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5teveH wrote: "white skin"! Make that christian white skin. You did see those T-shirts? Also, in very many, perhaps the majority, of cases, the BLM marchers were heavily if not mainly white. Certainly following Floyd's murder.
However - I propose a different thing altogether.
Just "whose side are you on?" and how that reflects in the mentality of the police force(s) as a whole. I don't don't the crackdown may have come sooner if the rioters "didn't look like me" from the cop's point of view. Or better, "vote like me". (I used the first version as an attempt at the irony of the incredible racism the first statement implies - and it's acceptable for "some people" to use such expressions). Sides may, certainly in urban areas, lay upon a racial divide.
They had plenty of warning so perhaps we need fall back onto occam's razor and go for the simple solution: it was allowed to happen not because of anything racial but purely political.
Now, of course, let's add to he fire: a perceived show of strength by the far right or as a mechanism to disgrace them by the far left? Conspiracy theories - egalitarian reality !
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's a miracle that any of them survived. Natural selection's too ing slow.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: It's a swipe at the intelligence of people who gather in large groups, not wearing masks, during a pandemic that appears to be getting worse
You don't need the qualifier "not wearing masks" in there; people gathering in large groups during a global pandemic are displaying all the intelligence of a tuna sandwich.
Because, you see, masks limit the amount of infection sprayed into the air, it doesn't remove it completely, so having a few hundred people gathered together with masks on is not that much better than a few hundred people without masks on.
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what about the thousands of BLM and Antifa protesters that did not wear masks either?
where was the outrage then?
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Slacker007 wrote: where was the outrage then? I don't think the OP was expressing 'outrage'. I think it was an observation on the stupidity of trying to effect a coup, without wearing a mask.
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What made you think these people were intelligent? There was a video on UK news this morning of a woman who seemed surprised and hurt that she had been maced and pushed out, after forcing her way into the building.
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Where was the outrage when BLM and Antifa burned and destroyed hundreds of buildings and businesses throughout America? Where was the question of intelligence, then?
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It's pointless to waste the manpower identifying and tracking these people down. Remember when BLM were looting stores and burning whole neighbourhoods to the ground, storming police stations and setting them on fire with people still inside? When they were caught they were simply let free right away to continue peacefully protesting the very next night.
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I'm thinking they might be traced via their cell phones too. Most were running around with a phone.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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As opposed to Pelosi and crew? The entire Russian Collusion crap was an attempt to overturn the 2016 election.
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OK guys, take it to the SoapBox!
...yes, I know it isn't there any more - that's my point.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So my JSON code that was optimized for RAM use rather than speed is keeping up with simdjson's nearest competitor (Mison notwithstanding since it's still a research project)
I have only done one major optimization ultimately for speed although the way my JSON parser works, it's pretty speedy by nature.
But some of the things it does, like highly selective skipping through a document or even front loading the parser with requests can speed up simdjson. So I'm incorporating ideas from my code into simdjson's codebase as a proof of concept to (edit: i hope!) make simdjson even faster than it is now. Hacking simdjson's stage 1 processing is crazy.
It's fun. I don't know what I'm doing. That's part of the joy of it. I'm totally in above my head, and eager because I know by the time I'm done I won't be. That enormous challenge therefore, presents enormous opportunity.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 6-Jan-21 20:30pm.
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Have you been on amphetamine ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Is that a new C++20 feature?
Real programmers use butterflies
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No old as the hills - I imagine it's just as fast as it ever was
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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If it makes it any funnier, the interaction between you two has just reminded me of both John Belushi and Tom Petty.
Cos I'm Spee(d), speed-ballin'
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Big fan of TP saw him a few times when he was support for Dylan - he stole the show every time.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hmmm. Where's the "envious" emoji?
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You people are a bad influence on me. I'm sweet and innocent.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I'm sweet and innocent.
Real programmers use butterflies
I used to claim that, but now I'm old and guilty as sin. I can honestly say that I enjoyed most of it. And real old programmers eat butterflies. They tickle a bit going down, but they're delicious.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Quote: Is that a new C++20 feature?
I dunno about you, but I'd definitely #include <hard-drugs.h> if I could...
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's fun. I don't know what I'm doing
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I find I like being lost like this when it comes to grappling with technology I don't understand.
The thing is, is every time it happens, I throw myself into the deep end of the pool and I end up learning to swim.
It's an opportunity to level up - to have one of those epiphanies I so enjoy.
I do it for the rush.
Real programmers use butterflies
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