And the point of the purity test isn't to establish guilt. You're already declared guilty and the purity test is an attempt at finding or creating evidence of your guilt.
I don’t think you do recall correctly. Electrek has European EV sales at +33% in 2025 over 2024. It’s not possible for Norway to turn a negative in the rest of Europe into an overall positive. https://electrek.co/2025/12/11/global-ev-sales-jump-21-in-20...
I mean Venezuela is a touch iffy on how strongly we commit but saying the USA basically owns Canada isn't exactly controversial maybe controls is a more acceptable way of phrasing it? They are a "sovereign" with a lowercase S at best.
> ... "We" (a lot of people, not everyone who posts here) don't believe that. Lots of people disagree with immigration control as a concept period.
I mean sure but you have to acknowledge that is an extremely fringe belief that basically no one in the USA supports. The debate is on "how" it's being done not that we shouldn't have immigration control.
> that is an extremely fringe belief that basically no one in the USA supports
Clearly is it not a belief that no one in the USA supports, as seem in the discourse against ICE and immigration contrl.
> The debate is on "how" it's being done not that we shouldn't have immigration control.
Not necessarily, no. "The debate" is too vague to elaborate in favor or against what you're saying.
But yes, there are people against immigration control period, and period in favor of reforms to make immigration easier for workers, not harder. But propaganda will keep putting workers against each other, instead of companies lobbying against workers.
All of this misses the point of the moment, which is that the federal government is completely lawless and is incapable of responding to democratic or popular will. There is no debate happening. It does not matter which ordinary people "support" which position. Any political project (other than the current regime) in the USA in 2026 must contend with the fact that just establishing a democracy must be our first step. This is as true for Socialists as it is for non-regime-approved stripes of Fascist. It's the same for Chamber of Commerce Republicans and ex-hippie boomer liberals. Any talk of what we will do with a democracy once we have it is premature, because at the moment it simply does not matter what the opinions of the citizenry are.
Why is this being downvoted? The primary reason Trump was able to win is because Biden waited until it was far too late to address the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border. We don't have to wonder or argue about whether Americans support open borders, we already had something mildly in that direction (that still didn't remotely approach the idea of "no immigration control, period"), and in response Americans voted into office Donald Trump.
You're qsort example is basically the same reason people say C++ is faster than Rust. C++ templates are still a lot more powerful than Rusts systems but that's getting closer and closer every day.
They are likely referring to the scope of fine-grained specialization and compile-time codegen that is possible in modern C++ via template metaprogramming. Some types of complex optimizations common in C++ are not really expressible in Rust because the generics and compile-time facilities are significantly more limited.
As with C, there is nothing preventing anyone from writing all of that generated code by hand. It is just far more work and much less maintainable than e.g. using C++20. In practice, few people have the time or patience to generate this code manually so it doesn't get written.
Effective optimization at scale is difficult without strong metaprogramming capabilities. This is an area of real strength for C++ compared to other systems languages.
Again, can you provide an example or two? Its hard to agree or disagree without an example.
I think all C++ wild template stuff can be done via proc macros. Eg, in rust you can add #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] to have a highly performant JSON parser & serializer. And thats just lovely. But I might be wrong? And maybe its ugly? Its hard to tell without real examples.
Specialization isn’t stable in Rust, but is possible with C++ templates. It’s used in the standard library for performance reasons. But it’s not clear if it’ll ever land for users.
> As with C, there is nothing preventing anyone from writing all of that generated code by hand. It is just far more work and much less maintainable than e.g. using C++20.
It's also still less elegant, but compile time codegen for specialisation is part of the language (build system?) with build.rs & macros. serde makes strong use of this to generate its serialisation/deserialisation code.
> And sure, some laws and most likely this one, are stupid. I always take GDPR as an example. Annoying as fuck, but a good regulation. Well written, well executed and hits its goal.
It's funny people normally use GDPR as an example of a law so poorly written and implemented that the sites of the very EU governments that passed it are still not in compliance a decade later.
Secret? You can say a lot about the USA in Venezuela but secret isn't it and of course it was authorized congress explicitly granted the president the powers to do it.
Why do people go out of their way to criticize Trump like this?
Attacking other countries without declaring war is a staple of pretty much every US president since WW2, republican or democrat. Carter is the only one who stands out (ironically, despite the fact that he had a good cause to invade Iran).
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