Mustakrakish

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Individual acts will never overshadow an organized movement. But individual acts may stoke the public consciousness, though they can also stoke those in power. It's a tightrope to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

This is what is meant by "socialism or barbarism"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago

Not to mention the actual pioneer of generic-text languages, the inventor of the compiler, Grace Hopper.

https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper

[–] [email protected] 51 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Also bought his way up the organ donor list even after he took so long ignoring it, passing over a bunch of people who should have had claim to it and some who died instead, all just so he could die anyway because he took too long to get treatment. Failed so hard multiple people died.