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I thought the royals in mainland Europe were generally well-liked? I'm only basing this on the lack of negative attention they get compared to the British royal family.

When I first saw that Luigi Mangione photograph, I thought "damn, that guy's about to drop the hottest rap album of 2025."

Bernie is a whole lot more compos mentis than Biden ever was.

The right time to elect him would've been 2016...

He isn't wrong. If they hadn't pushed a senile 81 year old incumbent leader upon us as their candidate, in a blatant attempt to parachute an unpopular vice president into power once the 25th Amendment had to inevitably be invoked, then we would never have had a second Trump term.

Biden should never have ran for a second term, and allowed time for the Democrats to field a decent candidate for the White House. The fact that Harris literally lost to somebody who tried to stir up an insurrection against Congress four years ago says it all.

Another big problem is that we've been collectively trying to shoehorn everybody into programming careers for the better part of two decades. In fact, "just learn to code" is often thrown around by people in response to the prospect of AI automating and taking over everybody's jobs.

What they don't understand is that coding is actually very difficult, especially for people who are bad at math, which is a significant portion of the population if you look at statistics, grades, test scores, etc. Expecting a lowly paid call center worker who lost their job to AI to suddenly open up Visual Studio and write any code is a fools errand.

I bring this up because I think there's a correllation between people asking low-quality questions and people being pushed into making a career move into tech.

I'm not a programmer (last time I seriously dabbled into coding was building a website for an A Level Computing project and I had to teach myself HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL because my sixth form was shit and was only teaching us Visual Basic 6 when the IDE/language had been obsolete for nearly a decade) and I have never personally posted on StackOverflow. In fact, the only StackExchange site I've ever been part of was EpicAdvice, a short-lived offshoot that was for World of Warcraft specific questions. But I do have a sibling with a computer science and software engineering background which is how I became aware of the site in the first place.

This isn't my personal criticism of the site, it's me echoing the sentiment of the many who have complained about the community across the web.

Maybe StackOverflow is dying because its community is full of incredibly toxic, passive-aggressive and hostile basement dwellers who will berate, downvote and lock the threads of anybody who dares ask a programming question. Genuinely the kind of people you often see moderating subreddits or Discord servers who have never been punched in the face.

ChatGPT hammered the final nail in the site's coffin because it's now become a tool where you can ask specific programming questions and likely get an answer that isn't "use the search bar you fucking dipshit. Question closed as off-topic."

Echo toxic sentiments for long enough and people are going to start believing it.

I'm about 95% sure that communities like 4chan, Reddit, Poal, 8Kun, etc are the reason why the American & European political climates are now so fucked.

No but they did ban a whole subreddit (WatchPeopleDie) dedicated to footage of people dying back in 2018 after they dared to show footage of the Christchurch mass shooting - without any prior admin warning whatsoever.

And honestly Reddit were a bunch of hypocrites for how they handled that situation, especially since WPD had tonnes of uncut ISIS execution videos hosted on their subreddit a few years back and nobody on the board gave a shit.

But it does make ya wonder why he wanted to run for a second term. He probably won’t make it to the end of the current administration.

There are already conspiracy theories going around that he kept his medical issues (dementia, cancer, etc) a closely guarded secret whilst running for re-election.

As for why I think Biden wanted to run for a second term, my guess is that his plan was to stand down and effectively proxy the United States' first female leader in that way. Harris would have otherwise been eviscerated in the primaries.

He won’t live long enough to see the major impact of slow rolling Trump’s arrest.

Dude, with the way Trump is handling things, the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential elections are going to be about as Fair and Balanced™ as a Fox News broadcast.

This raises the question: why would you want to invest in US companies? Republicans are presiding over a $36 trillion mountain of debt and now want to run further deficits to raise that mountain, after imposing tariffs on everybody in the weeks prior.

It feels like it's only a matter of time until the USA's debt bubble bursts and takes out a good chunk of the global economy with it.

BRICS are getting exactly what they wanted with Trump. This is how you destabilize the dollar and make the Chinese yuan the world's reserve currency.

So they're wilfully ignoring the EU's Digital Markets Act and a US court-ordered injunction that prevents them from punishing developers for trying to circumvent the use of the App Store for in-app purchases, after one of their execs was caught lying under oath and potentially facing criminal repercussions.

I'm not the biggest fan of Epic Games, but I really want to see this backfire spectacularly. Apple's business practices are so bad that it makes me want to see Tim Sweeney kick Tim Cook's ass in court.