flabberghaster

flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by Moonside in DSA on the war in Ukraine sucks ass, regrettably by Moonside

Well the point is to be in 2022 and not live in the past.

I'm pointing out parallels between this and a previous disastrous context and the political clikqte that lead up to it and you're just brushing it off as obsolete, like as a culture we're past that? If this is where we're at propaganda wise I think we seriously are screwed, not even saying "beware, we have seen these talking points before used against people opposed to escalating a war" is considered in bounds?

How did NATO lead into the war?

In the wiki leaks diplomatic cables, officials were warning that continuing expanding NATO past the point agreed upon in the 90s would be seen as provocation by Russia, but they've been expanding anyway despite the potential to heighten tensions.

Since when is it "the left" standpoint to just assume NATO is completely innocent and Russia are just insane batman villains acting out of a pure drive for chaos with no geostrategic goals of their own?

Obviously the invasion is bad but why should we risk a nuclear war escalating the conflict more directly?

But the DSA IC is also opposed to sanctions, which are not warfare.

Obviously they are, they're economic warfare. The goal is to inflict pain on the populace in hopes of causing a domestic crisis in the country.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to DSA on the war in Ukraine sucks ass, regrettably by Moonside

I think the statement is fine.

I seriously feel like we are back in 2002 and if you're not baying for an invasion of Iraq, you were being told "Say hello to Saddam Hussein for me!"

I think flooding the country with guns and turn the place into another proxy war, calls from all quarters of the "Serious People" to establish a no fly zone, etc need to be spoken out against.

It's absolutely TRUE that NATO has no leg to stand on calling out Russian aggression with our record. We do need to condemn NATO for the role it did play in leading up to this.

None of this is to say "No one should care about the plight of the Ukrainian people." It's to say "Hold your got dang horses, let's not dive headlong into another damn war."

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to learning rust is fun. disappointed to say i am now one of those insufferable rust people by twovests

I have been messing with it too and I like a lot of the features, but it can be extremely frustrating coming from a C background where it just lets you do whatever. "I know this is safe but the compiler won't let me do it >:("

In particular i'm having problems figuring out how to work with Sync and Send traits for sharing an object in a multithreaded context. I can do it with Arc but I wrote the object to be thread safe and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it let me share it.

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flabberghaster OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Computers are fun but as a society we have taken them too far. by flabberghaster

Yeah I agree with that. I think there's definitely good use cases for computers to help us solve important needs.

I also think there's just things we already know the solution to, but don't get enough investment interest. And under capitalism, nothing is invested in unless someone thinks it can make them money.

I was kind of just typing whatever was coming in to my head; it wasn't really as coherent as I'd like it to be.

I don't think computers are bad per se. It was more that I think too much human effort is being put in to unimportant things to make quick easy money, and currently the frontier of quick easy money is 'the computing space.'

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to USPS is distributing free test kits. Enter you address and you're good to go. (US only, sorry) by hollyhoppet

also EVEN IF YOU HAVE SOME from other sources, please order them anyway.

  1. You will have 4 more tests.
  2. You will make it slightly harder for them to say "We already tried giving out free covid tests and no one wanted them, so we don't plan to do anything like it again."

Get your tests and make the talking point slightly harder to use!

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