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Time changes as you age. A couple years is not dead.

Unironically, I cannot remember.

Connections and The Day The Universe Changed

Edit: Oh, movies. Sorry.

Alternatively, why wait twice as long for your python code to execute as you have to?

It’s very convenient not to have to remember a bunch of different means/methods for performing the same conceptual operation. You might call len(x) == 0 on a list, but next time it’s a dict. Time after that it’s a complex number. The next time it’s an instance. not works in all cases.

I use Blender for that, too. Anything I don’t do in Blender I probably do in emacs…

I use Blender for video editing, and as long as I never use another video editing package, I am sure to remain perfectly happy with Blender.

Truthiness is so fundamental, in most languages, all values have a truthiness, whether they are bool or not. Even in C, int x = value(); if (!x) x_is_not_zero(); is valid and idiomatic.

I appreciate the point that calling a method gives more context cues and potentially aids readability, but in this case I feel like not is the python idiom people expect and reads just fine.

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Strongly disagree that not x implies to programmers that x is a bool.

Last Spring, my partner and I went on a hike beside some pothole lakes. We noticed a gorgeous species of fish in the water. I think they were Pumpkinseed sunfish. Their scales flashed bright colours in the sun, reds and blues. Each of them was tending to a bower they had built. They had each cleared a circle of the pond’s floor, making a visibly smooth, light coloured depression. We could see them guarding their little domain, scooping rock up and spitting them out around the perimeter, chasing off rivals, and displaying themselves in the sun. They were beautiful and we watched for the better part of an hour. It was really special to be able to observe animals engaging in highly evolved drives and striving to fulfill their imperatives.

Walking back, we came across three boys. They couldn’t have been more than ten years old. They were making a circle around one of these mating fish that they had caught. They were bent over, fascinated. It flopped in pain and fear, slowly dying. I was so fucking horrified. I wanted to throw the children into the water, though I kept my distance and did not interact with them.

I can’t blame children for being cruel and violent to a vulnerable individual. Children don’t have the full human capacity for empathy, and live in the weird world conjured from the things they are told rather than actually in reality. But when it comes to adults, there are no excuses. Adults who enjoy hurting animals, who do it for no reason other than it gives them pleasure, those people are fucked up. IMO, without exaggeration, they are adjacent to violent sociopaths that abuse humans. Most such people start out by hurting animals.

It’s bad enough that nearly everyone cruel and violent to animals three times a day, but there is a lot of context to that. Billions of dollars a year are spent conditioning and deceiving people, hiding their own cruelty from them and making them feel good about the violence they commit. They don’t even think about it. But when you are killing a terrified vulnerable individual with your own hands, JUST FOR FUN, that reality is unavoidable, undeniable, and unforgivable.

Take the job. Do some activism in your spare time.

If a dating profile has a photo with a fishing pole in it.

Then the new owners were only doing it for the money.

As opposed to what reason for owning a factory??

The pay WOULD be astronomical if it had kept pace with CEOs, that’s the point

Kind of sucks when you outsource all of your manufacturing …

It’s kind of awesome for everyone if you don’t piss off your trading partners. It happens in the first place because it’s better for everyone involved! It’s a consensual arrangement that parties only engage in because it is in their interests.

I will never be needlessly cruel or violent to a vulnerable individual. Most people do it at least three times a day.

…and at no other time.

Title says the chat is odd, not the support technician. And indeed, the chat is odd…

Humans didn’t become effective hunters until after we started using technology. We’re not evolved for hunting. We have the biology of herbivores, for crying out loud! The more meat we eat, the younger we die and the more diseases we experience. [1] [2] We’re evolved for running, sweating, speaking, and eating starches.

Inducing consumption of meat, and corrupting people’s scientific understanding of our natural history and biological needs, is exactly one of the goals of contemporary capital.