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Is it solid wood or engineered? Some very soft variety of wood? 17 years is extremely short...

As of 2021, the US spent 16.6% of its gross GDP ($23.59 billions) on healthcare expenditures. The very next was Germany, at 12.7% of its $4.28 billion GDP. The US is spending more per-capita than any other OECD country on healthcare, it's just not made visible by looking at the number on your tax report. You're still collectively paying for it one way or another.

But hey, yay, low taxes. Good for you, I guess?

Considering how little we actually know, how much we are still figuring out today, how wrong we once were, and most definitely still are on many things, about said nature, the naturalistic argument is IMHO rather weak. The argument silently assumes too many things, at least with our current knowledge - that human beings do actually have an inherent nature, that said nature is uniform enough across the whole species to make that generalization, that said nature is inevitable and can't be evolved past or rationalized against, that it always was the case and will always be, etc.

centrist and progressive politics have failed to address these effects more recently

I'm more criticizing the very idea that we ever put a remotely progressive government in power in that time period. We've been alternating between centrist liberalism and conservatist neoliberalism that whole time. What are we expecting out of this, exactly?

Plenty of construction doesn't mean plenty of the construction we needed. How much of it was condos nobody can afford in city centers? How much public housing was built in those same decades, as compared to previously? How many starter homes?

it becomes increasingly clear that centrist and progressive politics have failed to address the expanding inequality of the last four decades

The last four decades were decades of "centrist and progressive politics"? The same decades where minimum wage stagnated, worker rights got slowly eroded, public services slowly chipped away? All those years where building housing for Canadians was neglected to the point home prices almost quadrupled and this recent immigration wave became too much (if you think immigration is bad now, just wait for a couple more decades of global warming)? These were progressive?!

The right's propaganda is indeed working fucking great if that's our takeaway of the last couple or decades. The US Raegan era marked the beginning of turning back on decades of social policies on a global scale, yet the blame falls on the same policies we've been slowly suffocating. Insane.

Ah, well that's what almost always ends up happening, doesn't it... The only thing that legitimately trickles down in this fucking system is costs to consumers lol

I'm not saying the middle ground doesn't exist, but that said middle ground visibly doesn't cause enough damage to businesses' bottom line, leading to companies having zero incentive to "fix" it. It just becomes part of the cost of doing business. I sure as hell won't blame programmers for business decisions.

I'm not sure if you're agreeing or trying to disprove my previous comment - IMHO, we are saying the exact same thing. As long as those stranded travelers or data breaches cost less than the missed business from not getting the product out in the first place, from a purely financial point of view, it makes no sense to withhold the product's release.

Let's be real here, most developers are not working on airport ticketing systems or handling millions of users' private data, and the cost of those systems failing isn't nearly as dramatic. Those rigid procedures civil engineers have to follow come from somewhere, and it's usually not from any individual engineer's good will, but from regulations and procedures written from the blood of previous failures. If companies really had to feel the cost of data breaches, I'd be willing to wager we'd suddenly see a lot more traction over good development practices.

Main difference is, a bridge that fails physically breaks, takes months to repair, and risks killing people. Your average CRUD app... maybe a dev loses a couple or hours figuring out how to fix live data for the affected client, bug gets fixed, and everybody goes on with their day.

Remember that we almost all code to make products that will make a company money. There's just no financial upside to doing better in most cases, so we don't. The financial consequences of most bugs just aren't great enough to make the industry care. It's always about maximizing revenue.

The "cheesy sci-fi movie prop" look is usually either heavily influenced by, or quite literally, retrofuturism, which itself is very often inspired by the early computing era. Considering quantum computers are basically in their infancy, they will indeed look like a mix of old/future tech for some time.

Considering your original comment is gone, meaning I can't even refer to what you said nor to my own response in its context, and that you basically instantly went to ad hominem attacks calling me uneducated, merely for what was either misinterpreting your original comment or disagreeing with it, I can only assume you're not having this discussion out of good faith, so let's end this here.

I'm utterly confused: how do you define "liberal", and why do you think "they" are trying to drive "them" away by criticizing liberalism as a whole?

You're quite literally arguing that liberalism isn't liberalism because conservatism/neoliberalism exists.

Niche communities used to be all over the place on a bunch of sites and forums, and only kind of recently (last 10 years or so) converged on Reddit. The way "it's on another website" became enough to deter people from visiting makes it feel like we have collectively managed to forget that the internet isn't exclusively made out of the top 10 most visited sites... :(

I mean, by 1400 the world population was comparable to the modern US. It merely broke the billion people mark by the early 1800s, it took merely another century to double that, and it since did more than 4x straight to 8.2 billion people, so even if the proportion of whiners stayed the same, there'd be so many more of them. Now, to that, consider we now have access to the internet.

I think the reason why we've had CPC/LPC swings for decades has more to do with Canadian society as a whole eating up the neolib propaganda fed to the world since the 80s.

That part we can mostly agree on

What, you don't think Strix Point AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Yoga Pro 7 is easy to say? Which part of Strix Point AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Yoga Pro 7 do you dislike so much? If anything Strix Point AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Yoga Pro 7, or how I like to call it, SPARA9365YP7, flows pretty well, as far as I'm concerned.

On one hand, I really do agree PP as PM would/will be a calamity. On the other, this whole "anything but" voting strategy is a fucking travesty of the democratic process that's exactly why we've been stuck on an endless cycle of Liberal/Conservative governments for the last handful of decades.

I just checked mine and the P10 is what I use :) Hopefully he likes one of them.