victor_pudeyev

"my country" is united states. I'm talking about american corruption. You sound all surprised. I'm talking about your own political system, your corruption.

when you said "corruption is errant in a system", that didn't make sense, and also was false. It's not like corruption is breaking or experiencing a hickup. The corruption is doing just fine, thank you. You can say: voltage is errant in my welder. That means voltage is not working. When you say corruption is errant - you're implying the corruption is not working. But in america, the corruption is working just fine, thank you. You are acting like there is no curruption in the united states. Just look at biden! Or if you are the other kind - just look at trump! Look at Ilhan Omar. What, all of a sudden corruption exists in america, but it's only limited to just this one person, ilhan omar? Or if I mention Katie Zacharia, what, you'll say that only two people in usa are corrupt, only ilhan omar and katie zacharia? What are you even talking about? corruption exists somewhere else far, far away, but not here?

> Do politicians go to jail in your country?

What does that mean?! Do politicians go to jail in your country?

> Cruelty to animals...

I said, in order to legally torture animals, all you need is a license. That's corruption, do I need to spell it out? C.O.R.R.U.P.T.I.O.N. Search #beaglegate

> Nobody said unions are not corrupt...

Cool, we can agree on something: unions are corrupt.

> Corruption is errant[0] in a system...

No, corruption works as intended. When there is no corruption, when a system is perfectly fair and honest, then you say, corruption is errant in the system. What you mean is errant as a noun, which is wrong, and you are wrong. Do not confuse truth and false, you sound fundamentally corrupt. In fact, you are just wrong overall with this word. Improve your grammar, use a different word. Do not use the word "errant".

> trade unions [] get a voice

Absolutely not. people get a voice. trade unions are some abhorrant misguided concept of an organizational mechanic. People have voices. Your weird convoluted contraptions do not have a right to have a voice or an opinion. You can argue back and forth that people have a voice via trade unions. Whatever, but the argument must be human-centric. Trade unions don't have a voice, or any rights. Get it straight.

In fact, if organizational structures deserve a voice, then the Confederacy "deserves" a "voice" and must be reinstated. What now from you - silence?

> No, we cannot both agree

No, but we can, whether you like to, or not. : ) We must agree on this: the system acts as intended. From your point of view, because the system is pure and innocent, like a beautiful flower. From my point of view, because corruption is inherent (ie native, do not confuse with nonsense "errant") in american political system. See? You must agree. The system works as intended.

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I don't know what you are insinuating. If whatever you're doing if fraudulent - that's on you.

Cookies implement a persistence mechanic, so yes, it is a manner of tracking an existing session/identity.

Why would you test dependencies? Test the code that you write. Do not test the code that you did not write. Literally, you should not test dependencies.

I never got caught into the monorepo fad, I'm glad I didn't, and I still don't see a point in having monorepos. Let's say in ruby on rails, I have the host app and 3 mounted gems in it. That's 4 repos. It could be all merged into one monstrosity but separate repos help keep complexity down, and help define interdependencies cleaner and simpler.

The monorepo idea was just a fad. Each package should be its own repo. Each package should be meaningfully useful, e.g. one package for string utils, not one package for trim, one package for pad, etc.

1. I've seen ai-written code. Ugh...

2. So they're trying to make code so complex that humans can't read it anymore?!

3. What's the point of changing code? Are the changes - how do you say - useful?

4. Thank God for Git, the amazing piece of software by the venerable Linus Towalds, that just keeps on giving! It's free, open, and excellent quality source-control software, and you can even keep binary files there. Excellent stuff. I can't imagine ever not using it.

Fingerprinting is a way to track you. Cookies is a way for you to keep your own configuration (a panel inside an app open or closed, theme choice, pre-filled calendar, etc). They are completely different.

Corruption *is* the system working as intended.

Re: Cruelty to Animals. I'll tell you something that people who are close to animals told me. First, the constitution affords precisely zero rights to animals. Second, in order to tortune animals all you need is to get a license. All of that is more bureaucracy, or as a sane person would say, more corruption.

Re: "lobbying... [] does not... [] require money." The original statement was: lobbying is corruption. Lobbying is bribery. Here you say the opposite: lobbying is not bribery, because it doesn't involve money. But we all know that it does. So, you may want to retract you statement that lobbying does not involve money, because it does.

Re: "trade unions... [are] outside the scope of lobbying as a concept." The original statement was: lobbying is corruption. Your counter point was: trade unions lobby and they are not corruption. Now you say: trade unions are irrelevant to lobbying. I think you have to retract some of your contradictory statements. (Trade unions are not people. If you think or imply that a government "deserves" to rule over people, you are about as wrong as a human can be.)

Re: "Corruption is errant in a system." Be careful with your grammar please. Errant is an adjective. Phrase your thoughts better.

And speaking of phrasing your thoughts better: trade unions do not "deserve a voice". You are saying that corruption deserves a voice. No, it does not deserve a voice. A wrong statement does not deserve to be expressed. Understand this.

Like I said, and I think you and I can agree on this. The system works as intended. Corruption *is* the system working as intended.

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Let me guess - the cancer society lobbies to keep high fructose corn syrup in the food supply? a patient cured is a customer lost. Oreos are "not harmful". Nothing wrong with a bucket of paint on your M&Ms. (for those not in the know: M&Ms is allegedly "food".)

Or do they lobby around a $200,000 chemotherapy treatment that increases (or decreases) the patient's life expectancy by 0.2%, or about two weeks?

associations of students - yep, american tuition, backed by the government, is highest in the world and the education is worse and worse. Or is it 18 year-olds with barely any life skills actively participating in federal government, with daddy's money? Or it is lobbying without money?

local cities - that's part of a government. A city is a government.

regular people - yep, I have certainly lobbied!

I'm skipping ASPCA until the acronym is expanded, you don't make meaning by appending random letters one after another.

and trade unions... are a kind of a forced monopoly, and don't forget to pay your $500 monthly due. they are a kind of corruption themselves. For example, what on earth is a police union?! So the government (police) is arguing with the government, to protect the government (police) from the "bad" government? Riiiiiiiiight.

Every single one of these is corruption. If you think a city lobbying itself is not corruption, you should wipe your glasses to see more clearly. And don't get me started on city councils.

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Lotsa words in that law... except they don't define what a "threat" may be.

If you enter my house I will k!ll you. <- is this a threat? noone knows. The interpretation of the word "threat" is unknown. Besides, is a conditional a statement? who knows. But sure, blah blah... "in any manner in which it may..." these words are putting me to sleep.

Well, I wouldn't've found your project if you didn't mention it here, so good job! It looks good, minimal, I like that you're using javascript instead of that thing typescript.

Unrelated, I found that when an open model (qwen3-coder:30b) drives an mcp tool (chrome-devtools-mcp@latest), it hallucinates the tool calls, and the docs say they never promised that tool calls would make sense or be valid. To me, this is a blocker and is the reason I've stopped looking at harnesses like pi. The tool calls are just fine if a closed LLM, gpt-5.* drives them, but I need a free and open LLM. Have you run into this issue, have you addressed it?