What the empire does affects everybody on the planet. We’re all your victims.

I don’t live in burgerland.

I’ve explicitly and repeatedly told you that I am not building any metaphor. You continue to ignore what is being said to you in order to keep building your straw man.

I’m not building any metaphor. I explained to you in very simple terms that the policies democrats actively chose to pursue resulted in Trump being elected. Evidently you’re still struggling with understanding this. Let me know what part you need explained in more detail. I didn’t imply anything. I was very clear in what I said.

The only one doing deflection here is you by bringing up what Trump is doing now. We all know what he’s doing, the question burgerlanders need to be asking themselves is how their country evolved to the stage where people like Trump are in power.

Maybe lay off chatgpt there and actually try actually reading what is being said to you.

oh I managed to find a podcast version which wasn’t paywalled for me https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/student-loan-debt-is-strangling-gen-x/3e216e7e-f23e-4ea2-9e83-d2c637248446

Basically, Gen X got screwed by timing. They were the guinea pigs for the whole “take out massive federal loans for college” experiment. College costs quadrupled right as they were graduating high school, and the idea was that getting a degree was the way to get a good job. They’ve had these loans for over 20 years now, and the interest has been compounding into an absolute monster. A loan of 75k turning into 300k is a perfect example of how insane the interest accrual has been.

On top of that, as gen x were trying to buy houses and start families, they couldn’t always make payments. Their loan servicers told them to just pause payments, but the interest kept piling up during that time. As more and interest kept getting piled on top of the principal, they end up paying interest on their interest. So the whole thing turned into a debt trap in disguise.

And the final nail was when Biden admin dangled loan forgiveness, telling everyone to consolidate their loans to qualify. So they did, but this officially rolled all that unpaid interest into their principal, making their total debt explode overnight. Then the forgiveness plan got killed by the courts, and the next administration came in with a pay up or else attitude. They followed the rules for a program that vanished, and now they’re stuck with an even bigger bill as they head into retirement. It’s a total cluster fuck.

My favourite trope has to be people saying dumb things and then acting offended when called out on it. Now, if you’re done with your straw man, perhaps you can engage with what was said to you. Nowhere did I suggest that democrats made Trump do anything, or say anything about any historical inevitability. What I said is that their policies that dems pursued midwifed the political environment where people like Trump thrive.

The only people parroting influencer-grade nonsense here are the ones who are talking about dems making Trump do things while ignoring the actual role dems play in US politics. Grow up.

The democrat failures created the political climate ripe for opportunist like Trump to be elected. You should ask yourself why Trump’s style politics are so effective today when they weren’t previously. People like Trump have always been around, he didn’t just appear out of some different dimension. It’s absolutely incredible that a grown ass adult would have trouble comprehending this.

Correct, the democrats are responsible for passing policies that immiserate people and create public disillusionment that creates room for oppostunists like Trump. The reality is that both parties have consistently followed the policy that favors the interests of the oligarchs. Entire books have been written on the subject.

That’s right, Donald Trump just appeared magically out of a vacuum and became president. The failure of the Democrats to actually improve living conditions while they were in power has absolutely nothing to do with it.

so your actual problem is with capitalism as opposed to the tech itself

Sadly can’t find anything without a paywall for that one. Looks like it’s just a hard paywall you can’t get around.

The EU’s structural paralysis is the ultimate indictment of flat organization. Anarchist theory’s biggest L is playing out in Brussels.

Taking abandoned projects and making them usable again or repurpose them is a nice application for LLMs. A lot of the time it’s just tedious work of updating dependencies or tooling to what’s currently being used.

Mr-clean was a really good idea because it implements reagent semantics without bothering with the VDOM which removes a lot of the complexity and overhead of React. The reason React needs the VDOM is because it’s agnostic regarding what might trigger a change to the DOM. However, if your component repaints are driven solely by the state of the reactive atoms then you can just drive the actual DOM based on that. All you really need is to make subscriptions to the atom, and whenever its state is updated then all the subscribed elements are repainted. This is why Reagent is able to get away with only focusing on the render part of the React lifecycle.

true story

very true

What’s incredible to me is how so many Americans still don’t understand just how brutally exploited they are. These are the same people who’ll confidently tell you that they have freedoms unlike people in China.

Oh don’t think it was me, but that’s pretty incredible to see.

exactly

Yup, you got me, I’ve literally changed my whole sleep schedule and put up a huge ruse just for you. In fact, this whole lemmy instance exists with the sole purpose of tricking you. Everybody here is a Russian bot, and our sole purpose in life is to confuse innocent Americans. You’re not suffering from narciscism at all.

that’s the hope