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  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).