#factions — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, yes, the thrilling saga of #C++ factions—because, clearly, #programming wasn't exciting enough without a Game of Thrones-style feud over #syntax. 🤦‍♂️ Forget bugs; let's just spend eternity debating which flavor of C++ is the least intolerable. 🍿✨ Meanwhile, the C standard committee meetings probably resemble a Monty Python skit more than a #tech summit. 🤡
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2024/11/two-factions-of-cpp/ #Factions #Debate #War #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

The Two Factions of C++

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2024/11/two-factions-of-cpp/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318311

#HackerNews #C++ #Factions #C++ #Programming #Software #Development #Tech #Community

A quotation from John Adams

While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a Stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than 3 or 4 thousand years ago. What is the Reason? I say Parties and Factions will not Suffer, or permit Improvements to be made. As Soon as one Man hints at an improvement his Rival opposes it. No sooner has one Party discovered or invented an Amelioration of the condition of Man or the order of Society, than the opposite Party, belies it, misconstrues it, misrepresents it, ridicules it, insults it, and persecutes it.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1813-07-09) to Thomas Jefferson

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/36370/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #censorship #factions #government #parties #partisanship #politicalscience #politics #progress #publicpolicy

A quotation from Joseph Addison

   If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
   It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness

I attempt to explain the rationale behind things like the political divide. All over social media, I see factions supporting and condemning events and activities. Each side claims the other side is stupid, ignorant, or uninformed, but this misses a fundamental point: our realities differ. This activity is not rational, but rather pre-rational and rationalised post-hoc.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/09/legibility-and-ontology/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essay
#philosophy #politics #factions #ice #grammar #failure #blog #podcast #essay #ontology #epistemology

I am posting more, oriented on my essays on Substack. Check it out.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/youre-not-arguing-youre-talking-past

#philosophy #politics #psychology #society #humancondition #Epistemology #Language #semantics #ontology #factions #language #communication #blog #essay #zenodo #critique #substack

🗣️ Why do we keep talking past each other? What if dialogue and education aren't the issue?
https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/09/why-just-think-critically-keeps-failing/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=essay
What if the other side doesn't have a critical thinking deficit or a problem seeing facts? I've been wittering on about this for months.
#philosophy #politics #psychology #society #humancondition #Epistemology #Language #semantics #ontology #factions #language #communication #blog #essay #zenodo #critique

A quotation from John Adams

There is nothing I dread So much, as a Division of the Republick into two great Parties, each arranged under its Leader, and concerting Measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble Apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political Evil, under our Constitution.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1780-10-02) to Jonathan Jackson

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/4853/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #America #division #divisiveness #factions #partisanship #politicalparties #politics

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1863-05-27) to Gen. John M. Schofield

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/9373…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #extremism #factions #middleoftheroad #moderation #neutrality #partisanship #bias #fairness #praise

One of the best dice mechanics from Traveller 5 is the “flux” roll. You take 2d6, but subtract the second die with the first one, giving you a result from -5 to 5, but most likely 0.

I have 6 noble families for my Outlaws of the North game. To decide their initial relations with each other I rolled flux for each pair. -5 means mortal enemies, +5 means strong alliance. 0 is neutral.

Apparently nobody likes Kalem.

#TTRPG #NSR #GMPrep #Factions #OutlawsOfTheNorth

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Are we up to the point in our current #dissent where in the various #factions of dissenters slag each other for not dissenting in the "proper" manner!

Nothing if not predictable....feh.

Meanwhile....#fuckTrump #shortfingeredvulgarian #DontFeedTheBolshevists

#Trump #Trumpism #factions #techbros #Project2025 #fascism #fascists #neofeudalism #ThreeWayFight

This is the best analysis of the contemporary American political economics situation that I've been able to find so far. If anybody here knows of a better one, please share. Thanks in advance.

https://itsgoingdown.org/trumpisms-multiple-factions/

Any great blog posts about writing factions? Specifically looking for advice on giving them motivations, triggering them to do things when they're off screen, and making sure they're pointed at each other to cause fireworks.

My default approach would be to crib liberally from Dungeon World's fronts and grim portents, but I'm sure there's more to be said on the topic.

#osr #ttrpg #factions #factiondesign #dungeonworld

How The #US Became So #Dysfunctional, #Oligarchic, And #Corrupt – #OpEd

#DomesticPolitics in the #US is, superficially, dominated by incessant #public #fights between different #factions of the two ostensibly rival #PoliticalParties, thanks to the #collaboration of #establishment #media and many #socialnetworks.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/27012025-how-the-us-became-so-dysfunctional-oligarchic-and-corrupt-oped/

#MarjorieTaylorGreene #demands new #House #speaker #push her #antitrans #bill to get her #support.

#Republicans are #scrambling to find a #speaker who can #appease all #factions. And this is her top #demand.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-demands-new-house-speaker-push-her-anti-trans-bill-to-get-her-support/

Numerous parliaments on the other side of the pond are beset by their own growing dysfunctions. #Political fragmentation is a common trend across the continent. Mainstream parties are flagging in the face of a growing hodgepodge of #factions, many more #radical & #populist than the next. The increase in #angry #partisanship & #polarization is making ruling #coalitions more fragile, & #governance all the more difficult.

#NationalSecurity #democracy #geopolitics #Authoritarianism

#ToryTurmoil as third of voters desert party and #factions launch #rival #manifestoes

Exclusive poll for #Observer reveals #Conservatives have lost support in their southern England heartlands and the #RedWall
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/30/tory-turmoil-as-third-of-voters-desert-party-and-factions-launch-rival-manifestoes
#ToryInfighting #ToryChaos #ToryFailure

Ethiopia declares state of emergency following clashes in Amhara

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/4/ethiopia-declares-state-of-emergency-following-clashes-in-amhara

The announcement comes as fighting across Ethiopia’s second most populous region develops into a security crisis.

#junta #crackdown #resistance #crisis #factions #tigray #truce #internet #silence

Members of the biggest faction of the ruling LDP have been intensifying efforts to select their new leader, a position that's been unoccupied since the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a year ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/01/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-faction-next-leader/?utm_content=buffer5ce87&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #shinzoabe #ldp #factions #hiroshigeseko #yasutoshinishimura

Pendant que le ministre de l'intérieur veut dissoudre des associations écologistes et fantasme sur le #terrorismeintellectuel, de vrais terroristes d' #extremedroite ont les coudées franches et une liste de personnes à abattre physiquement diffusée sur un boucle Telegram.

Appels au meurtre, menaces de mort contre élus, ratonnades...des centaines de personnes impliquées dont des militaires et policiers.

Le groupuscule néo-nazi « #FRDETER », est un groupe créé pour réunir des identitaires de toute la France.
Composé de sous-groupes départementaux, des modérateurs sont chargés de surveiller et de recruter les personnes les plus actives pour commettre crimes et délits à caractère racistes et anti-gauchistes.

#Frdeter #Factions #attentats #terrorisme #Fascisme #Tajmaat

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