I think ranked choice voting and the popular vote interstate compact can happen at the state level. Just needs more local campaigning.

Then people would feel more empowered to vote for who they really want. I think that would be a big push towards nominating an actual progressive candidate.

Both Clinton and Reagan were economic neoliberals. It is neoliberal policy that has fucked us.

Monster

74 episodes. Psychological thriller. Serial murder mystery, but instead of "whodunit?" it's "whydunit?". Dramatic as an opera. No weird tropes. Superb character development. I love Magnificent Steiner.

I'm generally picky about how I spend large amounts of time. As an adolescent I watched like 700 episodes of One Piece but I eventually gave up. At this point I can't be bothered with any Shonen; they're the equivalent of junk food. Even Mob Psycho 100 started getting tiresome in season 3.

I've never appreciated bishoujo/harem garbage; I had coworkers that watched it regularly and it was very off-putting. They are horny and delusional, pretending there is substance.

But I still think there's a lot of solid art in manga/anime. I tend to look for popular seinen manga that turned into anime, like Akira, Berserk, Monster, Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, One Punch Man. But even some of those end up going downhill or failing to evolve out of the "edgy and violent" stage, e.g. Attack on Titan.

Clearly the garbage is what makes money, which is a huge shame.

And AFAIK Hayao Miyazaki does not like to be associated with the Anime genre and would prefer being grouped with the likes of Disney. And I think that's quite appropriate.

But quiche is tasty!

def path_is_valid(path: Path) -> bool:
    if not path.exists():
        return False
    return True

There's no reason for this function to exist. Can you see why?

Same. I also found that, for my usage, I wasn't actually saving any money compared to the unlimited data plan.

Can you really call Matrix "fediverse software" if it doesn't implement ActivityPub and therefore doesn't federate with the majority of Fediverse instances?

NixOS is at least starting to work on a new wiki. The old one is gone and is only accessible from archive.org.

I assume Scala is like a "gateway" (drug) to functional programming by way of also supporting imperative and object oriented paradigms.

Millenials and Gen Z are tight. It's Gen Alpha that has Millenials... concerned. We are watching with bated breath.

This savagery bestows upon me catharsis.