And you said it's naive to say what I said before. Impressive.

It's cowardice if it is intentional. Obama did a lot of things you would easily put under a rep tab, such as bombing the "Middle East" to appease the oil oligarchies.

They have the same political program

Because they have the same politics: defend the upper class of USA.

Another thing to be considered, tech and data is one of the most important elements at the moment with regards to dominance. So having a bunch of workers completely unaware of their position as proletarians is good thing for the elites

I think mostly because of the propagated myth of "I have a computer, I can become the next Steve Jobs".

In other words, pure bourgeois ideology and a lack of class awareness. There are (I don't know about English translated ones) some pretty good books on the Tech proletariat here in Brazil.

well, here's an idea: offering specific ways to circumvent specific games being banned by these bigot payment systems.

with a big warning explaining why they can only buy these games using X.

people who *are* interested will probably understand and even put a little effort into doing that

games were sold way before payment platforms existed. yes payment platforms are convenient, and there's an obvious reason why they exist, especially for people outside of the US.

still, there are ways you can *try* to bypass that

And honestly, this piece is touching only the tech-bro, financial, CEO-ish, aspect of things.

Fundamentally there are even worst parts to be alarmed, such as the environment, cognitive, learning, writing issues that this fucking bubble is causing that deserves their own (very long) articles on it

But for me, with 10 y on the industry, reading on it is more than enough to share a light on some dusty topics, and remember the syntax for some not so common commands

Anyway, they also have some nice literature section which I might explore (after I finish 123094890774 books I have on my TBR)

Obviously, you can't read books and learn to program. Programming (and all around it) requires you to sit down and practice. Just like you can't learn to ride a bike by reading books on it. You need to sit on it, try to find balance, and whatnot

I don't know. There is some beauty to studying it like that. No AI, no windows or tabs. Just reading, making annotations, reading chapters or excerpts in front of a shelf of books.

I've come to the conclusion that I retain more info like that, and it feels I can concentrate way more

So I enter there and asked where was books on Databases. She showed me a couple of them, I grabbed three and sat at the desk. Grabbed my paper notebook and started jotting down some SQL code, concepts and tips.

And boy oh boy, it felt so good. Complete silence other than a clock and turning pages

The first floor is just a bunch of desks. A lot of people stay there to read, talk, and wait with their friends for a class or between classes

The second floor is your regular, old-school library. Books, a librarian, some tables to study/read, but the best part was: complete, absolute silence

So I grabbed my wristwatch and just left the house, went to a coffee shop, and left for uni. I had a database exam that day, but my class actually started at 8:30 pm. So instead of running around, I decided to go to the uni library

Here's the thing: I had to leave the house earlier than I usually do, so around 5 pm, I packed my stuff and called an Uber. And that's when I noticed that I was around ~4% of battery left on my phone