I take comfort that we would not be without a local office suite for long.

Yes, the communist regimes were absolutely awful - both from nuts-and-bolts logistics failures as well as what was described in an earlier thread here as "prerogative" application of the law.

What? No, it isn't inevitable that the US descends into sectarian violence. What a silly notion. There remains more that unites us than divides us.

If the US does descend into violence, the blame can be squarely assigned to the propagandists (typically but not uniformly supporting the right wing) for twisting reality and making people feel their lives are under constant attack. How many Baby Boomer and older Gen X relations in your life are afraid to go to the mall or fear an apartment building being built in their local neighborhood for perceived increases to crime rates (versus standard NIMBYism of higher traffic issues)? Anecdotally, the FOX and ONAN and NEWSMAX views in my world declare every summer will lead to a race war. None of the "mainstream" media views think twice about that before being threatened by the federal government.

Strange.

How many people died under the totalitarian regimes that preceded them? These oppressive regimes did not start in a vacuum.

I don't bring huge codebases to it.

Almost as bad as the theft of em-dashes from polite society.

The new GenAI architectures and tooling supported by them just give more fun things to do and fun ways to do it.

Then import that tool and and check if __name__ == "__main__"

Such an outcome would make me wonder regarding the wisdom of "It is better to have love and lost than to have never loved at all."

I'd have to review how to code linked lists and not just use them. But I could probably share a delicious cookie recipe.