What have they actually done?
I'm all for defederating from instances that cause problems but all the quotes above basically seem to say, "I know you want a revolution but you still gotta follow the rules of whatever instance you're posting on."
It's your server so your under no obligation to provide a reason for defederating beyond disagreeing with them but it leaves me wondering if there's anything else or if it's just a matter of disliking them?
Interesting point. I looked into it a bit more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
You can sort that list by Muslim population.
The top one, Pakistan had a minimum marriage age of 18M/16F but recently changed it to 18 across the board.
Indonesia is at 21M/19F.
India has 21M/18F.
Bangladesh is 21M/18F.
Nigeria is 18+.
It looks like when a bunch of Muslims get together the trend is that they reject child marriage and enshrine that rejection in law.
It occurs to me that there are several species of animals that have both claws and anuses, and that like to eat breadcrumbs. They will bring their claws and anuses with them when they partake in a feast and aren't particularly careful about them.
Permanent markers, grease pens and crayons write on glass. Windshields are made of glass. What a coincidence.
If a cop just acts like some random "guy with a gun" who might shoot you at the slightest provocation they probably shouldn't have a gun.
Or be a cop.
An honest cop should be keeping a close eye on that guy.
Perfect. Thanks!
I've been experimenting with this a bit myself. One problem is that people speak strangely in video games. I don't normally run around telling people I'm gonna kick their but and throw lightning bolts at them so it's not obvious that I'm getting much grammar or vocabulary help.
But I do end up listening to a bunch of voice actors speaking Chinese with proper accents. I figure that helps with my pronunciation and speech recognition. I try to repeat whatever they say for a little extra practice.
Some games let you independently set the spoken and written languages. I focus on those since I can still play the game but they speak a bunch of Chinese. I'm thinking of trying to start some new game and setting it entirely in Chinese to see what happens if I try to force myself through it.
For now I've got the following games set to do dialog in Chinese:
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Anno: Mutationem
F.I.S.T.
Warm Snow
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Word Game: Episode 0 (Warning this is way too hard for me)
I just tried to sign up. It seems that near New England, there was a test scheduled in Cambridge for August but not enough people registered so they cancelled it. Currently, the next available test date in my area is in November.
I'm not talking about any particular language.
Modern programming languages are as complex as natural languages. They have sophisticated and flexible grammars. They have huge vocabularies. They're rich enough that individual projects will have a particular "style". Programming languages tend to emphasize the imperative and the interrogative over the indicative but they're all there.
Most programming languages have a few common elements:
Some way to remember things
Some way to repeat sets of instructions
Some way to tell the user what it's done
Some way to make decisions (ie if X then do Y)
Programmers mix and match those and, depending on the skill of the people involved, end up with Shakespear, Bulwer-Lytton, or something in between.
The essence of programming is to arrange those elements into a configuration that does something useful for you. It's going to be hard to know what kinds of useful things you can do if you're completely fresh to the field.
Python and Javascript are great. The main reasons I wouldn't recommend them for an absolute beginner is that it takes some time to set up and, even after that, there's a bit of a curve before you can do something interesting.
If they go and change configuration settings in an app, they're learning to manipulate variables.
If they click a "do this N times" they've learned to create a loop.
etc.
I’d actually start by playing around with the automation and customization functionality you already have. Learn to set email sorting filters, get some cool browser extensions and configure them, maybe even start by customizing your windows preferences or making some red stone stuff in Minecraft.
Computers are just tools. Programs are just stuff you tell a computer to do over and over again. All the fancy programming languages give you really good control over how you talk to a computer but I’d start with the computer equivalent of “Me Tarzan, you Jane.”
It's YouTube. I don't need a little taste. I can just start playing a video and skip around.
I'd be less annoyed at them if I could turn them off.
Since Google keeps trying to shove them down my throat it's safe to say they exist for Google's benefit, not mine.
Insurance can work just fine for things like hurricanes. Insurance companies have several methods to address it. They're all effectively variations of buying insurance policies themselves.
Re-insurance pools are a close analog. It's basically a bunch of insurance companies from around the planet getting together and agreeing to pool risks. Big companies also use a bunch of funky financial instruments to simulate insurance.
There's some risk of increased systemic correlation (eg climate change may increase the risk that major hurricanes hit multiple areas around the planet simultaneously). That's largely mitigated in that we can see it coming. Climate change is pretty prominent in their models and they can adjust premiums or stop offering policies, over time.
The bigger risk is in synthetic systemic risk. It's burned us a bunch of times already and it's gonna do it again. Those giant global re-insurance pools are almost certainly fine, and worth the risk, if we just use them for their intended purpose. But history shows that we'll end up creating derivatives contracts on them and those contracts will get leveraged. Those leveraged pools end up merging and turning into giant financial time bombs.
Forgive me. I'm old so I'm not up on the current vocab. I thought "woke" and "tankie" were opposite pejoratives. What is a "woke tankie"?
And more to my original question, what have they actually done that causes any problems? Even if these "woke tankies" have terrible ideas, who cares if they're not actually causing any problems?