What's it like being able to see into the future?

I’m not sure what your sarcasm contributes to the discussion.

I think op has a fair point. If we remove our political views, we can still see that our government and politics are extremely divided. Furthermore, wealth is accumulating into the hands of a very few. What should be democratic outcomes are substantially influenced by capital and the ones who possess capital.

You could argue that our politics were always divided. I haven’t forgotten how toxic it was during the Clinton administration (again, I’m not blaming either party or taking sides).

What’s making it worse today is with access to the internet and social media, everything is amplified times 100. Spreading misinformation is a lot easier and we’re dealing with adversarial nation states exploiting that to our detriment.

Personally, I don’t think this is sustainable in the long term.

Now- let me mix in my more biased opinions. In the country my parents immigrated from, doing things such as jailing or threatening to jail your political opponents, labeling all your political opponents as corrupt, criminals, etc was a common thing.

Over time, it only got worse over there. We are seeing those authoritarian tendencies here, and that’s the real terrifying part.

I see your point, but perhaps on occasion the labels of corrupt and criminal are accurate.

The corrupt and criminal should be called out. (never mind that those calling them out are often the same thing).

Amazing! I predict you and your snark will be very successful :).

But on serious note, do you not plan for the future or speculate on it?

Not with such confidence to say things like "we are in the early days of decay."

You sincerely believe that tax revenue would be lost to waste and graft with no benefit to the poor? Higher taxes sting me as much as the next USAer, but I think you're being obtuse.

No. I never said that.

I am simply stating we have a problem. That problem is we have poor people.

It's one thing to tax the rich if that will make poor people not poor. It's an entirely different thing if we are simply taxing the rich simply to give to socal programs that don't have a track record of turning poor people into self sustaining non-poor people.

I think taking from the rich to give to poor people is a bandaid. And probably will result in more poor people who will require government help.

So back to the topic. We want to tax rich people. How are we using that money to have a net less number of poor people year over year?

If you're commuting in a Lyft/Uber, you're part of the problem. That aside, for better or worse, most of us city-dwellers are numbed to shocking! displays of hard drug use.

Clojure's stdlib is unintuitive, and `into` is the poster child.

It's easy to find what's available in Ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.3/Enumerable.html

Good luck with Clojure: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html

https://clojuredocs.org/ is what I always used. I dislike ruby's docs actually. Rust and Crystal have better UX design for their docs.

https://re-find.it ?

I'm talking about the flat namespace.

While I understand the sentiment that all the functions aren't necessarily grouped as in OO languages, I think the Clojure functions are harder to group because they're more general. That's not necessarily the strongest argument, but it is so much more obvious in OO because you always have the object to group by compared to functional languages.

Your kids might learn to spell an un-American name like Kwame if you raised them around those scary poor people.

The State Department is a Slack user so there's that. https://apps.gov/products/Slack/

As an antimarzipanner I was hoping to learn that its production harms the oceans or something along those lines.

i thought maybe it is something about cases of bitter almonds used to produce poisonous marzipan.

Eventually, cognitive decline will win the day and I will be confused by simple use of conditional operators. Until then, I'm with you pal.

Yea but it's written in JavaScript.

And has 51 dependencies.

Some of this JavaScript stuff is amazingly ridiculous.

npm itself has more dependencies.

https://github.com/npm/cli/blob/latest/package.json