That said, I have found that the front probably should not distract from the content. So if you, say, post a grid of four pictures of bunnies whose ears take the shapes | || || |_, then people may simply see pictures of bunnies, and fail to notice the loss.
Mijn internetdialect… nou ja, internettaalgebruik, is ongeveer negentig procent Engels en de rest een druppeltje Nederlands. In het echt is het meer half om half met een druppeltje Duits.
It’s one of the reasons why I think America is institutionally fucked & rotten, that it’ll take the better part of two centuries to fix it, and that if instead we want stuff to be fixed within a generation, we may need a violent uprising.
A: the system is able to elect candidates who win despite only getting a minority of the vote. This problem becomes worse the more parties participate.
B: in order to maximise the chance of an acceptable compromise taking office, very fringe groups must vote for a very mainstream party. Usually that leaves only two parties that make sense.
C: as these parties become the political space, voting for a specific interest can erode support for the nearest main party, guaranteeing a victory for the other main party.
Bonus: D: growing comfortable with their voter base, it is in parties’ interest to grow more radical.
In fact, without McCarthy and the Red Scare, I would find it strange that the American political scene has developed a nationalist “Republican” party and a moderately conservative “Democrat” party. Many more sane parliaments and governments develop their left to be a socialist or labour party.
On a sidenote, the completely non-shitposty version would be:
return !(var & 1);
Notice the single &, which should be bitwise AND. Fun thing: negative numbers in two’s complement also have 1 for their LSB when odd. C definitely supports bitwise operators, and it appears C# does as well.