The stuff like Flash, Java applets and Silverlight it eventually replaced were arguably even worse. There's a legitimate need to run client-side code at times, IMHO the mistake was making it so permissive by default. Blaming the language for the bad browser security model is kind of throwing away the baby with the bathwater.
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You have to be particularly dumb to read the old and new testaments
Do you legitimately think that the same people who get into organized religion, that buy into thought systems that tell them how things are supposed to be and how they should feel about stuff, as a general rule have read their own source material that meticulously?
I had excellent grades in elementary school, then in high school it became excellent grades in subjects that interested me. It's when I got to college and university that it became more like "struggling to get anything done at all cause I forgot about or pushed back every assignment". A lifetime of winging it didn't prepare me at all for courses where I couldn't review the material 15 minutes before the exam and hope for decent grades lol
Is it solid wood or engineered? Some very soft variety of wood? 17 years is extremely short...
Aphex Twin is one of those artists that, on paper, I should be all over. I know how intricate his music is, I can hear his talent for sound design, I usually love that kind of geeky, overtly complex music. But when I actually sit down and listen to it... it just doesn't do it for me, I get bored after two tracks. I have no idea why.
As of 2021, the US spent 16.6% of its gross GDP ($23.59 billions) on healthcare expenditures. The very next was Germany, at 12.7% of its $4.28 billion GDP. The US is spending more per-capita than any other OECD country on healthcare, it's just not made visible by looking at the number on your tax report. You're still collectively paying for it one way or another.
But hey, yay, low taxes. Good for you, I guess?
Considering how little we actually know, how much we are still figuring out today, how wrong we once were, and most definitely still are on many things, about said nature, the naturalistic argument is IMHO rather weak. The argument silently assumes too many things, at least with our current knowledge - that human beings do actually have an inherent nature, that said nature is uniform enough across the whole species to make that generalization, that said nature is inevitable and can't be evolved past or rationalized against, that it always was the case and will always be, etc.
centrist and progressive politics have failed to address these effects more recently
I'm more criticizing the very idea that we ever put a remotely progressive government in power in that time period. We've been alternating between centrist liberalism and conservatist neoliberalism that whole time. What are we expecting out of this, exactly?
Plenty of construction doesn't mean plenty of the construction we needed. How much of it was condos nobody can afford in city centers? How much public housing was built in those same decades, as compared to previously? How many starter homes?
it becomes increasingly clear that centrist and progressive politics have failed to address the expanding inequality of the last four decades
The last four decades were decades of "centrist and progressive politics"? The same decades where minimum wage stagnated, worker rights got slowly eroded, public services slowly chipped away? All those years where building housing for Canadians was neglected to the point home prices almost quadrupled and this recent immigration wave became too much (if you think immigration is bad now, just wait for a couple more decades of global warming)? These were progressive?!
The right's propaganda is indeed working fucking great if that's our takeaway of the last couple or decades. The US Raegan era marked the beginning of turning back on decades of social policies on a global scale, yet the blame falls on the same policies we've been slowly suffocating. Insane.
Interesting... Maybe we don't see the same things as "work"? Very anecdotal, but my experience with 5 cats and 2 dogs since I was a kid is telling me otherwise. The way I describe dogs to anyone who asks is "eternal toddler". Even the most mature and independent dog requires daily attention, one way or another. I've yet to see a dog you can leave alone for couple of days with some food, water and a clean litter box without stressing out if they'll be fine like I've seem most cats do without breaking a sweat. The yard, you have to get them out there and back in or they'll shit on the floor at some point. The food, you need to ration, or they overeat. You see what I mean?
As for grooming, it's IMHO pretty similar, for similar fur types and sizes - short haired cat for short hair small dog, for example. The second it's bigger than a Shih-Tzu, cleaning their hair becomes a sport. Unless you want to ruin your flooring, dogs need their nails clipped very regularly. Short haired dogs also shed surprisingly abundantly, so you'll typically want to brush them often too. Their teeth need brushing, as well.
Agreed though, there's a wide variance, larger than most people tends to give them credit for, personality-wise, from one pet to another.
Considering the community we are on, I assumed the criticism was more about the privacy problems surrounding the engine and browser security model than the quality of the language itself. If that was the intent, I mean... Yeah, its weak typing is a fucking mess.