FishFace

The main problem here is naming, because I don’t think there’s an English word that means “set whether this thing is enabled or disabled.” Maybe there is, and if you can come up with one, I think a combined function would be OK. If it’s clear that “not enabled” is the same as “disabled” then setEnabled is an OK function name.

Another consideration is whether you typically have a boolean already that indicates the desired state (e.g. from a config file), or whether you work out whether to enable or disable this thing based on more complicated logic. If it’s the former, and you have to do this in several places, maybe the convenience of being able to just do setEnabled(flag) beats having to do if (flag) { enable(); } else { disable(); }.

Not to too many people, which is why it’s important we have proper journalism instead of our collective hunches.

This opinion is unsustainable, and I don’t know how you acquired it.

Remember that your point is that people would not be susceptible to bribery without capitalism. You think you couldn’t bribe someone with a bunch of cows in the first century? You think no-one had a lack of entertainment they could be bribed with?

So there was no scarcity before the invention of capitalism? Not of any single thing?

Had capitalism never been instituted broadly, no person would want anything they didn’t have?

uh huh.

Similarly this seems like it would explain literally any bad judgement ever. In that sense it’s a non-answer, similar to the non-answer of the religious - “god did it.” An answer that explains everything explains nothing.

In this particular case, a judge with fascist tendencies would, surely, be minded to hoard the power they do have, rather than abdicate it, even to a body that, for the time being, agrees with them. Right? That was exactly the thing which I said was bizarre. So in order for your elaboration to elaborate, you need to be able to say why it’s the bigoted tendency which wins over the fascist tendency.

Seems like a lazy answer. We don’t have actual evidence of bribery, and communist societies have also tended to be corrupt. The “price” might not be in non-existent money, but until we live in a post-scarcity society, there will always be stuff someone wants and doesn’t have.

Bizarre that US judges are so eager to cede their power to the white house.

Isn’t the whole point of an independent judiciary that they prevent dictatorial fascist turd children from declaring that they’re using a lawful power when it’s clear they’re not using the power within its lawful constraints?

What’s the point of writing restrictions into laws that grant executive power if the only check on the use of that power is the electorate who will assess every use of power in individual circumstances no matter the letter of the law?

The person you replied to didn’t say they’d been found guilty but that they hadn’t been exonerated, which with an open investigation, was the truth.

Sadly it’s hard to talk about a case that may be correct but which is only prominent due to racism.

But if that is an actual line it’s fucking dumb

As far as I know this has not happened in all countries where they are used. USA police, as always, are a special kind of terrible.

It’s like cooking a steak :) you want to brown the surface but not dry out the inside

Well, if you put it in for 1s at 450, will it come out black? Course not, it takes a little time. So there’s a time that’ll cook the surface perfectly. Turns out that, since pizza is very thin, a couple of minutes at 450 is perfect.

Ok, but how many films or shows have you seen where the cops shoot at fleeing suspects? I think it’s about way more than that - it’s about US police’s attitude to pursuit.

She needed to be interviewed by police, no question, right? But the police thought that, because she was running away, any means was justified in apprehending her. I think in the mind of a lot of the public too, someone “wanted” for questioning has earnt whatever comes to them if they run.

Whipping up a rage about this murder from the point of view of identity is dangerous, even though it may be a component. We don’t know from this, and accusations that may turn out to be wrong are counterproductive. But this was a murder, so we should be directing our rage at what we do know.

People hack ovens to let them use this mode to cook pizzas

They do only disagree about one thing: they have been worked up into a fantasy world through fear.

That doesn’t even parse. “Worked up into a fantasy world”?

Whatever it’s supposed to mean, I’m pretty sure it’s not the only thing you and transphobes disagree on.

Course they do. But they’ve grown up with segregated bathrooms in most places so it’s very difficult for them to treat unisex ones as a real option.

You’re treating people who disagree with you as if they only disagree about one thing.

In a case like this where he wasn’t there, to face consequences you would have to prove he actually instructed the ship’s master to ignore distress calls. To establish that… you gotta ask questions.

When do we redefine the threshold for heatwave?

chonggg…tk

That helps. I think you misunderstood - what I was trying to say was something quite similar: the person I replied to (who I think wasn’t you) was talking about access to family planning, and I was saying this has been available in developed countries for a long time. So although it did lead to a decrease in birth rate decades ago, it’s only recently that we see sub-replacement rates, so that latter effect specifically is likely not to do with access to family planning.

Hope that also helps, haha!