Im sure if China takes control things will be super peachy. Claims people are short sighted then says that

Enlighten us or your poo-poo’ing is moot

we’ll get it sorted just in time for the big populations declines… Or we won’t

I try to remind people that we have no “Leftist” party or even a “Centre left” party anymore. We have Center right and far right now.

Thats totally fine for someone learning. Some really good coders i know still cannot explain complicated data structs or complicated topics. Nobody can “measure” you as a “real programmer” anymore, try as they might to replace us with LLM AI. You wrote code? You’ve been thru it? You’ve learned a good amount? You’re a programmer.

Oh yes you are a programmer!