Arguably that’s because they were basically conquered and made a vassal of the country that dropped bombs on them.

The cool thing about this is you can just arbitrarily pick which part of the cycle you consider the “start” of the conflict in case you want to selectively accuse one side of being the aggressor.

Reading it back I can see how I might have come off as arguing with the OP. I had just intended to add some context in general around why “straight pride” isn’t a generally accepted thing but gay pride is, because whenever this comes up you usually get at least one person asking "what, so we’re supposed to be ashamed of being straight now? That’s just discrimination in reverse!”

“Straight pride” isn’t a thing. It’s purely a reactionary response to gay pride.

The point of gay pride is for gay people to show that they’re not afraid to be who they are in the face of systematic discrimination. It is specifically countering the culture of gay shame that had been the norm in the past. Straight people are already the overwhelming majority and have never been oppressed for their sexual orientation. There’s was never any shame associated with it so it makes no sense to proclaim that you’re “proud” to be straight.

It’s like someone who finished a marathon expressing their pride for their accomplishment, and some loser who has to make everything about themselves says “well I sat on my ass all day and I deserve to be proud of that too!”

The issue is not that it’s not okay to be proud of being straight, you’re welcome to feel pride all you want. The issue is when you but into someone else’s moment and make it about yourself.

The most desperate US citizen is still far more privileged than the people overseas they were sent to murder.

Germany has a weird obsession with “paying back” the Jews to the point they’re willing to support them on their very own holocaust.

One thing that annoyed me about C# as a Java guy is that it really wants you to use camel case for function and property names, even private ones. I don’t like it specifically because it’s hard to differentiate between a function/property and a type.

But C# has quite a few keywords and seem to like adding them more than Java.

Maybe that’s their way of ensuring keywords don’t clash with stuff?

Interesting how it’s southern states at the top eh?

Can’t have anything to do with the fact that the US legally allows prisoner slavery right?

Winder what the race ratio of the prison population is.

This is the country routinely accusing other countries of having “prison camps.”

Interesting. Thanks!

any new keyword could break backwards compatibility

Wouldn’t that happen anyway with variable and function names? Any type other than primitive/built in ones are usually camel case so lower case keywords are more likely to clash with single word variable and function names, unless you restrict the cases of those too or allow keyword overriding or something.

How do you do nested parameterized types without it becoming ambiguous though? That’s IMO the biggest advantage of the bracket syntax. For example: Map<Tuple<Int, Int, Int> Int>

Remember, when a vampire invokes yourHouse.requestEntry(), return false.

TIL PHP has statics.

Also, does PHP actually enforce the type declarations? I’d assume it would but knowing PHP…

Doesn’t Basic use Dim a As String?

It’s commonly used in math to declare variables so I assume programming languages borrowed it from there.

Race science’s worst enemy: actual science.

Is that the whataboutism they keep accusing us of?

You can fit millions of books on a chip the size of your fingernail.

Why have two different forces when violence works the same way on both your own citizens and foreigners? taps head

Right wing conspiracy theorists: “YOU’LL SEE! IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST JEWISH MUSLIM SATANISTS ACTIVATE THEIR SPACE LASERS TO TURN THE EARTH INTO A SPHERE AND USE VACCINES TO RAISE CTHULHU FROM THE DEAD AND SNAP THE INFINITY GAUNTLET AND”

Left wing conspiracy theorists: “Ah shit we got proven right again.”