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What voting are you talking about? By not giving funding it's exactly that. A vote. A choice. I also stopped donating to the EFF when they showed they are shifting more political (non-tech space) than privacy focused etc. Does the EFF hold an annual vote I missed as a sponsor?

We've chosen main specifically as it's the default for newly-created repositories in GitHub and the renaming will leverage the GitHub tooling built to make this easier.

Suuuuure.

The original master -> main folks should have been laughed out of the room the first time around. At this point it's a religion.

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I used to not like history class growing up, now it's quintessential to understand it so people like this don't soil and twist the definitions of words. The irony of people misusing and abusing this word is that often THEY exhibit fascistic tendencies.

I had a situation, admittedly niche, where some git based package dependency wasn't being updated properly (tags vs. commit hashes) and thanks to poetry being written in Python I was able to quickly debug and solve the problem. I think it's more a matter of core functionality (that affects everyone) vs. more esoteric or particular use cases (like dataframe libraries) that make sense to FFI.

I've been personally involved in the hiring process of our startup and I give you my word the school you went to makes no difference. In fact one of my favorite coworkers that I had an honor to work with was self taught and had a philosophy degree. In fact I've seen big school degrees go straight to heads and egos and been actively an obstacle to those folks.

The thing with Americans is that they've had it so good for so long they don't even know what bad looks like. People who come from oppressive governments and have lived through it actually do. Notice I never mentioned efficiency in my original post, you assumed that's what I meant. I meant the oppressive nature of just the shear unending growth of the US government and the weight that bears upon it's people, its businesses, and most importantly it's morale.

100% agreed. The best part is nobody ever could provide an explanation for when the beast of bureaucracy would stop being fed. It is just a given that it must grow and grow and grow. Whether you voted for it or not. And don't you dare question it because questioning it is Fascism (from people who have never seen the actual results of real Fascism).

That's awesome and hits it exactly on the head. Notice how not one comment addresses the liberty comment I made. The meme "touch grass" could never be more relevant here. I'm sure the backpacker learned a lot about the world and humans in that exchange with the ranger.

To find someone minding their own business in the middle of nature/nowhere and then harass them out of said place is oppressive. I'm opposed to said authority. Just leave people alone. Yes I understand the tragedy of the commons and whatever, I don't think a dude chilling and minding his own business/liberty is _that_.

So I'm arguing to leave people more alone, which is more anti-authority.

Main, and I promise you, is not it. Trunk? Maybe. master is on the top of the list. I was never opposed to folks using trunk (years before PC stuff).