I mean, yes, you’re right that it’s a simplistic take. However, falling for that kind of nonsense is not a sign of intelligence. Being able to assess “Is this a good source?” and “Are other people in fact people?” are signs of intelligence.

Your brother is an fool and shouldn’t be allowed outside without supervision, nevermind voting and operating heavy machinery.

It definitely changes the options available to overcoming it!

A small club has a bylaw saying they serve no hard alcohol at parties. That’s a real rule that is enforced. But they can change it with an agreement, or just ignore it from time to time.

Something like acceleration due to gravity is going to happen no matter what.

Sometimes cultures have really toxic ideas on them. Probably all cultures have something. Like in the US there’s a lot of “the only emotion men are allowed is anger”, for example.

How do you fix that? Is there a general solution? Because sometimes it’s like enforced by the very people it’s harming.

But it’s all social. Made up. It’s not like physics. We can’t all decide that acceleration due to gravity on earth is now a nice round 10 m/s². But we could just decide working long hours is bullshit.

I’m going to guess it’s the same origin as “the cruelty is the point”. Some people just don’t want other people to be happy.

Also some people aren’t fact driven. Working fewer days feels like it should be less productive, so it must be.

Some people really just want to hurt their out-groups. Some people are selfish. Some people fundamentally do not think government should exist.

Those people are assholes who should not be in any positions to make decisions.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Right? Like I don’t care for basketball but I’m not like “it’s a sin they’re so tall” or “how dare they throw things”.

But I guess it’s easy to latch onto an out group and hate them instead of dealing with real problems.

Related thought: why is it so rare for someone to threaten to shoot up billionaires or their boss that’s stealing their wages or the factory owner that’s dumping mercury in their water or the factory owner that’s employing children or the cops that murder people on video or any number of things.

Also Marvel’s Civil War 2

I use jetbrains’ PyCharm. Work paid for it. It does the things I want it to do (works with docker, git integration, local history, syntax highlighting for every language I use, refactor:rename and move, safe delete, find usages,.find declaration, view library code, database integration, other stuff I’m forgetting)

I found it in the docs https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/basics/modules/#importing-by-url

Not sure if that generates like a lockfile or how it handles peer deps. Intersting nonetheless.

If you’re writing any language in like notepad, you’re going to have a bad time. I accept your point that school administration may be making questionable choices about what software is installed, but that’s not a problem unique to python.

Oh I see what you mean. Interesting.

As you allude to there are tools in python to help (I tried pex briefly once, for example). It hasn’t really been a pain point for me but I can see why people would spend time on it. I imagine this strategy has its share of tradeoffs and gremlins.

but unlike Python you can use third party dependencies,

In what sense does python not have third party dependencies?

You can use types in Python and your tools will generate warnings

def something(a: int) -> int: return “potato”

will turn yellow in an IDE more advanced that notepad.

Most editors will also show a red line where the indentation is wrong.

I’m surprised Twitter is still running. How many engineers do they have?

Maybe those engineers should go rogue and just… not do this. But no, probably the ones left are jerks who support this, or people with visa worries.

Maybe someone will push Musk in front of a bus though.

but someone not caring about my complaints and continuing to do what they enjoy is their right, and they aren’t a bad person for not caring that it annoys me.

I think we’re going to have to agree to disagree. To use your example, if my neighbor was smoking in a place that it was stinking up my bedroom, and I asked them to stop doing it there, and they were like “nah I like it here” I’d consider them a huge asshole. Just do it over there not by my bedroom or something.

One confounding issue here is that fireworks affect a pretty big area. The whole neighborhood is probably going to hear them.

I don’t know anything about you so this might not land, but I wonder if there’s an urban rural divide on this. Folks that live in a more dense area might on average be more considerate of their neighbors. I’ve known people who live out in the woods that are big on “I do what I want on my property!” Though plenty of people everywhere are assholes, so who knows.

You are technically correct in that my language was imprecise and I haven’t made the clearest, most well organized, argument here. Probably because this exchange has been ongoing over a couple days.

Regardless, if one side was like “That’s really annoying to me, could you not please?” responding with “womp womp” is extremely rude and selfish.

On top of that, fireworks give people “genuine” problems on top of simply not liking it

In summary: Fireworks upset people for reasons ranging from “I just don’t like loud noises” all the way through “they’re basically torture for my dog”. When people are like, “I don’t care I’m gonna do it anyway,” that’s garbage behavior.

People don’t like the loud noises because they terrify their dog or trigger PTSD.

So you’re lacking in empathy. Acknowledging something is an important first step.

I imagine that if you had a dog you wouldn’t be “womp womp” about torturing it two or three times a year.

Or if you had a friend with PTSD, you wouldn’t go out of your way to aggravate that a couple times a year.

Certainly not for an extremely mild form of entertainment.