CombatWombatEsq

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[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sarcsam aside, personally, I think the fact that our law reflects our prejudices is more racist than the actual means that we use to enforce them, which is a pretty high bar to clear.

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Once you get to an 88 person polycule, I start to wonder about upper limits. Could all of humanity just be one big polycule? That actually might... be awesome?

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It depends on what you mean by "on purpose." You didn't mean to hit that light pole, but there was a lot of intentionality around the decision to drive and the decision to build a car-based society that is very much "on purpose" and the effect of that is deaths due to cars.

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because it's illegal, duh. Once you enshrine your prejudices in law, they're no longer racism, they're just moral purity.

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

We need UBI for pets

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m pretty sure computers do a better job of managing the clutch and the regenerative brakes and stuff, but we need to give more things to drivers to do to help keep them focused and engaged if we’re going to continue to allow them to operate automobiles.

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe eliminating cars would prevent cops from being able to fabricate traffic incidents to make ticket and arrest quotas?

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I guess ha ha you really owned me by pretending to care about sports so you can clown on me about etymology or whatever. I’m just super upset that I got to talk about my favorite sport in the context of its entrance into the English language and its place in 19th century British class structure on the internet.

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Right. You want to use the word football exclusively to refer to soccer because your goal is to be exclusionary. You don’t want those stupid Americans to talk about your favorite sport. But I really want to talk about soccer with y’all a lot, and it’s really frustrating that you are willing to discard this rich history and culture associated with the word soccer in favor of the word that British aristocrats used to distinguish themselves from working class soccer fans, and I find it very sad what you’re willing to sacrifice just to keep me out of the conversation.

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have talked about the Sounders when I was supposed to be talking Seahawks and vice versa more times than I can count, so I’m not sure where you’re getting this “it’s not confusing” business from. The announcement of the community has to include a disclaimer so people don’t get confused. It’s very confusing and I see it confuse people constantly.

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Maybe in terms of active vocabulary, but in terms of passive vocabulary ~100% of English speakers will recognize the ambiguity

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

If football refers to a single, specific, concrete sport, why do we use it to refer to Canadian rules football AND Gaelic rules football AND American football AND association football?

 
 

Recognizing how costs can drop as investments are scaled up dramatically transforms assessments of costs in the longer run. Put simply, earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop.

 

I have a custom hook that I'm working on to make a fetch request to an api, and it is causing infinite re-renders. I'm struggling a bit to understand how the various parts of my application fit together -- in particular, my store (zustand) is using a middleware (immer) for immutable state, and I'm not certain why its drafting system isn't protecting me from changes in object identity. What tools can I use to try to track down what I've gotten wrong? I can't really leave the web page open very long because I'm making 1000s of requests per minute to the api I'm working against, so the Chrome dev tools are out, and the static analysis tools I set up (typescript and eslint) haven't identified any errors, like missing a dependency from the useEffect hook dependency array.

 

ROCKS ARE IMMUTABLE

Rocks are immutable and hold No scope for self-aggrandizement, Each well-worn pebble churned and rolled Suffers a like predicament.

Gripped in what mesh of causal schemes Endures each casual atom what When one perchanced electron screams A stuttering signal, and is not?

Grant then a gamete, grant a score By crabbed environment beset, And man the instrument, no more, And where’s the credit? Where the debt?

Or grant pure chaos, flickering chance, And life’s defection near and soon, Then mark the shock of circumstance, The day from solid darkness hewn — Rock is a shivering miracle, Betrayed in sunlight, gleaming wet, And love cries out in chlorophyll To welcome truth in petals yet!

— From These Our Matins (1930) by Michael Roberts.

 
 
 

The article is a bit Washington-centric, but The Communities Over Highways Campaign the article is about is not -- I just couldn't find a source with a broader perspective. You can find the campaign's site here: https://americawalks.org/the-communities-over-highways-campaignwhat-you-need-to-know/

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