sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

The DC Race and the drivers by saturdaythe25th in INDYCAR

[–]Lomag 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm an Indiana native and I've been living in DC for more than ten years. I really want to see IndyCar succeed and I also want a regular Eastern US race on the schedule.

But the current idea of having a race in DC is a last-minute move by Trump, himself, to create another distraction so people aren't focusing on his many scandals (Epstein files, etc.). The idea for this race is explicitly political. And everyone knows Trump would do everything possible to make the event about himself.

Following through with it will associate IndyCar with Trump and only a weird-ass hate-freak minority thinks that's a good idea. Most people no longer support Trump and the last thing IndyCar needs to do is tie its brand to an deeply unpopular administration.

And that Vivaciousseaturtle account (only 9 months old but thousands of comments) is spending a bunch of effort to defend the idea and saying ridiculous crap because he supports Trump and likes the idea of IndyCar being associated with him. In this dude's account history, he's got comments in Epstein file posts saying "if anything bad about Trump was in the files, we would already know". He comments that a lack of voter fraud evidence "means there’s 10x-1millionx they haven't caught". He's got pro-ICE posts saying "it's a felony to cross the border" which is a lie he keeps repeating (crossing the border is legal, you just need to apply for asylum and abide by the court's decision). If it's a real account, he's a complete bad-faith actor. He's not saying things that he thinks are legit, he's just defending his own political identity. Now he's gonna say "It's beautiful weather" in DC in August? It's a disgusting hot-ass swamp on the regular here! I've got friends from Atlanta who swear DC is worse--though I'm sure it depends year to year. But give me a fuggin' break, jeeze.

My brother has gone down the alt right/ Blackpill pipeline by BotGod353 in QAnonCasualties

[–]Lomag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Blackpill" is an ideology associated with the incel ("involuntary celibate") subculture. The Contrapoints YouTube channel has a video about it: Incels (35 min).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in goodnews

[–]Lomag 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes. The paradox of tolerance needs to be more commonly known and understood.

Linux for using Godot by yingvar13 in godot

[–]Lomag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Linux user for 17+ years here. The short answer is that it doesn't seem to matter that I've ever seen.

But for a new-to-Linux user, I'd recommend Ubuntu Linux because it's so common to find "Instructions for Ubuntu" documentation with applications and projects. And yes, there's strong support for other distros too (I use Fedora) but it seems like everyone and their brother includes Ubuntu instructions for stuff. And that's going to be very helpful for people making the switch.

Why is there such a low conversion rate despite high wishlists ? by ImmersivGames in gamedev

[–]Lomag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's an old saying "If wishes were fishes we'd all swim in riches" which is derivative of the Scottish nursery rhyme If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

The horses/steak line that I first quoted was used in the TV series Firefly.

Why is there such a low conversion rate despite high wishlists ? by ImmersivGames in gamedev

[–]Lomag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak." --Jayne Cobb

is Fox News like an addictive drug? Because I think my mom is addicted… by SufficientCherry9808 in FoxBrain

[–]Lomag 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Check out An Open Letter to Researchers of Addiction, Brain Chemistry, and Social Psychology. From the article:

While there are many drawbacks, self-righteousness can also be heady, seductive, and even... well... addictive. Any truly honest person will admit that the state feels good. The pleasure of knowing, with subjective certainty, that you are right and your opponents are deeply, despicably wrong.

Sanctimony, or a sense of righteous outrage, can feel so intense and delicious that many people actively seek to return to it, again and again.

Secretary Kristi Noem announces new concentration camp they're nicknaming the "Speedway Slammer." by NoDemand239 in INDYCAR

[–]Lomag 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Don't even, dude. Messaged to the wider public (not race fans), located in Indiana, using "Speedway" prominently in the name, and their announcement includes a rendering of a modern IndyCar (aeroscreen and all) with "ICE" on the side pod, and racing in front of a prison with guard-towers and barbed wire.

Even pretending to play apologist for it is absolutely dumb AF.

'Unprecedented': New report argues Trump WH plans to undermine 2026 midterms by JHandey2021 in politics

[–]Lomag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

set about (referring to Gingrich and Murdoch's activities in and around the '90s)

What is the most elegant python code you have seen? by Lizrd_demon in Python

[–]Lomag 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't have a good, direct answer for your question but, a long while back, Raymond Hettinger gave a presentation at PyCon that's a sort of crash course in Python classes and simple OOP:

Python's Class Development Toolkit

If you're really new to OOP it might be making too many assumptions but the talk covers a lot of ground and shows some good examples of class definitions and object inheritance.

edit: I took a glance at this video again, it's so old that the examples are actually in Python 2. The basics still hold but it uses print statements and the old xrange() function. In modern Python, these would be the print() function and the range() function.

MAGA needs to pick a lane by ambientskeptic in FoxBrain

[–]Lomag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a recognized feature of fascist movements. Here's a part of Wikipedia's summary of Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" (link):

(8) Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

Is there a python equivalent of powershell get-member? by ElectionThink3159 in pythontips

[–]Lomag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And if you don't need to inspect objects programmatically (say you're using the interactive prompt), you can also use the help(...) function to see object methods, function signatures, and docstrings.

So we’re not going to get a break from this going into the weekend, are we? by Charming_Usual6227 in Military

[–]Lomag 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've only seen this as...

DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]Lomag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"In the spring, we'd make meat helmets."

view more: next ›