I believe it! One glimpse at the latest docs tells me that every major builtin library I knew is depreciated or gone. I’m not even sure if secrets is still the correct encryption library. Honestly I might have to start fresh with Python like it’s a new language

Well the last version I was actively using was 3.6 and the shiniest new feature I remember is switch cases from 3.7, so yes it has for me

Would you recommend it? I’ve seen the wrath of khan, it was alright but tos just can’t hold my attention like tng

It’s even happened to me with python. I stepped away from programming for a while and now all the guides are about 3.8 while the version on trixie is 3.13

Dynamic stacks are pretty common in the most popular scripting languages, but considered bad practice from folks who use systems languages

Precisely. It’s why I reject being too strict about ruling out judgement due to “signs of the times”. In the famous words of Parenti, ancient Greece actually had a whole segment of the population opposed to slavery. They were called slaves.

You can only use that excuse if you’re rolling rollies or spliffs

Even then, don’t be an asshole and just find a garbage can

Intellectual property is a resource. Corporations are in the business of hoarding resources to extort ration at a price. Microsoft doesn’t care about the studios. They care about owning ip.

with minimal effort

no, none of my action items are minimum effort, sorry. Defending democracy will never be a low strain activity. I’m organizing unions in my workplace by following the disruptive and worker-led Minnesota Model of organizing. We workers make the world go round. As the US labor movement gears up for a genuine general strike in 2028 (yes, we’re following through with Fain’s call to action), we need unions of all stripes to form. Labor unions, tenant unions, debtor unions, etc. Then after forming, we need unprecedented inter-union cooperation. It’s ok to be tired and burnt out. Let yourself recover, and then continue the good fight.

That’s why we as citizens need to organize and stand together in solidarity. Don’t depend on institutions to fight back.

as advisors

Who do you think they were advising?

You can thank Milton Friedman, Henry Kissinger, and the US for that as advisors on liquidating state assets as brutally as possible under austerity doctrine. The same way they helped Chile and Argentina.

You can pry my chorizo from my cold, dead hands

Damn, I had no clue about the links between Asperger’s and the Nazi scientist. It’s a good thing that it’s not a diagnosis anymore, because of the whole nazi science thing.

Yea I agree, but don’t equate the USSR and the modern Russian Federation. The only thing they have in common is the geography.

Germany may have lost ww2, but Nazis won the war. The only nation to execute collaborators in substantial numbers was the USSR, every other country integrated the Nazis into positions of power.

Basically they’re saying to use those childhood invulnerability powers while you have bad knees

No, because the US federal government has monetary sovereignty using a Fiat currency, meaning the US can pay for it without extracting it from taxes.

Banks are insured, along with all accounts under $250k. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had to worry about going over the FDIC limit.

It sounds like you loved your brother very much. What’s your favorite memory of him?