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  • Programming is definitely not an exact science.

    Armchair amateur here but there’s often a lot of talk about O(n), memory optimization, trash cleanup, compression methods, race conditions, vertex choice in matrices etc…

    It reminds me of the neo-plasticists, whose argument was there is no significant difference between painting a farmer next to a pile of hay vs painting a pink square next to a yellow square: both are just arranging representative symbols on a canvas.


  • Art fulfills many practical purposes. You live in an abode designed by architects, presumably painted and furnished with many objects d’art such as, a couch, a wardrobe, ceiling fixtures, a bathtub; also presumably festooned with art on the walls; you cook and eat food in designed cookware, crockery and cutlery, and that food is frequently more than pure sustenance; and, presumably you spend a fair amount of time consuming media such as television, film, literature, music, comedy, dance, or even porn.



  • That’s not really the point under discussion, is it?

    You said there were no politicians who would advocate for voting in general. I just googled up a bunch of quotes to the contrary. I’m sure I could find governers, senators, mayors too but I was focusing on presidents.

    In fact, in regards to Hayes, Bush Trump - isn’t losing the popular, but taking the presidency due to process actually an excellent case for more voter rights and less restrictions on the voting process?

    And what the hell does the Compromise of 1877 have to do with giving voters water?

    Once again, because I feel like you’re derailing here by attempting to drag this discussion into 200 year old minutiae, should we not be able to make voting an easy, relaxing, simple, comfortable process and isn’t that better for society?


  • "There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter. It all matters.”— Barack Obama

    “To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.” –Rutherford B. Hayes

    “The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

    “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” – Abraham Lincoln

    “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.” –Lyndon B. Johnson

    “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt