This might be from an old version of ruby, but:

irb(main):001:0> a
NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:Object
        from (irb):1
        from C:/Ruby23-x64/bin/irb.cmd:19:in `<main>'
irb(main):002:0> b
NameError: undefined local variable or method `b' for main:Object
        from (irb):2
        from C:/Ruby23-x64/bin/irb.cmd:19:in `<main>'
irb(main):003:0> a=b
NameError: undefined local variable or method `b' for main:Object
        from (irb):3
        from C:/Ruby23-x64/bin/irb.cmd:19:in `<main>'
irb(main):004:0> a
=> nil

This NameError doesn’t stop the assignment, going through despite the error.

As to the auto industry bailout, would you rather have had a major American industry simply collapse?!

There’s allegedly 94 American automobile manufacturers, per Wikipedia. If there’s a disruption that would collapse all of them, that would be extremely serious - something which should be handled by making sure the industry is not at the whims of the economy.

The simplest quick-fix is having the company give partial ownership to the government in exchange for a bailout, and the alternatives involve arguing about what color to use on the bike shed.

After checking after some time, nothing seems to stand out. I simply just checked the list at https://join-lemmy.org/instances and joined some if they feel interesting.

I still check reddit, only due to habit. But since then, I’ve went to a few other social network sites that seem to at least be a bit more distributed.

Some of them are still in control of rich people (e.g. Nextdoor), some are open (e.g. Mastodon), but the usable variety seems to be much better than sticking with things that are receiving #enshittification.