There are a lot of people who believe Rust will get rid of ALL their security errors, not just memory errors. That's why it's a dangerous language.

And yet, you jumped into the argument as if it were fresh dung and you were a dung beetle.

And there it is, you're a dung beetle white space Python fan who can't resist defending your bad decisions.

Swift programmers were worse. It's a crappy language (has all the warts of Objective-C and adds some of its own), but as soon as you say "the enum system makes it easy to write confusing code" you will have all kinds of Swift programmers coming out to insult you and your dog.

What does he say? Anything interesting?

You do not appear to understand what a republic or a democracy is, so I'll ignore the last sentence.

"Independent" does not mean unaccountable to the people. The President is independent of Congress, and vice versa, but both are accountable to the people. Well, the current president doesn't seem to think so, but legally he is.

The civil service is not a part of the executive but is a co-equal branch.

You are correct. In principle, presidents have no authority whatsoever to dictate how an agency runs. The executive branch should have zero authority over the civil service, which is intended to constitute a fourth co-equal branch of government.

In the US, in principle, the status of the civil service as co-equal to, and independent of, the executive should be added to the Constitution and enshrined in law for good measure. Not that that would help much with the current SCOTUS, but a Constitutional change might possibly persuade the current government that absolute authoritatian control is not as popular as Trump thinks.

That is the idea that, in Britain, entities like the NHS and the BBC have operated under. Charters specify the responsibilties and duties, and guarantee the funding needed to provide these, but the organisation is (supposed) to carry these out wholly independently of the government of the day.

It actually worked quite well for some time, but has been under increasing pressure and subject to increasing government sabotage over the past 20-25 years.

It's also the idea behind science/engineering research funding bodies the world over. These should direct funding for grant proposals not on political whim or popularity but on the basis of what is actually needed. Again, though, it does get sabotaged a fair bit.

Exactly how you'd mitigate this is unclear, many governments have - after all - the leading talent in manipulation, corruption, and kickbacks. But presumably, strategies can be devised to weaken political influence.

R.I.P. old, dead, antiquated word

CNN is still the trusted US news outlet in the rest of the world.
When it comes to news BBC is great but they are not US.
Yes a few years ago a large group of Americans were fooled by Trump but they are finally starting to see through his lies and bluster, Americans that woke up to Trump can and will start to return to the CNN way of coverage.
There is a reason MAGA tries to shut down this channel.

Well spoken.

Pay the poor a living wage and the problem is gone.

Sure it raises prices, it raises them to the prior price plus tip.
In other words, no-one looses, delivery people will finally get the pay they earn.

Now another thing is Trump wants to free tips from tax, that won't happen with the raised salaries.

Zuckerberg is the face of enshittifcation. He knows what it is and doesn't care.

I looked back at Ray Bradbury the other day, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about Fahrenheit 457. Unfortunately there is no author currently who comes close to that aliveness and energy. For a while I started thinking modern authors are just unskilled.

But now I have a different hypothesis. My new hypothesis is modern authors are skilled, but they have a different aim (which they achieve). Instead of being energetic like Bradbury, they are aiming for a feeling that is more like opium. Give the reader a numb feeling, just like you get from doom scrolling, or many online games these days.