You know why.

> white people are likely a minority in corporate America.

I don't see how this can possibly be true.

> that has disproportionately affected hinterland communities but immigrant groups seem immune to

Or this, especially in light of data such as this: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db549.htm

The data you linked shows that Native Americans, Blacks and Whites have the highest per capita rates of overdose (in that order), which validates my claim.

White American overdose deaths per capita are 6x that of Asian-Americans.

> Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government

What, like J.Edgar?

Fair critique. Mueller was a pretty upstanding example of how to run the FBI, however.

Those "should"s are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

And then everybody, including the fax machine, stood up and clapped.

> This is demonstrably false

Only if you consider Crowley to be the alpha and omega.

Wikipedia cites Brill's New Pauly, which I found a copy of online, and that in turn just cites a German article from the early 20th century. I don't read German and have to stop there, but I do have to wonder how well the assertion is actually supported.

Are you sure you're not also a descendant?

> rings of Saturn

Not observed until 1610

> Saturn has a hexagonal shaped storm on its north pole

Not observed until 1981/1987

> and the all-seeing eye on its south pole

Not immediately clear when first observed, I'll bet it wasn't until Cassini got there in 2004.

I appreciate the creativity in a new-to-me conspiracy theory, but be a little more careful about the historical record.

Not observed and yet depicted in symbolism by different cultures dating back to Babylon. Quite the mystery indeed... I'm sure you have an explanation for how the Dogon tribe knew more about the Sirius star system than we did until relatively recently as well.

It's quite egotistical and foolish to assume we're more advanced and know more than our ancient ancestors, or that what is written in our history books is objective truth.

In fact, even scholars have suggested that Babylonians could and did observe at least one of Saturn's rings - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_que...

> I'm sure you have an explanation for how the Dogon tribe knew more about the Sirius star system than we did until relatively recently as well.

I have a hypothesis, which incorporates the fact that the Dogon were not reported to have such knowledge until the 1930s, well after the discovery of Sirius B.

> depicted in symbolism by different cultures dating back to Babylon

A bit of searching is coming up short, beyond a claim about shackles on the ankles of a Roman statue of Saturn (the god) symbolizing the rings; I find this less convincing than the idea that they symbolize shackles (the ones with which he was bound in Tartaros).

> Sumerian saturn symbolism

I'm not mad, just disappointed. You originally wrote:

> depicted in symbolism by different cultures dating back to Babylon

and I'd (naively) expected you to have known the differences between Babylon and the Sumerians.

But based on your suggestion I did search for "Sumerian saturn symbolism" (sans quotes) and there's more but still a whole lot of nothing. I see a lot of four- and eight-pointed stars, sometimes in circles, and some images of stone seals that clearly have planets with rings but are even more clearly AI generated.

Perhaps you could be a little more specific?

I think the python maintainers are still feeling burnt by the consequences of the "batteries included" approach from the old times.

Most Python developers these days weren't even programming when the 2 -> 3 split happened. Unless you're referencing something else.

There are quite a few old hands among Python core devs. Certainly the culture of that burnout is in place, if you look at the responses that proposals for new standard library additions get these days. There also seems to be a lot of trauma from the loud complaints about backward compatibility breaks.

I still hear people complain about how such and such removal between "minor versions" of Python 3 (you really should be thinking of them as major versions nowadays — "Python 3 is the brand", the saying goes now), where they were warned like two years in advance about individual functions, supposedly caused a huge problem for them. It's hard for me to reconcile with the rhetoric I've heard in internal discussions; they're so worried in general about possible theoretical compatibility breaks that it seems impossible to change anything.

the batteries included approach is the stdlib that can do everything. turns out it’s hard to maintain and make good.

Yeah that's true. Go seems to be handling the 'fat stdlib' approach pretty well though. I really don't want Python to got the path of Rust where nothing is included.

I feel like Java does it the best. Golang didn't start with generics so it's a bit odd IMO.

> Modern music has done this to itself

I get my modern music from Bandcamp. If you can't find good stuff to listen to, that's a 'you' problem.

How much of your super-awesome bandcamp music is topping charts, selling millions, packing mega stadiums, and is penetrating the zeitgeist so deeply that people around the world are addicted to it?

Maybe, just maybe, I'm not talking about "my" music tastes, but offering commentary on the state of music at a global scale. Weird that this point was so hard to follow!