The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.

Dear God. My friend sent me a video about some Japanese person with some cooking method or something that he recommended I should make try. The video he sent me was annoying as fuck. It was a couple screaming at each other: “OMG IS THAT THE NEW JAPANESE ____ METHOD?” “YES I THINK I’VE HEARD OF THAT” interspersed with the actual narration-free video. Had to stop it after 4-6 seconds.

I asked my friend how he could even stand watching it the video and he said his brain filters it out. I don’t know why it just repulsed me so much.

There’s also many videos with some person just playing another’s person’s video and they just point a finger upward to the actual playing video with some useless look on their face and the nodding.

I think this is the nature of these TikTok videos but I’m not really on TikTok much, I just get them sent to me every once in a while.

They’re doing the “brainwashing” they accuse others of. Benny Shap’s network makes right-wing movies for crying out loud.

They defend this by saying that hollywood is “left” wing … so they must “counteract” and “balance” things.

I’m reminded of the Chris Wallace and Jon Stewart interview: https://youtu.be/UYbtUztVctI?t=417

Jon Stewart:

Here’s the difference between you and I, I’m a comedian first … my comedy is informed by an ideological background. There’s no question about that, but the thing you will never understand and the thing that conservative activists will never understand is that Hollywood, yeah they’re liberal, but that’s not their primary motivating force. I’m not an activist. I’m a comedian and my comedy is informed by ideology, there’s no question about that, but I’m not an ideologue.

If you’re upset with my feedback, adjust your expectations.

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Yeah, I agree with Weird Al, you USE the NET to find a legal way but we’ll just have to wait for Roku.

That is a very fair statement.

Yeah, absolutely agreed.

Btw, you probably already know this, but if you don’t. The later versions of Node can run typescript natively. By “run”, I mean, it can run a subset of the language, if your project indirectly or indirectly references a file that has “decorators” or something like that, then you’ll need to use another compiler.

ts-node or tsx are runners that I use typically if I just want to “run” something. They’re basically zero config runners and I can debug with them with VS Code.

I’m a former .NET dev … I stopped quite a few years ago after I joined a Bay Area company. It was quite a change. React 1 was just coming out and I used to just write bad JS on my webpages and I had to rewrite our front-end in React. Also, ES5 or 6 or whatever was getting popular and we had to transition from CoffeeScript.

The JS world gave me whiplash after doing so many years of Enterprise .NET. The .NET tools felt so much more polished.

The fundamentals of Node to me were different than .NET. .NET felt like it had a lot more cruft and “magic” at first. With Node it felt deceptively simpler at first. Then when the require syntax was going away and we had imports but then it wasn’t a real import. It was a TypeScript import or a webpack import that did a require behind the scenes. Then I had to understand why we used typescript but then what was the point of tsc vs babel vs webpack vs esbuild what their roles were and I kind got a bit obsessed with understanding what they did and what was happening under the hood. Then Node officially did do import and I had to understand what that was all about and how it affected our compilers or bundlers.

Sorry I rant pointlessly. Godspeed on your journey!

Remember to add --enable-source-maps and as long as your tools are configured properly it should point to the right line!

I only heard about it through a YouTube recommendation. Very cool features. I may give it a whirl next.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Zorin OS.

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When George W Bush was president they told everyone to shut up and listen. When Obama came to office they went wild with every single little thing.

They have no principles.

I always wonder about that because you need a lot of people to function in an “end of the world scenario”. It just feels like the ones that are doing the real work are the ones with the power in that case.

I think they’re stupid too. Going into an interview is already stressful enough and these types of questions don’t put me into “problem solving” mode. They put me into “brain teaser” mode which is a different type of thinking for me. You know how we nailed these questions when I was in uni? We traded them after our interviews between each other and you just had to pretend you’ve never heard it before. So the main thing people were testing was whether or not the question had made it to them.

For programming, there are so many better ways to test out of the box thinking to me … I think the “what happens when you press a letter into a web browser address bar” or something is better and at least relevant. One that I like is, “there’s an outage in production, how would you go about diagnosing it?” Then as an interviewer I’d reshape the scenario and see where they put their focus and where they give up.

I think I can see where you’re coming from in that way.

I’m not gay so I’m not as sensitive to these jokes. I am Asian, however, and I dislike “Uncle Roger” for what I think is similar to this. The butt of the joke is that Asian people speak funny. So I think it’s similar to what you’re saying. The butt of the joke is that it’s embarrassing to have a gay relationship.

I can only speak for myself in detecting homophobia and I’m not always the best judge. I don’t want to deny your experience either, I’ll just say what I’m seeing:

There were leaks earlier that someone texted about Trump gave a blowjob or something to someone called Bubba. Then people speculated it was either Bill Clinton or even the nickname of a horse (I think people were just reaching for extremes in the memes).

Assuming the leak was real and person that sent the message was real and that Bubba was the nickname for Bill Clinton. I think people are just putting out fakes of the evidence of that?

I don’t see anyone saying it’s not “manly” to be gay or that being gay is undesirable?

Like I said, if I twist myself a bit a little too I think I can see the “haha gay people” angle. I just don’t think I see it, maybe it’s because I would like to think homophobia is so played out I would think they’d make a better joke or that secretly gay politicians is so common now.

That doesn’t mean you’re wrong though for sure, just because I can’t see it doesn’t mean the author’s intent isn’t there.

A truly jaw dropping moment.

There’s a lot of heated statements in here but I don’t see the homophobia in this post unless there’s more context. In this isolated post, it seems like they’re just extending the Epstein release about “Bubba”.

I won’t take away from anyone who finds it offensive though. You’re completely right to feel that way.