The term "Third World" was introduced during the Cold War. It meant countries not aligned with the liberal Western countries or the authoritarian "Communist" block.

Putin has done what he can to recreate the "communist block", and its successor could be called BRICS.

USA isn't a liberal Western country any more. It is not aligned with Western Europe any more. It does not have freedom of the press any more. It does not have free trade any more.
It is a country that has gone against the liberal Western democracies more and more; not just not recognising the ICC (which it once was part of creating) but now even sanctioning judges in it that do their job. Not being part of international treaties against torture, war crimes or heinous cruel weapons.

It is now a rogue nation. Neither aligned with the West or with BRICS.

I think you missed the entire point of his post. Anyone who stays on and signs this agreement is an "access journalist" in his narrative. They don't do real work, they beg for a bowl of gruel, and will do anything to get it and parrot it.

The "hard-driving gumshoe drunks" are the ones who got us the Pentagon Papers in this narrative, not the "access journalists." He may be describing them as reprobates, but he admires them. They do their work. They don't let mama bird digest the information and spit it into their mouths. They go find the worms and show them to everyone in their full rot and glory.

Get it now?

Ish.

I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.

There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.

IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.

You can ask Iraq about that. The ultimate UN Treaty is the Charter itself, whose main provision is "no war", i.e. Article II.4, no use of force against fellow members.

This would all be a bit overwrought and off-topic, except Trump has broadened the exception from international law from "if I have a story about a nuclear threat", to "If I feel that we signed a bad trade deal and I want to throw it in the garbage on a whim"...even for trade deals HE signed a few years ago.

"International Law" now means just about nothing. What's Canada going to do with that lawbreaking? Take it to a US court?
Iraq could theoretically have done that over the Iraq War, too ... hah. Americans are just finding out now how that feels, to have no appeal to justice.

Oh, absolutely. These days, I spend so much time checking the output from computers, it would normally have been quicker to do searches by hand. This is... not useful.

I can fully understand that.

You're pretending that the US wouldn't have already joined the Third World.

Good point, but I don't think that's even hit its stride yet. We're talking about 2020-present, and it's not a hockey stick.

I suspect unintended consequences more than AI. That and regulatory capture of some kind. That's the usual suspects.

I don't see this as a troll but an honest opinion. Why is this being downmodded as troll? Do you suspect it was posted by Jimmy Kimmel?

Mod abuse right here. Mod parent up to 2 at least.

So can I jump to assuming mocking murder is ok with you? Or is it just mocking the victim of a murder?

While we're at it, what can people say that justifies murdering them? And what did Charlie Kirk say that you think justifies his murder?

My comment wasn't directed at you. You and I agree on this. Others still think law will fix human nature.

Voting against the Big Beautiful Bill:

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Warren Davidson of Ohio.

A procedural measure Republicans on the Rules Committee advanced Monday night would extend until March 31 a block on efforts by Democrats and several Republicans to end the national emergencies underlying Trump’s sweeping tariffs — including on Mexico, Canada, Brazil and his “liberation day” levies from April:

Reps. Kevin Kiley of California, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana.

Against the debt limit/spending bill in December 2024, when Trump was merely President-Elect:

Aaron Bean (Fla.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Josh Brecheen (Okla.), Tim Burchett (Tenn.), Eric Burlison (Mo.), Kat Cammack (Fla.), Michael Cloud (Texas), Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Eli Crane (Ariz.), John Curtis (Utah), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), Russ Fulcher (Idaho), Bob Good (Va.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Andy Harris (Md.), Wesley Hunt (Texas), Doug Lamborn (Colo.), Debbie Lesko (Ariz.), Greg Lopez (Colo.), Morgan Luttrell (Texas), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Richard McCormick (Ga.), Cory Mills (Fla.), Alexander Mooney (W.Va.), Blake Moore (Utah), Nathaniel Moran (Texas), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Andy Ogles (Tenn.), Scott Perry (Pa.), Bill Posey (Fla.), Matt Rosendale (Mont.), Chip Roy (Texas), David Schweikert (Ariz.), Keith Self (Texas), Victoria Spartz (Ind.), Thomas Tiffany (Wis.), Beth Van Duyne (Texas).

That is enough for now. So continue and explain how these aren't important, or misleading, or whatever you need to to continue your meme. You aren't actually claiming the Republican Party is lockstep with Trump, are you? Or are you that ignorant of GOP history?

'less than complimentary comments about Charlie Kirk'

Such as celebrating his murder? That's ok with you?

...and in most countries, your child will be able to buy a knife as soon as they have money.

In the US you only need to be of a minimum age, without a criminal record, nor recently found profoundly mentally disturbed, nor an obvious threat to another person to purchase a firearm. Law does not prevent someone from giving you one, though law does punish that person if discovered.

And there we have the problem. Law does not prevent, it at best discourages, and nominally punishes. With firearms, punishment for murder is too late. But no law prevents.