The best of all possible economic systems:

It’s in the compiler ಠ_ಠ

As someone with a little programming knowledge there’s something that’s bothered me for a long time:
Why is nothing ever done? How is there still something to add to a C compiler in 2026?

Oh I see where he’s going with this.

“There’s no buttons, there’s no [programming logic], … it’s just producing UI with nothing behind it…”

I did not see where he was going with this.

How about one infographic or flowchart to rule them all explaining all the different ways to install a program, for starters?

Our favourite president, Degrowth Don.

Not really, not even for long enough to enjoy the joke. The push to mow down the US national parks is still easy to recall.

Installation instructions are often terse with a bunch of assumed knowledge left implicit.

It becomes a sidequest needing an investment of an unknown amount of time with no guarantee that you’ll have a working program at the end of it.

Man pages can be just as bad, like the developer was ticking a box.

You’re probably going to have to give up something. Look before you leap.

My friend was so fed up with windows cooking his idle laptop I didn’t argue with his quick answer to “are you sure you want to go all in right away, not dual boot?” when asked to walk him through setup.
Turns out the something was every specific piece of software he simply must have for his art commissions (the one company doesn’t do stylus pressure right on linux for no real reason), and the one game he was really into at the time.

It’s the subtext of every public comment made by Schumer criticising the war: Didn’t go through congress, erratic, no exit strategy.

Never a word against the myth-making to justify the war, or that the US shouldn’t be in an offensive war against a country that didn’t attack it.

No, it’s a costly embarrassment, a strategic blunder, an action taken without filling out the prerequisite forms in triplicate.

Going to war (successfully) with Iran has been an unrealised dream of the uniparty for decades.

Doesn’t have the flash of UE

I’m guessing (I haven’t used UE) that’s largely because UE adds a lot of graphics effects for the dev by default whereas in Godot you start with more of a blank slate. So something made by an inexperienced dev will look better (and run poorly) in UE.

I don’t remember if they mentioned that explicitly in this vid:

It’s actually really difficult to get your friends to switch over little things like ‘being a spy platform’, and ‘leaking tens of thousands of users private information’.

I sort of wish I didn’t believe this but I’ve seen how they talk about the war.

Meanwhile Dem leadership has a much more sensible position on the war: that Trump is doing it wrong.

I didn’t say brain dead, I said wilfully ignorant with words that included “brain”.

You lot are so practiced in misrepresenting the argument it’s like a flow state huh.

Start? We’ve been embracing the Great Filter like a long lost friend.

It’s not naive, it’s their excuse to switch their brains off.

If uncomfortable thoughts only come from faraway malicious others trying to undermine your “democracy”, you can dismiss them guilt-free.

Now you can simply drop a piece of paper in a box and call it good. Nothing scary needs to be done or considered to arrest the decade long freefall into overt fascism that you wait no stop you’re thinking again.

The comment was on the fecklessness of the ‘resistance’, not downplaying the brutality of the established order.

Americans have been taught “the right way” to resist by their class enemies. At this rate they’ll frog-costume-dance all the way into the camps holding hands and chanting “this is the way”.

Every company feels like they need to get faster.

Well yeah, they’re capitalist institutions. If they’re not growing exponentially, they’re failing.

That’s not a snarky mockery of the attitude of leadership, that’s the logic of capital.

Americans have been picnicking at unprecedented scale.

I saw a thread about it where someone asked “Ok, but what are our demands this time? All this turnout is useless if we don’t do anything with it”.

The answer given? Vote.

… That was all. …