ArizonaJoe

Yes, Israel is not a real country. It was forced into a region of the world after ww2. It does not survive any situation where the US does not help and it almost certainly does not survive the next 100 years just due to time and never being a real country to begin with.

Ok if the real experts were the reason we couldn't have what we have today, I'm glad we got rid of the experts. The new design is absolutely brilliant.

This is a standard UX feature on a lot of sites. There are significant usability tests that have shown a preference for this feature. If you don't like it, you are unfortunately in the minority.

Same, many places in the codebase where it's impossible to grep and connect the dots between point A -> point B in the code

We can stop cherry-picking data and chastising others for not supporting a narrative. You have anecdotal evidence where in a tech story someone's association with Africa is a naturalistic thing such as music. It's ok to accept your world view is incorrect and reality is a lot closer to home than you'd like.

In the modern digital age, countries all over the world are catching up at incredible speeds. One thing the US has is a moat on existing prebuilt technologies and supply chain lines, i.e. military equipment and gas but new technology threatens that at any time.

For example, look at the frivolous spending of the US on it's superior military budget and its belief it is the strongest military in the world. Meanwhile there are a growing number of people highly concerned that in a modern war with drones and technology, the expensive US technology would be quickly overwhelmed and defeated by cheaper technology that were not accounted for in the last few decades i.e. UAVs + AI.

But SpaceX is a private company. Sure, we can argue the environment of America produces more such companies than anywhere else but at the end of the day it's a man with billions of dollars dragging a country to space.

It makes no sense that the government equivalent is NASA and each launch is expensive and slow. The US govt is seeking contracts with a private entity because NASA simply does not have the ability to go to space quick and cheaply.

Thanks for the writeup. I had the opportunity to use StimulusJS at a recent opportunity and couldn't agree with it. I found several issues with the patterns it encourages, such as:

-magic variable transformed from props, lots of uncertainty between the HTML attributes I typed and the actual name of the JS variable -have to now define these magic variables in typescript -defining values and automatically converting strings / numbers magically seems hacky - why does it ask to separate CSS classes into it's own special attribute and magic variable?

I feel like I'm speaking crazy when I see anyone recommend Stimulus and from my experience I'd much rather just use web components without shadow DOM. Seriously, EVERYTHING Stimulus does web components do 10x better and cleaner. They both try to do the same thing but the Stimulus approach honestly came across as a high school final project taken too far.