TheSambassador

joined 1 year ago
[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Visual Basic is still alive in MANY company codebases across the world. It's not a great language for developers, but it's a perfectly acceptable first language and still used professionally.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A lot of these conferences have contracts with conference venues that kinda locks them in for hosting the conference at that location multiple years in a row.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Explore and be curious. Have you visited every planet? Have you been using the ship logs when you're not sure what to do next?

The game is 100% about exploring and learning about the world.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, it's the main mechanic of the game, and happens in the first 22 minutes of the game. I would not describe that as a "major spoiler" but it is neat when it just happens suddenly.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are we posting news from 2019? How did this get this upvoted and nobody noticed? I get that this sucks and the rich people in this situation are garbage, but this does nothing but stoke rage. There are plenty of examples of rich people being garbage in 2023.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real question... Why is this kind of thing posted to World News? It's a horrifying story, but it's also one incident in one location. Me knowing about it doesn't help me or anyone else in any way. I guess you could hope that it inspires some gun owners to better secure their firearms, but that's about it.

This kinda one-off incidents were all over Reddit. It just exists to stoke people's anger most of the time, but it's also super easy to push a specific agenda by posting these horrible, local stories.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Getting people riled up about abortion allowed them to get a large segment of voters to support their party. Anti-choice people are largely emotional, single-issue voters. Once you've convinced people that your opponents want to allow "baby killing", you can pretty much count on their votes without having to actually cater to their needs.

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Important to note that many people don't believe that the way things are is "stable". It isn't just "change it to be better than just stable," it's "get most people to be stable instead of just the rich people who are stable already "

[–] TheSambassador@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

While it wasn't my experience either, it has been the experience of some men that I talk to, and if you ever look at how conservative men talk, you can see that the "traditional man" concept is still being pushed on them.

If does seem like it's getting better, but as you said, it definitely depends on your social and family circles.