I read it more like the new, better standard is never developed because someone used the real xkcd as an argument against making the new standard

I somewhat recognize my own position in the message above and to me it’s not so much about not being a feminist, as it is that I’ve seen too many people calling themselves feminist while proceeding to do things like: call all men pigs, be transphobic, generally try to push down others in an attempt to rise themselves. If by feminist you mean “for equality between men and women (and all others)”, then sure I can agree to that, but I’m not sure that’s the best way to describe that position anymore

Highways are not city infrastructure

It’s really not, if anything French and English should be reversed. You can generally know how a french word is supposed to be pronounced when reading it (assuming you know how to read French, of course), in English it’s a complete crapshoot

Just because some keywords are in English doesn’t mean the code is in English, variable names, function names, and comments could be respectively in latin, Russian, and Klingon.

USA can complain about foreign interference when they stop being said foreign interference to everyone else

This does not implies that we should never suppress it either

That implies the bad government will care about following the laws, or won’t change the law or its enforcement

I was not aware more information had come out on the exact cause of death, but looking at Wikipedia and the cited sources, it doesn’t seem to exclude the possibility, though an accident is just as tragic given the context I feel

Danya Naroditsky’s suicide recently was very upsetting

Hell is not, but argentine does exist

The existence of crime is not a proof of the inexistence of law. Not that I disagree with the general sentiment that international law is applied to the convenience of whoever is stronger, but the US doing something wrong and not getting punished for it has very little to do with France doing something specifically allowed

Flying false flags is a valid reason for a country to board a ship, according to UNCLOS.

That’s sheer optimism, pessimism would be more like: “god emperor trump on his golden throne, kept immortal by the sacrifice of thousands of people every day”

Ending the year full of cheese is ideal

Is that a copy pasta

It’s the volume of a cylinder, pi times height times radius squared

So you got up and immediately went to do it?

Only in Christmas Land

Well, you can count France as not part of most of Europe in that regard, only the areas that were German between 1871 and 1918 have them as public holidays

Yep pretty much