I think the first thing that needs to be broken up is Apple’s grip on how screen time can be exported.
If screen time data can be accessed, then we can actually know how much time we spend on these doomscrolling social media apps. Only allow X time and no more
All the data available supports the conclusion that the majority of Americans prefer progressive policies. The problem for Democrats in 2024 was the candidate, and thus, turnout.
- Biden won more popular votes in 2020 than any candidate ever (81.2M, versus Trump's 62.9M in 2016 and 77.3M in 2024).
- Trump's second term was the first Republican presidential candidate since Bush's second term, 20 years prior, to win the popular vote; and Bush had 9/11 to campaign on.
- If you discount that you have to go back to his father in 1988 to find a Republican Presidential candidate that won the popular vote. Seriously, again, I cannot stress this enough: Americans prefer progressive policies. We just tend to prefer cults of personality more.
- Many congressional districts swung Republican in 2024 by only four or five figures of votes, and Republicans only gained Congressional majority by a couple seats.
- Its very likely the United States is currently experiencing or will soon experience a recession. Its likely this would have happened with or without Trump, but the person in charge gets the blame, and it'll be very difficult to fight that claim when tariffs have been such a hot topic.
- Its also the case that DOGE's cutting of the Federal workforce has alienated a ton of Trump supporters who worked for the Federal government or related NGOs.
I think this is pretty clear when looking at the administration's actions: They know that they have to move quick on a ton of stuff in these first two years, because they only have two years with Congressional majority. The last two years of Trump's presidency will be a Republican executive branch and Democrat congress, and nothing will get done. Then whatever happens in 2028 will happen; hard to predict that far out.
You can go read my other comments if you think this position is coming from some crazed TDS democratic lunatic; I'm not. I'm generally pretty moderate and understanding of the more complex macroeconomic and sociopolitical context which has influenced Trump's policies. This is just the facts; anyone with money to bet would absolutely be betting that the American left is more pissed than they've ever been, and the blue wave in 2026 is going to be pretty decisive.
Hard to pick between Python and TypeScript - they have different strengths. TypeScript's type system is more useful (you'd hope, given the name!), but Python "just works" more often for simple use-cases IME (though I have well over double the lifetime experience with Python, so that might be a me-factor rather than a language factor).
Baffling. If you're seriously saying package management for python "just works" and for go "always breaks"... I guess your either a troll, or you've never written production software. And I'm not talking some clever Jupiter notebooks used for some internal auditing or whatnot, I'm talking about customer facing software used by _at least_ 100 people. I'm 12 years in the game and Python has always caused me nothing but pain, while Go hasnt ever cost me a second of afterthought, working in multiple environments after nothing more than git clone. But, if you like making "virtual environments", a horrible shim gimmick which wasnt even supported by the language itself originally, be my guest!
No, that wasn't what I was saying. I was asked a tangential question about which language I preferred; and considering the language _itself_ rather than the ecosystem, I find that Python is the one that typically "just works" - that is, the barrier between thought/design and expression is smallest.
I've repeatedly heard terrible things about Python's packaging, and I have to believe that they're true, even if I've never experienced them myself. And, yeah, you've guessed partially correctly - my own 14 years of professional experience have been primarily with Java and TypeScript, with Python being my language of choice for _personal_ projects. So - yes, I never have written production Python.
To once again be clear, I'm not making any claims that Python's packaging is better than Go's. I'm making two separate and unrelated claims (because the latter was prompted by a tangential question):
* For someone currently building development tooling for a polyglot company, Go's dependency-management system requires more special-casing (both for publication and for consumption) than the others combined.
* For me personally, when translating thoughts/algorithms/designs into code (without considering publication), Python is the language in which I can do so fastest and most intuitively. Never having published a package with it, I've never had to engage with that side of things - I believe folks who tell me that it sucks, but from the consumers' side `source .venv/bin/activate; pip install -f requirements.txt` has always works flawlessly for me.
If screen time data can be accessed, then we can actually know how much time we spend on these doomscrolling social media apps. Only allow X time and no more
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