AI probably would have written something equally useless but more tactful. Maybe MS should consider replacing this exec with an AI?

Huh, that’s surprising. I guess I assumed they’d use some kind of archaic corny slant rhyming slur over there.

They lure you in with the sweet word of Islam then BAM next thing you know you’re hailing Satan Stalin and trying to do mutual aid. I can see why god cast this devious wretch out of heaven.

“This is not an exaggerated problem,” Giuliani told the 22-person council. “Somehow we got the combination of an Islamic extremist and a communist.”

This is not an exaggeration, the devil himself has incarnated on earth in the form of this guy who wants to do rent control and free bus fare.

There’s been some buzz lately about a synthetic replacement for horseshoe crab blood. Once again outlasting a threat to their species while changing absolutely nothing.

Don’t worry about it. It’s pretty easy to get worked up about this stuff and I’d be lying if i said I didn’t do the same sometimes when I get started ranting about politics. I hate this shit so much.

My frustration isn’t because they’re covering him in the news. It’s confusion about why all these forces are aligning this hard against a guy who wants to give free bus rides to people in a single city they probably don’t even live in. I’m expressing exasperation at the degree to which this has been blown so wildly out of proportion.

Socialists winning seats is fantastic, every wretched politician and mainstream media outlet fixing their baleful glare at him for daring to reach for the barest crumb of power is just maddening.

I’m not sure how you’ve gotten the idea I’m disparaging him. I think it’s fucking great he won the primary, but it’s just not so significant that it warrants this severe of a reaction. It’s a nomination for a local office.

There is never a reason for a president to issue an ultimatum to a guy who hasn’t even won his race, nor for large swathes of the national democrat party to be flipping out about his supposed “antisemitism”. They’re acting like his influence is far greater than the office of mayor (which he, again, must stress, has not even won yet!) would grant him.

Yeah but it’s a socialist who hasn’t even won yet and they’re already acting like he’s both already in the office, and actively destroying New York somehow. They’re treating him like a larger threat now than he would be even if he actually wins.

This has to be the most overblown local election in history. He’s not going to topple the world order from his job as mayor, good god.

When did the mayor of NYC become so important that every dipshit politician at every level has to come out and give their worthless opinion about it?

I wish it were more difficult to go through your life while refusing to understand that cause and effect apply to politics just like everything else.

what if he’s chickening out of doing bad things because they’re unpopular? saying TACO on the brink of a world war seems real stupid.

They just can’t resist being war criminals for like two seconds

As much respect as I have for Dr. King; the violence of his death, and the violent reaction to his death, is what prompted the government to stop fucking around and pass legislation.

The assassination and subsequent riots quickly revived the bill.[38][39][27][40] On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the United States House of Representatives urging passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act.[31] The Rules Committee, “jolted by the repeated civil disturbances virtually outside its door,” finally ended its hearings on April 8.[41] With newly urgent attention from White House legislative director Joseph Califano and Speaker of the House John McCormack, the bill—which was previously stalled that year—passed the House by a wide margin on April 10

• King Assassination Riots

I suppose that you could argue the non-violent approach was necessary to reach the critical mass of support necessary to achieve rioting on this scale, but ultimately the violence is what got the goods.

im stuggling to put into words how pathetic it is that this much effort is being put into fetishizing the american flag to a bunch of people being oppressed by the american government. its just so, so stupid

It is in your self interest to be a part of prosperous society and treated with kindness and respect. Which means the collective interest overlaps with self interest quite a bit.

They attacked a US military vessel like 50 years ago, actually killing around 30 personnel, and just got a little fine for it.

Sorry, but there’s no chance anyone’s government is gonna step in to do anything cool about this.

The fucking cop saying “this is what happens” like it’s someone else’s fault he shot someone in the head. Worthless man child.

Yeah, I deliberately stated examples that used tech developed for the web. If you’d like me to list more apps that use shitty UI abstractions I can but it didn’t feel relevant to the point I was making.

Firefox, for example, didn’t use web components previously, and instead used a clunky XML based system called XUL. Which also sucked ass and was a chore to use. QT looks like shit. Visual Basic is proprietary microsoft garbage that requires special software and makes me want to die.

What UI framework do you recommend they switch to for Discord, an application built entirely in HTML/CSS and JS intentionally so that it could run in a browser window?

There’s some generalizations happening in here that are being presented without appropriate context. Using react native is not significantly different from using most other native UI libraries. If you’re going to condemn them for using it you should understand that a lot of the desktop software you currently use is likely built in a very similar manner; Firefox, discord, vscode, to name a few, all use technologies developed for the browser to render their UI. They can be implemented in performant ways with careful consideration.

The problem with using it here is that even at its most performant, React Native is still an abstraction layer that incurs a performance penalty and introduces complexities that could result in unintended behaviors. The start menu is always on, heavily used, and critical for operation. It should be one of the most heavily optimized and stable pieces of software in the operating system, and using react native indicates that it probably isn’t. Which suggests either they have misplaced priorities around optimization, or they’ve completely abandoned it as a goal.