So, basically, everything I said was true about you. I wonder why you spend all this time and effort trying to sound otherwise. Why not just say “of course” at the start? Or even “I see no real moral distinction between Biden/Harris and literal fascism, and will always find ways to blame Democrats for the evils of trump” it would have saved so much disagreeing with me.

I was especially amused at the characterisation of the only two real world choices for president as a false dichotomy! You’re so living the stereotype of an ivory tower theoretical communist.

Now that we’ve been all around the houses and you’ve evaded the real life D vs R question literally every time I asked it, I’ll just put my original point here:

I have the feeling that you would be inclined to deny the distinction between the Biden presidency and the trump presidency that followed it.

I don’t think you’ve proved me wrong in any meaningful way whatsoever.

You are unable to coherently make any genuine criticism of Mr Trump without watering it down to the extent you can switch blame onto Biden or the Democratic Party for it.

This is not because there aren’t extraordinarily stark differences, nor that you’re unaware of them, but because you refuse, despite evidence to the contrary, to shift from your belief that in politics there is black and there is white and there exists no grey.

Maybe someday you’ll realise that the real world isn’t perfect and that if it were, we wouldn’t need socialism or communism in politics anyway! Maybe you’ll realise that awful comes in different degrees as well as different flavours.

You said this a lot, but you seem more like you took offence than like you’re moving on.

It comes across as you dismissing people’s points because they didn’t debate by the rules you invented for them to speak.

It’s not a computer science word, it’s an IT word, and I’m afraid you’re going to have to live with people being a bit imprecise with it.

Why not link to the article coining the term? It’s well written and explains well.

Satya Nadella has given an evasive answer there and both Zuckerberg and the journalists have been taken in.

It is common in programming languages that have a lot of boilerplate to use code generation, where you take some information about data and generate code automatically, like code that translates data between formats (for example reading and writing xml for saving to disk or json to send over the network). Being very routine to write and easy to deduce logically from other information, this process has been automated for years and years, long before AI existed.

Microsoft’s flagship software such as operating systems, office software, is unbelievably vast and complex, far beyond the complexity of most business software, and has been developed over decades. They absolutely have not replaced 30% of their code since the very recent advent of useful AI. I can believe that 30% of it is automatically generated, but not by AI.

I think you’ll find that I’ve mainly been asking you questions rather than misquoting you, but OK.

I thought it was very very clear indeed what the two alternatives were for who is in the Whitehouse, and I’m sure we’d agree that they’re are theoretically much, much better alternatives like actual left wing parties, but no, I wasn’t asking you a theoretical question about parties that had no chance of winning in the USA at all, I was asking you about the real world. I’ll try again.

In your view, is it better for America to have a Democrat in the Whitehouse than a Republican, or not really?

Would it have been materially better for Harris to win rather than trump?

Would it have been better for Biden to win than trump?

And in your view, is it better for America to have a Democrat in the Whitehouse or not really?

Are you in any way able to criticise Trump or the Republican party directly, or for you is public enemy number 1 the Democratic Party?

I have the feeling that you would be inclined to deny the distinction between the Biden presidency and the trump presidency that followed it.

Trump is gonna be so butthurt that after he told Canadians to elect PeePee who was gonna make Canada the 51st state, Canadians took away his seat. Nope nope nope.

Well, it’s not a toe.

Excellent. Good to know that some young people have intelligence and principles.

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If he holds another election it’ll be like a Russian election. You know, where it doesn’t really matter who you vote for, Putin wins anyway.

Trump will use any tariff profits to bail out farmers and other industries impacted

I remember when UK right wing lying populist Boris Johnson (who only really cares about himself) promised to bail out farmers and other industries adversely affected by his insane isolationist Brexit policy.

Here’s US right wing lying populist Donald Trump (who only really cares about himself) and you think he’s gonna bail out farmers and other industries adversely affected by his insane isolationist global trade war policy?

Why would he do that?

What have farmers got to offer Trump?

Time travel, evidently.

The IT Crowd

Putin holds elections. He wins them by implausible margins. Trump plans to do the same.

But billionaires are so desperately unlike the office worker. You know, how if someone took your penny, you wouldn’t worry. And in fact they could take a penny from you every day for three years and now you’re down a whole ten dollars but it just simply isn’t an issue. You know that a thousand times as much as you’ve lost will be turning up in the next few months. That’s how billionaires relate to a million dollars. A million. It’ll show up for them in the next month or two. They’re not worried. Why would they worry about money? You don’t worry about pennies, they don’t worry about millions. Stop thinking that billionaires worry about money.

Now if the entire global capitalist system were to completely crumble, then that’s an issue, but that’s absolutely not what’s happening. Billionaires are almost incomprehensibly wealthy and a crash of 10% just doesn’t matter. At all. There are other countries than the USA and they’ll absolutely leave if necessary. They spend plenty of time in their overseas properties anyway for tax purposes. Borders are for ordinary people.

On trump’s new voting machines with back end processing via musk’s starlink. Like I say, he’s not going till he’s dead.

Strangely not to some people.