silasmariner

Second vote for Scala. It's not one of the top 5 langs, but it has a solid niche and doesn't seem to be going away any time soon

Anyway never mind that. Back down the fat mines

D'ya know, I did, and I was assuming the convention that asterisks wrapped in non-white space wouldn't mark-up, and only now that you mentioned it do I see how it rendered. Thanks! I'll edit

Agree here. I feel like Elon Musk and his ilk shouldn't be allowed to enjoy any of Iain Banks's works, since they are ideologically so opposed to everything he's demonstrated himself to be in favour of. But really I'm probably making excuses for myself -- I just don't like it when people I think are c***s enjoy things that I enjoy, whilst remaining c***s

That'd be more of a Blackadder thing, surely. Feel like we're getting our Rowan Atkinson characters mixed up

Yeah, sure, but it's obviously a matter of degree. Ketamine is illegal to use in certain scenarios and also a front-line medical treatment. Chocolate, OTOH, has absolutely no restrictions that I'm aware of. I admit that I'm just nitpicking language choice here, though, and there was no need for me to say anything

Are they completely legal though? They're age-restricted everywhere I can think of, and you can't drive or operate heavy machinery under their influence. So they're, like, legal but with a couple of caveats?

If you don't add chlorine to your water supply, it has a tendency to harbour some much worse stuff. Like cholera. And the level to which water is artificially fluorinated is much lower that it is naturally in many places. Just 'pure' water would be a terrible idea

This is a fair point made in an absurd context

. philosophy is important, but implementation is importanter

Yes. This is the key

The only reason I give the slightest slightly green toilet-bowl-staining shit about this is because it upsets him and he deserves to be upset

As I want you to be