The damage will last for decades.

The republicans should be stopped.

The average person is a heady cocktail of stupid and ignorant. We all are, to one degree or another.

I feel like one of the problems is we’ve let “everyone is entitled to their opinion” mutate into “everyone is entitled to their own facts”. We just kind of let anti-vaxxers walk around like it’s no big deal. We let people wear maga hats and don’t treat it like a clear and present danger or the threat that it is. We’re too polite about this shit.

If someone walked up to you and was like “I’m gonna shoot you dead later” while holding a gun and a map to your house, you probably wouldn’t be like “Cool I respect your opinion.”

I mean, some people would. Some people are pacifists, and I guess they’d just get in a death camp politely.

• Get accepted as goon for “Patrol” app
• Go to CEO location, armed with lethal weapons
• ???
• Profit

Someone should come for Musk and the rest of the republican party.

I can only hope some of the absolute fools who voted for republicans realize that their policies are dogshit, but I think too many of them are emotionally invested in their “team”. They’d cheer for their side even as they starved to death.

If billionaires were smart they would go along with this kind of non violent plan. The longer they resist, the more likely people will try more aggressive solutions.

Belief is social. They believe what their social group does. We all do this to some extent. Some part of the brain still feels like if we reject the social group’s belief, we’ll die alone in the woods. Going with the group feels good.

You can probably change minds if they see you as in-group, but it won’t last if the rest of their in-group has contradictory ideas.

Getting people off Facebook and other hellscapes might help.

The lack of class consciousness is pretty stunning. Everyone thinks they’re going to be the owner one day and they’ll get to step on people’s necks. Not enough people realize that’s probably not going to happen , and not enough people reject the idea of stepping on necks altogether.

I was going to say the same thing but with a lot more words.

The oatmeal did a comic that’s sort of on this topic that I think about a lot now: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

I think this is why our future is looking grim. We’ll never have a star trek utopia until this behavior, which is pretty fundamentally baked into our biology, is addressed somehow.

That seems fine to me.

Match should be broken up. But apparently some people learned nothing from history and some people don’t care as long as they make money

Many things. I mean, you could hack a lot of stuff into Excel but generally

SQL has foreign keys and integrity checks. You can make it so like if you delete a user it automatically cascades to delete other rows like their addresses.

You can prevent someone from entering the wrong type of data in particular columns. This one’s an integer and that one’s text.

It’s designed to work on larger scales. Excel stops at 1 million rows per spreadsheet, unless my search just gave me AI slop.

You can do queries, for selecting as well as updating and deleting. You can join tables.

It’s much easier for other applications (such as a website) to talk to a SQL database

You can do transactions.

There’s a lot. That’s just off the top of my head.

I use pycharm at work for most things. Work paid for it. It has some nice stuff i like. I’m sure other editors do all of this, too, but nothing’s been causing me enough pain to switch

• Database integration. Little side panel shows me the tables, and I can do queries, view table structure, etc, right here
• Find usages/declaration is pretty good. Goes into library code, too.
• The autocomplete is pretty good. I think they have newfangled AI options now, but the traditional introspection autocomplete has been doing it for me.
• Can use the python interpreter inside the docker container
• The refactor functions are pretty good. Rename, move, etc
• Naive search is pretty good. Can limit it to folders, do regex, filter by file name, etc

It does have multiple cursors but I’ve rarely needed that.

I use sublime for quick note taking. Mostly I like that it has syntax highlighting, and it doesn’t require me to explicitly save a tab for it to stay open

I hope I live to see all of them hang

The 14th amendment prohibits people who did insurrection, but none of it counts if people don’t enforce it.

Even if we did have an uprising, and won, there’d be maga hats for decades whining about how they did nothing wrong. The roots of this problem are deep.

Everyone who votes republican should be shot dead. They’re either too stupid to be trusted, or too evil.

I think a lot of people assume that security and stability just happen by magic, and think trump/musk is just going to shake things up without really damaging anything. A lot of people are pretty stupid.

I’ve been buying music on Bandcamp. It’ll probably enshittify soon because they sold out (first to epic, and then to some unknown entity), but until then you get DRM free music you can also stream, and you can listen to most stuff a bunch for free.

That’s all I really want. Let me listen to it to see if I like it, and if I do I’ll throw in a few bucks. The whole endless subscription, ai algorithm, own-nothing shitscape of modern capitalism is not good.

What about a dead billionaire?

If someone shot musk or zuckerberg dead I’d be like “That’s good. That’s an improvement.”

We could do a lot for climate change, world hunger, homelessness, disease prevention and eradication, and so on with that much money.

All of these people are doing mass murder via opportunity cost, and I hope they pay for it.

If americans were on average smarter and better informed, then we wouldn’t be in this situation. I don’t think the majority of people will understand what’s happening. They’ll blame the jewish space lasers or gay frogs or whatever instead.