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I think it became popular because you can deliver the same app to mobile and desktop platforms. And because js gave people a very easy intro to development on the web so tons of people know it.

I don’t think it became popular because it was better at making an application on a single target. I’ve never made a webapp with the equivalent of GLADE or QtCreator so I don’t know if it even exists - but those tools are very decent if you had a basic understanding of UI layout.

Yep. Progressives should try not to make too big of a fuss about the hypocrisy - just suck it up and use the damn opportunity!

Don’t tell ME how to have a good time

Can’t speak to your specific example but I have 100% heard people say “had an accent” to mean “has a regional accent”, that would include, for example, an Appalachian accent.

What RT interfaces do electron apps let you use ;)

I’m confused why Qt Creator wasn’t available - is this project old enough to vote or was there some technical reason :P

Not necessarily. People who say “he has an accent” just think that their accent is “not an accent” so it could also be a (different) regional accent.

Writing stuff in a proper gui framework using the tools we’ve had for decades is not really that bad, it’s just not what all the tutorials are for. CSS can be an absolute pig to get things just so, or was until quite recently.

Everyone has an accent!

That is far from agreed upon. A popular view is that neither the atomic bomb alone, nor the Soviet invasion of Manchuria alone, would have caused Japan to surrender when it did.

Yeah peanut butter is delicious

Damn, need a red arrow pointing to the red text!

Glad someone added the red text, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to laugh at

It should fundamentally be deliberately stupid. It could be offensive, but if so it should be offensive in a stupid way.

Betting markets aggregate the opinion of people who make bets on them, weighted according to how much they bet. They are not an estimate of the likelihood of an event happening. This is a common misconception about how they work.

If they took bets from a representative sample of society and everyone bet the same amount, it’d be an aggregate opinion of the public, which is a pretty good way of trying to estimate such likelihoods (using the Wisdom of the Crowd principle) but this is not what they do.

So, I got it right, with the caveat that you’re not talking about all jeans?

But jeans that are not tight on your thighs may be tight on someone else’s. The bigger pockets on those jeans that benefit you will look worse on that person. Bigger pockets add a (small) cost - which is fine if it offers something of value. But to the many women who carry a bag by default, bigger pockets do not add value, only a cost, so you are also asking those to bear the cost.

So those are the two reasons.

Framing the complaint as, “I’m annoyed that jeans designed for women have useless pockets” leaves the space open for those reasons, those other people whose annoyance might also matter. The complaint in the original post, continued by you and others, would erase them.

If you don’t want the obvious replies, frame the complaint in a way that doesn’t invite them. The original post is someone talking about the “right to have deeper jeans pockets” which invites the point that women already have options for deep jeans pockets.

I’m not here telling you that all the choices you have are as good as the choice you wish you had.

Because women are not allowed to have choices.

You are right that they are loose-fitting enough on to have functional pockets, but I think there’s some more of my comment that still applies. How many women do you think are buying jeans that fit that loosely? A quick dredge through some photos (whether models or selfies) makes me pretty confident it’s a minority.

Your perspective seems to be that there is no reason not to make the pockets bigger, but there is, it’s just a reason that affects people other than you.

I saw a problem being mischaracterised. I’m so sorry that I had the temerity to point out the choices available to you.

Whatever would we have done without you??

Continued to complain you “deserve pockets” that you absolutely can have.

Take your horrible inaccurate assumptions somewhere else. I won’t be reading any replies.

You have the choice to:

• Buy a skirt
• Buy a dress
• Buy sweatpants
• Buy jeans from one of the retailers listed in this thread
• Buy jeans with unusable pockets and alter them
• Buy “men’s” clothes
• Carry a bag with you

You have choices. You are unhappy with the choices available, but are instead saying you have none.

If you complained “I am unhappy with these choices” instead of complaining, “I am not allowed to have choices” you would not get people replying about the other choices you do, in fact, have.

You, a man

No thank you.