I don't think the strawberries and Camembert can be *combined*, exactly, but I'm imagining a scenario where they are eaten in immediate succession, and the thought is so decadent I'm legitimately worried the CIA is going to do a black-bag op into Canada just to stop me
Have you heard the adage "never go shopping while hungry"? Well I went to the store to get like 1 thing just now and came back additionally with strawberries and Camembert*
* This is a variety of Brie so good it is literally illegal in the United States
@guidojansen6 The thing about Republican liars is they're disposable. Anne Coulter or Bill O'Reilly or Donald Trump lie themselves into the trash, it doesn't matter cuz the Republicans have more to swap in. They farm them. They fund them. Trump's lawyers get jail or probation but Mike Johnson gets the Speakership, some individuals get fucked along the way but overall the movement succeeds.
If you're their opponent, knocking them out one by one doesn't *work* like it would against the left.
@zlatko On occasion, a left faction attempts to develop within the Democratic party, and the Democratic party invariably excises it with a brutal efficiency they never seem to achieve against Republicans
@ravenonthill@inthehands It's not clear to me Biden's approach is especially effective at a goal other than re-electing Biden. If my core goal is undoing the damage of Trump then I find it very alarming how many of Trump's signature policies are continued under Biden
@ravenonthill People say things like this but it looks to me like the United States isn't going anywhere, it's just getting worse and worse. Same with Brexit, it was a catastrophe for the country but the right looks to have what looks like a permanent stranglehold on power even as their PMs have to resign one after the other. Maybe Brexit is a reason why the conservatives are unbeatable now, maybe a scared, insecure, poorer country is easier to govern with a politics of control
Cuz like… the self destructive Republican behavior no longer seems self destructive to me at all. (Regular destructive, maybe.) It looks… effective, given the Republicans' specific goals.
My entire adult life I've been, as a leftist, told, and sometimes argued to others, that there's a particular way of gaining power & influence as a political faction. That way has never worked. What the evidence says is effective seems to be the opposite of how the center keeps telling the left to behave.
By throwing tantrums and acting in an apparently self destructive way, the far right was able to replace the speaker with a member from their faction. There is no sign there will be consequences for the far right for this, and there might not even be consequences for the Republican Party. (I'm sure the Biden Democrats think they'll cut wicked campaign ads from all this, but I dont remember the last time I saw a "campaign ad".)
The speaker circus is over and the Republicans' selection is, as documented by TPM here, a thought leader in 2020 election denial/conspiracy theories. We're used to extremist Republicans but the third person in Presidential succession has openly opposed electing the President democratically, which is a new line crossed.
Once again, what gets reported as "Republicans embarrassing themselves!" is the Republican far right being very very effective at achieving goals
@ricci@acowley The good news is that each of the frameworks is built on top of the previous framework. The bad news is that from an end user perspective that's *still pretty confusing*.
@ricci@acowley (Most days tho I admit I still kinda prefer it over bower, npm, and deno being three fundamentally different things, plus cjs and mjs being two fundamentally different things which may or may not interoperate and which you may or may not be allowed to mix in any particular project, leading to I think a total of six combinations between [bower, npm, deno]x[cjs,mjs] only some of which actually ever existed?)
@acowley …but, also, from my own initial reaction, I know that if one is struggling with a chain of three python tools, being told "the solution is to learn a fourth tool!" is not a pleasant thing to hear.
@acowley *This year*, I have found "pdm", and I was like "oh, this fixes it". It incorporates the previous mix of semi-broken Python tools, is compatible with the parts that work, replaced the parts that don't work, and presents a single frontend so you don't have to know the history of semi-broken tools to use this one actually working tool. Unfortunately I was not able to get it working with the LSP and I have not yet looked into whether that was "my fault" (it actually might have been)
@acowley My theory is it is because python got started on these tooling problems earlier, and made solutions of them earlier, it has worse solutions, because some of the other languages were able to look at what python did and learn from it.
Node/npm also has this problem to a weaker degree, because while it was able to learn from Python's mistakes, it wasn't able to learn from Node/npm's mistakes