Sayak Chatterjee

I openly declare war on anyone who uses a light theme on an editor or terminal.

[Jenny 🥳 @jennyyangat]

what companies think gamers want: video games
what gamers actually want: keanu reeves telling you that you are loved

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@Shayoneespeaks ... they share with their in laws. They get to be their son for a day, and ceremoniously get treated the same way their sons are treated.

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@Shayoneespeaks The idea is that daughter in laws spend almost all of their time with their in laws traditionally, and the expectation is that they get treated as their daughters. This festival is an attempt to do the same to son in laws. It's not celebrating the jamais, but the relationship...

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@Shayoneespeaks That's a narrow view of culture. Culture is not scripture, it's indeed tradition that is passed down through generations. Also, I'm not sure if you are missing the cultural context, but there's a lot more nuance to the intention behind the festival

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@Shayoneespeaks Well, the festival is innocent in my book. I'm not arguing for the politics involved. If your critique is about the politics, then that's a different discussion. But I would encourage you to not direct critique towards a caricaturized view of a culturally important tradition.

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@Shayoneespeaks Hi. While I think it's important to view culture through various interpretive lenses, I think associating an innocent festival celebrating family with an oppressive force is unhealthy both to the cause and to the culture that is being scrutinized.

[Fuck Every Word 2.0 @fckeveryword]

fuck silence

[sergeant dick lips the third @TeahLhompson]

is this the intro to john mulaney’s next netflix special

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

Can I just say it's refreshing how well designed Rust is? Every complaint I've ever had about programing languages have already been addressed, and the compiler is the best compiler I've used.

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

Trump’s $3.6 Million Ireland Detour Brings Taxpayer-Funded Golf Tab To $105.8 million https://t.co/M6d3fSbo2e

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

Today the best part of my day was installing new software on my computer. I think this might be a mid life crisis.

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@codebeingg @Haditahh @_100DaysOfCode @freeCodeCamp @GirlsCanCode7 Bruh Json is literally "JavaScript object notation." It was modeled after JS objects

[Carla Barla @CarlaBarlaCakes]

Idk who needs to hear this but letting go of a toxic work place is also taking care of your mental health.

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@AmberKD13 @gaywonk @YouTube Am I to sympathize those that want to follow these precedents and respect their free speech? No thank you

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@AmberKD13 @gaywonk @YouTube I'm sorry, are you seriously saying that we should protect targeted harrasment in the name of free speech? Do you realize that hate speech boils over to reality? In WW2, the popular opinion was targeted to be anti-jewish by repeatedly playing false, abusive, hateful propaganda.

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@AmberKD13 @gaywonk @YouTube The only reason for this is corporate greed, so that they don't have to hire mods. Their implementation is flawed not the idea. Don't blame the idea for the people that butcher it and fail at its essence.

[Sayak Chatterjee @sometimescalm]

@AmberKD13 @gaywonk @YouTube That said, the way YouTube is going about it is not helping anyone. Instead of treating each case individually like violating policies should be treated, they are trying to implement mass algorithmic regulation...