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Cake day: August 1st, 2025

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  • Laugh about the win32 API all you like, I have a certain respect for it. It’s really weird with all its Hungarian notation stuff at first, but I have to admire how this is an over 40 year old API that solves things that were, at the time, still pretty big issues. If you read the documentation (which is pretty good) and follow it closely, you can write very reliable code. Ignore it at your peril.

    Also, the API is incredibly stable. There’s a reason that, for all I hate what Windows has become, backwards compatibility on that platform is second to none.


  • I don’t know specifically, but here are a couple of possibilities, also being charitable to Magyar and assuming no invitation was made:

    • He is trying to not agitate things too much with Netanyahu, hoping to achieve something through back channels. Often diplomacy, especially in this day and age, involves not being too brash publicly to avoid anything that could disrupt something happening behind the curtains. Often times only sticks don’t work, you need carrots as well.

    • Netanyahu is constantly preaching that Israel is constantly under attack, is the underdog, is never regarded, etc., which is often used to distract from or even support the atrocities being committed. Magyar possibly doesn’t want to support that narrative. An explicit denial of an invitation can be used to say “see how nasty they are with us”, which can be in turn used to rally Netanyahu’s supporters or even those more extreme than him (thinking of the likes of Gvir). If you avoid feeding that narrative and give something like this (maybe with a little “nudge nudge wink wink”), maybe that can avoid the heat going up any further while still showing those who are more level headed that no, there was no invitation.

    • There’s an argument to be made to ignore false statements instead of responding to them directly. Depending on who you talk to, responding to statements can give them a certain legitimacy. Think of a (maybe too) similar situation: a fascist makes a statement that is flat out false, like “immigration is causing a crime wave”. You can respond to that statement, explain how it’s false, etc., but since you’re responding to that statement, you are inevitably also mentioning that statement, potentially spreading it further, and generally giving it more air. Or you can ignore that statement in hopes of suffocating it. While I generally tend to the former approach myself, there is an argument to be made for the latter approach.

    Not saying I’m a fan of Magyar (I’m not, even if he is much better than Orban), agree with his decision or am completely convinced there was no invitation, but there definitely are plausible scenarios where there is a solid reasoning behind this.










  • I’m wondering if the problem is that you’re assuming they’re thinking like a monolithic and can’t see anything else. Scrolling through this thread I see a number of men who hate Justin Bieber but just about every post has different opinions on the other things you mentioned.

    So let me add another: I hated Justin Bieber because in his music he came across to me as an insufferable egomaniacal twat. Aaaand in the years that followed her made one thing clear: I was absolutely fucking right with that reading of him.

    As to the other things, I don’t like twilight (but don’t hate it per say - although you yourself said it was bad,), I don’t have a strong opinion on Taylor Swift and find BTS quite catchy.

    As to hating things women like - well, I like Britney Spears, many girly drinks (I’ll take a sex on the beach anytime - well OK, maybe not at work or while I’m driving, but you get the idea), and like Bright colors.

    I get it, you had a shitty date. I’ve had shitty dates, too. But if after my first shitty date I assumed all women are like that date - well, I’d probably be an insufferable POS myself.