American here: hard agree. This is all insane, but it’s predictable, and they told us about it ahead of time, and people still fucking voted for it. We shat the bed, now we must lie in it.
I’m probably gonna try to leave the country and renounce my citizenship at some point, particularly if the next few months are as catastrophic as I think they’ll be.
Oh, so that’s actually a thing I specifically do not care about.
I tolerate MBA types at my job because they’re part of an equation that yields a paycheck to me. I don’t believe those MBA types should be in the discussion at this level at all.
In fact, that sort of insistence on implementation details from product and manager types who can’t ever fucking commit to addressing tech debt issues until the system is falling apart is one of the primary frustrations I have in my career.
That’s kind the entirety of my point: if Rust is a tool that can make expressing algorithms safer and less prone to error - and it can, in a logically provable sense - then what the fuck ground do you have to push back on?
I’ve gotten into the most hilariously circular debates with rust opponents on this point. Their arguments tend to come down to “just don’t write bad code”.
The team is only as strong as the weakest link. The release is only as good as the least talented dev. Tools that raise the entire foundation are objectively good. Even better are tools that outright prohibit you from even writing entire categories of bugs. Rust is that tool.
And yeah I know it’s not perfect, and it shouldn’t be treated as a panacea. But its advantages should be lauded, not derided because some contributors like to maintain the walled garden of knowledge as if it were a secret spellbook.
I mean the government would just be selling for scrap metal now if they had
What about with rice?
Hey government how’s it going
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Jesus fucking christ
Maybe part of the plan is to own the debt owed by the US, and then just break assets off as “compensation”. It’s like a thin veneer of capitalism and deregulation being spread over what happened to the assets of the USSR when it fell in the early 90s.
And yes, that’s a pointed parallel: I do sincerely believe we’re looking at the beginning of the real fall of America as a contiguous country and meaningful world power. I say that as an American.
Because this is the Second Business Plot, and this time it worked.
Here’s my problem: I don’t want the general user base of Facebook to move here.
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I’m obsessed and anxious because I plan ahead and I’ve thought about where this broader context could lead in great detail, and it’s not looking good
I admit I’m flat out shocked that the alphabet agencies appear to have done NOTHING in terms of preparatory/counterintel/firewalling/contingency work. I hope that means they did it right, and important things are being hidden from him. But who knows.
Used to be called the Bora. I know for a fact my Mk 4 was produced under that name in Europe.
Truly, an iconic interchange
Ew someone over here making that sand pasta
Oh, my baseline emotional state these days is fury, but it’s because I know where this road leads, and it damages my calm constantly to know that the powers that be don’t seem to give a fuck.
Most of my countrymen are very, very fucking stupid.
Perhaps try for a /c/ first??
The music is the delicious scent of tacos