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Yep. Frankly his stated motivations for doing anything should be largely disregarded, but especially so for anything that historically comes from an ideological place. It's like a blinking advertisement saying "this is definitely not true".

Not that I really disagree, but it should be pointed out - Trump has never had an ideology, never. Unless scamming money is an ideology. He's only racist in the sense that he believes people are beneath him and some "categories" more than others, he doesn't actually give a shit about anything we'd call a belief system or vision for the world or anything.

This stuff seems to me like ragebait, but IRL; explicitly intended to cause stories of "riots" that will give them the thinnest of justifications to start violent crackdowns.

America is in an extremely sketchy place right now. If violence begins in earnest, it's hard to imagine lefties coming out on top. And even if so, the suffering involved will be extreme.

Edit to add: I really do think that creating justifications to attack the left (literally, not metaphorically) is the plan for how to unite his base again once they turn on him enough. And if it works, we are SUPER fucked.

It can really speed up a senior dev working in an unfamiliar ecosystem. Concepts often apply across tech but syntax and implementations are different. Especially for the "declarative" things where, in my experience, the syntax is fiddly and it's not always easy to see where you went wrong. Speeds me up with Terraform, or a recent example was configuring some OpenSearch indices and queries. I've never worked with that before but it was able to help me get some boilerplate going that let me start iterating, much more quickly. I get more done when I'm outside my wheelhouse.

But one of the downsides of course is it occasionally sends me down a hallucinatory rabbit hole for something that doesn't exist, lmao.

Naked greed has a way of making even the orangest turd seem to sparkle like gold.

It's okay, you can even those numbers out by beating up more fascists!

I love stories from hardware / embedded design. Reminds me that black magic is real, and it's a miracle any of this works.

Is this a game to you? Do you see the dead-serious commitment on this man's face?

Make no mistake, I see it as very likely that this problem doesn't get solved without significant violence.

Lol eh, that sounds pretty hilarious

Once as a kid I was hanging out with a buddy near the area where my neighborhood stopped and the next one started.

Pretty girl from the next neighborhood starts coming our way, of course me and the homie start shitting bricks. She gets to us, looks at me, and goes "oh, sorry, you looked hot from far away", and turned around and walked back 💀

Obviously it stung but it was just so hilariously, callously mean that I had to laugh even in the moment lol

I hope it at least had the good manners to do the comical "collapse up / backwards on itself" thing!

Bb gun fights were the best. Topped only by Roman candle fights, and we had some epic, like 10v10 ones spanning entire parks.