I refuse. You’re not my real mom!

Just to be clear here, nothing has ever been pure or sacred. We’re only told that as children.

Keep firing, assholes!

…you big stinky poo poo face!

Well then damn it all; what more evidence do you need?!

The poo-pooing alone is a court-martial offence!

Rip.

Friendly reminder: many people on Lemmy, let alone the Fediverse as a whole, are not American.

With that being said, no, no, I haven’t voted. But I plan to on Election Day! :)

Down with fascism! °o°i

Thanks so much to you and @[email protected] for helping! This has been driving me crazy for like 3-4 weeks now! >_<

Ohhhhh! I think I get it now!

So == means “equals” and is a declaration of the state of things, while = means "assigned the value of` and is a command toward a certain state of things. A description vs an action. An observation of a thing as opposed to effecting that thing.

Is that about right?

I apologize; I do not know what “metafont” is…

It would be confusing and weird if “=” did different things depending on the context.

That’s why I’m confused! It seems like it does!

If I were to write the code

x = 20
print(x*2)

it would execute as 40.

But then the video turns around and says that == is equal to, not =.

I think what I’m most confused about is I cannot for the life of me seem to wrap my head around the difference between “assignment” and “equality”. They seem exactly the same to me: when a variable is assigned a value, it’s equal to that value now.

Even if I were write the program

x = 20
print(x*2)

it would still print 40. Because x is equal to 20. Because it was assigned the value of 20.

Hell, I’ve even heard Dr. Severance say “equal to” in this context in earlier videos multiple times.

Exactly!

Real sad what happened there.

Yes, I get that people need to eat, but goddamn it man THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO GET MONEY THAN SELLING OUT.

Twitter is the only time I will ever be okay with deadnaming.

Ah, fair enough. Lol. I was hoping you were making a Fallout: New Vegas reference. Haha.

Ave, true to Caesar.

Yes, it saddens me greatly to see how far Reddit had degraded. It was an amazing place back then. Then, again, I suppose the whole Web has changed. It’s much more compartmentalized now, and even worse, much more corporatized. Walled gardens, echo chambers, the whole nine yards.

Yes, there were echo chambers even back then, but it wasn’t as...well, I guess the word I would choose is “sanitized”. It was free-er, whatever that word may have meant. Honestly, I feel sad when I hear people say the Internet is magical. Because yes it can be from time to time, but they don’t know or remember or care that it used to be so much MORE magical.

The Internet used to be Leeroy Jenkins; now’s Leeroy’s gone and it’s just a rich executive in a suit trying to peddle the newest software as a service. :(

I don’t understand the question. Could you elaborate please?

This.

It’s something that I had to learn, coming from Reddit, too, and is a difficult paradigm shift to process: the fact that there is no “Lemmy” more than there are, rather, “Lemmys”.

Also, as a (now former) Reddit user for the longest time (>10 years), I daresay that the diversity of opinions is honestly more similar to how Reddit used to be, in terms of there being VASTLY different communities and therefore VASTLY different sets of beliefs from community to community. Reddit may be a lot more homogenized now, but back in, say, 2010? It was way more diverse. Closer to how Lemmy is now.

the “B” is in fact capital, I recently learned

I didn’t quite realize that. Thank you for letting me know!