Trust the plan.

It was also what he named the cat in the short story The Rats in the Walls.

This is who you wanted us to vote for.

No need to be sarcastic when they’re right.

Hardly a centrist position.

Looks like run of the mill centrism to me.

Jallapeeno

This is painfully true. I posted a story not too long ago about some architecture from hell I had to deal with at my day job. At first I hated the dev on the other team who came up with the idea; then I learned that the dev had only made it as a proof of concept to use for his team’s specific use case during some time the company sets aside for innovation. Someone in management saw a presentation he did on it and liked the idea so much he decreed that it needs to be used as the single source of truth for a core part of our application. Any new frontend project that isn’t in our monolith now must use this shitty tool.

“Gadzooks!”

“Egad!”

I basically use it as a way to acknowledge that I saw a message but have nothing further to ask or add.

C# is usually used server-side. How would nuget bloat affect client-side applications that users use?

Fig jam. A local place makes a fig jam and bacon artisanal pizza that’s to die for.

You’ve heard people use the term “tankie” IRL? Damn, even the most brainpoisoned libs I know don’t do that.

I’m guessing “agency” in this case is being used in a way that’s very specific to that area of research and not exactly how people use it in normal conversation?

I’m too lazy and tired to go into it at the moment, so I’m just going to paste this infographic explaining the relationship between the material base and ideological superstructure.

To the falsifiability point, while I can’t say a lot without knowing the specifics that Popper argued, historical materialism (and dialectical materialism, the way of understanding the world historical materialism comes from) don’t on the surface make much sense trying to attack from a falsifiability angle. While one could attempt to disprove, say, the extraction of surplus value through profit or the tendency of the rate of profit to fall being properties of capitalism (these are claims about the world that can conceivably be true or false), dialectical/historical materialism is the tool used to analyze the world, attempt to change the world based on the understanding from that analysis, incorporate the lessons learned from those attempts (be they failed or successful) into one’s understanding of the world, and repeat. It’s basically a way of gaining knowledge about the world, as well as an explanation of how people get knowledge.

Again, I’d have to check out Popper’s full argument for the specifics, but I don’t know how one can make assertions about the falsifiability of what is basically an epistemology without committing some kind of category error.

Yes. It’s an abomination.

Where does SAFe fall into this?

I subscribe to historical materialism, which is apparently a pseudoscience according to that Wikipedia article.

Yes. First as tragedy, then as farce. We’re in the farce stage, for those not already aware.