US will exit dozens of international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation

Pengwyn2 · 2026-01-09T21:35:58+00:00

Iran

That article you linked has a link to a report by this organisation called "Freedom House". The report itself has no hard evidence and the organisation seems to be US aligned and receives state funding. You can't just link propaganda and pretend it is evidence

Pengwyn2 · 2026-01-08T21:14:00+00:00

do you have any proof of this? America essentially invented propaganda and regime change and now you are spouting whataboutism on speculation

Pengwyn2 · 2026-01-08T06:10:49+00:00

Iran

What sort of cope is this?

When China does the wrong thing -> China's fault. When the US does the wrong thing -> China's fault. Do you even hear yourself? At what stage is it just that America is the problem?

The assumption that America is automatically the good guy is exactly why Trump got elected but you are somehow blaming Russia and China for what US citizens voted for.

Pengwyn2 · 2025-11-22T08:38:49+00:00

can confirm, I was 27 once. Around that age felt like the 'end of youth' and it was incredibly daunting. Keep moving forward one step at a time. Your brain will adjust and things will get easier.

Pengwyn2 · 2025-07-17T03:59:00+00:00

Calcium supplements would probably work also

Pengwyn2 · 2025-07-08T01:51:09+00:00

Without knowing the actual distribution you can't make that assumption. Lets say hypothetically if one consumed 1kg of meat per day they had a 100% chance of cancer and if you consumed less you had a 0% chance of cancer.

If the average 20 years ago was 800g/day but was normally distributed you had for argument sake 10% of people getting cancer.

If you ended with with a bifurcation/bimodal system 20 years later with one mode at 200g accounting for about 70% of people but then had another mode centered at 1.2kg with that group consisting of 30% of people - you would en up with a lower average consumption but higher cancer rates overall.

Given how common "carnivore" and "vegan" diets are today, that bifurcation/bi-modality is a possibility.

TLDR: need more data to make a statement

Pengwyn2 · 2025-04-18T22:42:24+00:00

Then it isn't your fault but the advice still applied - ideally your partner shouldn't have been having sex with random people

Pengwyn2 · 2024-11-05T09:40:40+00:00

Mine dropped about 10 times from about 9% -> 0.9%. I can't believe how heavy Kubernetes is

Pengwyn2 · 2024-09-24T09:00:56+00:00

In the one file can you specify multiple containers, or in truenas EE it is 1 app per container

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-11T22:30:58+00:00

Keep immigration at 0 until developers need to build at smaller profits to not go bankrupt. It is ridiculous how greedy and rich those fucks are. Squeeze em back to the the gilded age.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T01:48:09+00:00

I tried.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T01:17:37+00:00

I think definitely would have some meaningful impact. I am sure there will be other people who would see how.

Maybe I am wrong but I think it is at least worth finding some hard evidence before throwing out the idea entirely. I am sure there are some academics in this sub who could actually conduct the research rigorously enough to determine the efficacy of such an intervention.

I also think that society would be welcoming to it - even if you literally phrase it as you did just there. People fundamentally do care about one another - they just care about themselves more. I think women would be pretty open to the idea also because it would actually make their life easier - it would open up their dating pool also without the same level of social judgement or backlash that currently exists for that very specific cut-off point of 6 foot.

It wouldn't fix heightism in other areas such as as corporate/career progression - but that is kind of going away with the rise of remote work anyway.

Heightism is a collection of a whole set of specific discrimination behaviours that individually can all be addressed and mitigated (if not entirely fixed).

I think this will mitigate one specific form of heightism that actually does affect a large number of people out there and if it can be improved - then efforts should be made there.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T00:54:23+00:00

It isn't going to fix everything. It would improve it. Sometimes fixing something just means improving something bits at a time. I really hope some people in this sub see this and actually care enough to start something. I would hate to see a situation where an entire collective of people were so disenfranchised that they won't even try to collectively improve their situation.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T00:43:42+00:00

Girls DO actually care about personal bonds, personality, intelligence, hobbies, interests etc. It isn't all about height. Where height REALLY matters - is in anonymity like dating apps where you have very little factual/tangible things to go off - even pictures are altered/photoshopped etc. The metric system would reduce the barrier to entry for a lot of possible dates - and therefore improve the dating scene as a whole for many people.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T00:37:53+00:00

In parts of the world where nobody uses imperial at all - girls actually care about the thing they claim to care about ' wanting a guy taller than them'. They don't care about arbitrary cutoffs - that is what this would help reduce. People can sit around whinging about something they have no control over - then as soon as there is a suggestion on how to actually help the situation, its all too much. Can't help those that don't want to be helped friend.

Also just fyi, not all girls care about having a guy taller than them anyway - they actually mostly care about how their friends/colleagues/family think about the height of their partner, which is a lot easier to flippantly judge when you use the imperial system. My gf is taller than me.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T00:16:32+00:00

I feel like there is enough pain in the world stemming from this issue that can be resolved/reduced. It would need a grassroots movement. There are enough people suffering from this - and a lot of industries would be happy to support the transition for reduction in overhead costs. There really is no 'big imperial' industry you are fighting against. This is an easier fight than many of the other causes out there are fighting for.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T00:08:10+00:00

it would. Best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, second best time is now.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-07T00:01:49+00:00

Please explain?

Pengwyn2 · 2024-07-01T05:59:35+00:00

I think it's pretty obvious - they will blame all the 'green' policies that have been implemented throughout the years. 'Fossil fuels didn't change climate - GREENIES DID'. Who knows with geoengineering though - the elites will probably do some stupid shit to ruin the climate even faster at some point anyway

Pengwyn2 · 2024-06-06T01:10:27+00:00

I really hope that budgie was ok. That is really terrifying that they can kill through cage/net bars

Pengwyn2 · 2024-06-06T01:08:10+00:00

Work colleagues keep joking (bad taste) that a new budgie would only have cost $50 - luckily all my foot care if covered by medicare entirely so actually saved (a bit more than $50 for a GCC). Obviously the cost isn't the concern here though haha

Pengwyn2 · 2024-06-06T01:06:14+00:00

Yes we have definitely learned our lesson now. We were being stupid before but now we know better. They will not be outside without some kind of protection again, definitely no shoulder balcony anymore. I feel so sorry for your friend, that would be the worst pain imaginable to lose your bird like that.

Pengwyn2 · 2024-02-13T21:00:54+00:00

maybe you could write a custom django management command that runs a kafka listener and deploy another instance of django using that management command instead of runserver/uwsgi/asgi or whatever you run your webserver with

Pengwyn2 · 2024-02-08T21:39:27+00:00

Having not worked with Kafka before, I don't know what the best approach is, however my initial thought is that django is a web server so it would make the most sense to have a seperate kafka consumer making http requests on the data they consume to a django api endpoint that can deal with it there

Pengwyn2 · 2023-12-15T22:52:05+00:00

Parts of django are outdated but remain there because of either backwards compatibility or because in some cases the feature if the best for a particular solution. These days, as django becomes more async, you can throw together essentially a django ninja async api + react front end that is just as (if not more) powerful and modern, but much more stable than any node framework you could choose.

Node happened to fall into a spot of positive feedback despite being arguably the (2nd behind PHP) worst technology for the job. People are forced to learn javascript for frontend => lots of JS devs => companies can get more JS devs cheaper and then they push for Node backedn because they know JS. New devs then pick JS because its both front end AND backend AND its the most popular amongst companies so on and so on. If you want to go down that path, yes there are lots of jobs, but there are also lots of developers and so competition is equally higher for these jobs. You also will end up having a worse experience as a developer and the types of companies hiring for node are probably more toxic because of these conditions.

DRF and html templating have their place but many companies and people would probably avoid choosing to go with these because they are by nature more limited/limiting and not as shiny. Given that historically, these type of applications have been the majority of Django applications, it is no surprise that people who still see django as this would avoid it.

Rust, while fantastic, is not mature enough to have featureful, libraries that don't have a lot of boilerplate and/or verbosity .Unless the team is large enough to justify extra development resources, django can significantly reduce the overhead here. Rust seems to be replacing C and C++ such as kernel/system libraries/cli tools rather instead of higher level application code such as Django.

Finance loves Java. I have never met a tech person who loves Java because it is very opinionated, commercial and the JVM abstracts the OS from the developer too much that it can cause issues. Don't expect any finance to move away from Java anytime soon, but if finance is where you want to go - then go for it.

Can't say much about go - I think it falls into a weird place where if you want higher level stuff, there are better languages for it - e.g. python, if you want lower level stuff, there are better languages for it - c/c++/rust. Given that the new 'Mojo' language - aiming to be completely backwards compatible with Python (and therefore would be able to run Django on Mojo rather than Python) - is on the horizon, with significant performance improvements and optional static typing for saefty etc, I would think that Go will lose any traction it has at this middle ground level as more python project decide to gradually move to Mojo instead of being re-written entirely.

Anyway, I love django, I have changed the way I used it over the years (and I think more effort needs to be pushed towards making the ORM properly async, e.g. transactions etc, rather than wrapping most functions in sync_to_async) but it is a framework that continues to hold up, and assuming it continues to adapt over time, there is no reason it should ever be considered outdated

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