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[JoshuaFH]

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If cannibalism is something you wish

DON'T KILL MY ASS

[hops]

For more context, I was being coerced by the portrait to kidnap and murder people to... feed him? He's a painting, I have no idea how he would ingest human meat.

[JoshuaFH]

To be fair, I recently had a strange nightmare where I was trapped in some odd building, pissed into a toy chest, got caught, and the rest of the dream was me being interrogated. "Why did you do it?! Why'd you piss in that toy chest?!" "I DON'T KNOW!"

To be clear, I've never done anything of the sort.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Nightmare logic knows no bounds. Physics only applies if it hurts you more than it not applying.

[TD1]

Who's Alexander Hamilton?

Cus that was the name of my great grandfather.

[IcyTea31]

Huh? Because line breaks count as characters for bandwidth purposes. It's good practice for your production web code to be like that. Plus it's removed not just line breaks, but all indentation/spaces/tabs and renamed all variables with shorter names. This can cut a big chunk off a large file. That line was 17K characters. Without clever packing, you could be looking at another 20-30K each time you load that webpage. That adds up when you consider all the page loads in the world. Also unless that page loads literally instantly, it's also a positive for user experience and site efficiency.

Thing is, they only did it for that one part. The rest of the code used line breaks pretty often. Why not optimize the entire code, if that's the reason they did it?


In other news, today I haggled by accident. I was buying a handmade candle base from a glassmaker's studio. He looked over it, mumbling something about a price tag, and so I helpfully read out the price sign that was on the shelf, except I didn't notice it was for another product. He just said that he usually sells it for more, but agreed and sold the base for like a third cheaper than actually listed. Here in modern Finland haggling is very rare and prices are generally rigid, but apparently smaller shops like that one still do it.

[TD1]

That...does not sound like haggling, which tends to be reciprocated. You told him what he thought was the rigid price, so he charged you for that. Haggling would be you saying a lower price, him a higher one, and then you meet in the middle.

[IcyTea31]

No, he actually said that he usually sells it for more, naming the usual price. I told him what I thought was the rigid price, and he knowingly agreed to sell it for less.

You could say that he said the high price when he originally put the smaller price sign up and I said the low price when I read the bigger one next to it, even if it was the wrong one. Even if we didn't meet in the middle, I'd call that haggling by accident.

[scriver]

No, he actually said that he usually sells it for more, naming the usual price. I told him what I thought was the rigid price, and he knowingly agreed to sell it for less.

You could say that he said the high price when he originally put the smaller price sign up and I said the low price when I read the bigger one next to it, even if it was the wrong one. Even if we didn't meet in the middle, I'd call that haggling by accident.

Shame! Shame! Shame!

[Yoink]

Yeah that sounds like low-key haggling to me, even if it wasn't intentional.


My wtf: a group I'm in on Facebook that is supposedly dedicated to the sharing of photos of and recipes for cheap vegan food was today engulfed in a bitter political flamewar.
That's not the WTF, though, the group in question goes off the rails in some way or another almost every day, usually over some disagreement about the whys or wherefores of veganism -  some arguments are more entertaining than others.
The wtf is that one side of the argument was advocating communism. Communism! Wtf. There were quite a lot of them too (admittedly mostly young folks from the US), and I'm pretty sure at least a few actually believed in what they were preaching.


In Happy news, though, TIL that making fun of communists on the internet is bloody fun. A lot more fun and less emotionally draining than arguing with omnivores (although that is still a satisfying duty to fulfil), since in this case it's not a topic I care so much about.

It's all always quite horrifying to be reminded of what utter dipshits so many vegans are, though. I already knew I disagree strongly with a lot of them on basically every topic other than animal welfare, but "how can you be vegan and not be a communist?!" has got to be a new low.


Anyway, now I must sleep. Shit, typing on this phone takes so long.

[scriver]

"how can you be vegan and not be a communist?!"

I think they took Animal Farm abit too literally.

[pisskop]

For more context, I was being coerced by the portrait to kidnap and murder people to... feed him? He's a painting, I have no idea how he would ingest human meat.

FEED ME SEYMOUR

[Reelya]

If you want to annoy vegans tell them you believe that plants are conscious, and that you'd need to eat many plants or one animal, so eating the animal is kinder. Or variations on that. Basically instead of logic you just double-down on whatever they believe and go so far out the other end that it contradicts itself.

[scriver]

But the animal still has to eat all the plants and more, so just eating many plants directly still causes less suffering in the end.

[Parsely]

For more context, I was being coerced by the portrait to kidnap and murder people to... feed him? He's a painting, I have no idea how he would ingest human meat.

FEED ME SEYMOUR

Does anyone else just not like Little Shop of Horrors?