You just said it right there, a great argument to make the tariffs match what is required to allow US Citizens to compete with global slave labor prices - OR block all products built with slave labor.

Also have eating out of lead-lined everything in the meantime: https://tamararubin.com/

  2000 - Yikes, why is everything all of a sudden made in China!?
  2010 - I guess we don't have any options, there isn't a single one made in the USA, I guess we're doing this - let's hope there's no lead in it
  2020 - OH CRAP WE CAN'T GET ANYTHING - WE SHOULD MANUFACTURE LOCALLY
  2023 - OH we can get our Cheap Chinese Crap again built with slave labor
  2024 - Global awareness that most things made in china are made with slave labor
  2025 - Global TDS over tariffs to try to rebuild American manufactoring so we don't repeat the cycle and support slave labor and help create new American jobs.

We're implementing queues and pipelines and task engines and entire rest apis for new features in a single day.

Our company is pretty young blood startup, which does feed into this of course - however if this METR study was done at a place like "United HealthCare" those devs are going to resist because it's against their want to just sleep half the day and play Battlefield when they get home. If they actually got more productive, even for a second, their boss will expect it. No, these large companies only slow down - it's why they acquire new blood all the time.

Alternatively if Liquibase is FSL it will technically be Apache in 2 years I think (not exactly sure how that works) but you could just go to the last non-FSL release and use that for 2 years.

I'm not exactly sure why people would need the most up to datest version of liquibase which just runs schema changes anyway. I used version 2 a bunch of years ago and it was just fine.

The far-right, often rooted in ethno-nationalism or white supremacy, mirrors 1984 by enforcing a rigid hierarchy where inclusion depends on immutable traits like race. If you don’t fit the prescribed identity, you’re inherently an “other,” excluded or dehumanized, much like the Party’s rigid caste system in Orwell’s dystopia.

Conversely, the far-left can embody 1984 through ideological conformity, punishing “wrong-think” with social or institutional ostracism. Questioning narratives—whether about COVID-19 origins, vaccine safety, or other politically charged topics—can mark you as an outsider, silenced or vilified for deviating from the approved orthodoxy.

The far-left often stifles open debate, dismissing dissent on contentious issues as misinformation or heresy, creating a culture where only sanctioned ideas prevail. The far-right, while sometimes more permissive of free speech, demands unwavering adherence to traditional values or legalism, where any challenge to authority or “law and order” is met with condemnation.

Both extremes weaponize conformity—whether through identity or ideology—to suppress individuality and enforce control, echoing the totalitarian essence of 1984. True freedom lies in rejecting these rigid dogmas and embracing open, principled discourse.

It's just that our wages have not kept up (we don't see 40k -> 50k as shrug money).

Reported effects of CECOT on crime

Reduction in crime rates

Since Bukele declared a state of emergency in March 2022 and began mass arrests, El Salvador's crime rates have plummeted.

    Homicide rate decline: The country's homicide rate fell from 103 per 100,000 people in 2015 to just 1.9 per 100,000 in 2024, one of the most drastic reductions in recent history.
    Increased public safety: Many Salvadorans, long subjected to extortion and violence by powerful gangs, report feeling much safer on the streets. 

Also, an accident is if a party had fireworks and the fire got out of control. Arson is definitely not an accident if someone dies.

Regarding "people change" argument. I'm not advocating for the death penalty. I'm advocating that we separate non-civil and civil society. If that takes the shape of the next Australia? Sure, then if someone changes, they're not in jail.

I'm also not advocating for someone non-violently stealing bread to be separated from society. Those people can change.

Someone that at one moment of their life decides that someone else's is worthless because they want the contents of a cash register? Remove them from civil society.

For example this was going around for a long time:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debu...

Then this happened in 2025 when there was a crack-down on crime:

https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-...

Also, 1% of the population is responsible for most of the crime

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/

So if you end up jailing people, the crime just goes down.

Also, then if that's true, then cancel all murder prison sentences!

That's an extreme situation that the gunman put someone in. Imagine it being YOU. Now if you could be the LAST person that gunman ever put in that situation, would you allow them to go to jail forever? Because if that's the case, the number of people in that situation ever again goes from millions to a few thousand over the next 1000 years. And many of those people will REACT and die.

So when someone starts a fire, they were like the gunman. They were willing to let a lot of people die. Then realizing they were wrong, calling the cops, and having them put the fire out, that's the same as the situation as going into 7-11 and aiming the gun, but then putting it down and walking out. But they still risked someone else's life! What if they accidentally slipped their finger? Employee DEAD.

So it's really the same thing. All that being said, I do grant that the waters are muddied at this point with the legal system. The person still deserves to be separated from civil society. He is not CIVIL!

And even though the legal system's waters are muddied, his original actions resulted in 12 people dying. The firefighters that were incompetent are not originally responsible for those 12 deaths.

The reason I want maximum punishment is that it works, it does deter. In this legal system of course there's a 50/50 those 12 people will have died without being avenged at all (and their families - all that are affected), and a 90% chance (if he is found responsible) those 12 people will get this guy in jail for 10 years. And because of those chances, people decide, that fuck even if I'm caught, it seems like in the last 10 years there is a VERY low chance of punishment. Punishment is very important in this world and life. I'm not talking about capital punishment.

A lot of people disagree with all of this, I personally think they have suicidal empathy. They have no empathy to the thousands of people that died from other peoples intentional actions - actions those people KNEW they might end up killing. They have too much empathy for the attacker. It's massive victim blaming.