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Some leftist groups view the police as class traitors who suppress the freedom of speech of the working class. I'm not sure that people who would align themselves with a group like Palestine Action would agree that they are free to protest about Palestine "all [they] want," or would find fracturing a policewoman's spine to be disqualifying. In fact, some may find that kind of action to be preferable to the reflexive deference to the police that really became visible after 9/11.

They put all the good jobs in a city surrounded on three sides by a mile or more of water, IDK how this doesn't get mentioned every time a "San Francisco has gotten too expensive to live in" article gets posted since the late 90s.

No way I'm hitting a food truck every two hours for a taco, it would be cheaper to be a pack a day smoker.

Meanwhile, I draw a three day suspension every time I post the word "guillotine" on Reddit.

There are lots of incentives for politicians and executives (and anyone else holding the levers of power) to ignore information, intelligence, and advice. I think you're right to be skeptical that "free" intelligence is going to improve anything without first addressing the incentives of the people holding power.

> Even if you do not want to accept climate change is a thing, you can accept the current state of the world is affecting people

Or you could choose option three: do neither and go on Twitter to do some political point scoring: "The Democrat Party is going to use this three day Indian heatwave (they have one every summer) and their climate hoax to open our borders back up to illegal immigration! We must stop them! Vote against the Demonrats this November! MAGA!"

No point in letting a good crisis go to waste.

Number of tanks of gas for a Ford F-150 Supercab is the American standard unit.

> “We never thought that would happen here.”

I guess a lot of people weren't around to see civil libertarians screaming about the effect of the USA Patriot act in 2001.

> Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

Oh, come on, Jay, this should have been on your radar for 25 years.

I hope that most people would try to get their news from sources who endeavor to report with as much of an objective perspective as possible, but I expect that most are comfortable with getting an editorial or interpretation of the facts from a biased perspective. I can read Jacobin with the same interest as I read the National Review, but I would never trust either to give me an unobjective statement of facts.

I'm just pointing out that Jacobin is hardly far left.

LOL

Sorry, my actual question is do you have any real insight into this topic, or are you just an unhinged wingnut. I have my answer, thank you.

I don't understand how this is a counterargument to the article's claim that capitalism is to blame for the declining birthrate around the world. Could you connect the fraud to the birthrate for me?

Which fraud is that?

> far left

> Jacobin

Oh, you can go way further to the left of Jacobin.

Why should the executives have to suffer?

I'm thinking about the future of programming as a skill like math or writing. I could never cut it as a professional mathematician nor writer, but both skills have improved my ability to write code. Similarly, I think that having a year's worth of CS instruction could help me if I'd majored and found a career in a different field than CS.

There are other areas that a STEM minded student could be interested in. Biology for example could benefit from a programming background. Knowing how to collect and groom data, analyze it, then export it as JSON or CSV is something you could pick up in a couple of classes and be useful to you for an entire career.

Yes, CS is a great program if you have a passion for computers, tech, and programming. If you truly have that passion, I suspect that you'd be targeting CS programs without concern for whether or not there are jobs for grads and would be willing to figure it out when you get a degree. If you don't have that passion for CS above all else, however, you might want to consider another degree with a CS minor.

If you're not headed directly into a 4 year bachelor's degree program after high school, I see that the local community colleges around me have maker programs where you learn a little programming, a little electronics, and a little 3D printing. That might be enough of a skillset to augment a degree in another field and let you differentiate yourself. You might check to see if you can get a certificate or AA in that if the market still looks uncertain after you graduate. Taking entry level courses in calculus, physics, and chem alongside a maker program for a couple of years might allow you to see the future of programming more clearly.

> Personally, I do not yet have a definitive answer

I don't think any of us do. Much of what I'm reading on this subject seems to be shifting so fast. Three months ago taste was going to be the big differentiator. Six months ago, OpenClaw was going to be the future. I'm afraid to say that my best advice is to wait and see like the rest of us.

Don't stop taking CS classes in high school, but be ready to pivot into a CS minor and a science or engineering major if you encounter headwinds either with the CS curriculum or you see that two or three successive graduating classes of CS majors are finding employment to be difficult or impossible.

Maybe don't only read the corporate news, then? It's not like sites like Talking Points Memo didn't exist in the early 00s.

The original comment was made in relation to guillotines, popping unoccupied jets on the ground isn't what the commenter I was replying to was referring to. Taking down an occupied jet without using a sidewinder missile is a different capability.

LOL, what are you going to do? Sit at the end of Northrop field and fly a swarm of drones into the engines of a G6 traveling down the runway at over 100MPH? No way a handful of drones are going to get sucked into a jet engine at that speed. Or do you mean engage a PJ in a dogfight at 40000 feet? I suspect if drones could down a jet, we would have heard about it coming out of Ukraine by now.

The reason we don't do these things is because the jets would come crashing down onto someone's home or place of work. That UPS jet that crashed last year when the engine detached on takeoff killed a dozen on the ground. Nobody is going to drone attack a private jet because the innocent would get killed by the dozen.

I'm just responding to the claim "The current healthcare system was mostly shaped by Democrats."

They posthumously named The Herman Cain Award after him. https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

The ACA is grounded in a lot of political policy going back to the Nixon era, and draws from quite a bit of conservative ideas. The individual mandate itself, for example, was a Heritage Foundation proposal from the late 80s, and was ironically one of the main targets of Republican objection during and after the implementation of the ACA.

If you review Nixon's CHIP proposal (https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2015/11/the-nixon-comprehens...), you'll find a proposal that maps pretty closely onto the ACA marketplace that we now have available.

"Mostly shaped by Democrats with major proposals cribbed from Republicans" would be a more accurate assessment.

BBSes were fun, and I had a good time exploring the mid 90s internet, between Gopher, FTP sites, Usenet, and eventually websites, there was always something worth checking out.

I don't know when it stopped being fun, I don't recall hating Facebook in 2008, but I do know that it had pissed me off on more than one occasion by 2012.

I think community building is what's been missing or done badly for the last 15+ years. I can find a few subreddits where I like the community, but Discord and similar have never worked for me. I don't think that live chat suits my temperament. I also suspect that up and down votes have been corrosive for social media in general.

I don't know that you can get the feeling back without either building and maintaining your own communities using the tools the corporatized Internet makes available to you, or finding and participating in the communities that you like. I do know that five years ago when the fediverse was a topic of conversation that there was a thread that content moderation and curation was going to be the only valuable work to be done in social media.

tl;dr: I suspect it's a community building and maintenance problem, not a coding problem.

> Cut off Israel, and contain them with treaties, including nuclear non-proliferation and inspections.

My AIPAC funded Congressman and Senators will allow no such thing.

We discuss Flock occasionally in my local subreddit since they granted our city of fewer than 100K like 40 of these within the last year. Plenty of Flock apologists appear as soon as the threads on the subject are posted. I'm convinced the majority of that is astroturfed.

If you think the No Kings movement is preventing a unified front against the war, you haven't been paying attention to the political discourse in the US since the rise of the Tea Party 15+ years ago.

> cut to 2026 and suddenly its like we just collectively decided software quality doesn't matter

I saw the sea change in 2008 when quality process got replaced with velocity and testing tasks. I've watched everything from Experian and health record data leaks to Windows 11 since that change. Software quality hasn't mattered for a long time.

> The key leaders of the AI labs struggle openly with the morality of what they are building

Can you provide examples of this? As far as I can tell, they have long pushed past any moral quandaries and are speeding towards implementing their visions while pushing off any problems of societal upheaval onto our politicians.

The California AG in particular wouldn't pass up any opportunity to get his name and accomplishments in the press. I get a weekly newsletter from him extolling his recent successes.