Maybe a dogwhistle to tell his racist base to hang in there?

As soon as I stopped trying to write textbook OOP stuff, this stopped occurring to me. That was years ago.

I’m not saying I write perfect code, no. But when I read bad stuff I wrote, I can understand it and think of ideas about how to improve it if that becomes necessary.

On top of writing more functional-style code, the way I achieved this was:

• Absolutely no inheritance whatsoever. Composition + interfaces work wonders for what I do.
• Minimal mutable state. This pays dividends when debugging.
• Ditto for type-system-encoded nullability markers (ie. ? in C#, std::optional in C++…)
• I avoid writing code just-in-case something happens. If I haven’t run it manually or via unit tests, it goes to the garbage bin (not an absolute, just a guiding principle). There’s a chance that code isn’t even correct to begin with and you’ll have to throw it away should you ever need it.
• Low indirection. I don’t want to jump through 10 functions to see what something is doing, and nobody else does either.

Nazi. I think they were going for Nazi. Nazi.

Zoom on the image, you can see the beginning if the rest of the ‘h’

Youngsters these days, uh?

Now grandpa, time to take your medicine

Damn kids worrying about the environment… What a bunch of losers trying to be hip.

That’s not what happened though. If you want to be protected by electoral rules, you have to abide by them. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Must be nice living in that bubble of yours: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-growing-concerned-by-russias-economy-trump-mulls-more-sanctions-2025-01-23/

Or do you know the Russian economy better than its dictator?

I don’t expect the economy to fully collapse, no. It rarely actually happens. But standards of living deteriorate. It already started btw, the inflation being reported in the media is not something I invented.

Well at least things are accelerating down there, hopefully the madness will end soon enough, so the image they’re trying to project won’t hold for long.

It’ll be interesting to see how an already aging population will fare with so many of the active population dead.

Last time it happened in the West, it took imperialist pigs in the West a few notches down. Let’s hope for Russians and the neighbouring countries they bully the story will be similar with the pigs in the Kremlin this time.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-entering-year-of-pain-2025-putin-inflation-sanctions-2024-12?op=1

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/economy/russia-inflation-new-heights-intl-analysis/index.html

All is well.

Of all the things to complain about, people care about a fucking flag?

You need to be careful with this. Depending on your location, there might be laws imposing that you use the land, otherwise you might lose it. I don’t know the exact conditions, and I suppose they vary.

Also, 10000 USD doesn’t buy you a lot of land, depending on location.

More often than not pretty basic, too. Like chicken sandwiches from a specific Popeye’s in Toronto 😌