It cannot change as a nation. Any movement for federal reform is a lost cause. Certain states and municipalities could change, and that is where the future is for some citizens.

Thank you for being wrong. At least one other has thanked you, but this has improved my experience on lemmy

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It’s like an uncanny valley , so close to reality but different enough to elicit feelings

Increases of purity testing is a symptom of being ineffectual. It is frustrating being a socialist when things fall apart and there are no real plans of action.

What do people do when they feel powerless?

I noticed a difference between two sides is that one is groups that messed with local politics and the other is personalities only.

This is because most local politics, and organizing for socialism at a community level, collapsed in the last two generations.

Middle America has a lot of unmet needs, with a horrible health care system and food insecurity. Most will gladly embrace anything that may help.

What many see as crazy politics is a desperate attempt to latch onto anything remotely promising.

Exactly

one that can’t really stand up to imperialistic powers in the real word

Which is why I am communist and not anarchist. To fight capitalism one must organize much more than anarchy movements could .

I always say a little prayer before I do that command

If it is stupid and it works it’s not stupid.

I’m going to use it

When I graduated with my bs in programming I thought I had at least a little knowledge of most programming

Years later, I can safely say I know very little, maybe aware of 1% or 2% of just the names of the major parts of tech in programming . Details even less.

And I read a lot

Dev mode is when developing by the programmers. Production means used by others.

When I am working with a service, I want to know immediately when there is a problem.

When I push my code to be used, the dev flag is off and the code does stuff as normal.

For example: if I am making a payment service using a third party, I use sandbox and fake cc numbers. I want things to fail loudly on my computer so I can make things fail silently. And safely, when it’s used with real money. But I can only do that if I know there are issues. And only logging lets some bugs be unnoticed , particularly if a cluttered log. So being loud in development saves tears in production

All good points!

Also, I’ve learned from others that how you crash depends on the environment, if running in dev, be different than if the thing is used by the public or in production.

• In a script, dump too much data if dev, in production keep it terse but have relevant info and a link to the docs.
• In a gui, webpage or app make the crash screen in dev be a thing of beauty that has the full stack trace, database info , and more. But in production only generate a polite message that is vague, with an error code. Push that error to a logging service with the code. And if this is not used by the public but by a company that paid for it, have a feedback button or live chat button, in the error message, to talk with tech support.
• Backend services and libraries: if in dev mode crashes should be loud and definitely break things, while in production log silently and keep working.
• And for any type of program: always back up data, and always use transactions to not have the database or files be in an incomplete state if an exception happens.

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I use the catastrophe theory of error handling: if something fails sanity checks or throws an exception, then kill it with fire: crash the whole program and make the users cry.

True, it’s a pain but… no more hidden errors that get reported two years later

Both are similar too: “why won’t it work? I copied/inserted it…”

I asked computer if I should read the article, it said no. Am I in an abusive relationship?

That is ridiculous, clearly. I’ll use mainstream search engine, tailor made to my needs, to make sure it cannot happen

Republican efforts to suppress voting and the democrat “get out the vote” initiatives have much in common.

In some states voting matters, in most it does not. And federally it does not.

Seen in this context both efforts are a type of grifting and scam. No different than other political rabble rousing.

Pretensions USA is a democracy makes reform that much harder. And both parties do this well

This assumes the USA is a democracy at the federal level. Where votes by people matter.

Many states use election machines, owned by oligarchs, whose operations are a closed book and are not regulated. Coincidentally those states, both red and blue, fail tests approved by the United Nations to detect tampering of votes.

Those states make the other states, that actually pass the tests, irrelevant.

What makes democracy, in the USA, unable to curb the even the very gross problems today is not the people doing the cheating.

But it is the people who refuse to call the cheating out (by addressing the real issues), and more important the majority of citizens who absolutely do not see this as a problem. It’s only when this is addressed can the actual issues of a real democracy be looked at.

Even then, real reform is hard to do in a democracy. Especially one so large and out of control as the nation we see now. So any reform has to be not using the ballot box.

A boycott actually could help.

I think It is hard for elections to push any reform. And that is for countries with actual democracy.

Socialism can only be achieved by non democratic methods