Senators Rubio, Vance, & Scott, among others, refuse to say they'll accept election results
SCOTUS Justices Alito & Thomas are actively in support of insurrectionists
Speaker Johnson wants the Bible to supersede the Constitution
Fascism isn't headed to America—it's already here.
So denying evidence, truth and the democratic process is and will be an option. This is the death of politics and democracy and a highway to dictatorship… shame on them.
Clear and present danger…
@QasimRashid The thing about the Bible replacing the Constitution was written down in black and white in the 2016 RNC platform. As was overturning Roe, and reversing Obergfell. Maybe if more people bothered to read that we wouldn't be where we are today, and now it's all rolling over into Project 2025. Everyone should read that!
SwiftUI noob question: I understand why my ViewModel is being initialized twice, but why is it not being deinitialized?
It's created, then a second later when appState.show is changed, the view is recomputed, and view, and its ViewModel, are created anew. Cool! But why is the old one not deinitialized? What's holding onto it?
jQuery plugins depended on jQuery, and when jQuery went out of favor, they ended up in the junkyard.
There is all sorts of componentry built exclusively on React, limiting it to React-based sites. As React goes out of favor, they will end up in the junkyard. (Same with any framework-specific extension.)
But with Web Components... it seems like the story will end differently. If they are built without dependencies, they might just live as long as the web does.
@westbrook@chriscoyier Yep. Authoring to tags, attributes & properties, and using CSS features like variables and shadow parts…that goes with the grain of the web. Built to last.
@cferdinandi@chriscoyier haha, you have no idea. I've worked on code bases that are 30+ years old!
I completely get trying to minimize dependencies and I preach this myself. They are risks as I said, but so too is rolling everything from scratch every time.
You have to balance these things, and yes, don't bring in massive chains of dependencies, that'd be a major redflag for any component.
But isolated, small, well behaved libraries will save you many headaches and improve perf overall.
With the introduction of Dolby Surround 7.1 in 2010, Sony were eager to put out a full home theater system. One of their early models, the HT-A7.100, included a revolutionary evolution to the standard stereo jack: the 7.1 surround jack, allowing all 8 channels to be sent over one cable.
Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.
Going to the restroom for a trans woman can be so anxiety inducing. I know for me it can be anyway. All I wanna do is get in and get out without any issues, hassles or problems.
But I had something happen while I was at lunch with my mother in-law that was rather affirming as a woman. It’s the opposite of what I’ve imagined could happen to me going to the women’s restroom.
I was washing my hands when a woman about my age came out of the other stall. She looked at me, straight in the face and asked if I could zip up the back of her dress. She didn’t even wait for a response. She just turned around and pulled up her hair. Then said, “It’s so hard to do this by yourself. So much easier when you have help. Thanks.”
She didn’t see me as a predator. Didn’t see me as someone who shouldn’t be in there. She saw me as another woman who simply would understand the need to have help zipping up the back of her dress.
I almost started crying.
I, a trans girl, went into the women’s restroom and nothing happened, except for another woman asked for my help.
@WrenArcher TBH, I am a bit jealous. I've been going to the Ladies Room since I began transition. While it's delightful that I've always been basically ignored and treated just like any other woman, nobody has asked me for help like that. So cool, girl. 😊
🧵 I wrote ab the “is Signal secure?” manufactroversy on X. The Guardian wanted an explainer on why Elon & Jack were “concerned” about Signal. The answer, though, has nothing to do w/Signal’s product. It was part of an extended fight over whether woke NPR should be defunded & the CEO fired. Why? Because the CEO of NPR is on the board of Signal; by the Transitive Property of Bad People, Signal is thus compromised.
I think one of the best examples is that neurodivergent people will read the bumper sticker "honk if you like $X" thinking that it’s instructing you to honk at them if you do indeed like $X. Not that if you honk at them in traffic it’s just a way of saying "oh you like $X haha" instead of admitting you’re just being a bad driver :neocat_floof_explode:
@hazelnoot it’s not to encourage honking at them it’s that if you honk at them because you’re mad at their driving it makes it seem like you’re honking at the bumper sticker. this blew my mind bc I would always be like "why would you want a bumper sticker that makes people honk at you"
Left ankle: hugely swollen, yet only somwhat painful.
Right knee: slightly swollen and puffy, yet incredibly tender, unstable, and difficult to use.
Is the difference due to the AGE of the injury? The left ankle was horribly twisted 50 years ago and has continued to hurt periodically over the past 5 decades.
Right knee eroded due to arthritis, only painful for the past decade, tho increasingly.
FWIW, I get the usual advice from every MD: RICE. Take painkillers.
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@Kierkegaanks True! I once flew off a motor bike at high speed after wearing bell-bottom jeans which got caught on something, burning my calf to a turn as I approached a tree. Whee! Look, ma, I'm FLYING!