… I’m working on learning Django to get a job… should I stop? What should I use instead?

As the other comment said, Django isn’t going anywhere. I’d not start a new project in it, but it’ll be with us for a long time.

For a more modern (and better) python stack, but which is also definitely here to stay, I’d look at FastAPI with sqlalchemy.

…if you know what I mean.

If that infighting stops America attacking anyone else in the meantime, then by all means, have at it.

• the rest of the world

I think it’s like that dunning-kruger idea. People who are bad at things don’t know they’re bad, and are poor judges of quality.

Precede the line with a > to make a block quote.

That’s a big claim. Any support for that?

Canada can poot anything they want on the backside of the Euro coins they mint. It’s fun to sort through your change and see where the coins came from. Might see a maple leaf one day?

Since we’re talking sci-fi, this is Asimove in 1980:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

For once I’d like to see grok’s response. But not enough to actually go on there…

Did you reopen this post and that was the only new comment? The Summit client does that (starting a while ago)

You’ll find that the models understand German just fine. And, speaking of Þ, they’re conversant in Icelandic too.