I guess there are different types of "life sucks" that can or cannot contribute to depression, my current understanding is that a lot of it depends on whether you feel you have some control over the situation or if you think you have absolutely no power over it
According to Victor Frankl (psychiatrist concentration camp survivor, author of Man's Search for Meaning) being in a shitty situation without any control over it isn't necessarily bad. Humans can still be mentally okay in the face of extreme unavoidable suffering like in the camps. The key thing is that you need to have some purpose / meaning in life (often a loved one or dependent).
Isn't people in the past had less control? There were dying from infections and not only had no vaccines and drugs they didn't understand how infections are spread. They also suffered from various natural disasters not having a protection a modern civilization gives us.
I don't know enough about how people lived in the past but I would tend to agree with you that they might have had less control than us on many things. But what I meant was that it depends on how much control you *think* you have rather than the control you actually have.
So I think a lot of it is about perception, in 100 years time people might wonder why we weren't all depressed because we had a life expectancy of "just" 80/90 years, but for us it's just normal and expected
That's because not everyone thinks that the trade deals were lop-sided, and it's difficult to objectively determine if they are, given that trade deals are just another lever in the relationship between 2 countries, one lever among millions of levers, one that is constantly calibrated and moved depending on the other ones.
In a system like this I think it's pretty difficult to say who's getting more and who's getting less.
But Trump doesn't care what is true of false, so for him it's easy to just say what suits him best.
Regarding the war, I can assure you that Trump not excluding to take Greenland my force has been seen by the EU as threat of starting a war, giving that Greenland is part of the EU.
Also applying tariffs when European NATO countries sent some troops in Greenland has been perceived as: "Trump wanted to invade Greenland, he felt like EU countries wanted to defend it, so he imposed tariffs because he wanted to invade".
I'm not saying everyone in EU is thinking this, but I think a lot of people did, and this is some context for you to try and understand europe's point of view.
If you are in europe you might be able to force them to give you a reason, for an actual human to respond, and who knows maybe even get unbanned.
I have a friend that had a similar experience with amazon, and using an european online platform specific for this he actually got amazon to reopen his business account.
And if you prefer to learn well how to do it without AI, you can always try to do it manually the old way but then use AI at the end to review your config and spot any security issues
But let's be honest, right now it's big tech with their algorithm that's deciding for you.
Of course you are still free to find the content you want (unlike what would happen with banning) but most people minds can be influenced by the political view of who owns the platform if they wish to do so.
Maybe a bit of this is already happening (obvious suspect being X) or maybe not, I guess we'll never know for sure, but there is clearly an huge issue here that needs fixing as soon as possible.
I recently started to learn Scala and I love it, also for it's functional aspect.
Regarding your comment, it feels like scala is generic enough to be used also in other ways, and definitively for DSLs. What do you think it's missing?
I think the GP is thinking about how libraries and ecosystems are often more important than the language. Most emphasis in scales is in a collection of competing frameworks that, today, are very FP oriented. Some hide the category theory while others put it up front, but it's ultimately what you do. The libraries that wanted to do imperative OO lost most support.
Also see, for instance, Java. There's Java, the language that keeps improving, and then the Spring ecosystem, which is what 95% of programmers end up having to use professionally, with its heavy "magic" component. Writing services avoiding Spring is going against the grain. It might as well be part of the language as far professional Java use is concerned.
Communities matter more than the language features, and Java is all Spring, and now Scala is really a choice of Zio and Cats
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