Explaining why people don't FEEL that they are being told what to think. When Truman looks at the sky no one has to tell him that he is looking at the sky. He sees the sky and thinks, that is the sky. He looks around and sees people and thinks these are real people.
@davidrupp27@allenholub If you look at the day to day of programming jobs CS grads may not be taught any of the important parts of what they would be doing. It's a combination of knowing process, style, discipline, teamwork and thinking in terms of the long and medium term.
@davidrupp27@allenholub I have no specific knowledge of the Stanford curriculum but the common complaints about grads include not knowing version management Git, not knowing how to write tests, deployment, logging, writing code not just for yourself but for a team to maintain, debugging etc.
How the Susie Stole MAGAmas
Every CHUD Down in MAGAville Liked WINNING a lot...
But the Susie, Who lived at the White House Did NOT!
Swampy Sue hated low prices. She hated high wages
She hated bright smiling working class faces.
She hated young men who didn't know what their place is
She hated the core MAGA folks of all races
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be her longhouse hair scrunched her head down too tight
It could be too many lobbyist checks passed in the night.
But I think that the most likely reason by far
was her being a pure swamp critter Boomer--with the hardest of Rs!
Whatever the reason, old age or pure spite
She stood there on MAGAmas Eve, hating the Chuds
Staring down from her office with a sour, Grinchy frown,
At a nation trying to be freed from Washington town.
For she knew all the chuds in the breadth of the land
were full of grit, and moxie, and what old-timers called sand.
"They'll start their own businesses," she said, "those fools!"
"They'll marry! Own homes! Quit government schools!"
"They'll join ICE! They will chimp! They'll expect actual results!"
"They'll throw out the lobbyists and campaign consults!"
Then she hissed, with her Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
"I MUST find some way to stop MAGA from happening!"
She didn't mind their votes, or campaign contributions
or their cheering at rallies for boasted solutions
That she could allow--if she must she could stomach
whipping them up every four years into a panic.
But she drew the line there--past that point they should let
the experts get back to getting their beaks wet
Don't get us wrong, she liked being back in swamp town
But the voters who got her there should shut up and sit down!
But instead those chuds kept on chimping. They crimped
her best laid plans for the Repubs to go limp.
Those chuds chimped!
How they chimped, chimped, chimped!
And worst of all, the President, ol' Donald Trump
kinda planned to do what those chuds wanted.
Yes! If he had his way, the halls of power would be haunted
by the will of the people! And the national good!
He might go after the rice bowls! He might kick out the hacks!
He could even send the illegals all the way back!
Then what of the pool-boys and lawnboys and cheap IT workers?
What of the USAID sinecures for well-connected shirkers?
"Why, for almost a month I've put up with it now!"
"I MUST stop the revolution from coming! But HOW?"
Then she got an idea! An awful idea!
SUSIE SWAMP GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
"I know just what to do!" She laughed, the old bat.
And she crammed on her head a red MAGA hat.
And she chuckled, and clucked, "What a great Swampy trick!"
"With this flag pin and hat, I look just like I fit!"
She hitched on to Trump, she told him she'd help him
she'd run his staff and appointments, and, welp, hmm
anything he needed, she'd you'd best believe do!
Because she was the loyalest, bestest, and true!
If you're the WH CoS to President Trump after everything that's been done to President Trump, going to the media is the last thing you do.
Unless you have an agenda counter to the President's.
Or you're incompetent.
Susie Wiles is not incompetent.
Theory - why do Millennials flip out about youth rebellion? How each gen pissed off their parents:
Gen X said Hail Satan.
Millennials sang rap songs.
Now Zoomers LARP as Nazis.
Only rap became normalized, though, so they can pretend they weren't the same as the others.
To those people who scoff at the Puritan Hypothesis:
The Left is marching today under a Christian Nationalist motto.
No Kings but King Jesus dates back to the English Civil War.
@L0m3z@Nero I watched those riots live on the news and online. There is a moment burned in my memory of a reporter saying some version of the mostly peaceful protest line while a man, just a bystander, gets chased, knocked to the ground and beaten by an antifa with a board behind her.
This is not to say it meets Western definitions of democracy so much as to say power looks more diffuse and therefore more stable. Time will tell if I'm wrong.
My uniformed layman's take is that Iran is much less dependent on one man than the other successful targets of regime change in the middle east. Iran feels more like a democracy, at least directionally, than the regimes it is compared to.
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Restarting U.S./Russia relations following the Biden Administration, direct engagement with Ukraine, U.S. proposal for Gaza, preventing Iranian nuclear weapons, China, Canada, and the emerging role of independent media.
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