wlpu · HackerTrans

I think you may have it wrong, I don't believe the people thought that the Tories were the solution (specifically in the last election), but rather that Labour was a worse choice than the Tories were at the time (rightly or wrongly). I don't remember anyone being particularly happy about it at the time whether they voted for or against them, and after the matter some staunch Labour voters I knew came and said to me that "the country wasn't ready yet for what Labour were offering". The painful thing about where politics are now in the UK is that once again the coming election is a rejection of a party (the Tories this time), not an embrace of one (Labour this time). It is a sad state of affairs.

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I don't really agree with your proposition, I think the base issue is more fundamental, simply put I think it comes down to the atomisation of the individual due to the structure of higher education and zeitgeist of fear of being accused or misinterpreted.

While is it easier than ever to enter social spaces, I think people are struggling to build real meaningful relationships (romantic and platonic).

There is the western "coming of age" ritual that involves going off to university by yourself for a few years and then a few years later going off to another place by yourself.

Whether the fear of being misinterpreted is real, it is there for many people. People I know have changed a lot about what they say and the way they speak when people they don't know show up or enter a conversation, often saying things they don't believe in to give a good impression.

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TBH I'm pretty excited for my twitter footprint to be deleted

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Perhaps it's already here. In reference to a different thread about Japan's population decline, it is supposed there that advanced economies lead to population decline (via below replacement birthrates) and require immigration to sustain them. The problem is that those immigrants who choose to remain are that they or their decendents will eventually suffer the same below replacement birthrate. If everywhere becomes an advanced economy, then in theory, everywhere would suffer the same fate, and the great filter has won. But it's just a supposition, right.

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Poetry is one of the worst modern solutions to python packaging, either pick hatch or PDM, they both have more and better implemented features plus their codebases aren't a complete mess

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