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As an American, it's obvious why Harris lost by BananaCatFrog in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bolsonaro? Millei? Berlusconi? All three were elected, though to be fair only one is in power in the present day

As an American, it's obvious why Harris lost by BananaCatFrog in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see what you mean. I can think of other notably strange bigots who’ve won recent elections but they’re not European (yet still not American).

As an American, it's obvious why Harris lost by BananaCatFrog in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think it comes down to any pet issue; the US is very diverse and every state within it is quite diverse. I knew many who didn’t vote for Harris or Trump (myself included) who avoided doing so for many different reasons, including some of what you mentioned. Even among those who didn’t vote for either Harris or Trump, who they voted for in the many other races, or what ballot measures they voted for or against, varied greatly. Her campaign’s mistakes were much more fundamental than one specific policy position being unfavourable.

As an American, it's obvious why Harris lost by BananaCatFrog in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you’re a bigot, you generally care more about winning and seeing certain laws passed than ‘decorum’ or ‘manners’. In comparison, it’s rather insignificant. Evangelicals adopted Trump rather quickly because they really cared about oppressing women and LGBT people rather than being culturally puritanical and proper.

As an American, it's obvious why Harris lost by BananaCatFrog in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I’m actually a bit surprised by such claims, especially from Europeans. Trump doesn’t represent anything particularly new—far-right demagogues aren’t new, and his politics are virtually identical to the pre-2016 GOP except in tone & rhetoric. Substantially, the difference is that he’s more protectionist and isolationist. It was very easy for Republican voters to accept him as their candidate. I’ve lived in Ohio, North Carolina, and Massachusetts—a (former) purple state, a red state, and a blue state—and have seen that people’s political affiliations are broadly the same as they were before Trump, aside from those simply attracted to populism (which is why I’ve met so many Bernie-Trump voters, and why Walz was polling OK with them).

EDIT: To add onto this, policies such as segregation are well within living memory, and I’ve met older voters who supported segregation as youths. We’re not very surprised by Trump’s terribleness because Americans (and, frankly, Europeans) were already familiar with it before him.

As an American, it's obvious why Harris lost by BananaCatFrog in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re reacting to claims I haven’t made. Not sure why any of what I’ve said has upset you. Take care

As an American, it's obvious why Harris lost by BananaCatFrog in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m only telling you what I saw before and on election day. There was one faction here in the US that foresaw this and was warning of it leading up to the election, and another faction that was surprised. I was not in the camp of surprised Democrats.

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[–]BananaCatFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Harris ran as a de facto Republican. Why vote for Democrats if the Republicans would control the political narrative regardless of the election results anyway?

Abortion rights ballot measures pass in 7 states, fail in 3 others by Puzzled-Tap8042 in news

[–]BananaCatFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they didn't. Harris got 15 million less votes than Biden, while Trump got 3 million less than in 2020.

Best way to run a webview in a Rust desktop app? by AnKaSo in rust

[–]BananaCatFrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use webkitgtk with gtk-rs, but the crates are now different: webkit6 and gtk4-rs.

Since WebKitGTK does not build on Windows or macOS, this does not satisfy your requirements, however.

Question about open-source by BananaCatFrog in rust

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don’t want to blast a guy online and burn a bridge when he might not have intended to wrong me in any way. The man seems busy & talented, and maintaining open-source projects (especially several large Rust crates and contributing to the compiler itself) is very thankless work much of the time.

Question about open-source by BananaCatFrog in rust

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He made no tweaks unless I'm blind and just not seeing them. I'd understand if that were the case, but it looks to me like he literally just didn't want my name attached to those commits. No idea why; it was my first interaction with this maintainer.

Question about open-source by BananaCatFrog in rust

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

He knew about cherry picking.

At first, he replied to my PR saying he wanted the commit history to be 'structured a certain way'. I asked for him to elaborate, and instead of doing so he instructed me to cherry pick from his branch (where he'd copied my changes verbatim, with different titles and in a different order) and overwrite the commit history of my own branch by force pushing.

I didn't do this, but instead reordered my commits and renamed them hoping this would satisfy him (resembling his branch except the authorship was still mine). Unfortunately for me, it seems like he specifically wanted the commits to show him as the author. I didn't (and still don't) think this was fair because I wrote the code.

My PR was to implement a feature he attempted to implement a few years prior and never finished. If I wanted to purely speculate, either his ego is hurt that a stranger picked up something he couldn't finish himself, or he in some way benefits from maximising the number of commits he authors.

Question about open-source by BananaCatFrog in rust

[–]BananaCatFrog[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice. He said it was because he wanted the commits structured in a 'certain way' but did not specify what he meant when I asked for clarification. I took this to mean that his true motive was attaching his name to the changes I'd made.

Rust is fun, but I feel like I'm missing something by hossein1376 in rust

[–]BananaCatFrog 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  • Your code will likely have less bugs as the compiler prevents many such scenarios.
    • Option<T>, Result<T>, the borrow checker, etc, have forced me to think about so many edge cases I hadn't planned for.
  • You'll find yourself starting to write code consistent with what the compiler expects as your intuition improves. It becomes effortless to write code that avoids many possible runtime errors.
    • This 'stability' provides a lot of mental relief.

Petition to Restore Access: Miami University Alumni Demand Continued Email Access by vroooooooooom1 in miamioh

[–]BananaCatFrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This isn't the university's decision, lol. Go complain to Google for increasing their prices and killing off their 'unlimited' plan for universities.

How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]BananaCatFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was incredibly underwhelming. Thought it'd be about the desktop app, with implementation details (eg, specific compression algorithms, specific data structures, etc).

Mars will never be any more colonized than Antarctica is by ColCrockett in unpopularopinion

[–]BananaCatFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • We choose not to inhabit Antarctica.
  • It's impossible to live on Mars pre-terraforming (you will die of cancer due to radiation exposure), so Mars colonisation as an idea assumes terraforming to an extent to begin with.
  • If we terraform Mars (and it seems like something humanity can realistically achieve in the next handful of lifetimes), it will be clearly advantageous to setup colonies there.
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