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New comment by isleyaardvark in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

isleyaardvark — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:03:13 +0000

Trump could easily agree to it and consider that “their problem”. (I think Iran realize other countries have a say as well.)

New comment by isleyaardvark in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"

isleyaardvark — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:10:33 +0000

Vance has a book coming out all about his conversion to Catholicism. (It has a photo of a Methodist church on the cover.)

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

isleyaardvark — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:07:54 +0000

Brute forcing things is the kind of thinking that leads to the moron losing the game of chess. And is basically the approach the U.S. took in Vietnam.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

isleyaardvark — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:40:12 +0000

20+ years would mean it started to be commonly used around the Iraq invasion, for context on “Orwellian”.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

isleyaardvark — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:06:44 +0000

> Still, few people pursue the option because of a “pervasive” myth that the loans can’t be included in the proceeding

It also says nothing about whether the person actually goes bankrupt, just which debts are discharged, which is one of the key parts of the bankruptcy process. Certain debts are discharged because the person can’t pay them back, which is the point of going into bankruptcy court.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

isleyaardvark — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:38:10 +0000

That has already happened before: https://frontofficesports.com/offshore-sportsbook-voids-bets...

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

isleyaardvark — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:21:46 +0000

I rave about "The Secret Agent" (2025) to everyone. It's a slice of life movie about people living under a dictatorship. It's got a lot of heart.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

isleyaardvark — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:25:57 +0000

Like how they deny visas to fact checkers.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?"

isleyaardvark — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:29:38 +0000

There is a use case for grid lane and pinterest is a good example: random images where a user isn't looking for a particular image but is just browsing. That's also why the example looks bad, is because it prominently includes text, which isn't part of the use case. Scannability is terrible, this layout has a very limited use case. It really is only for browsing random images, not even searching for a specific image and definitely not concerned with text.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)"

isleyaardvark — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:22:26 +0000

Well the going rate is $1 million for a pardon, so it’s not always free.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

isleyaardvark — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:57:02 +0000

It's very easy to watch an older movie on the same system and notice the contrast.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "GitHub no longer uses Toasts"

isleyaardvark — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:33:19 +0000

The :active pseudoclass has been used to change the appearance of links since the beginning. (Probably in part because loading links was considerably slower back then.) Not giving links an :active style is a bizarre oversight.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "What the heck is going on at Apple?"

isleyaardvark — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:16:09 +0000

And 7 left January 1st, so I don’t know if I would include them in talks of an exodus.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

isleyaardvark — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 03:11:54 +0000

Steve Jobs would not have been defined by or limited by his title.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

isleyaardvark — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:00:56 +0000

If Congress had wanted to get rid of the penny, they would have done so, since they specifically have the power to “coin money” under Article 1, Section 8.

In fact they have introduced a bill to do just that, that has not passed yet, which means they have not done that.

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

isleyaardvark — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:08:52 +0000

Do these other countries described above know whether you had a kid or got divorced?

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

isleyaardvark — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:06:22 +0000

His success is built on racism. As effective as they can be, people don't generally describe the person who whips up a violent mob as charismatic.

New comment by isleyaardvark in " Htmx – The Fetch()ening"

isleyaardvark — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:39:15 +0000

It's a pretty core part of their design philosophy, possible the core.

https://htmx.org/essays/rest-explained/

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Just use a button"

isleyaardvark — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:03:22 +0000

Less so now that the `all: unset` property is getting better support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/unset

New comment by isleyaardvark in "Just use a button"

isleyaardvark — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:20:38 +0000

Screen readers have and continue to lag in implementing standards designed specifically for accessibility, so I would say they are obviously not sophisticated enough.

(One example: https://heydonworks.com/article/aria-controls-is-poop)