I don’t think I’ve heard of “radical left” outside of the US? In Europe I only recall “far left” and “far right”

If you feel like you are about to sneeze, but you don’t want to (maybe you are on a video call, or trying to be quiet, whatever), tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue. It works surprisingly well.

Just like I like them. Big and hairy

I really liked it. Its not award worthy, but fun and the world building (such as the magic system) is really cool.

Having said that, I’m far too traumatised from a particular movie to ever trust an adaptation of this series.

That’s outrageous. What you are suggesting is gategate!

Pottery! I’d love to have (even just access to) a small studio where I could make things and fire the clay.

Truly brave

I highly agree with the sentiment. Learning languages of different paradigms is sort of like travelling to visit other cultures to make you a more rounded, better person. Learn a functional language (lisp/Haskell). Learn a concatenative language (forth/Factor). Learn a logical language (Prolog/?). Heck even learn an assembly! (I suggest RISC-V).

A few good reasons, the first being that brand new operating systems don’t get written all that often. But even if they were, functional languages focus a lot on abstractions, making them generally higher level languages and so not fast enough to compete with C.

Having said that, Rust’s design is quite inspired by functional languages in many ways, and it is indeed being used in operating systems.

The entire point is that he was a human. Believing that he wasn’t a human would invalidate basically the entire premise of Christianity.

A bit unscientific. As a control we should additionally launch him into another star to make sure our sun isn’t biased

That would have been a shit ending. But you are right, it would have been much better than we got.

I definitely want mountain water, it’s delicious. 100x better than any bottled water.

The motive might be to prevent harm, but motive does not justify actions. Parents literally used to beat children, to make them more obedient and thereby “protecting” them. Some parents today will prevent their child being vaccinated from life threatening diseases, because in their culture vaccines are seen as bad, and their warped view of medicine makes them think they are protecting their children.

Motive is not justification.

I think you misplaced your reply

His stories are good though, and it’s not like reading them is supporting him any more.

Obviously size is relative in situations like this, and compared to Israel+US France and Italy are indeed small

The semantics of who “is to blame” for the war are ultimately irrelevant to the small nation trying to avoid being in a war.

Ich lese die als 🚓🚑🚒

Yeah, getting to a decent, conversational level of German isn’t that bad, but I think getting properly fluent is really hard