Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@cdemwell @danluu I'm pretty sure he means the cause of transit workers trying to get a better contract/etc. (Either specifically Vancouver or transit workers generally.)

@danluu I noticed this during the early days of covid, too; various "progressive" commenters would respond to bans on e.g. gardeners by saying "just stay home and take care of yourself" as if not getting any income for months was gonna be a peaceful restorative time for someone.

@danluu Also isn't it pretty cold and rainy there?

@WPalant Avoid German software companies. Got it; thanks for the PSA.

@freemo is that a different cops-kick-guy-out-of-ambulance story?

@freemo https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2024/01/17/cops-kick-dying-man-out-of-ambulance/ "Eventually they take him to the hospital. He died a couple of weeks later."

@freemo He died weeks later in the hospital?

@freeschool @freemo $ man ls

@JuliusGoat Maybe. If that's what Rufo is trying to do, then it seems worth noting he doesn't seem to have accomplished much.

@ncweaver @robpike Use some kind of linter that checks for this.

I mean, this is sort of the equivalent of thinking "this will never fail" and forgetting to use a try/catch in c++; it's not like exceptions necessarily magically eliminate this bug, right? I guess like Java's system sort of forces it, but the linter is the rough equivalent of this.

I'm using exception-free c++ (weird, I know) and https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/status, which IIUC is like Go's error handling, more or less. My environment won't let me compile code if I forget to look at the returned status object. Seems to work pretty well.

@StillIRise1963 Oxman took responsibility for her mistakes and didn't threaten to sue BI. So that's a difference I guess.

@pilgrim @StillIRise1963 Don't be ridiculous, pilgrim. I didn't like Gay's or Magill's answers to Stefanik, but I don't think we have any reason to think this is true about either of them.

I appreciate Oxman owning her errors, I wish Gay had done that more in her op-ed rather than playing the victim. But you're being absurd.

@StillIRise1963

Very different... is it though?

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/21/gay-plagiarism-dissertation-corrections/

https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/claudine-gay-set-to-keep-800k-salary-despite-resigning/ "Gay ... will return to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty."

@ncweaver @robpike there's a question about exceptions in the Q&A; he basically laughs off the idea of exceptions.

@orionkidder @ct_bergstrom Right; racism made her plagiarize.

@JuliusGoat focusing on the messenger rather than the message is probably less useful.

@tab2space @Popehat @OliverUv And for good measure he throws in the canard about free speech only being a government thing.

@tab2space @Popehat @OliverUv Interestingly, you are linking to a substack-hosted article.😂 It argues quite compellingly against the "nazi bar" label.

I think the main argument here is problematic, though. It appears to be basically this: Substack's policies aren't exactly equal to the 1st ammendment, therefore they are BS ("puffery"). I don't get it.

@Randall well like even before 2014 there were a lot of Russians living there.

@randahl I suspect a much higher %age of people living in Crimea want to be part of Russia than people living in the Danelaw area want to be part of Denmark.

To me, I feel like there are other reasons why ceding Crimea is a bad idea right now. (It might be nice to have a proper referendum on this someday long after the violence stops, and free of little green men.)