Idk. Been doing it for nearly 20 years and before that I was doing IBM’s take on VBScript for another 10. So I have my own perspective there. I’ve only ever had to parse massive xmls when doing web apps, and for web backends I really only like Java and NodeJS.

But everyone is entitled to their own take. I would imagine there is a streaming parser in other languages as well.

Maybe look into StAX?

I was on vyvanse for years. And I slept about probably 4 hours a night on average. I had to go to adderall. It doesn’t work as well, but it does work, and usually I can sleep.

I should never be off meds.

Stop plagiarizing my life experience!

I don’t think I’ve ever had a comment deleted there, but I blocked the instance anyway. Life is too short to engage with people whose values are entirely antithetical to my own. At least not on their home turf.

The article is whatever but this headline. How many Gen Z have Boomer parents? My parents are Boomers, I’m Gen X, and my kids are Millennials and Gen Z. I have a Gen Z grandchild.

This headline is so terrible I think it qualifies as clickbait.

All of this. I just blocked the sub. It’s not in my interest to raise my blood pressure over what a bunch of chuckle fucks think of my choices. It’s fucking weird the pejoratives they invent. Carnist? That’s cool, like an artist. Whatever. They can live in their world and I’ll stay out of it. They aren’t affecting me.

I will get curry with you.

Seems like he’s commenting that that is the gist of the original picture: “Look at my dumb wife who sent me to get the exact same color.”

I think it’s actually funny / great that everyone is ignoring the misogyny and taking the wife’s side without comment, just assuming the guy is a little bit dim.

Which is great considering the original post was likely staged for misogynistic humor in the first place.

I can’t tell is it’s the same color or not, but switching from a semi-gloss to a flat or eggshell will definitely make a difference.

lol. You were blocked because they didn’t like your comment was getting upvotes? Idk, buddy. Good riddance, I’d say. I understand about the lack of content, though.

Yeah. My sympathies lie with OP, but communities should be able to unapologetically curate their vibe.

I can see everything on that list except… who the hell is eating crab and oysters on the shitter?

As I’ve gotten older, I find most of the stereotypes I grew up believing were bullshit and not particularly useful for classifying the subjects of the stereotype—however I do find they help me categorize the people who believe them.

So you’re a white dude who thinks black people like fried chicken and watermelon? They do. So do white people because that shit is cheap and delicious. But you’re a racist.

All cops are bad? The last few years have been revelatory about a problem that has existed for decades. But you’re a moral absolutist and not someone to discuss nuanced issues with.

Republicans are better with the economy/foreign policy? You liked Regan and never grew out of it.

The stereotypes themselves aren’t really useful, but understanding the speaker is sometimes helpful.

I’m sure as hell not down for revolution and violence, no.

The system is what it is. Third party is moot. That’s it. Motherfuckers pretending shit can change just because you really really want it to.

Exactly. I agree 100%. The system is what it is and it will only change over the course of lifetimes, not years. Unless your solution is violent revolution in which case I’d still say to also cast meaningful votes based on some criteria of your choosing. I guess you could vote Republican on the hopes a fascist America would more quickly be overthrown internally or externally. That sounds like a terrible timeline to live through, though.

Then I’d say your options are relocate to somewhere with a more appealing government or cede electoral power to others. Third parties are irrelevant on the national scale, and only slightly less so on the state scale.

Agitate for RCV or other election reforms that make third parties more relevant, but until that’s the case I’ll stand by my earlier assertions.

If you want democrats to be a certain way, vote for those democrats in primaries and local elections. You have to fix it from the bottom up and from within.

You will, however, be politically impotent in that case. Checking out of democracy because one option is only incrementally better than the other isn’t really helping anyone.