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[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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 (1 children)

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 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Counterpoint: Alice Weidel

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He should slowly develop his resistance to bullets, starting with air rifle and then small calibre rounds.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yep, and this guy is one form of "resistance". But doesn't reporting the squatter to the police count as "resistance" as well? Surely you don't need to hire private goons to chuck them out?

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Fentanyl is a debuff.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A Møøse once bit my sister...

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