Java has now pattern matching, ADTs, case classes, even lazy vals are coming ("Stable values" previewed in JDK 25). Java is still much more verbose than Scala, but if you use it considerately, it looks more and more like an ML-like language, and not an imperative one.
"if" not being an expression is my main personal pain point for the time being. It would make simple code so much more readable.
People like to be soft on crime, until crime happens to them.
Its the complete inability to empathize for fellow citizens that actually do the right thing, and contribute to society; instead relating with the criminal mind.
Its a very weird stockholm's syndrome offshoot.
There's a world of difference between mercy and recklessness. Justice must work for society to function. No one is getting beheaded here for stealing an apple.
in the US there is always racial aspect to this. if this was a person of color and crime was selling some shit drugs on the streets, the same commenter would be like “life in prison without parole.” but for cute white blondie it is “eh put her on house arrest, she is no danger to society” :)
Is there? Here the sentiment seems to be arguing fiercely to reinforce the incarceration of a blonde white because she defrauded. Even if the victims she defrauded were despicable elites. She's not getting a pass, at all. No robin hood here.
Then we have the drive to decriminalize drugs, driven by all citizen groups, but which mostly affects minorities only.
Aren't things moving in the right direction, at least?
I'm not a carnivore diet advocate, but 6 weeks of a poor diet, alone, is to blame for being on the brink of a cardiac arrest? That's really not believable. If that's not what you meant, then you should really clarify in your post.
The court decisions you mentioned aren't exactly the doing of one person? I think that's the difference. We're giving this attention because the grifting is more visible and because it's directly attributable to one person. "Which one is worse" is not really an important conversation, is it? It's about the fact that we see clearly where the fault/corruption lies and there appears to be no concern to correct it.
It attempts to replace, or offer alternatives to, offensive language in IT. For example "dummy variable" is under the category of "Ableist language" in the website and should be replaced with the term "placeholder value". "master" and "slave" are other examples of language that, apparently, need to get phased out.
I don't see the problem with the comment that you responded to. It's not surprising to me.
> I don't see the problem with the comment that you responded to. It's not surprising to me.
The problem is that you provide other examples and then extrapolate from there that the original comment could be true. However, whether or not you believe it could be true is not serious evidence that it is.
Yes, offering alternative wording to offensive language is a real thing. But notice that the OP is asserting that a facially silly example is real without any support beyond a claim of personal experience. What should matter to you is whether it is real or not as opposed to whether it is surprising or not.
Fake silly examples like this are meant to sit on the line between believable and absurd specifically to make certain ideas seem ridiculous. Making up silly examples of real things is a specific technique to undermine them. It is a propaganda tool not a good faith attempt at dialogue.
So the story is highly suspect because ..... ? Because the author didn't provide you with evidence on a message board, in order to pre-emptively defend himself against your scrutiny? Because of some unrelated episode where somebody else fabricated a story as a form of propaganda? And you think that justifies your belief that the story is fake? Right. Good luck with your future conversations.
I was obviously speaking on its plausibility.
>The problem is that you provide other examples and then extrapolate from there
