No, those would be people in the second. Snake oil drinkers and astrologists.

Elon Musk is the world’s best programmer. Ah! He makes so much money! 🤑

You disagree that women are socially pressured into being more apologetic and agreeable?

You may as well tell me an apple doesn’t fall when you let it go.

A refusal to acknowledge social trends is actually a very sexist (or homophobic, or racist) position to hold because it is a de facto defense of the status quo.

A person cannot hope to change society for the better while refusing to see society for what it is.

I do think the fact that the US is the only dissenting voice is incredibly funny.

Turns out, there is more than 1.5 billion people in Africa.

But these are facts I can learn independently of its, you know, appearance on a map. And outside of this being a notable news story, I don’t really see it prompting any such questions.

so it’s not a question of making people feel better about the size of their country

It is, though. That’s actually the only purpose this serves.

I think you might read that as dismissive, but I see some value in making people feel better. Certainly in making the US feel worse.

I don’t, however, think that this will meaningfully improve anything.

Russia doesn’t really have this problem anyway, it’s very large in all our popular projections.

It’s area should still be incorrect, though, yes? Which would mean we have incorrect ideas about its natural resources, its farmland, its cultural cohesion?

A country’s, or a continent’s, signifigance has nothing to do with it’s size, though.

I mean, if we wanted to make the nations of Africa or Greenland feel better, does it follow that we could make them appear bigger on the map than they actually are? Just move the mercator around such that Africa is along the top or bottom edge of the map where things are larger?

I am absolutely not saying that people having a better understanding of Africa is bad. I just don’t think that this is really how that happens.

I remember thinking that Russia seemed pretty big on the map, and yet still, I’ve never had to take Russian culture as a class in high school.

[edit] I’ll add one thing, though. This decision has clearly pissed the US government off, which is based and incredibly funny. I’ll support it to that end.

This may or may not be true—in fact I’ll just assume that it’s true, fuck it—but I will say that it’s kind of like being asked to have an opinion on whether this person or that gets top billing on the theater marquee: is it going to be Rose & Krants or Krants & Rose? Which do you think, morally, is the superior option? I really, really don’t care.

And it bothers me a smidge that people do only because I feel like they’re being distracted by jangling keys. But oh well, whatever. Not my business, I guess.

A lot of those accounts were young anyway, so I don’t know how many are even around to swallow their pride now.

Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people’s names.

Okay, I stop reading here. That’s fucking insane.

Because the world is sick. I don’t know, what kind of answer are you looking for?

The gunblades vibrate, not shoot. They’re like that battery powered knife that allegedly cuts tomatoes 1% better.

I’m not making fun, btw, I fucking love gunblades. They should shoot, though. Lightning’s shoots.

So are you paid by the comment or what?

I do get to, actually, through a little process called shame.

You want to be able to control everyone and force them to act the way you want them to act.

We already do this. You cannot murder, you can’t piss in public, a lot of states don’t allow open carry, you can be shooed off the premises for smoking in the wrong areas. And, you can’t pull your dick out. “Controlling” the way people act is actually absurdly common.

I’m asking you to keep your cock in your pants.

It is so fucked that in modern life I have to waste my time with conservatives trying to endlessly relitigate exactly what about being a pedophile is bad, and with tech fetishists exactly why being an asshole in public is wrong.

Spaceballs, if you’re standing somewhere over the grand canyon with your phone out, obviously filming a family of three that does not want to be filmed, what the fuck are you doing? Do you find joy in being an unlikeable loser? Do you often think you just aren’t lonely enough?

I don’t know what it is you want me to say to you. In my ideal world, Facebook wouldn’t be allowed to make this product in the first place.

This is like asking how we decide that your cock isn’t visible through your pants. Learn to be modest, I don’t know.

There is a trick I learned from Firebelley Games (a youtube channel) that is just as simple to spin up and use as the Enum + match strategy but without sacrificing any versatility.

I actually like it better than the Node-based pattern because you don’t have to set up much boilerplate, and you really don’t need to think about how different state classes might share data. Plus, none of it will clog up your scene tree or need to be pointlessly instantiated by the engine.

class_name Player2D extends Node2D

var _state_machine := CallableStateMachine.new();

func _ready() -> void:
  _state_machine.add_state(
    _state_idle_update,
    Callable(),
    Callable()
  );
  _state_machine.add_state(
    _state_jump_update,
    _state_jump_enter,
    Callable()
  );
  # Set first state
  _state_machine.switch_to(_state_idle_update);

func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
  _state_machine.update();

# These are your state functions.
func _state_idle_update() -> void;
func _state_jump_update() -> void;
func _state_jump_enter() -> void;

func _ready() -> void:
  _state_machine.add_state(
    _state_idle_update, # update
    _state_idle_enter,  # enter
    Callable(),         # exit
  );

func _process(delta: float) -> void:
  velocity.y += 9.8 * delta;
  _state_machine.update();
  move_and_slide();

func _state_idle_update() -> void:
  if Input.is_action_pressed('jump'):
    _state_machine.switch_to(_state_jump_update);

var _anim: AnimatedSprite2D = $An...;
var _jump_times := 0;

func _state_idle_enter() -> void:
  _anim.play('idle');
  _jump_times = 0;

func _state_jump_enter() -> void:
  _anim.play('jump');
  _jump_times += 1;

class_name CallableStateMachine extends RefCounted

var _states_map := {} as Dictionary[Callable, CallableState];
var _current_state: CallableState = null;

func add_state(update: Callable, enter: Callable, exit: Callable) -> void:
  _states_map.set(update, CallableState.new(update, enter, exit));

func switch_to(update: Callable) -> void:
  if not _states_map.has(update):
    return;
  exit();
  _current_state = _states_map.get(update);
  enter();

func update() -> void:
  if _current_state:
    _current_state.update.call();

func enter() -> void:
  if _current_state:
    _current_state.enter.call();

func exit() -> void:
  if _current_state:
    _current_state.exit.call();

# This is just a struct to package the set of functions.
class CallableState extends RefCounted:
  var update: Callable;
  var enter: Callable;
  var exit: Callable;
  func _init(update: Callable, enter: Callable, exit: Callable) -> void:
    self.update = update;
    self.enter = enter;
    self.exit = exit;

func _state_idle() -> void;
func _state_idle__update(delta: float) -> void;
func _state_idle__unhandled_input(event: InputEvent) -> void;
func _state_idle__exit() -> void;

!!
Wait, this is cool, I can learn

They don’t choose to, but they’re choosing not to now because they can’t afford it?

Poor people don’t have children?