I agree with much of what you say, but the idea that this isn’t “gods” earth any more I find risible. Much of this was done in via religion which is a man-made system to capitalize on insecurity and fear.

I’m curious what you mean about “not participating in this fucked up world” and “sacrificing the privileges and comfort of the modern life”. For me, these are highly ambiguous phrases.

The problem is not a modern/permissive/whatever society but the inability of those on the right wing to tolerate anyone who is different and, as we are now finding out, to attempt to erase them. Love is the answer, and I tend to agree this is not compatible with current politics.

Everyone is focusing on the sex-act, but what about the Putin /photos part? This suggests strongly that Putin does have Kompromat on Trump, which is long suspected.

True… I personally dislike Java and work mostly in Kotlin these days.

SOLID is generally speaking a good idea. In practice, you have to know when to apply it.

it sounds like your main beef in Java is the need to create interfaces for every class. This is almost certainly over-engineering it, especially if you are not using dependency inversion. IMHO, that is the main point of SOLID. For the most part your inversions need interfaces, and that allows you create simple, performant unit tests.

You also mention OOP - It has it’s place, but I would also suggest you look at functional programming, too. IMHO, OOP should be used sparingly as it creates it’s own form of coupling - especially if you use “Base” classes to share functionality. Such classes should usually be approached using Composition. Put this another way, in a mature project, if you have to add a feature and cannot do this without reusing a large portion of the existing code without modifications you have a code-smell.

To give you an example, I joined a company about a year ago that coded they way you are describing. Since I joined, we’ve been able to move towards a more functional approach. Our code is now significantly smaller, has gone from about 2% to 60% unit testable and our velocity is way faster. I’d also suggest that for most companies, this is what they want not what they currently have. There are far too many legacy projects out there.

So, yes - I very much agree with SOLID but like anything it’s a guideline. My suggestion is learn how to refactor towards more functional patterns.

“Liberals” just want to be right - or at least want to be seen as doing it in the right way. The Conservatives believe that the end justifies the means

The justice department is supposed to be independent for precisely this reason. I can appreciate Garland was trying to avoid partisanship and appear to be impartial. But he failed. Dismally. Both of these investigations should have been fast tracked and much more open to avoid any appearance of bias. That would, of course, lead to the problem of a fair trial….

This will be 100% true if the workers are all undocumented immigrants and ICE immediately deport them when the work is done.

Maybe if these corporations acted with a little integrity and respect for laws like (say) privacy and copyright, then maybe they wouldn’t need to be regulated…

Just sayin’

new Fascism light: All of the bigotry, but none of the blowback…

Is he trying to rehabilitate himself as a “man of reason”? I predict at the first sign of resistance he’ll be back on the plane for Cancun

…right… sure he is…

Maybe he was busy that weekend, being peed on by Russian prostitutes?

I concede this is complicated, but i think we can all agree that paid lobbying groups are a cancer on society.

Paid is by definition anyone paid to do the lobbying. Corporate is definitely harder to define, but let’s say you’re only allowed to lobby on behalf of your own organization (or self)

And, better yet, let’s make every single lobbying effort public - Times, dates, people involved, and the subject raised (but perhaps not the outcome). Good legislation should happen in the open

Paid corporate lobbying should end.

By inconvenience, I assume you mean the magnitude of their bank account and/or stock portfolio…

Journalists aren’t to blame… There’s plenty that have written about climate threats because there’s been a lot of Science saying it is for years. It’s the Editors and Media owner that censor those stories that are (partly) to blame.

Extrapolating from there, who influences the Media Owners/Editors? Whomever gives them money - Most likely it’s advertisers, but it’s also rich assholes who buy up Media outlets to control them.

Beyond that, we can also point the finger at Government - They permit these changes of ownership and often exert their own influence.

And, if you want to go full circle, we the population choose what the watch and read, and what we believe.

In short, it’s a societal problem because at the end of the day, we’ve chosen a world where Money is key measurement of how society is doing.

I‘m sick of hearing people say this - It‘s exactly what they voted for. What I would prefer to hear them say is WHY they feel they made a mistake. What about Trumps rhetoric then is disconnected from his current deeds?

I suspect the usual reason is that it‘s impacted them personally and they didn‘t think it would. It‘s the reverse of the boy who cried wolf

Tend to agree about DLC - Some times the Devs have too many ideas - DLC is way to manage costs. But only if it expands the game

This is because we feel we paid for something that expects nothing in return.

When you pay for a game that includes add ons and microtransactions, all of a sudden we‘re back to being a marketing target, and we implicitly know we‘re pushed to spend money.

We play games to escape the real world…

I don’t know why people are surprised by this.its not his first time and we all know he’s never read a book in his life.