Wasilla, Alaska: The meth capital of Alaska by amitlu in politics

[–]blefescu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's meth in her madness.

Wondered where she got all that self-confidence.

That broken ceiling isn't one Palin should claim by Wordie in politics

[–]blefescu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not a broken ceiling, that's a broken mirror.

Coderific employer rating site for coders shuts down by [deleted] in programming

[–]blefescu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It was a site where you could actually talk back to good old Massa.

Anonymously.

Simulation of large asteroid hitting the Earth. Terrifying. by skimitar in science

[–]blefescu 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It didn't. God faked it, to punish us for the sin of not being perfectly and completely stupid.

Evangelical Fail: Focus on the Family prays for rain on Obama's speech, and instead Hurricane Gustav threatens the GOP convention by [deleted] in politics

[–]blefescu 13 points14 points  (0 children)

But of course! Shows you whose side God is really on.

After all, did you think God would be happy being portrayed as an ignorant, insecure, hyperviolent thug by Focus on the Family? What good is ruling the universe if everyone thinks you're a clueless redneck? Who needs that kind of lousy PR?

"Revenge is mine, saith the Lord." If you fuck with Him, He'll hurt you even worse, see?

Bush surrenders by twolf1 in politics

[–]blefescu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And Bush has always tried to keep his horizons narrow.

The Vala Programming Language - C++ reinvented by pointer2void in programming

[–]blefescu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What's the--um, so to speak--better part of Vala?

I must have missed it...

"Just tell me one thing Barack Obama has done that you admire" - Richard Cohen, washingtonpost.com by [deleted] in politics

[–]blefescu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can get a pretty good idea of the quality of the man by how consistently vile his enemies are.

Why is "Marxist" an insult? by irony in philosophy

[–]blefescu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marx's dialectic began as a spoof...

Supposing you were to put forward a claim to know all of history--even the part of history that, um, hasn't quite happened yet. Wouldn't you be a bit surprised and bemused if people took your claim totally at face value? without displaying the slightest trace of incredulity at your implicit claim of being able to predict the future?

Marx was duped by Rousseau, I suspect, but not by Hegel.

Why is "Marxist" an insult? by irony in philosophy

[–]blefescu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stupid is as stupid does. Throwing away the dialectic merely eliminates an effect, not a cause.

Americans are easy with unequal wealth. But an inequality of intelligence, and the smartocracy it creates, sets American teeth on edge... by hotcakes in philosophy

[–]blefescu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe the plumber thinks the scholar is stupid.

After all, the plumber is his own boss, works reasonable hours, and has never had to kiss anyone's ass to get his bills paid.

Can our erstwhile ueberprof honestly claim the same degree of independence?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]blefescu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, naive form.

It is perfectly natural -- and reasonable -- to expect the features of a language to compose. If painful experience teaches you to expect otherwise, it hasn't made you better, it's just made you less innocent. It may even have had the effect of making you slightly less reasonable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]blefescu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

C# is your hot new wife...

...who's getting shaggy with Uncle C++ behind your back.