NewsThumpStop calling them the ‘Farage Riots’, demands man behind the Farage Riots https://newsthump.com/2024/08/08/stop-calling-them-the-farage-riots-demands-man-behind-the-farage-riots/
Karl Williams
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He/him, geek, pacifist, non-authoritarian lefty, accidental wizard cosplayer, dev, mad engineer, communard 🚩, societal dreamer, model maker, RPGer, too verbos...
"I'm British":
- ew
- Brexit
- probably racist
"I hail from Albion":
- mysterious
- ancient
- would fuck you - and fuck you good - in a woodland clearing
Vagina MuseumGood morning, a great big shaft is getting put inside the Vagina Museum today.
Mandu 🥟
@KatKimbriel I use 'cunt' when talking to women all the time and so do they. Your experience isn't universal
@troberts flat whites are pretty common everywhere now
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)You may have come across some sort of spicy take like "web components aren't 'components'".
Well here's a spicier take. 🌶️
React components aren't components.
Neither are Solid, Svelte, or Vue.
They are ephemeral constructs in memory which technically have no direct relationship to HTML at all.
As far as the browser is concerned, the *only* sort of component it can be made aware of is a web component. It knows nothing—can know nothing—of anything else.
@Hawkmoon probably still the majority of the world of first-language English speakers but I'm way too bored of this conversation to bicker over these details. The US and Canada are absolutely outliers
@Hawkmoon @Nickiquote it's incredibly popular in Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, etc.
@Hawkmoon @Nickiquote yeah, I was being flippant.
My point is that it's America that has diverged; it's not that the rest of the English-speaking world started using the work like that, the US stopped. American puritanism managed to strangle the word where Victorian prudishness failed.
My point is that it's America that has diverged; it's not that the rest of the English-speaking world started using the work like that, the US stopped. American puritanism managed to strangle the word where Victorian prudishness failed.