C++ left arrow operator (2016)

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Can I be honest with you?

I don't actually care whether Joe Biden lives long enough to serve another 4 years. LITERALLY ALL HE HAS TO DO is survive long enough to beat the clock past 12:00 Noon on Jan 20th, 2025.

The second he lives long enough to put the legal line of presidential succession unambiguously OUT of the hands of Donald Trump forever, he has done 100% of the things I expect from him as President.

Jennell Jaquays, #trans icon, #LGBTQA activist, legendary level designer, and probably the most influential #TTRPG creator, writer and illustrator many have never heard of (or enough of) passed away.

Her work in early #DnD with Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia, and level design in the Quake series is so influential it is still felt today in the way we design maps, adventures, and scenarios, and how big AAA studios like FromSoftware craft their environments.

A legend through and through.

RIP

Jennell Jaquays, one of the iconic creators responsible for the shape of early Dungeons & Dragons—and, therefore, all adventure gaming, both tabletop and computer—has died. She was an LGBTQIA activist, a transgender icon, and probably the most influential TTRPG creator, writer and illustrator of her era. If you’ve played a game with a “dungeon,” a “level,” or any similar structure, you’re playing games based in her innovative work in DARK TOWER, CAVERNS OF THRACIA, and others.

She is survived by her wife, Rebecca Heineman, who will be paying for her medical debt and funeral costs. Please help if you can.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/jennell-jaquays-has-a-long-road-back

Reminder of one of my most Edible Temperature Take: Both Steven Pinker and Peter Singer bear large amounts of direct responsibility for the worst turns in contemporary western culture— especially concerning the popular understanding of ethics and society— and should be ostracized from the canon and public intellectualism as a whole 👍🏾

Pinker's beliefs as regards the lived experience of power, oppression, and the social construction of both criminality and suffering excuse the powerful and blame the oppressed. He's largely responsible for the prejudicial stereotype of autistic people as "robotic." He did a large amount of work to rehabilitate Charles Murray in the public view. And he aided Jeffery Epstein's legal defense.

Peter Singer has straight-up advocated for eugenics and the understanding of disabled life as one of inherent suffering and thus less valuable as recently as this year.

Do not heed them. Do not center them. Remove them from your work as much as possible.

One more thing about the NYC flooding. It's all over now. It's been over for hours. The water drains away. There is somewhere for it to go it just can't get there fast enough and gets backed up in bad places.

This is why the answer is simple:
1. Reduce hard surfaces, have more green spaces that drain slowly.
2. Surface some of the natural brooks and streams. Then they can expand massively in heavy rain fall.
3. Seriously get rid of some of the parking lots, green more roofs.

We can do this.

"Female 'Samurai'

While 'samurai' is a strictly masculine term, the Japanese bushi class (the social class samurai came from) did feature women who received similar training in martial arts and strategy. These women were called “Onna-Bugeisha,” and they were known to participate in combat along with their male counterparts. Their weapon of choice was usually the naginata, a spear with a curved, sword-like blade that was versatile, yet relatively light.

Since historical texts offer relatively few accounts of these female warriors (the traditional role of a Japanese noblewoman was more of a homemaker), we used to assume they were just a tiny minority. However, recent research indicates that Japanese women participated in battles quite a lot more often than history books admit. When remains from the site of the Battle of Senbon Matsubaru in 1580 were DNA-tested, 35 out of 105 bodies were female. Research on other sites has yielded similar results."