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I’ve cited numerous examples of blatant human rights violations, and you seem to think they are acceptable

Citation. Now.

You're the one who pretty directly said Biden is maintaining the status quo and has changed nothing.

Which is a lie. It's not even a misunderstanding, or a personal political opinion, or even bullshit. It is an actual lie. You're a liar when you make that implication.

That's what this come down to. Your personal politics are pure liberalism, not progressivism.

ONLY individual rights matter to you. A government violating someone's rights should stop all other activities until it fixes that violation. Even if trying to fix that violation both will not work and will force abandonment of ALL other progressive reforms. Because a right violation is more important than any other activity.

The irony is, you wield the word "progressive" as if you are one, but really you just don't know what these words mean.

You want Biden to take the strongest possible stance on a issues he actually couldn't fix (because the POTUS is not God and he has particularly little power thanks to not controlling Congress and having a flatly corrupt judiciary working against him). It does not matter to you if taking some of these stances would cease ALL OTHER progressive reform while also not working. You're still going to confidently call him absolutely ineffective and evil if he doesn't do it because the rest of progress does not matter in your politics, only the liberties do. No complexity or compromise allowed.

Just... shut up. Stop making the left look stupid. Or at least learn to criticize without denying all progress.

Allow me to translate:

Anyone who does not perfectly pass your purity test and achieve every single goal you want to achieved instantly on the day they're elected is bad and evil.

Pretty much it right?

You don't know shit about me and you're an asshole. And worse, you're an enemy of progressivism.

What like passing the biggest climate bill in not just American but likely human history? Filling every agency possible with the most diverse Administration officials the country has ever seen?

I don't care if you don't like Biden but stop pretending he's doing nothing. It's unlikely any of his competition would have been able to get half the stuff he's done done. It's normal and healthy to want more but it's actually insane to pretend nothing has happened. It's also actually insane to pretend the president can do whatever he wants when he does not control Congress or the Senate. Which Biden doesn't and hasn't for even one minute of his administration. Yes, including the Senate because a caucus that requires the consent of Manchin and Synema is not controlled.

Planned obsolescence restoring our privacy through incompetence is kind of fun to think about.

Fortunately(?) the planet will have no future if it continues to be the case that basically everyone needs their own personal automobile to function in it.

For sure, there's always risk involved. But I get a smell from it based on the fact that the risk is essentially entirely on the student, which means there's an incentive to give out the loans without judging the "business plan", so to speak.

Doesn't happen with business loans. Give out a bad loan to a business and the bank just loses the money when inevitable bankruptcy arrives.

Due to the incorrect, illegitimate, political SCOTUS ruling.

Just feel a need to add that emphasis.

The SCOTUS's entire "major questions" principle is entirely unconstitutional. They do not have the right to selectively decide when laws do and don't apply based on their own subjective judgement on the effect of those laws.

Congress passed the HEROS act. It is and remains law. It gives the DoE full authority to modify or cancel student debts during a state of emergency, which we were in. There is absolutely no reasonable question that the Biden administration had the authority to do that cancellation that the SCOTUS ruled against. The SCOTUS was legislating their preferences from the bench. The legal backflips they did claiming the partial cancellation was neither a modification nor cancellation is absolutely absurd and shameful.

Revive the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill.

I love education and think people should have access to it without qualification or question. Even if they just want to study underwater basket weaving.

But in a world where people have to take out actual loans to get those degrees, the loans probably shouldn't be going out to degrees that do not fairly guarantee ROI for the person receiving them. Still kind of feels like usury to me.

Probably more of a problem with wage stagnation and society-at-large than with any particulars about the degree though.

Saudi Arabia should not be allowed to exist as a Muslim ethnostate, though. Their human rights abuses against those that aren't part of their specific ethnicity and religious sect are pure evil.

"They get to do evil, so I should too" is a very bad argument that is not made by people who aren't evil.

And it doesn't help that, as of late, the term "antisemite" is aggressively being expanded to include those who show any criticism whatsoever of the current Bibi administration.

It's crazy to me. On October 6th, 2023, the Bibi administration was largely viewed as a far right, antidemocratic, religiously extreme collection of intensely corrupt lunatics. On October 7th, so many otherwise totally-reasonable people just forgot how they felt the day before.

Not to mention that Harvard will likely settle just to avoid going through discovery simply because they know there is an entire political movement looking for ANY excuse to go for blood with them.

What's your point, then, if not to imply that these military activities since the war powers act have been happening without congressional approval -- something that is simply not true?

If there's a misconception about war declaration being spread around here, it's the idea that a war declaration is somehow necessary -- or even important -- as part of the process of conducting warlike activities. That's just now how it works in the modern world. Modern countries do not declare war on other countries. They engage indirectly or develop legal pretenses about how it's just some specific organization they are targeting or goal being achieved.

No, that's not true.

Almost all of the US "war" action in your lifetime has been fully authorized by Congress under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

Only one member of Congress voted against it, as I recall, and she lost her election for doing it. She voted against it because it was way too broad and expansive and would be able to justify nearly any intervention with no sunset date. She was 100% right.

I think perhaps you don't know what an IDE is.

Notepad isn't "technically" not an IDE. It does not have any of the features that make an IDE an IDE. People using something for programming does not make that thing an IDE.

An IDE is an integrated environment for development. Notepad is not integrated with any environment. That's what makes it good.

Almost certainly github copilot integration, which makes 100% sense as a feature of Notepad and almost certainly will be disabled unless you are signed into Windows with an MS account (which pretty much anyone in this magazine shouldn't be).

Notepad is definitionally not an IDE. It is not an integrated environment -- and anyone who is intentionally using it over alternatives is almost certainly doing so precisely because they do not want their text editor to be an integrated environment.

I'm sure there's some case where Notepad is PART of an integrated environment, but it would have to be with support of other tools -- likely a terminal of some sort.

The reason other text editors like -- like Notepad++ or Neovim -- can be full IDEs is because they have plugins to generate that integrated experience.