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And right on queue.

the potential of accumulating society’s knowledge and being able to present that to people in an understandable way.

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energy/efficiency advances

About that.

They hate the same people he does, and that camaraderie matters more to them than being robbed and trafficked to South Sudan by mistake.

There’s no conflict at all. Having their home foreclosed and watching their family starve in the streets is just the price they gotta pay for keeping single-digit numbers of trans people out of track and field.

“I don’t know what you got to do or what you got to have to be able to be declared for a federal disaster area because this is pretty bad,” Tylertown resident Brian Lowery said. “We can’t help you because, whatever, we’re waiting on a letter; we’re waiting on somebody to sign his name. You know, all that. I’m just over it.”

This dude is primed to be convinced that all the bureaucracy getting in his way is the fault of the Shadow Democrats and Mecha Biden.

Don’t have to vote for him to support him. Retweet him, echo his bullshit, etc.

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My God man, say it louder for the folks in the back. A 21 year old answer, heck even an 8 year old answer like OP said, might not STILL be the best answer in the current age. Technology evolves, new languages get invented, old languages gain some new features, and all of that happens at a rapid pace.

I get super dismayed using SO and seeing the top answer predates Rust. (Note I don’t mean to say Rust is always the answer, but that Rust is already 13 years old. Things change.)

which kinda sucks

Sorry this comment is a doozy, I had a lot on my mind with it lol

While I agree with you, I did not come away from that article with the same conclusion. Nowhere in that article did the SOC mention supporting strong labor protections or progressive labor policy.

In fact, we know from experience that Republicans hate those things, because they’re backed by wealthy industrialists. This is absolutely crucial: the things that would make factory work a worthwhile career, like good wages, lots of PTO time, safe workplaces, low pollution, retirement funds, etc are not only expensive to capitalists, they are also the things people need in order to leave a factory job.

Our hypothetical factory worker is happy, but he’s getting older, slowing down, his hands hurt from all the work, its unavoidable. So he wants to move up the corporate ladder and into positions that require more soft skills. To that end, he pursues higher education, which requires money and time off. And once he gets his degree and reaches the top of this corporate ladder, he can now transfer his very desirable skills to new jobs, new industries, maybe even white collar work.

You see how this is at odds with Lutnick’s vision of intergenerational factory workers? Like, this utopia I’ve just laid out is not what he’s selling. He’s selling the complete destruction of class mobility. He wants people who can’t leave their jobs, who can’t pursue better prospects, and who can’t create a better life for their family. He wants your children to know “you will never amount to anything more than your father, or your grandfather.”

And that’s very appealing to the factory owner. He doesn’t have to maintain a safe workplace, because the alternative is jobless and homeless. He doesn’t have to pay a dignified wage, he doesn’t have to schedule work around your vacation time, and he won’t have to pay for the tools you need to escape. And, the cherry on top, he has the next two generations of workers lined up, learning from Pops!

I grew up watching my father go from field technician, to night school bachelor’s student, to software engineer. I saw my uncle become a car mechanic, stay a car mechanic, and is now too old to keep working but doesn’t have enough saved for retirement. My grandfather worked in a glass cutting factory. Believe me, I’m not shitting on factory work. I’m shitting on the people who want to create shitty factory work. And the article is very captivated by the guy who wants to create shitty factory work.

Not necessarily wrong buuut that can only come true with strong labor protections, fair employment practices, guaranteed benefits and solid wages. The reasons we have labor unions, OSHA, EPA, etc. All things conservatives want to destroy.

Trump’s SOC may promise this utopia, but he will not deliver. They want Great Smog of London-producing factories. They want 1 week of PTO per year, no sick time, no parental leave, no retirement, bare minimum healthcare to keep your ass working until you drop.

Why, asked Legasov? Because it’s cheaper.

Edit: Heck, they’re already throwing child labor laws out the window, and it’s not about “letting kids learn the value of a dollar.” It’s about explicitly exploiting people who don’t yet know their own value, in the short term. And in the longer term, it’s about making sure they never know what it was like to have a desk job, or a service job, or a job in education or the arts. Never let them yearn for a better life, by never letting them figure out that one could exist.

You misread my comment. I’m relating direct tithing to churches, to things like NOAA. That’s actually an incredible example of what I’m talking about. But I’m not saying churches are taxpayer funded no.

That being said… I’m not putting it past religious fundamentalists to convince Trump to issue an executive order garnishing every American’s wages in the name of tithing to the church. It would be foul, and fucked, but the last 6 months have given me an ample imagination.

It’s easy to funnel money from the rubes. It was only 2 years ago that I learned some churches will automatically withdraw tithes from your bank account and they encourage you to set up “direct deposit” with them.

The entire economic model of these loons is built on the same principle: anything you use regularly, for “free” or built with taxpayer money, should instead become a subscription service you have to pay for, to a cabal of rich sociopaths. In the meantime, the actual free option is brain rotting propaganda to keep you voting for the rich sociopaths so they can repeat step 1. See: Fox News.

Sorry, the sarcasm didn’t come through. My joke was that no software is perfect because software is constantly evolving as people’s needs and desires change.

Clown on JS all you like, but if git was perfect within a week of creation, why does it receive updates? 🤔