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“Before God and a billion hungry neighbors, we must rethink our values regarding our present standard of living and promote a more just acquisition and distribution of the world’s resources.” Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern (1973) evangelicalsforsocialaction.org/about-esa/hist…

@chiccychiccy One requires length, the other brevity, still takes the same amount of work…

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I may also be bitter from reading how class fields has bogged down the decorators proposal. 😄

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I like that private fields are not easy to reach. For use cases where they are needed there are workarounds but I don’t think it need to be easy. I’d prefer private symbols as an alternative solution.

I’m not loving the state of private fields in the @tc39 class fields proposal. Adding new syntax and complex semantics for something for private fields doesn’t seem worth the value.

It’s really frustrating to have wifi-calling disabled by @verizon apparently because my phone is unlocked and not their branded version.

@chiccychiccy “Hi, I see you are looking for the weather. Perhaps you’d be interested in these 40 ads that vaguely have to do with the earth.”

When did a @DairyQueen blizzard get as expensive as a @ColdStone creation? Those two aren’t even in the same league.

As a reminder, performance is rarely a good reason to add more complexity to your JavaScript code. Native features get faster all the time. 🔥 JavaScript performance advice:1. prefer async/await over hand-written promise code⁰2. prefer native promises over userland implementationshttps://t.co/TzstMCuprxhttps://t.co/bLh5Alam8j— Mathias Bynens (@mathias) November 12, 2018

Just completed my voting prep. It scares me to think how many people vote blindly at the polls.

This is a great addition to notifications. It’ll make it a lot easier to follow up on important issues. Starting today, you can prioritize your notificationsSave it now, read it later 🔖 pic.twitter.com/oilRzTuMxj— GitHub (@github) November 2, 2018

The whole left/right @twix competition marketing campaign make me want to avoid the whole product.

As someone who has tried to pull dandelions from the yard, these images are stress inducing. Every time I see a stock photo of a child blowing on a dandelion and making a wish, I can only think, "I bet that damn kid is wishing for more weeds" pic.twitter.com/a4CHuTNi5n— Jeff...

I wish there was a setting to hide the text by default. How to get the most out of @duolingo? Tip 3: During lessons, first listen to each sentence without looking at the text. Because reading is easier than listening, your brain gets lazy and doesn’t try to listen when...