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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Landlords are an effect of the system; it’s pretty pointless to shame them if you don’t change the system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some countries tax properties higher if they’re not your primary residence for example. It might drive rents higher though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Python has its drawbacks but it also has a pretty useful standard library so as a language for small scripts, one can do much worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “giving up against the endless weight of capitalism”

  We just call it “having a job” nowadays

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like 5 lines of code

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello World

  30 minutes of boilerplate

  writing imports

  $ cat <<EOF > Hello.java
  public class Hello {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
      System.out.println("Hello world!");
    }
  }
  EOF
  $ java Hello.java
  Hello world!
  

  ok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because

  A: electronic voting is an awful idea in so many ways

  B: direct demoracy is an awful idea in so many ways

  C: voting is supposed to be secret which the petition signaures aern’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d probably vote for the option causing a bit less suffering in Gaza, as hard as I could. I would not refuse to vote because the lesser evil was still bad.

  It’s not hard really

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  R is pushing more support for Israel so D is the lesser evil. There’s a reason Netanyahu wanted Trump. If you think it couldn’t get worse than D level support, stay tuned

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kanye West?

  well at least you’re consistent…

  Btw, your chosen course of actions indirectly supported the option of spending even more tax dollars on killing people in gaza, so you might want to consider breaking your consistent streak of picking the wrong choice and try woting in a way that aligns with your stated goals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s the moral argument of killing kids now in the hope of making a point that might or might not affect future politicians?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to make sense for people to convince themselves to do it. It will certainly lead to worse outcomes for gaza

  If yoor morals disregard the probable outcomes and is more focused on normative rules you could make some arguments but that kind of purity won’t save a single starving child in gaza