Month: May 2018

A useful map of working class discipline.

A useful map of working class discipline.

Originally shared by Teodor Poparescu

Mandatory minimum paid vacations around the world. The US seems to be the only OECD country. The only other nations on the planet which don’t have mandatory minimum vacations are Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tonga, Kiribati, Nauru.

Guess what county has the least unions.

Working to live or living to work?

Java 10 has var so the type of local variables can now be inferred instead of tediously and redundantly specified.

Java 10 has var so the type of local variables can now be inferred instead of tediously and redundantly specified. Welcome to being just a little bit less horrible, Java.

Actually Java had been on a trajectory of getting a bit more modern for a number years now (lambdas and closures* arrived in 2014). This probably won’t save it from its ultimate fate however as Oracle starts charging people money for the JVM and Android devs start looking at cooler languages like Kotlin.

* for byte code compatibility reasons, they are actually just syntactic sugar for a hack made out of nested inner classes.

How is crying over a summit with North Korea in any way “progressive”?

How is crying over a summit with North Korea in any way “progressive”? Progressives have been carrying water for America’s empire for so long they have no idea that they are completely on the wrong side of this and many other issues globally.

NEWS FLASH: The Koreas are going to work this out with or without the help/interference of the glorious fucking Americans.

Originally shared by Sabeena LoBello

Trump Kim coin

By: John Cole