Now, it would be fair to say that the inheritance hierarchy here is badly designed, wrong, doesn’t actually make sense, and has nothing to do with object-oriented programming in the first place anyway. Also, wasting the 8 bytes of the width and height properties is meaningless in the grand scheme of things and thus the larger waste of time is thinking about this whole issue at a all. And maybe it is, but that is not a universal truth: this is engineering, and it is all about trade-offs. In a real-world inheritance hierarchy you’ll probably find that much more memory is being wasted, and the effect of it is not insigificant. At some point you’ll find that the cost of not thinking about this issue is too high to bear.

Yet they couldn’t find a better example for their rant about how awful it is.

I have found this blog post to be a waste of my morning time.

You didn’t read, you just reacted. They have bachelor’s degrees, not education degrees.

Americans downvoting you because human rights to them is only what happens in America, not what America does to the world.

Part of the problem is most teachers don’t have an higher education and a lot don’t even have an education degree. They aren’t taught proper pedagogy, they’re just taught to present materials and monitor standardized tests.

From their point of view, they’re doing what they’ve been told is heroic work from underappreciated and underpaid public servants, which is true; but they miss the part where the curriculum they’ve been handed down doesn’t serve the students in learning how to think and solve challenging problems in life, instead leading them down a specific specialization route to be a good little office drones.

We’ve failed teachers as much as students, and there aren’t enough education colleges preparing quality teachers and too many schools hiring unqualified people as teachers.

Is the argument presented the propaganda or the fact that it was negative?

It’s NYTimes propaganda, not exactly Russian or Chinese.

Holy shit the hopium you that keeps people going… 🤦🏽

Cops are not going to get physical and escalate with ICE, stop it!

You’re the confused one, unfortunately. You’re just regurgitating Democratic party nonsense.

By voting for a lesser evil, you are still in fact voting for evil, and you’re okay with it because at least the lesser evil doesn’t touch you and yours. You don’t give a shit about minorites and the poor the Democrats use as rhetoric and abuse, you don’t care about the illegal war crimes funded by your tax dollars, you don’t care about genocides of brown people, they don’t affect you and that’s good enough for you.

If you had principals and you stuck to them, you’d vote for a candidate that upholds those principals, not just talks about them around elections. By voting for whatever the Democrats force down your throat, you reward the neo-liberal machine and keep it in power. You’re not saving the country, you’re not saving your children’s future, you’re just giving yourself a little bit more comfortable life, and damned by the consequences.

You blame us for refusing to vote for a candidate that promised to kill more and more of our people, and you’re confused why we don’t see it your way. We don’t get the benefit of your lesser evil, because it’s evil to us.

Vote for your lesser evil, they’ll lose again because we’re again telling you loudly we’ll not settle at the cost of our children being shredded to pieces by you party’s bombs, and again you’re to blame for the eventual result: fascist takeover.

And this is all assuming it hasn’t happened yet and there will be free elections anymore, and I’m not convinced you’ll have a true choice next time anyway.

Okay, he’s not Trump, so bad is always relative.

He was handed the Russian invasion from heaven so he can be whitewashed into a saint and national hero. You can’t even find a controversies section on his wiki, the corrupt fucker.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until a class revolution takes place.

If a candidate wins, the blame doesn’t go on those who didn’t vote for them.

There’s way more blame on you for supporting a bad candidate despite people on your side telling you clearly and well ahead of time that they are not voting for them. You voted for a nonviable candidate, you’re the one who wasted your vote.

We don’t owe the Democrats any votes just because they aren’t Trump. They must earn it. We don’t accept that we should vote for “the lesser evil” so you can keep your privileged life comfortable, while throwing us vulnerable minorities under the bus.

Nice twist.

My problem is that they’re always on the wrong side of history, and only start using the vulnerable as rhetoric after they can’t kill and maim them profitably.

They don’t serve us, they use as to serve the capitalist class.

Call them heroes and worship them?

Rare?

Democrats have a pattern of vocally opposing issues only after they irreparably solidify them.

In 1986 they helped pass draconian drug laws and mandatory minimums that supercharged mass incarceration, then decades later turned around and branded the “war on drugs” a moral failure.

In 1994 they wrote and championed the crime bill that funded more cages and longer sentences; only once whole communities were gutted did it become fashionable for them to “reckon” with mass incarceration.

In 1996 they joined Republicans to “end welfare as we know it,” slapping work requirements and time limits on poor families, then years later started admitting it deepened extreme poverty.

That same ’90s crew pushed NAFTA and the broader free-trade consensus that helped ship industrial jobs overseas, then reinvented themselves as champions of the working class once the damage was locked in.

They joined in financial deregulation at the end of the decade, tearing down New Deal banking walls, and after the 2008 crash, suddenly discovered the virtues of regulation.

On social issues it’s the same story: they crafted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and passed DOMA, then only when public opinion flipped did they pretend they’d always been on the side of LGBT rights.

They voted for the 2002 Iraq AUMF and let Bush have his war, then spent the next decade calling it a catastrophic mistake.

They backed the 2006 Secure Fence Act to harden the southern border, then later denounced wall-style politics as cruel and nativist.

So no, Epstein Island wasn’t some weird one-off “bipartisan moment.” Bipartisanship is the rule whenever it comes to locking people up, bombing someone, cutting social supports, or serving corporate interests, and Democrats in particular have a long record of helping build the machinery first and only discovering their consciences after it’s too late to dismantle it. At least the Republicans consistently tell you they hate you to your face.

And what meaningful action are Dems taking to stop it?

In 2015, my Indian coworker in the US sat on a different table with another team on a company lunch, because my Indian boss wouldn’t talk to him because he comes from a lower caste.

The Democratic party is a neo-liberal party, this is not something they oppose further than rhetoric to pacify the population, they are supportive of these war crimes and the potential colonial war on South America. Remember Obama’s drone strikes that liberals hate to acknowledge.

The Democratic party uses leftist rhetoric to pacify and squash leftist revolution, they are not on your side.

Half American people are just as bloodthirsty, and half of the remaining half just don’t give a shit.

Hillary was probably the worse:

I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product… So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again’, was looking backwards,

Obama:

Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

John Kerry:

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq

These are slip ups, if you search for coded ways they describe their opponents, you can find a lot more “low information” and “uneducated” examples.

Remember Joe the plumber? He was a reaction to republican voters feeling unrepresented as blue collar workers.

This kind of class contempt absolutely isn’t unique to Democrats, but their obsession with courting higher educated voters has branded their contempt for those who aren’t.

🤦🏽

Congrats on your vacation, I go on them also.

But you must realize bragging about not consuming when going on an environmentally disastrous cruise vacation is ironic, even if your aunt did the spending…

And how much did you spend on that cruise?