Be sure tö get some qūality lap-time this chrimbûs-eve :blobcat:
#cats #MastoCats #FediCats
@Longwing An ancient relic of the long-lost America Online Empire, which crumbled when the cable internet trade-routes opened up and rendered their waypoints obsolete (like a fuel-stop town after the interstate came through).
@riley Depends which chicken they were using to come up with new cuneiform symbols that day, I guess...
Hey, that segment Bari Weiss tried to spike from 60 minutes, the one about the foreign torture prison? It's on archive.org. Go get it and pass it around.
And get used to passing around important information.
@rnd [gasp] Quelle horreur!🙀 (...is that one of the ones I reposted, or something I neglected to include?)
Got some new gamering emojis, engineered up by the indefatigable @rnd -- share and enjoy!*
:dpad_none: :dpad_up: :dpad_up_right: :dpad_right: :dpad_down_right: :dpad_down: :dpad_down_left: :dpad_left: :dpad_up_left: :dpad_horizontal: :dpad_vertical: :dpad_all:
:face_buttons_none: :face_button_bottom: :face_button_right: :face_button_left: :face_button_top:
:trigger_left_inner: :trigger_left_outer: :trigger_right_inner: :trigger_right_outer:
:analog_left_move: :analog_right_move: (movement), :analog_left_click: :analog_right_click: (clicking the sticks)
:system_button_primary: (start equivalent), :system_button_secondary: (select equivalent)
*as they say in the marketing division here at Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (part of the #TootCat™ family of shell-companies and intellectual property holdings)
@riley mumble mumble common interfaces class inheritance I just spent an hour at Costco and then ate 5 very large slices of pizza, can you tell? [smiles and then falls over backwards]
@foone OMFG. Somehow, I keep thinking their incompetence only extends to screwing things up for other people, and that they're more careful when it might actually hurt them.
Clearly, I keep misunderestimating its greatness.
@GossiTheDog "I wasn't there, and anyway when I was there I absolutely saw who was there and none of them was me."
@riley I started typing out an elaborate scheme to do this in PHP using multiple inheritance, but actually I think that missed the point that an object should be able to function differently depending on how it is invoked...
...and actually, I think that could work in PHP too (and therefore presumably other OOP languages): a pattern I use a lot is for a class to have a method for returning a podling (child) object that has been pre-loaded with a pointer back to the parent, so the podling knows the context in which it is being invoked -- and that could work for $oHorse->Leg() vs. $oDog->Leg() (yes, I have weird var-naming conventions) so $oHorse->Leg()->Left()->Rear()->Kick() would work but $o->Leg()->Rear()->Left()->Scratch() would only work if $o was a Dog and not a Horse.
...which may or may not address your main point BRAIN FULL IN LINE NaN
@EveHasWords I've been pleased to see more people around here wearing masks in stores and at bus-stops. Maybe that's why we didn't have a post-Thanksgiving surge.
@hacks4pancakes ...and even if it's a purely selfish "I don't care about other $x people, I just want to be safe" -- that too has an unwritten and arbitrary expiration date.
I have to think that a lot of this kind of toadying comes from authoritarian upbringing (always obey and support the Strong Power Guy) -- which is something we maybe need to work towards eradicating.
