[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

You want to create the date "31st February", but it's JavaScript that's cursed?

Write a less side-effecty function.

function getMonthName(monthNumber) {
    const date = new Date(2023, monthNumber - 1, 1);
    return date.toLocaleString([], { month: 'long' });
}
[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

What I know mostly comes from the Folding Ideas video about him.

Most replayed part

Nostalgia Critic: I have become comfortably dumb.

Dan Olson: And, you know what, I’m not going to disagree. You said it, man. I don’t know if it works as self-deprecating humour because I don’t think it’s comedically true, I think it’s just true.

— "The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall", 34:28

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

It's bad enough when student 'conservatives' play this "I am the master debater" game (with the most bad-faith approach, and without any understanding of real debate) but, when they're in their thirties, it's even more pathetic.

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Schwing! :hentai-free:

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[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

If people are talking about mountains, and someone points out that "this grain of sand is also a rock", how often is that going to be anything other than a distraction from the conversation?

Seriously, describing this as 'pushing back against talking differently' is almost as reductive as the Right's "you want to silence us because we disagree". Scale is important.

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's "all struggles matter" and it sucks.

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe, since it's a recruitment poster, the translation is "We seek programmers for a great mission."

  • Qu' = mission
  • Dun = to be great
  • -vaD = for
  • ghun = to program
  • -wI' = one who does
  • DI- = we — them
  • Sam = to seek
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…I'm going to call it the Bearlin Wall.

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

I don't think this is actually a particularly good suggestion. It's too easy to dodge with "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". It doesn't matter if they lack evidence of presence, because they're not trying to be objective, they're trying to be superior.

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

It's particularly interesting that someone concerned enough with logical fallacies to complain of ad hominem attacks can have "[he may be a Nazi sympathizer but let's listen to what else he has to say]" happily coexist with "[Some Hexbears say mean things so no one should listen to anything else that any of them have to say]".

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Even though I know incongruity is a part of these things, the combination of small roof and gable end—making the house look British—with an AC unit labelled as "trusty"—implying a long history—bothers me. Does anywhere else have houses like this?

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

This is the reasoning that leads to "if you think medicines are too expensive, stop buying them" with much the same problem of it not being quite that simple for the majority of humanity, whose "choices" are not as unconstrained as the ones you're familiar with.

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Potential struggle-session topic: If you're going to complain about misrepresentations of Sweden, please use the å: Blåhaj (and not say "blah hadge"; "blaw high" would be much better). :cat-trans:

[-] aebletrae@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If wealth were actually distributed in the US equally that might be true, but as it is it's more than double what most Americans have, even ignoring inflation.

The average net worth of all American families was $746,820, according to the Federal Reserve’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances, while the median figure was $121,760.

The Average Net Worth Of Americans—By Age, Education And Ethnicity

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I don't know which one of you went to Belgium to start a transportation company, but it's a good bit.

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