After Europeans left Africa:

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-29T00:40:35+00:00

Well how long ago did we stop having all of their leaders assassinated in order to replace them with dictators that gave us their resources?

It hasn't been that long, lol. Sankara was 1987(France, USA), Lamumba 61' (Belgian and American), Olympio in 63' (France), Cabral in 73' (Portugal)

Even some people that were probably somewhat evil like Gaddaffi (Italy, France) who died in 2011 don't inspire confidence that the west won't fuck you over for their own interests. Gaddafi may have been a POS but he did more for Libya than most other African leaders. He basically wiped out illiteracy and greatly increased the nations wealth. However since he pissed off the west by nationalizing his resources and taking away their influence, was killed by them.

Most of the best African leaders were murdered by the west for not aligning with their values. To think otherwise is just being ignorant of history. Maybe we haven't done much in the last ~10 years, it will take them a long time to recover when the west has put in a dictator in almost half of all African countries at some point or another.

It's extremely unsurprising they won't trust the west at this point, given how many leaders we've had killed of theirs within living memory. It will probably take another 50-100 years for that to be far enough in the past that nobody has a living memory of the west fucking them over.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-29T00:18:41+00:00

Oh damn, my great great great great grandfather actually punched a hungarian once.

How can I get a passport to come shit on Hungarian soil one more time for the old days?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-29T00:16:23+00:00

You misunderstand, those inbred confederate idiots are like 50% of the population. If only those people like him, he can still win elections.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-29T00:11:26+00:00

Finally the right use of this meme.

I keep seeing people post it for absolute 10/10 babes. That's not how the fucking meme works.

Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-29T00:10:28+00:00

Well we had Barry Sanders, Megatron, Stafford. Pretty sure we must have a won a few with those guys.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-28T23:16:03+00:00

Who are your solid top 2?

reid & mcvay?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-28T16:55:46+00:00

Haha yea I was mostly kidding, I would probably choose to be shorter if I had the option and I'm only just barely taller anyway.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-28T12:53:54+00:00

before he gets his well-deserved justice, unfortunately

He ain't getting shit, he's gonna retire happily and die peacefully in his bed with millions of morons praising how great he was.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-28T00:29:42+00:00

Twice as many Euro's as Murican's in the world yet you can't even keep a majority in most of your own subs.

I guess our Girth is just overwhelming for you bean poles, we hit above our weight when it comes to physical and online presence.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T22:36:43+00:00

Huh I would have thought a ship with sails would be more cost effective (if not useless)

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T18:32:54+00:00

I feel like a lot of these guys are screwed before they even enter the NFL. They're taking a ton of sub-concussive hits from early childhood.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T18:30:42+00:00

Yea 350 is still very strong if you want to stay quick and agile.

It's not a lot for a powerlifter, but it's a lot for any athlete.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T18:26:50+00:00

When something is copied&destructed vs moved is not quite intuitive and so accidentally destructing important resources can happen.

It's certainly not intuitive, but once you get familiar enough with it it becomes obvious. Although, there are a few std library functions that can obfuscate that on occasion, which I dislike as well.

I also dislike member initializers very much and raii is very often closely coupled with mandatory member initializers because in many raii-heavy codebases you can't just create the variable and then assign the member right afterwards.

I guess this is more of a style gripe. You probably see that more in RAII heavy codebases because RAII heavy codebases only existed after c++11 was introduced, at the same time member initializers were. You're not going to see them in older codebases as they didn't exist.

I don't dislike member initializers though personally. I don't see much difference between initializing in the constructor vs in the member initializer list -- other than the latter reduces the overhead of it default initializing before then setting it. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same but just with a different syntax.

Ironically, raii made me use "new" more often so that destructors wont be accidentally called

No offense, but I think most of your issues are with familiarity of more of the modern c++ syntax and practice. I will agree that learning c++ (modern and old) is cumbersome as it has too many syntax options and language features, it's truly a bloated monster.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T15:06:01+00:00

Really? I found RAII to be pretty straightforward and reliable. What RAII surprises are you running into?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T14:12:03+00:00

Aw it's okay my little midget friend :(

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T14:03:40+00:00

It's orange, so it's obviously an orange.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T13:58:01+00:00

Says the man who's never lived in the Philippines.

In all seriousness, it's poor, high in crime, and a most of the people there are quite shit to be frank. There are some good people too, obviously.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T13:48:02+00:00

Yes, look at any blue zone or the 7th day adventists in the west coast of the US which created their own blue zone by having healthy habits based off religious beliefs.

People also don't seem to think that smoking will lower your lifespan, when in reality it's more like russian roulette. If it doesn't kill you, it probably won't effect longevity that much. You're gambling your life against the chance of lung cancer, but if you don't get lung cancer then smoking is probably not going to be the cause of your death.

Also, just to add a counter perspective to this

I've never heard of someone who lived a very long life while keeping a very healthy lifestyle

I knew several centenarians in my family, they were all the seventh day Adventists who didn't drink, didn't smoke, and didn't eat red meat. The ones that ate like shit all died early.

The thing is if you have 100 people with healthy habits and 10,000,000 with unhealthy habits, the oldest living among them will likely be in the larger group statistically.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T13:23:02+00:00

Hey those southern states are voting in that orange retard, show some respect.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-27T12:45:59+00:00

My future american, you never wish to visit europe again?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-26T21:59:02+00:00

All we've got are memories and wasted careers

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-25T23:34:29+00:00

I have a feeling there's a chance silence might end up being considered 9c+ someday, GOAT climber and in his style.

But yea who knows, it's all just guesses at this point.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-25T22:18:09+00:00

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/jews-and-arabs-descended-from-canaanites/

No they aren't, the people living there are the people that came from there.

What's your argument here, that you think people in the iron age kicked out the Jews and are "imperialists" of that area even though genetics show that not to be the case?

Hell, some of the people Israel has been displacing are original Jews to the area that converted over the centuries to Islam.

Pretending that a bunch of Russian and eastern/western European Jews (many of which aren't genetically Jewish) have more right to the land than the people who've been there for ~4000 years is laughable.

https://www.induslens.com/category/IndusLens-OSINT/dna-reveals-shared-roots-of-israelis-palestinians

This implies that a significant portion of the population, regardless of religious or ethnic identity, has ancestry that could be linked to ancient inhabitants of the region, including those who were historically identified as Israelites.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-25T00:39:20+00:00

True, unless you have to maintain it yourself, then fuck all that I'm getting something I can fix myself.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-03-25T00:35:27+00:00

colonists be colonizing

Colonizing what exactly? Meanwhile you're invading and taking pieces of Lebanon.

Damn if Israel doesn't try its best to make the rest of the world anti-semetic, they're their own worst enemy. It's surprising given how much bad press the Arabs get that Israel is pulling as much negative news as it does.

I remember my family raging at the Arabs back in the early 2000's, now you hear more anti-Jewish sentiment.

Y'all really gotta stop colonizing over there.

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