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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, I ran in front of a bus and I'm still alive, so running in front of buses can't be that dangerous, hey? Don't be so overcautious!

Everything in life has risks and you have to weigh the potential risk vs. the potential benefit. Granted, if smoking weed is the most dangerous thing that you do as a child, you'll be very lucky.

Beyond the point of being a good student, excess intellect at this stage of civilization is more curse than blessing.

Considering how many people are still ignoring the climate crisis, we need every bit of intelligence we can get. It's the only thing that will determine whether or not we survive as a species.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You make a good point, but I would much rather have them doing that than drinking. That harms a developing brain and has a bunch of other shitty side effects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do you delete someone else's comments? Were you arguing with an admin?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Many of the candidates from alternative parties are anti-genocide.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The DM for Critical Role did that in one of the early episodes. I think that if you're making a podcast, you should check your words for pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I could imagine somebody thinking of the word "segue" and thinking "Ah, so 'fugue' must be pronounced fug-way."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

There are non-biting mosquitoes. Those would just fill the same ecological niche.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then the FEC could just find out who owns that PO box and arrest them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, they were okay with the racism, okay with the Muslim ban, okay with the insurrection...but now they're anti-Trump because he's acting weird?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Talking trash about him on X isn't actively pushing him out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I'm sure that shaming them will make them change their minds and will not backfire in any way whatsoever.

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I'm studying bash, and I came across this Stackoverflow thread which contains this bit of code:

var="abcde"
echo ${var%d*}

The output is abc, but I can't figure out why. I understand that %d is used to indicate an integer number and * represents anything, but I can't figure out why those together would truncate var to only 3 characters.

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