PhilipTheBucket

It used to be "beat the Nazis," "got the railroads built," and things like that. There is value to having some conservative values in government. The problems with America actually don't have a lot to do with partisan politics; it is that the right wing turned into Nazis, and the "left" wing of the establishment politicians turned into Roman senators too busy getting blowjobs to realize that people are starving in the streets and can't afford their insulin.

I would actually be fine with Republicans of the John McCain / Dwight Eisenhower mold in government. If we could get rid of Mike Johnson and Nancy Pelosi (ideally by just dumping them into the Potomac), and have it be AOC and Adam Kinsinger, I'd be fine with that. The MAGA people are more overtly evil, but it's not even really a party thing.

Not really. Civil rights absolutely, social security, kind of, the activists didn't create the idea but they gave muscle to the labor movement to the point that FDR got elected in the first place and had the momentum so sure, clean air act and clean water act, you must be joking, those were just liberal government things. The things from that end of the spectrum are actually really good examples of why having a functioning government is a good thing even if it means "electoralism," meaning it can't all just be people in the streets fighting. You need both sides of the equation: The vigor and blood to push things forward, and then the paper and system to lock it in. Without either side of that, it doesn't work.

More to the point, stop shitting on people who did good things. If you live in America, you benefit from all of the things on that list. Look for enemies elsewhere. This is the left's favorite thing, to turn its guns exclusively on its own side, and it's super good at it.

In my analogy, the tool is the programming language, and the worker is the programmer in that language. Mostly.

Completely agree. The forces of the medical establishment have been trying to get me to take antidepressants. I have so far resisted. Among other things, I asked one of the doctors what percentage of people he's dealt with have simply started taking them and it becomes part of their routine basically for the rest of their life (which is what I've mostly observed) and what percentage take it for a short time and then are done with it because it fixed their life situation for them (which is the scenario he was describing as what might happen to me).

He didn't really address the question directly, which to me was plenty illuminating as to the answer.

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What link do you see? Works fine for me.

C is the old carpenter, who can drive in nails with three strikes of the hammer and never forgets his tools.

C# is his friend who just uses power tools instead. He is fine too. He goes home early whenever he can.

Python is the new guy at work who thinks he's super smart. He actually can do the job really well, but for some reason nobody likes him all that much.

Javascript is the boss's son who got the job since he agreed to stay off pills but he does not. He is useful to be friendly with, maybe, but avoid him any day that you can. Typescript is his weird fiancée. She is significantly less stupid but much more rarely useful, and also best avoided.

Go and Rust are tight-knit friends who get shit done. They are extremely capable but also not friendly, they tend not to talk much.

Clojure does mushrooms on weekends, and seems to believe he has key insights the rest of the crew is too dim to understand, but he also makes frequent simple mistakes on the job and forgets things. Also avoid.

Java only has the job because he's known the boss since they were kids. He was never that good, but now he is old, and frequently drunk. Avoid at all costs.

We'll just call it "Not a Revolution" App. Like Elon Musk with the flamethrowers.

Okay, further update: I finished the video. IDK. I think she has very, very accurately described in detail a problem in education. I think she has completely misunderstood where it comes from. She has all this evidence, allegedly, and so maybe it's wrong for me to say the whole thing is wrong and my idea is right instead, but that's what I think.

I am leaving it up because I think that she's right and powerful about the problem, and maybe what she talks about is some part of the reason for the problem, but I think it's probably a very very small part.

Don't forget teaching kids that the most important thing is to show up and do what you're told (reinforced through daily practice within a regimented system to a literally mind-numbing degree), that the people in charge will not protect them and do not have their interest in mind, and that not going with the system will result in severe consequences.

(Update: Also, I think this video might be garbage. I posted it because I thought the premise was absolutely important, but I do not think that what she is diagnosing is at all why modern schools make terrible writers. I will watch more but I may delete this.)

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You can throw some money at artists periodically, some random $10 donation to whatever their fan site or on merch will probably net them more than a lifetime of listening to their stuff on Spotify, since streaming revenues add up to roughly five atoms of currency per stream or so.

If anyone ever tries it, MCA shows up their house with a few of his people.