They just can’t resist being war criminals for like two seconds
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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
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.
why bother; does he think anyone will forget it?
the Neal Katyal, "You can't charge them with using slave labor because they outsourced it!" defense.
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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.