I’ve been lurking on r/thedeprogram for about two years and have seen Smith’s opinions on landlords there multiple times, and upvoted into the thousands. Pretty sure you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Edit: high hundreds, not thousands.

Sadly, my internet connection where I’m at is abysmal and lemmy doesn’t let me upload some examples. Fun fact though: OP’s meme was posted on theDeprogram two years ago.

Tankies also love to rub Adam Smith’s opinions under liberals’ and conservatives’ noses…

Not OP. I’ve been using Ecosia for years and was glad they didn’t do the AI summary shit so far… But a few days ago I got an AI summary on Ecosia as well. I fear they’re also hopping on this train and in that case I’ll look for another search engine.

In other languages that shouldn’t be equal either though, right?

Maybe you meant

if (2){
console.log("nonzero ints are truthy")
}
else {
console.log("no they're not")
}

Which would output

nonzero ints are truthy

and that would actually work in all languages I know. But that’s different from being equal.

It’s not. Just tried in my Browser Console:

2 == true // returns false

Mh, ‘0’ is a nonempty string, so !‘0’ returns false. Then of course !(!‘0’) would return true. I’d absolutely expect this, Python does the same.

And the second thing is just JavaScript’s type coercion shenanigans. In Python

bool('0') # returns True because of nonempty string
bool(int('0')) # returns False because 0 == False

Knowing that JavaScript does a lot of implicit type conversions, stuff like that doesn’t strike me as very surprising.

No, OP refers to Bill Clinton allegedly having been an Epstein client.

Nah, OpenOffice is close to death since about ten years and has known security issues. Go for only LibreOffice.

In a letter this month, Uthmeier warned publicly owned airports across the state that they must be in compliance with the new law, which requires public airports to report planes with weather modification devices to the state, and suggested that weather modification may have triggered the flooding in Texas.

“Because airports are most likely to catch those who seek to weaponize science in order to push their agenda, your compliance with these reporting obligations is essential to keeping our state safe from these harmful chemicals and experiments,” Uthmeier wrote this month.

So airports now have to report every fossil fuel or fuel cell* airplane and only purely battery-electric planes are allowed? Have fun shutting down every Florida airport. ;)

• (due to water vapor emissions)

Also: Nobody should be treated like that no matter if anyone depends on them like that.