I've been maintaining a dream-like trance through constant exposure to transrealism.

No matter how nice they make their territory, all we have to do is flood it with illegal aliens to take a gigantic diarrhea dump on b the whole thing. Then when they try to fix it,b tie them ip in b the courts. And if that doesn't work, openly defy federal authority like Neesom did. Nullification , just like it's 1864. And then insurrection and open fire on Fort Sumter. It's called neo confederate ideology. They'll they'll be forced to feed and house hostile people from incompatible cultures at their expense. And then the rapes start and judges still refuse to fix the problem because their home cultures hate rapists and they'll be in danger of bodily harm if they're sent back. We have precedent for this. So good luck San Francisco people, no running away from the catastrophe you've created. Clean up your own mess. Californian immigrants are already ruining Texas and other red states. Stay out!

You understand that the left has continued to make themselves even MORE unpalatable as a political movement, and that the only demographic they're not losing now is white women, right?

So you just keep hoping for that magic result in 2028! Good luck!

I genuinely wonder why?

I turned 13 in 1980. We had more or less one kid in a class of 290 that had overt behavior that I would call ADHD today.
But the schools were and ARE filled with people who see education as their life's work and who genuinely care about their charges.

I guess sure you can wave your hand at Big pharma, teachers Union, government, GOP failing to pour even more $ into schools.

But what happened that we stopped paying attention and thinking about our (collective) kids and just said "meh, give them Ritalin, that'll fix them'?

Some people do that. Quite a few start their own kernel projects which usually run out of steam. I think if you want to be part of a massive community, you're going to be going with a mainstream kernel like Linux or FreeBSD.

If you want to do kernel development without having to learn Rust, then FreeBSD is an option currently. Although there are proof of concepts for writing kernel modules in Rust for FreeBSD, it hasn't quite taken hold of that project like it has for Linux.

I am not comfortable with Rust, but I can kind of work it out (it's part of my job now). But I'm lost when I face a Haskell program that I did not write myself.

I think some languages are so similar that it's not too much trouble to switch between them. That was the cast for me with Pascal and C, and to some degree between C and a decent macro assembler from the 1990's.

Other languages are so naturally intuitive or so like a formal algebra subset that they are not too difficult to pick up. Such as the case with SmallTalk and Prolog.
Lisp and Scheme are simple on the surface, but the learning curve steepens when you start diving into the idiomatic way to program them or into the evaluation of macros.

My preference for my own projects are C, Zig, and Go. All of these are pretty similar, and don't really address the problems that Rust attempts to address. For more safety-oriented computing I really love SPARK/Ada, but it's quite an investment in time to learn and its community is not growing at the phenomenal rate that Rust's is growing.

I bet you never predicted that people would be this stupid?

I'm not an AI and you should see my post history. Absolute mess!

Memory safety is a pain when you're asked to prove the correctness if your code.

There are things like a subset of C such as MISRA C and static analysis tools that let you do some very limited checking. But it doesn't quite rise to the level of a formal proof.

If you drown the Dutch, think how many more refugees you could for into the country?

Negative. You can't sign documents if you're demented. That's how they got him out of prosecution, claiming he is an elderly man with a poor memory. That's why they had to forge his signature with an auto pen. Fauci and all the other pardons are invalid.

Sometimes I have to turn off the screen and go for a walk. This cyberpunk dystopia sucks. Doesn't match at all what we imagined 40 years ago. It's kind of lame. No style. And instead of cool technology, it's just junk designed to rob you of time and money.

If an author wrote about a future where every child has a slot machine in their pocket, we would have mocked him for the ridiculous and pointless idea.

I remember simpler times when you could smoke or raid your parents liquor cabinet to be the cool kid. And you could make a lot of friends just by smoking weed while learning how to play a few hair band riffs on guitar.

Kids these days have it way harder. And it takes a huge financial investment to socialize with their peers.

Have two PCs, one for games and a cheap laptop for regular computing. Best of both worlds, plus you can watch porn on both, something that isn't practical on a console. (Especially Nintendo)

Yet you aren't bitching when someone gets money to drill for oil. Curious bias you have.