I wish they would ban it in Germany, too.

Chihuahuas can have a not completely closed cranial bone (is this the right word?), which means if you pet them at the wrong place you literally can touch the brain and potentially kill them. My mood would be bad, too, if this was the case for my body.

Pugs also can have their eyes popping out if you handle them wrong (e.g. gripping them at their neck).

The head of King Charles Spaniels are to small, meaning their brain does not have enough room. This can lead to brain fluids getting stuck in the head, which increases pressure on the brain, leading to infathomable headaches, hallucinations, motor deficits, etc, pp.

Breeding some dog breeds should really be prohibited.

Didn't he get the 3rd Reich reference of the poster or doesn't he care?

His family name was Julius (because he was from the family of the Iulii). Caesar was a title and since Augustus became part of the name when the position was taken up.

Considering that an ex-president who invaded a country under a proven false pretext and in violation of international law and has a million Iraqi civilians on his conscience is still painting his little pictures in Texas, perhaps the Supreme Court decision is not as big a break as some seem to think?

Yeah, well. What should I say. I wanted to use it in a commercial project, too :)

Apple deployed a library I wrote to every mac on the world, and additionally bundles it with Xcode.

Apple users reported some bugs, that‘s how I found out.

I never heard a word from them. No patches, no bug reports, nothing, they didn’t even bother to refresh the bundled version.

I think in the meantime they removed it from macOS but still bundle it with Xcode.

I mean, I didn’t any money, but some appreciation would’ve been nice, and a version refresh…

If you are curious: it is this library: https://github.com/ckruse/CFPropertyList

Edit: appreciation as in: a mail with a notice that they did so.

It's a german language forum. I guessed that it is not very interesting to most people reading here because of the language barrier. But I'm happy to share the link: https://forum.selfhtml.org/

Yes, the uprise of social media was a big hit in traffic.

But I disagree with the smartphone part, quite the opposite. Suddenly the forum was flooded with questions about HTML/CSS/JS issues with smartphones. I suspect that smartphones delayed the drop in postings.

I am running a forum (about web technologies), and have been doing so for about 24 years (damn. I'm old). I had some spam problems, but was able to get rid of it.

It probably helps that I wrote the software myself (24 years ago there weren't many forum software projects).

But the traffic is declining. The peak was around 2003-2005, with >500 posts per day, and is slowly declining since then with a massive drop last year (about 19 posts per day). Young people only rarely use the forum anymore, despite massive modernization efforts, and the older people slowly disappear.

    1998 |   6686
    1999 |  40528
    2000 |  70379
    2001 |  41129
    2002 | 171294
    2003 | 203642
    2004 | 204685
    2005 | 173659
    2006 | 150000
    2007 | 135936
    2008 | 126283
    2009 |  94894
    2010 |  70333
    2011 |  48691
    2012 |  31197
    2013 |  30606
    2014 |  30227
    2015 |  29334
    2016 |  25472
    2017 |  27505
    2018 |  28551
    2019 |  22366
    2020 |  17250
    2021 |  12794
    2022 |  10135
    2023 |   7151

If the trend continues we will shut it down in a year or two.

Hab jetzt echt eine ganze Weile überlegt, ob och antworte.

Ich bin als Sohn eines Nazis aufgewachsen. Wir haben zu acht mit meinen beiden Eltern in einem Zimmer geschlafen (schonmal deine Eltern beim Sex beobachtet?), meine drei Schwestern haben im Nebengebäude (im Schöppchen) auf dem Dachboden geschlafen und wurden dort Nachts eingesperrt. Für die Notdurft hatten sie einen Eimer.

Keins der Gebäude hatte eine Heizung, das Hauptgebäude wurde mit Öfen beheizt, die ich seit meinem 10. oder 11. Lebensjahr morgens anfeuern musste, bevor meine Eltern aufstehen. Warmes Wasser gab es auch nur, wenn man vorher einen Ofen angefeuert hat.

Wir wurden bei Vergehen regelmäßig verprügelt, als Strafmaßnahme. Von meinem Alten am Anfang mit einer Weidenrute und später mit einem Knüppel. Vin meiner Mutter mit einem Holzlöffel.

Ich denke, der Staat sollte sehr viel früher und proaktiver eingreifen. Wer soll den Kindern sonst helfen? Denn keiner meiner Verwandten hat etwas gesagt. Keiner. Und die wussten alle Bescheid über die Verhältnisse, die bei uns geherrscht haben.

Das täuscht.

Wir haben einen signifikanten Anteil an Menschen, die Abtreibung für falsch halten. Ich kann mich an die Diskussionen in den 90ern erinnern (da war ich noch ein Kind), und wie meine Mutter und die Umgebung empört waren. Diese Menschen sind nicht weg. Dass jetzt am Status Quo gerüttelt wird, ruft sie wieder auf den Schirm.

Das ist keine rein amerikanische Debatte.