It wasn’t, I think PHP is legitimately an excellent language for readability and expressiveness.

C++ is pretty awesome but anyone who thinks a single language is the solution to all problems is dumb… unless you’re smart enough to realize that the one language to rule them all is PHP of course!

Eh, fair enough.

That’s a hard thing to say. I traveled in countries I couldn’t speak the language of before smart phones existed and it was a struggle of paper maps and relying on hospitality workers, guides, and locals who I could speak with as well as phrase dictionaries. It was a struggle and you’d have to be very careful about going off the beaten path.

With a phone I can just walk in a direction I choose, ask locals questions in the local language, and feel confident that if I got myself in a shitty situation I’d be able to sort it out.

100% - Meta’s opinion on this matter is absolutely irrelevant.

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I agree, but I tend to use evangelicals because they are the worst and clearest example.

Recounts generally only correct for errors in vote counting - if different systems are used (i.e. electronic tally for initial count and by hand for recount) where one is cheaper and faster and the other is more expensive and more precise then it makes sense to trigger automatically if the vote is close enough that error could account for a swing.

However, recounting using the same system will result in the same outcome (varied by whatever amount of error is inherent in that counting system) with the single exception being suspected interference in the counting process.

If, for instance, there’s a municipality suspected to be staffed by pro-Russian bureaucrats then it makes to recount the result using trusted actors as a way to remove possible error.

Mandatory recounts with the same system and participants don’t get us anything particularly meaningful.

I agree that critical thinking could likely reduce the problem (though I think equal education access is difficult and religion is still harmful in communities that have been denied proper access to education). However, religious zealots purposefully create these education vacuums so if religion is tolerated then it will slowly deprive society from equal education access.

Religion just seems to inevitably make shit worse.

I do completely agree that this isn’t limited to WASPs - psuedo-religious bullshit like crystals and fortune telling perpetuate the same issues… they tend to be less well organized but given time small faiths seem to entrench themselves. There is an excellent example of this in the meteoric rise of Scientology.

I am confused. Is the concern that the vote counting process was compromised or that voters were unduly swayed before the election?

I’ve heard grumbling about the latter (especially regarding TikTok) but a recount wouldn’t remedy that.

Sir, I doth guffaw at Aldi.

Evangelicals literally couldn’t give a shit about reality… they live in a fantasy world where the world will end next year and where the only moral abortion is my abortion because those other women were tramps or some other bullshit.

These people are fucking broken from having propaganda shoved down their gullets 24/7 and rather than treating Evangelicalism as a mental health crisis America decides to put them in government.

About twenty years ago, I was happy to live and let live when it came to religion… it’s now clear that it isn’t just the opiate of the masses. It’s a poison to society. Some people find comfort from trauma in religion, and it legitimately helps them - but the cost to society is too great.

They’re a spammer - they wanted to post it to every community.

As someone who loves municipal markets… can yall just like come to Spain for a week to see how much the better the world could be than Aldi’s?

It absolutely is - I love just the tomatoes mayo and salt, but cheese does go well with it!

Tuna salad with sour is criminally underrated. When I make tunamelts I include a healthy dollop of sauerkraut and it adds quite a lot to the taste.

Honestly - acid is generally underused in home cooking. There’s a reason nearly every dish restaurants make has lemon juice or vinegar on it.

Sliced bread - plain white is optimal - toasted.

Apply a liberal amount of mayonnaise.

Layer on sliced tomatoes - salt them each on both sides as you do so.

Close sandwich.

Eat.

It honestly is. Pre-release hype is just marketing and we tend to enjoy things more if we don’t have high expectations coming in.

Spin the roulette wheel and accept any outcome.

Me. I fucking hate gift giving and it gives me severe anxiety.

Saving money is just a bonus!