Shacktastic

I think you have me confused with someone else. Maybe chill a bit? And best of luck to you in your endeavors in the new year.

I suppose that's what I get for casting a bit of neutral political commentary into a pit of blind rage. If this is how you treat your allies, why would anyone want to be one?

This. I cannot conceive of a world where everyone peacefully coexists and nobody uses violence to extract advantage (or revenge) from others. That's fantasy. A warlord will always arise and in time such authority legitimizes and becomes a state. The best we can do is to democratize that authority and spread power around as widely as possible.

But that is funny. Granted, I go for deadpan and maybe Lemmy isn't into satire, but it's worth at least a smirk.

I don't agree with Akareth fully, but I'd argue it's difficult to write correct code at scale without static typing.

Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.

Photographic art is drowned in a world of snapshots. That which we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly. Of course, there are a lot of awesome upsides and people can still do photography as a hobby, but there's a real "you can't go home again" feeling. You probably would have had to been into the hobby prior to the smartphone to appreciate the loss.

Hmmm... well, with Trump dissolving our coalitions, we'll get to see how a nice a place the world is after the pax Americana. Next thirty years should be interesting.

Yes., absolutely. The post-WW2 world order was led and architectured by the US. Think of the Marshal plan, Breton Woods, NATO, the UN, the space race and cold war, and the huge impact of the US Navy providing global security for oceanic trade.