philippjfr.bsky.social
🐍Principal Software Engineer @ Anaconda
⚡Creator of Panel, Lumen AI, hvPlot & Bokeh Maintainer
🏛️ Social Democrat & Anti-Fascist
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That said, the Dems are absolutely failing to hold up their part of that bargain at the moment. If they don't live up to this moment that will feed another few decades of cynicism on the left and at that point I can't blame y'all.
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I think Biden was treated quite unfairly, yes he put down that strike but then delivered on all their demands in the aftermath. I'd just like some political pragmatism from the American left given the rise of faScism, which is something the European left learned the hard way.
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My main point is that what you ascribe to Dems right lean and the CDUs left lean is more readily explained by the status quo + the realities of electoral politics. Ideologically I have no question that if you gave both parties absolute power for a decade Germany would end up to the right of the US.
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No disagreement that the status quo in the US for the bottom quintile is significantly worse and that social issues cloud the comparison, e.g. Dems being to the left of UKs labor on trans issues.
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That's not really true though, the IRA was the biggest climate bill in history, it was a massive accomplishment. German infra is also crumbling, maybe not as bad but our centrist gov could barely muster any investment at all. The GOP spends your deficit on tax cuts for the rich, Dems do not.
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dissatisfied with what the Democrats achieved in 4 years with razor thin margins. Maybe I can concede that on paper Democrats are to the right of the European center left, but our centrist parties couldn't dream of being as legislatively successful.
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Biden governed significantly to the left of Obama, so it's hard for me to follow your comparisons. The child tax credit, the massive infrastructure and industrial policy, the pro labor policy, a complete end to the drone war and Afghanistan withdrawal. I just don't see how Democrats can be
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Even from a European perspective though, what Biden achieved was some of the boldest progressive policy making we've seen in decades, despite razor thin vote margins. Yet he got zero credit. The complete lack of pragmatism is what gets me on the American left.
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Your electoral system is at fault for this, so sure, you are forced to vote for a party that is to the right of you. But you can't blame the Democrats for having to work within a system that is explicitly built around incrementalism.
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public infrastructure and investment agenda in a century while Europe is in absolute stagnation and instead of recognizing that your electoral system forces Democrats into some uncomfortable compromises, American leftists pretend that they are to the right of genuine xenophobic regressives in Europe
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a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. So while the US had a stellar recovery from COVID, with broad based wage growth, Germany has slipped into recession with the poorest suffering the most. Biden was by all accounts the most pro labor president in half a century with the most ambitious
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On health care, despite the fact that we have 120 years of tradition around universal HC we have a public/private hybrid system and the CDU want to push towards further privatization. On economics, Democrats have pushed absolutely incredible public infrastructure bills while the CDU pushed through
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On social issues they also want to restrict abortion (German laws are already much stricter than the US), are against trans rights, even Merkel who was far to the left of Merz voted against gay marriage. They are also much more focused on national identity and against multiculturalism.
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These kinds of comparisons are complicated by the fact that the status quo in Europe is further left but that doesn't mean the CDU would stop there. Politics is incremental and despite that Democrats were only a few votes away from a public option (which even Germany does not have).
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The Democrats have to represent a significantly larger part of the political spectrum, blame your electoral system.
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Absolute nonsense, can Americans please stop romanticizing European conservatives. Democrats are significantly to the left of most centrist parties in Europe.
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AfD candidates so unlikable that even a full on Nazi is like "nah"?!
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Didn't quite appreciate your expertise here, I'll defer to it. To clarify though, you don't think there's some truth to the idea that it was seen by some as a replacement for welfare rather than as a way to give people dignity as tech causes upheaval in the job markets?
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That may be the case for some but the SV elite who funded some of the early studies, like Andreesen, always thought it as a financialization of welfare, rather than actually trying to help people. This 2016 article by the Guardian covers this superficially www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The Silicon Valley obsession with UBI was always predicated on the idea that it was a way to eliminate all other assistance. The outcome of that was always going to be regressive.
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Can we stop pretending they don't know exactly what they're saying? Vance et al. aren't dumb, they know what they're doing is unconstitutional, they're simply priming their followers to support the post-constitutional order.
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The front fell off?
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Ignoring that there are a million other problems with Hegseth. Substance abuse disorder is an illness but it isn't ableist to point out that people with illnesses that severely impact their judgement shouldn't be in charge of the largest organization on the planet.
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The rent part is correct, the rest of it isn't. Bottom quintile wages are up the most.
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Hey those are mine!
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Here's mine from the other day
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This is indeed great! Der Spiegel has unfortunately declined quite significantly, like most media that has had to adapt to the world of social media. It has a great tradition and Augstein the founder shaped post-war Germany like probably no other journalist. So I'm really glad to see this.
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I love Marcella Hazans but I do have gripes about the lack of mounds of garlic in many of her recipes.
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Hey Eric, if you asked the average American voter or a random BlueSky user about what Trump's plans actually are, which of the two is more likely to know the actual details of Trump's policies? If a chamber echoes with truths then the solution isn't to abandon it for a den of ignorance and lies.
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Jax plus infinite variations of snuggle/stinky/wiggle
... + bug/pup/pop/...
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What I find somewhat bizarre about this discussion is that a single 20% tip on a $100 bill will exceed what most Europeans servers earn per hour. So I'd say most European wait staff earn significantly less than Americans, mostly due to tips. Is there good data on how much Americans make in tips?
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I came to it from a computational neuroscience background, so I was disillusioned by more biologically inspired models of the brain. The relative success of CNNs and RNNs at the time had me at least optimistic about it being a way to approximate a general prediction based framework of the brain.
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The exact opposite is true, continuing to engage on a rigged platform gave legitimacy to it. The distorted lens everything over there is filtered through, made otherwise sensible journalists give credence to deeply unserious ideas.
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🦋
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Would love to be added
github.com/holoviz/panel
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This won't get the recognition it deserves and it's a damn shame.
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I feel like this is missing an axis, I don't consider Trump particularly conservative either. He is extremely authoritarian however, but maybe voters don't agree or don't consider that in how extreme they rate a candidate.
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Right a company or organization with existing reputation seems like the only way because as you point out otherwise you have the bootstrapping problem.
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An open system like this means that an external provider could set up a verification system and then register you as their domain. Not every end-user will have to set up their own. There does have to be a first mover to build up the reputation though.
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I think there's truth to this but I think the "Trump is for peace" propaganda was very effective and this is an example of that.
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I don't post all that much but when I do it'll mostly be about Python OSS and some AI stuff I'm building.
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Berlin's conference center (ICC) is a contender here. Sadly absolutely infested with Asbestos and will likely cost more to tear down than it cost to build.
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Jax also a big fan of sweater season
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Here 🙋♂️
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Wait, you need kids for that?
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