I think you may have it wrong, I don't believe the people thought that the Tories were the solution (specifically in the last election), but rather that Labour was a worse choice than the Tories were at the time (rightly or wrongly). I don't remember anyone being particularly happy about it at the time whether they voted for or against them, and after the matter some staunch Labour voters I knew came and said to me that "the country wasn't ready yet for what Labour were offering". The painful thing about where politics are now in the UK is that once again the coming election is a rejection of a party (the Tories this time), not an embrace of one (Labour this time). It is a sad state of affairs.
>people thought that the Tories were the solution (specifically in the last election), but rather that Labour was a worse choice than the Tories
That had more to do with the media being owned by British oligarchs obsessed with nuking a threat to their wealth. They hated the guy who hid in a fridge but they preferred him to the guy who was going to tax them a lot more.
In 2017 the fairness in broadcasting laws kicked in just before the election and when Labour got equal airtime in the media there was a straight line climb in popularity as people actually heard the unfiltered views of the opposition. That straight line climb is what led to the hung parliament. A few more weeks of that and it would have been a Labour victory.
During the last election those laws were ignored and Boris was treated as some sort of white knight in shining brexit armour by the same people who dispatched him with partygate and he was duly elected.
In this election Labour has the full endorsement of those media-owning oligarchs not because it is run by competent leadership (starmer is a moron), but because unlike the last guy he's very oligarch friendly. Their wealth is safe with him in charge.
I’m not in the UK but a lot of that looking in seemed to be various smear campaigns, both from inside the Labour Party (from the now leading faction, who are almost just Tories who are in the wrong party) and from outside…
One thing I found it quite interesting was seeing people on Twitter etc. who some years ago I’d seen giving support to smears of “antisemitism” hurled at politicians (including actually Jewish ones) in the Labour Party for voicing opposition of the Israeli Government’s policies and actions towards the Palestinian people, now condemning the Israeli Government in even stronger terms than those politicians ever had…
I don't really agree with your proposition, I think the base issue is more fundamental, simply put I think it comes down to the atomisation of the individual due to the structure of higher education and zeitgeist of fear of being accused or misinterpreted.
While is it easier than ever to enter social spaces, I think people are struggling to build real meaningful relationships (romantic and platonic).
There is the western "coming of age" ritual that involves going off to university by yourself for a few years and then a few years later going off to another place by yourself.
Whether the fear of being misinterpreted is real, it is there for many people. People I know have changed a lot about what they say and the way they speak when people they don't know show up or enter a conversation, often saying things they don't believe in to give a good impression.
Perhaps it's already here. In reference to a different thread about Japan's population decline, it is supposed there that advanced economies lead to population decline (via below replacement birthrates) and require immigration to sustain them. The problem is that those immigrants who choose to remain are that they or their decendents will eventually suffer the same below replacement birthrate. If everywhere becomes an advanced economy, then in theory, everywhere would suffer the same fate, and the great filter has won. But it's just a supposition, right.
This is a relatively easy problem to solve, give families more and more incentives to have kids. Personally I view this as a non-issue. If a population decline reaches a truly severe level, we'll just implement a more comprehensive solution
Poetry is one of the worst modern solutions to python packaging, either pick hatch or PDM, they both have more and better implemented features plus their codebases aren't a complete mess
Poetry was the best pragmatic tool for python at one point, but it certainly was the developers project. That is to say, it introduced different and unfamiliar version specifiers to python, these are common place in other ecosystems, but this definitely was one of the barriers to success. Another came down to the applications code style and architecture, poetry is not written well, it tried to reinvent everything from the ground up in python package management, including it's own dependency resolution algorithm and cli library. I never could use it in isolation either, always had to combine it with other tools like Make. I once looked to contribute to poetry, it didn't take long for me to realise that it was poorly written and most of the new development efforts (e.g. the plugin system) were slowly developed by the project creator seemingly in isolation, meanwhile the rest of the development on the project slowly ground to a snails pace, at one point recently no new version (major, minor or patch) had been released in almost 18 months while the bug reports, issues and PRs stacked up, none addressed. Some of the most egregious issues were bugs in the private package repository support, some providers just wouldn't work and this can be a mandatory requirement for some organisations. One of the worst and most damning things about poetry, when it was actually releasing updates, was the regressions, it happened every single time, without fail, you only need to search GitHub issues for the proof. There are so many things that it could do that it does not, probably due to a poorly written foundation, a lack of leadership or organisation, almost definitely all of the above. Now it's just a tool that half works and has created a lot of animosity towards tools attempting to right it's wrongs. More than anything I am disappointed, I struggle to put my frustrations and whole feelings here, this is really what failure looks like from a thousand angles.
Recently I've ventured out to pdm. It is truly a sublime experience. It is everything poetry should have been and with a mere fraction of development team and effort, it really shows how much of a waste poetry is. Pdm has given me hope again. I only wish that more tools like Pycharm would support it, but really the experience isn't missing much at all. For those of you who are feeling the pain of poetry, I can't convey enough how much more pdm is, it's not perfect but if you try it in earnest and you won't be disappointed.
Fortunately if can't or don't want to meet the arbitrary requirements you can use tools like https://www.rufus.ltd/ to bypass all of them when writing the iso to a usb
Because you can use the same toolchains, APIs, libraries, and even progressively migrate with both languages in the same project. Honestly, people who whine about Java 8 in Android and refuse to consider Kotlin are suffering by choice.
If you don't want to use modern Java libraries as third party depedencies then all good.
Now if you plan to dynamically link to Java libraries that require JVM opcodes without counterparts on DEX, SIMD, Panama, Java Standard Library post Java 11, then thought luck.
See it as an opportunity to learn how to use the NDK (for SIMD), or write your own Kotlin versions.
