Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

@blacklight I finally got the chance to move back to rural America after 2 decades stuck in an overcrowded city. Nearly everyone in our small town has had to survive in the urban mess for at least some of their life - it is just a fact of being a small place. Some love it and stay, and the speak of politics just as you do, but those who hated the culture of city life with locked doors and unsafe streets don't want a world where we share nothing in common with our neighbors to the point where even greeting another person on the sidewalk is considered transverse.

I don't agree with the solution, but what these politicians are selling out here is not anti immigration as much as it is anti-urban. It surprises me that more political commentators don't engage with the clear anti-urbanism of which anti-immigration is only a part.

@Dianora people in overcrowded cities think that 99.99% of driving is done within the city. We how live away from cities know better.

According to the social security administration there is a **7.2%** chance that an 81 year old man living in the US will die in the next 12 months. I share this for no reason what so ever.

I have no why I felt like sharing this today, but the thought occurs to me that if I had a 7.2% chance of dying on my way to thanksgiving dinner I probably would not go, and might look for a safer *alternative*.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html#fn1

@TonyStark There is a big gap between things people support and thing people care passionately about. To me this sounds like, "Hey look, the government is doing stuff that the government has quietly taken cared of for most of the 20th century but has neglected the last 15 years."

When governments fail at such things people get upset, but much like good service when the government does infrastructure right no one should notice it at all.

I'm so frustrated with old, out-of-touch politicians who cannot see past their own party politics of longer than the next election cycle. It seems more and more like even a year out form the election it is already too late to get younger more broad minded candidates on the ballot.

I think I want to start a movement right now to support candidates in the 2028 election who were born after 1978. I feel like it will take 5 years of hard work to wrench control away from those who will not live to suffer the worst effects of the climate crisis.

@abuseofnotation

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@abuseofnotation Still more readable than most PERL code. (Am I old in that I remember coding in PERL?)

A #political #prediction :

Just as AL Gore narrowly lost Florida when a small but ultimately pivotal number of Cuban Americans defected after Pres. Clinton had a SWAT team take a young child from his family to return him to Cuba, Joe #Biden will lose #Michigan and the election when a small but ultimately pivotal fraction of Arab Americans defect over his unconditional support of #Netanyahu and the suffering of innocent #Palestinians.

#USPol #Israel

@freemo It is the word used in the region to describe the removal of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 in order to found the modern state of Israel. In the mouth of an Israeli Cabinet Minister, it is a statement that Palestinians will be forcibly and permanently removed from Gaza.

"Nakba" is no more a generic term in Israel and Palestine than "9/11" is just a generic date for people in the US.

Israeli government minister admits that the goal of the #Gaza war is ethnic cleansing (#Nakba) of the region. #ceasefire

https://www.newsweek.com/israeli-official-says-gaza-nakba-underway-palestinians-displaced-1842950

@mike Electric motors are far more durable than any ICE engine on the market. My Tesla is a match for any Chevy under $250,000. #EV

@Karen5Lund Reminder Nestle owns *everything*: Gerber, Neslac, Ceregro Acqua Panna, Bar One, GoFree, KitKat, Toll House, Rowntrees, Stouffers, Digiorno, Tombstone, Libby's California Pizza Kitchen, **Starbucks**, Lean Cusine, Coffee Mate, Carnation, La Lechera, Sesquick, Nestea, Ovaltine, Sinsational, Dreyer's, Haagen-Dazs, Alpo, Purina, Tidy Cat, Friskies, Fancy Feast and a lot more.

Also if you are outside the USA, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, Cookie Crisp, Golden Grahams, Corn Flakes, Luck Charms, Trix, and Cocoa Puffs are also distributed by Nestle.

https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/Everything-Owned-by-Nestle

As for Exxon, please remember that more than half of all plastics (including polyester in your clothing) is from Exxon.

Ordinary Guy: So you created a number that is the square root of negative one?

Mathematician: It was very useful.

OG: But it doesn't exist.

M: That's why we call it imaginary!

OG: Then you used it to do rotation?

M: Trig was too messy. Besides e^(iπ)-1 = 0 is just too awesome! All the greatest constants in one equation.

OG: But that wasn't good enough.

M: Nope. Now we have three different things that are all the square root of -1.

OG: And you call these totally tripping balls numbers?

M: Quaternions - it sound more professional at conferences.

OG: And what do you use them for?

M: Spherical rotation without gimble lock.

OG: 🤯

While we're on the subject, there is not reason, in the year of our Lord 2023, that any programming language should not have #TailCall #optimization.

Seriously, if there is a function call whose result is immediately passed back to the previous calling site then when you create you new stack frame (or whatever other magical BS your language does to make a function calls) substitute the calling return site for your own. I'm not asking for intensive code analysis to find hidden tail calls, but with `return foo(bar)` foo should not have to come back to your stack frame before moving down the stack.