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  • My feelings on the matter are generally that I’m not sure leaving him off the primary ballots before he’s convicted is the most responsible course of action.

    One of the biggest arguments that his supporters lean on is that he’s being treated unfairly. Now, I disagree with them and believe that having gone through a Grand Jury is sufficient to move to indict. But many people don’t actually know what a Grand jury is. My dad, for example, thought the Grand Jury in this case was just a collection of left leaning lawyers looking to hack at Trump’s credibility rather than a random group of people called to form a panel for prosecutors to show evidence to prior to indictment.

    If we assume that most of his supporters have a similar understanding to my dad, then the only thing we are doing is boosting their feelings that Trump is being treated unfairly by moving to remove him from primary ballots before his trials resolve.

    We should instead be trying to focus energy as a country to move the relevant trials forward to ensure they resolve before the general election and remove him from that ballot if he’s convicted. Then we should also allow Republicans the ability to replace him on the ballot if necessary.


  • I’m not sure what that last paragraph was about, but I was extremely religious throughout highschool. Like, leading youth group retreats and all.

    Catholicism comes in many forms for many people. The OP could be legit. My family struggled with the idea of fantasy. It was a strongly held belief that dabbling in things that tilted occult would result in possession. An actual conversation I had with my mother was that Magic the Gathering would result in demonic possession, which would not be fixed because the Catholic Church officially stopped exorcism after Vatican II.

    Some people take Catholicism more seriously and at seriously more weird ways than you can imagine from “having a Catholic friend.”


  • I grew up Catholic. The answer might be yes because weird things are considered sins, but there’s a built in mechanism for getting around that.

    Confession is used for way worse things than “I used the devil’s tool at the instruction of my teacher”



  • It’s fine to not know every language. I’m not saying you must know every language. I’m saying that only knowing one and refusing to use another is a problem I’ve seen from PHP, Java, and C# cultures almost exclusively.

    The only exception I’d say that makes sense is people who are using coding for a small part of their overall job. But full time software engineers should have at least a few options in their belt for backend that they understand and can use in different scenarios.


  • ursakhiin@beehaw.orgtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlPHP is dead?
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    My issue with PHP isn’t the language, it’s the developers. PHP developer culture is much like C# and Java culture.

    I could bring a million reasons I don’t want to program in PHP and every time we talk about it, the PHP developer tells me I should be using it for everything. If I suggest that it may not be the best tool for a particular task at hand, the PHP developer tells me it’s the only language they know so they will use PHP.

    The issue is that this type of culture closes doors mentally. In any craft, we should try to use the best tool available for the task at hand. In carpentry you’d use a hammer with nails and a screwdriver with screws. In programming, there are times using PHP makes sense and times it doesn’t.

    In container based services, I tend to lean toward a compiled binary because it reduces the size of the container at run time and most modern languages don’t require tons of heavy duty frameworks to scale well there.

    In a monolith, a fully interpreted language with an MVC framework could make sense.