As someone who started writing software over 20 years ago (yikes I feel old), I feel like a lot of the best practices I've come to appreciate are really just strategies for mitigating future pain or boring/uninspiring work. When you eliminate most of the cost of rewriting everything from scratch by a machine that feels nothing, then "best practices" kinda lose their meaning.

Edit: confusing sentence order.

Only 1.5% of corn grown ever has been edible.

Are you talking about the difference between sweet corn and field corn? Because field corn is plenty edible... Just not for humans.

For those of us who are legit unaware ... what did he do (or didn't do) to get put on the shit list?

Yuck. Thanks for the heads-up.

Wait, what?!? You got a source for that?

I'll be pissed if it's true... Audacity holds a special place in my heart.

Trump wants his name to be remembered, so I want a future where we fix the problems that he exposed in our system, and then we do our best to completely forget him.

A miniscule, radically optimistic part of me wants to believe that he's viscerally aware of his own miserable fate and is intentionally acting as a villain to ultimately unify the country. I'm not holding my breath, but it's a small source of hope.

True, but there's gotta be a line between "controversially unpopular" and "truly deranged (and therefore also unpopular)."

(not so) fun fact: tinnitus can cause chronic depression and anxiety! Ask me how I know ...

If you want to skip the editorial fluff and just skip to Paul Krugman's post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-soon

That's literally all an infrastructure (and infrastructure planning) problem. Designers planned for car-centric infrastructure, so that's what we got. Sprawl begets sprawl; spreading out destinations means you need more pipes/sewage/electrical/roadway to reach each destination, and roadways are space-inefficient, so the problem compounds.

Admittedly blocking isn't directly effective, but it could be if it generally gets people to stop feeding trolls, thus cutting off reward feedback loops for bad actors.

Just a thought.

Ahh yes, whataboutism. Try actually addressing the point someone is making instead of making distracting excuses. Did you know two things can be true at the same time?