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I PUT ON MY ROBE AND WIZARD HAT

Change my mind

An early vote is a certain vote. A vote on election day is a bet that you don’t slip in the shower and die before then.

Can we review Simone de Beauvoir essays instead?

All genders who vote against Trump are sexy. All people who vote for him are trash.

New passing meta just dropped

If you compare apples to apples there’s barely even a weight savings. Belt drives are either single speed or hub drive which can work with chains just fine. Once you add tensioner circuitry it’s basically a push. The only kind of advantage is that they don’t need lubrication and are quieter.

I mean in my state I now have like 8 election days off.

I actually had “an entire country fails the Bechdel test” on my 2024 bingo card.

That’s because apple wants to form an abusive relationship with you where you try to justify all the dumb shit they do because you build it into your ego identity.

Ok, that was always allowed!

Wait until you find out how much of Linux the NSA has built.

Now, many many years ago
When I was twenty three
I was married to a widow
Who was pretty as could be…

The model should basically refuse to engage for some time after suicide ideation is brought up, besides mentioning help. “I’m sorry but this is not something am qualified to help with, if you need to talk please call 988.”

Then the next day, “are you feeling better? We can talk if you promise never to do that again.”

Right, and both of these ideas represent the same form of flawed modernist structuralism which has been largely supplanted by more contemporary theories which take a more pragmatic view on harm reduction as an iterative process in pursuit of post scarcity materialism. This is literally fucking Dengism, but if you say that people should do that stuff, and also value individual liberty, it’s shitlib and the ppb spam. The entire problem is that so many MLs immediately reject any form of leftist revisionism which doesn’t mesh with, questions, or even dares to reject the authoritarian traditions of Mao or Stalin as some kind of capitalist conspiracy which has infested western academia. This is as ridiculous as it is ignorant and seems to betray their underlying motivation not as one which seeks to uplift workers, but one which seems obsessed with some long defunct geopolitical rivalry. It’s exhausting, and frequently very stupid, despite these people believing that they are some collective political ubermensch.

This is why it’s so frustrating, because tankies being overrepresented in online leftist spaces is one of the things which harms the acceptance of leftist ideals more than most of their imperialist windmills.

People aren’t scared away from socialism by economic democracy, egalitarianism or radical direct action. They are scared away by confrontational and aggressive tankies defending tyrants, who seem to care more about relitigating random cold war drama than lifting up workers.

Honestly I think the .ml folks have shown themselves to be such zealots that they should be considered a potential security threat to the broader fediverse.

The more places defederate from them, the more opportunity and initiative there will be for alternatives to their largest communities to grow.

I actually hire engineers and I do notice that the zoomers seem to have less general computing and IT skills, though I think some of that has to do with how the curriculum has changed. Software engineering and CS is just way more specialized than it used to be and isn’t just a slow evolution from computer engineering these days. So you don’t get that broad computing background which starts with electrodynamics and works up through digital design, comms, networking, and ultimately software.

For my purposes, this knowledge is a big part of what differentiates a developer from an engineer (and proper computer science is a different thing entirely) which has made it really difficult to figure out what to expect from a software engineering degree.

I have sharpie marker technology in my junk drawer.

It’s also just wrong. There’s a reason predators like spiders and centipedes are territorial - if there are too many of them and they kill off the food supply they will starve. Spiders generally won’t actually make a significant dent in an indoor infestation - they will kind of naturally grow with the insect population but won’t eliminate it.