To save everyone else the effort:

The euphemism treadmill in action

What makes it nonsense?

C is definitely still king, but I wonder if crABI will eventually be able to dethrone it:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111423

If they can define a useful ABI that manages to include lifetimes, that might just be enough of an improvement to get people to switch over from assuming the C ABI everywhere.

The cool kids are forcing people to read this at gunpoint nowadays

I bought everyone in my family a drink to get them to use Signal. Worked great and we’re still on it.

Don’t bother trying to sell people on privacy etc, for the most part. Show them Giphy integration, stickers, Stories, etc and show them that it’s fun. Signal has done great work there, in making it “noob-friendly”

My bad on posting the AI mother bird video. In my defense, it was surprisingly lifelike. I’ve gotten better at identifying fakes and more cautious before reposting them from Loops. Hopefully the legit bird loops are appreciated, though, if not I’ll stop crossposting

That’s a whole 'nother rabbit hole, that eventually leads to this:

Do you have some more reading about this? The wikipedia article doesn’t really touch on it.