That’s not the problem. America is just desperate for change, and the Democrats are allergic to using power

Obama won on promising change, but did nothing except put healthcare into a death spiral (the ACA came from the heritage foundation, also known for hits like project 2025)

Biden won because of the pandemic, and then the Democratic party quietly fiddled with the dials a little. But they were still so allergic to rocking the boat they didn’t prosecute Trump for attempting a coup

Then Biden/Kamala ran on the platform “everything is actually already perfect, you’re just too stupid to realize it”

Recently they refused to release the autopsy of the election, because it said the one thing they refuse to try… Meaningful change. To take a stand against the billionaires and make some enemies

Trump is different. He got up there and said “our county is on fire, and I’m going to fix it”. And then he said the most incoherent meaningless shit, which was then sane washed through the billionaire controlled media to say dozens of different things

But he’s already spent the trust of the people too now. They’re not going to buy into that kind of rhetoric again for a while, but they’re also done with the gaslighting and empty posturing

What we need is someone who will use their power for good. No more empty promises or consultant pilled drivel. Clear, simple to understand plans. Crisp messaging. Explicit promises.

The current Democratic establishment is floundering in their attempts to find some formula where they can copy the energy of change, but still do the centrist uniparty bullshit.

We don’t need to get over Trump, we need to get past the Democratic party leaders and their ratfucking of progressives

The Gasby party while they withheld snap, tearing down the Whitehouse, the hunger games… It’s so on the nose a grade schooler would pick up on the symbolism

Seriously… They can stop physically performing metaphors, we get it!

But honestly, it’s probably because I have ideasthesia. I feel ideas tactically

Bad code feels slimy, problem areas feel like sharp angles, good code feels clean and smooth, like a smooth river stone with clean even grooves that gracefully curve

Best advice I can give is to strive to write elegant code. I don’t strictly follow style guides or do docstrings… These are superficial. I try to match the style of the project, but my code is consistent even in projects that are not

Elegant code is pretty, regardless of formatting. You’ll know it when you see it, junior devs will follow the patterns without instruction. It does not require explanation, it does exactly what you think it does, and it makes complex problems simple

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Do you ever wonder if we’re in hell?

Yes, but only ship of thesius style

I’ve seen how people code, I’m writing my own stack on the way up

I’ve heard “join the discord” pretty often too

Oh it totally was… They’re just hilariously incompetent

They could have put together a team and let them go to town over the course of 6 months. I’m sure the FBI has done similar things before

Instead, they pull everyone off what they’re doing every time something happens. They pull in thousands of FBI agents to redact Trump from the files, then they demand they show up to look for Kirk’s killer, and now they’re kicking through the snow

Then they did the same thing with the DOJ, they took over a department and ordered them to go through 1000 documents a day per person

Nope, sorry. I just break my code into neatly grouped chunks, and I’m very consistent

I regularly go “I need something to do X”, and when I go to write it it’s already there. It does exactly what I need it to do, otherwise why would I name it X and not X_for_situation_y? I would never

My utility functions are reusable, my classes handle their own logic internally, and so my business logic is clean and readable. My code flows straight and clear, along a single path whenever possible

So yeah… When I start working with people, there’s the initial confusion then this moment where they go “Oh! That’s really easy to understand”

I get regularly complimented on my code for how understandable it is radiates smugness

This makes it schedule 3, which basically means a doctor can give it to you without jumping through hoops

It’s definitely going to boost his approval ratings… Just not enough to matter, I bet

Oh… Wow, I really don’t hate Clinton enough, he really just cut all the straps holding the country together, huh?

Well, that parts not crazy, it’s just really depressing.

Propaganda works, and we really should have written a few more laws to protect independent media before everything calcified into place

I’ve seen tons of videos where exactly that happens, some of them as little as four people walking towards them purposely sent them running. I think I’ve only seen one where they managed to get someone already handcuffed away, but tons where ICE just gets back in their cars and leave

It’s extremely important, because you’re never really picking a programming language, you’re picking a stack

You can technically write an android app in Python, but should you? You’re now locked into a framework used to run apps in Python, which are going to be much more limiting than other languages and frameworks. But you’ll also have access to Python libraries, which gives you options in that direction

Then you examine the context. How good are you at learning other languages? How long/complicated is what I want to do? Does this need to be performant? How long do I need to keep this working?

And most importantly, and you really have to think this one through… Will I need to extend the original goals in the future?

So really, yes, it’s very important. A bad decision in the beginning could cause problems for decades

I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that

The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up

Hell, there’s a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in

You’re halfway there.

Yes, it was the best tool, in context

In that context, what was better?

Exactly. And what is the best tool? The best tool for the job

You really never know until you’re in the moment.

I was once in a situation like that… When people started screaming I was already carrying my niece under one arm (who was a preteen no longer usually carried) and bringing her to my stepdad and telling him to get her out of here. I didn’t realize what I was doing, I didn’t hear her asking me what was happening until I was power walking towards the screaming and telling my mom (a nurse) who asked what to do that she should follow me to see if there was something to be done

Turns out a woman offed herself in a bathroom, there was nothing to be done. I snapped out of it, and I was more disturbed by how calm I was during the whole thing than anything else

But now I know. My mind will shut off and I’ll act…I have the memory of what I did, but not a single thought went through my head during the event. I was equally ready to fight someone with a gun barehanded or to cover my hands in blood to slow the bleeding. I probably would barely notice getting shot in that state

I guess I always thought I’d be the heroic type, but lots of people do. I’m shocked at how effective I was in the moment… My priorities were followed perfectly, I locked the fuck in, head empty, no thoughts, no hesitation

I think that’s always what it’s like. And that’s why you never really know… I’m not a leader, in fact my step dad is and I hate telling people what to do. But when the chips are down, I bark orders that people obey and run towards the danger automatically

And I’m pretty proud of that

I meant to delete the comment to keep things simple, but what I was going to say is something like

fine, but debt is like gambling. There’s situations where it makes sense, but it’s addictive. It’s mortgaging your own future, even when it maths out it’s a risk - shit happens

And if you over leverage and under perform, it’s over. If you can pay yourself and your employees, you’re better off never taking on debt again.

Like Wegmans. It’s the very best grocery store, everyone who goes there agrees. They grow slowly because they only open new locations when they have the cash to do so, and so they never have to compromise on quality in any way

True. We can’t let them just dance over the line, that wears away the line

If they cross the line at all, they’ve broken the social contract. They are no longer protected by it, no longer entitled to tolerance or respect. They don’t deserve to go about their lives unmolested or get invited to family dinner

It’s like, basic civilization type shit. The problem is we’ve confused what is legal with what is acceptable as a society