The conservative Sohrab Ahmari recently wrote a piece in which even he found Musk to be too conservative for his tastes. One of his complaints:
>A popular white-nationalist account with the handle “IAmYesYouAreNo” posts a meme declaring, “You are witnessing the biggest act of cuckoldry in human history. An entire civilisation willingly giving away its land and women.” Musk quotes the post, adding in his own words, “Accurate” (he has since deleted the response).
What's the mitigating context here? Can you adequately explain it for me?
Maybe most horrifying is that the passengers would have been aware that something was wrong because they would have seen the locked-out pilot swinging an object against the door. There supposedly exists [footage](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/germanwings-pa...) that passengers recorded of the plane's final moments with their phones, which survived the crash.
I used to lean towards the belief that Epstein was murdered, but as I read the reports and evidence describing the circumstances of his incarceration, I came to realize that it really was just a suicide, enabled by incompetence.
>One of the best writing tips I've ever gotten was to avoid using demonstrative pronouns. Instead of saying “this” or “that,” you should add a noun to spell out exactly what you’re referring to, even if you’ve just mentioned it.
This piece of advice is maybe the only thing I remember from my college English class. A naked "this" or "that" now feels shamefully lazy to me.
Totally agree! The worst example is a paragraph that starts with ‘this’. The author might remember what ‘this’ means at the time of writing, but other readers have to then insert themselves into the author’s stream of consciousness. ‘This’ paragraphs also make no sense when extracted from the main report, or to readers who are dipping in and out
I said "so many little things", not "this one specific little thing". Other things: I frequently get packages that offer themselves to be upgraded but the upgrade mysteriously fails every time I try it. No reliable way last time I checked to tell it where to install packages. It'll happily detect packages that have been installed outside winget (good!) but I have experienced cases where, when attempting to upgrade one of those packages through winget, it instead creates a second installation of it (horribly bad!!!)
Also it's not like apt, all it really does is download and run an MSI with a bit of fancy glue around it (which is why it can break so badly), you could probably install the latest version of this by manually pointing it at the right URL, so it's more annoying for it to be substantially behind.
Though in retrospect I'm not sure why I interpreted this as being "substantially behind"! It was more that someone made a vague winget lament and it struck me as an opportunity to express my evidenced belief that it is terrible :)
Software probably sucks because even the people complaining that it sucks will use a software platform that greets you with multiple pop-ups that obscure 80% of the screen. Can Medium just die off already?
Can we just get rid of lossy image compression, please? It's so unpleasant looking at pictures on social media and watching them degrade over time as they are constantly reposted. What will these pictures look like a century from now?
Please, keep lossy compression. Web is unusable already with websites too big as it is.
What should happen: websites/applications shouldn't recompress images if they already deliver good pixel bitrate. Websites/applicates shouldn't recompress images just to add own watermarks.
>A popular white-nationalist account with the handle “IAmYesYouAreNo” posts a meme declaring, “You are witnessing the biggest act of cuckoldry in human history. An entire civilisation willingly giving away its land and women.” Musk quotes the post, adding in his own words, “Accurate” (he has since deleted the response).
What's the mitigating context here? Can you adequately explain it for me?