i just don't like that