> all legal to the T

You might want to check that because it's not so cut and dried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...

Don't forget Yoshinoya, Sukiya, or Cafe Gusto.

The national guard was deployed to Kent State by the governor. The last time the guard was deployed without the governor’s consent was to protect civil rights marchers in Selma in 1965.

The Toto washlets I used in Japan were plenty powerful, plus they had adjustments for pressure and temperature.

The problem with this is we live in a 24 hour world. When I worked 2nd shift, I got out of work at 2am so I would have to “choose not to” use the highway to get home. Also, emergency vehicles also use highways.

I have some bad news for you: those trucks are eighty thousand pounds gross.

Nationally, there are less than 10% of incarcerated people in private prisons. This number starts to vary widely from state to state though, with some states having more than 50% and some having 0%.

Public prisons's use of forced labor is not better than private ones.

And people in prisons (private or public) count towards total population in counties, giving them more weight in elections, despite none of the prisoners having chosen to be there voluntarily nor having the right to vote. https://www.vera.org/news/how-mass-incarceration-shapes-our-...

True, but there is this mythology that all prisons in the USA are private prisons controlled solely by corporations, which is wildly untrue. Public prisons aren't much better than private prisons, due to the fact that they are just punishment and not rehabilitation. On your second point, undocumented immigrants also count in the census and give more weight in representation and elections, even though they cannot vote. In a perfect world, we would expect elected officials to represent all of their constituents, not just those who voted for them, but we are far from that.

>On your second point, undocumented immigrants also count in the census

Except immigrants choose where they want to live.

The prisoners are where they are because the party in power (usually Republican, borderline neo-Confederate) creates laws that lead to extensive incarceration (such as "three strikes") and is the one which decides where to build prisons, which results in biased elections in their favor. Which reeks of the pre-civil war rules that slaves count for political weight.

They are still working on a realistic vocal fry?

When can I get the GPT that sounds like Boomhauer crossed with Gerald from Clarksons farm?

Just gotta pipe it through a granular synth afterwards

The new office mate’s prank will be to switch your AI’s voice to a Kardashian, Fran Drescher, Pauly Shore...

Plus I am sure that LLM engines could command a premium by shrewdly licensing such talent as James Earl Jones, Majel Barrett, or Milla Jovovich?

But it seems like the current trend is novel/generic voices in order to avoid suits/fees and pioneer new territory. Isn‘t Siri‘s personality a recognizable celebrity by now?

they can use Sam's voice

HCL isn’t a programming language. This seems to be the main misconception about it and Terraform.

Any sufficiently large configuration language eventually becomes Turing complete (or close to it). See HCL, GitHub actions, kubernetes.

Kubernetes is not like the others in that list because it remains a declaration of intended state. There are for sure no "if", "loop", or even variables in the .yaml files. You may be thinking of the damn near infinite templating languages that generate said yaml, or even Kustomize that is JSONPatch-as-a-Service. GHA is not like the others because it is an imperative scripting language in yaml, not a "configuration language"

> Kubernetes is not like the others in that list because it remains a declaration of intended state

Mutation via hook?

It’s so infuriatingly close though which is what makes it so fucking annoying to work with. It has loops, conditionals, variables…

Indeed, it's the worst case of uncanny valley syndrome!

The US supported Chaing Kai Shek and the Nationalists over Mao and the Communists after WWII. Also, Mao was a staunch Stalinist so there is the holdover tension there. Mao continued with that even more so after Stalin died and was determined to be basically the Stalin of Asia.

Also China was abused by the west prior to that, though mostly Europe so there is probably no love lost there.

I would recommend Frank Dikötter books on China, The Tragedy of Liberation, Mao's Great Famine, and The Cultural Revolution.

1) I use terragrunt to generate all the 'boilerplate' files, for example the backend configuration to ensure they are all in spec.

2) I use terragrunt to provide inherited values, such as region, environment, etc. I have a directory tree of `dev/us-west-2/` I can set a variable in my `dev/environment.hcl` that is inherited across everything under that environment. This is useful if you have more than one dev, prod, etc environment.

3) I use terragrunt to allow shared, versioned root modules. I don't include any terraform in my terragrunt repo. The terragrunt repo is just configuration. In my terragrunt.hcl I can reference something like `source = "github.com/example.com/root.git//ipv6-vpc?ref=v0.1.3"` to pull in the version of the root module I want. Again this is useful if you have multiple dev/stage/prod environments.

None of this is actually possible with plain terraform.

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Using variables isn't supported in backends - e.g. "niche places" (although it sounds like it is in OpenTofu)

And #2 and #3 are exactly the use-case for just regular old tfvars files and module imports.

Terragrunt encourages you to abstract things way, way too far, until you have an absolute mess of tangled imports and deeply nested directories.

Nothing wrong with having a root module, some child modules, and a single tfvars file being fed in on the front end.