Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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…is not informing or education, but nagging.

See, there’s that “it’s not education” thing again.

Fun fact: repetition is the key to internalizing information. This is like grade-school level stuff here. I bet when the teacher told you that you had to practice the alphabet more than once you threw a fit about them nagging you when you just wanted “education”.

You’re making an (asinine) assertion here that people aren’t changing their minds about smoking based on the warning labels, when even the barest little bit of effort on your part would turn up a wealth of studies demonstrating that the cigarette warnings have been very successful at getting people to quit.

Like, any effort at all. Just a little bit.

As an aside:

I love you…

Thanks, I guess, but let’s try to stay on topic.

I still don’t understand how a convicted felon loses the right to vote for president but can still be eligible to run for that office.

Makes sense for a rapist to conflate domination through violence with love, I guess.

I need to say that I adore how you have relentlessly asserted that it only counts as education if you’re told once and then never again, because putting a label on the bottle can’t possibly be a form of education.

It’s pretty cool how some people in the comments are just outright telling us they have no ground to stand on, though.

I don’t know how it works where you live but where I live you literally have to pass a test indicating that you know how to operate a car and how insanely dangerous operating one is before you can be licensed to drive.

“You just need to educate and inform!!!”

“Ok, we’ll educate and inform people using a proven method we’ve already successfully implemented with cigarettes”

“No not like that!!”

I may not have a monopoly on pain, but you’re certainly trying hard to have one on being intentionally obtuse.

Thanks, I appreciate you.

Yes, I have. It was much more pleasant.

Watch someone live in agony for months, then come back and be a smart ass.

Edit: also, why the fuck would anything you said above matter? Nobody is telling you that you can’t drink, they just want to make sure you know and accept the risks.

I’m not Canadian, but I think that anyone who has watched a loved one suffer and wither and die in agony from cancer would argue that you deserve to know when you’re putting yourself at risk of that.

None of those warning labels seem excessive or pointless anymore after watching the last months of my father’s life.

Grave Digger has several albums which follow both fictional and actual stories. Notably there are three albums known as the “Middle Ages trilogy”: Tunes of War, Knights of the Cross, and Excalibur.

They’re killing it? Where did you hear that?

Do these designers not have children? Wiping pee off the seat is like an every time thing; seems silly not to just use a bit of toilet paper.

Even I have to clean up when I miss; which happens max, max, 95% of the time.

I wish I could buy into the idea of church as a community; my mom very much saw it that way. However, church is inherently exclusive. It turns away people who refuse to conform to very specific beliefs. It’s hard for me to root for or even accept that as a communal space.

I want to see more YMCA and less church.

Edit: yes I know the Y is technically a Christian thing, but it’s not the religion I object to it’s the exclusion. Never been to a Y that felt like I needed to be Christian to be there.

The Rust Book helped me realize that I wasn’t likely to just learn Rust by doing as I had done with many other languages. I fucking love Rust but it is a bit of an oddball and the book is a great way to start.

Chinese citizens: I can’t take it anymore, this society is so unfair!

Chinese government: ok, we can just go ahead and increase surveillance and harass you about any little infraction some more.

Text rendering over the gpu is much smoother. For many users there may indeed be no perceptible difference but if you work on anything that scrolls a lot of text or has a tui that updates the screen rapidly the gpu can give a much nicer overall experience—especially if you use a lot of Unicode.

I have been living with tinnitus non-stop for the past few years. I can understand how some might find it unlivable.

The cross section of companies willing to pay poverty wages and companies ok with/happy to make your life suck all day is depressing but not surprising.