[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

But you’re foolish to believe the Bin Laden raid into Pakistan was any less internationally criminal than the attack into Caracas.

There's a big difference between kidnapping the president of a country and kidnapping somebody who is internationally wanted and who the country in question denies harbouring.

Sure, both are violations of international law, but one is easy more serious than the other.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That quote is often misattributed to Voltaire, but it's actually by Kevin Alfred Strom, an American neo-Nazi who pled guilty to possession of CSAM in 2008.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat‽

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Remember that Fortran has an arithmetic if statement. You can write

IF (expression) s1, s2, s3

where s1, s2 and s3 are labels. If the expression is negative, it jumps to s1. If it's 0, to s2 and if it's positive, to s3.

It also has goto variable. You can do

INTEGER a
ASSIGN 20 TO a
ASSIGN 17 TO a
GO TO a
20 PRINT *, "foo"
17 PRINT *, "bar"

and it'll print "bar". In this snippet of code, everything seems quite logical, but imagine debugging spaghetti code written using these patterns.

Oh, it also has

GO TO (s1, s2, ... , sn), N

First, N is converted to an integer. If N is 1, it goes to label s1. If N is 2, it goes to s2. If N is less than 1 or greater than n, it does nothing.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Ha, I thought a 1Hz display was a typo until I read the article - that's the minimum display update, not the maximum: for situations when nothing's changing on the screen to save battery life.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It's nowhere close to that level. The GOP/ MAGA has been eroding international trust in America for a while now, but realistically, everybody else is on the outside looking in, and even if America removed all women's rights, including the right to vote, or annexed Panama, all that would happen would be strongly worded protests and further political isolation of America from the rest of the world.

Nobody wants to fight a war against the USA, and barring something cataclysmic like an invasion of Mexico, nobody wants to sanction the largest market in the world.

TL;DR: America would have to become much poorer or much weaker before anybody does anything.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago

They tried, but the last two elections were massively fraudulent, and it's hard to have a revolution when the army is behind the regime.

But this isn't the solution. As my Venezuelan friend said:

But ok, maduro captured, and theeeeen? Not like he's the only one. Delcy Rodriguez, Jorge Rodriguez, Diosdado Cabello, General Padrino Lopez, and there are 200+ more people that need capturing

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago

Billionaires spending craptons of money convincing poor people that even poorer people are their enemy is never good for the world.

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I have access to an electron microscope and one of the test subjects I used was a milk tooth donated by my partner's son. I'm curious as to what the damage is. Is it simple decay?

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

German: there are painters in the cellar.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Interesting. I use Firefox for everything and haven't had any issues. Maybe I'm just not that picky?

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Wir haben das als Weihnachtsgeschenk gekauft (war ungefähr die 35€ wert die es kostete), aber wenn es ein Elektronenmikroskop wäre, wäre das echt der Knaller!

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually Jake Paul, not Post Malone, after a boxing match went ... badly for him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Paul_vs._Anthony_Joshua

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