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69·12 days agoThis is what voter suppression looks like.
I grew up in Missouri before moving to Washington state. When I reached voting age, it was (and still is) ridiculously common to see polling places in rural and suburban areas with no waiting to vote. Meanwhile, in the cities (which happen to vote more democratic), you’ll see loooong lines extending outside. When voting facilities and staff are not proportionally distributed to accommodate voter density, you get shit like this; voters in different districts receiving different treatment. And people who live there never know any better to ask for something different.
This all blew my mind after living first in a suburban area, then an urban one, and now living in a state that has done voting my mail for decades. I love voting by mail. It’s unconcionable to me at this point for people to stand for in-person voting anymore.
Classic “the sweetness” era Ze Frank.
I’m curious about the speed variations of the spinning circular piece (positioned to act as the violins’ bow).
A video sponsored by a housing developer, suggesting that the real problem with the cost of housing is high taxes and the pesky nay-saying public.
They also never mention the high and increasing vacancy rate of newly built luxury housing. Just trust us! Rich people will move in soon!
Just across the border from Vancouver, the Seattle Housing Authority is rebuilding modern apartment complexes that are actually intended for low income, disabled and first-gen immigrant residents, not luxury condos that some theoretical rich person maybe might buy someday.
I’d recommend watching it on a phone or laptop with headphones with one of the ear pieces taken out.
I tried uploading the unedited clip on its own a few days ago, but it was removed for violating copyright. Compositing the videos together counts as new/unique content, and the muxed audio does help bolster this claim.
If you have a vpn, you might try opening a connection within one of the counties that is streaming the games for free and try to watch on one of their websites.
Do you have any additional info on this Hetzner problem/fix, or perhaps a link to the admin community or discussion thread where they were discussing it?
I’d like to be able to point my instance’s admin there (as we’re seeing the same problem on both lemmy.blahaj.org and beehaw.org).
Thanks!
( ( laughs in old… ) )
I really appreciate the added context here, pointing out the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership documents that were written for Regan’s first term as well as for Trump in 2016.
A common talking point seems to be that this is just a wishlist, not actual policy, though high percentages of the recommendations (2/3rds) DO end up as policy.
Some select quotes:
Respectability is a prison and the gates are open and people are desperate to be inside.
You can criticize ideas, but you cancel people. And I think the cancel culture thing… I think it’s the new book burning.
Another friend of mine went, “You need to just right-size this.” (…) She said, “What’s happened here? You told a joke and some people didn’t like it. That’s what happened.” It didn’t seem like that big a deal when you put it like that. And yet, in the moment, sometimes it feels catastrophic.
You can’t have an easy life and a great character.
All of these quotes are in reference to general ideas so far as I can tell – the overall concepts of respectability and “cancel culture”, not specific instances. And I think the interview missed a huge opportunity to dig deeper on these ideas by citing specific examples to start picking at those broad takes.
Cancel culture applies to people who make choices that hurt others and are unrepentant about it. It’s not about the choices; we all fuck up from time to time. It’s about the lack of remorse. That’s what speaks to a person’s true nature. And if a person’s true nature leads them to unapologetically hurt people, then they’re a piece of shit person and I’m justified in wanting nothing to do with them.
The real take-away line here was this:
Do you understand the opportunity here? Do you have any idea how thirsty Americans are for any hint of inspiration or leadership and release from this choice of a megolomaniac and a suffocating gerentocricy? It is crushing our fucking spirit! Do you have any idea what could be ahead of you?
54·5 months agoI suspect this was a “do it or we’ll categorize Mozilla products as malicious software” situations. But some transparency from Mozilla would be nice.
11·5 months ago12 year SDE + 12 year TPM vet here.
Do everything you can to help your software engineers (or whoever is doing the work) have as much focus time as they need. Buffer your meetings and questions to one chunk of time per day. Encourage them to block-out and protect their focus time. And encourage the team to keep office hours so they can still make themselves available to others, but in a controlled way.
Be transparent with the business’s goals and frustrations you are facing. There’s an attitude (often among inexperienced devs) that PMs are good for nothing; just an interface to the rest of the business, and a source of where tasks come from. And some certainly are that, but a good PM is worth their weight in gold.
Find a good mentor, and start thinking about your next career step now.
Andrew Callaghan really seems interested in these semi-maligned, culturally misunderstood do-gooder figures lately.
You’ve got this guy. A short while back there was Retro Bill in the DARE Conference video. And Kevin Morse in the Kia Boys film.
This looks to me like not-so-subtle virtue signaling to fans who want to look past his sexual misconduct allegations and just get back to guilt-free consumption of salacious, cool-real-shit Channel 5 content.
I freely admit that Callaghan is dynamite at this genre and he’s comfortably sliding into a huge void that Vice has left behind, so he gets credit where credit is due there. But this doesn’t count for “doing the work” when trying to reacquire the public’s good graces after being a creep. But, you know, he doesn’t have to if he doesn’t want to. There are still thousands upon thousands of people who don’t care about any of that and are happy to let his shit behavior slide if they get to keep seeing cool new videos.
Periodic office hours are tremendously helpful as well.
Block an hour, once or twice a week, for people to come by an ask you (and your team) about literally anything they want. And open it to everyone at your organization. Have your team stop answering one-off questions and tell people to bring it to office hours.
Team leads and tpms should help with logistics, messaging and hand-slapping.
Just a reminder: yesterday (June 4 2024) marked the 35 year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
Some relevant links:
- Associated Press: Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown
- Hong Kong Free Press: In Pictures: Hong Kong’s US, EU consulates mark Tiananmen crackdown anniversary with candles
- Al Jazeera: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te says Tiananmen ‘will not disappear in torrent of history’
Look how they massacred my boy…
For a progressive, having a fascist opposition party is ultimately detrimental to the non-fascist party as well.
“The good guys” only need to hold the specter of fascism over their constituents’ heads and demand that their voters fall in line, rather than blazing trails for truly progressive ideals. It also ramps down incentives for party politicians to maintain good ethical hygiene (with no legitimate alternative for people to choose from in the event of bad behavior).
At what point do we get to stop holding our collective noses to vote for the lesser of two evils? If we’re talking about the complexity of holding multiple ideas in our heads at one time, why can’t the Biden administration publicly acknowledge that:
- the Oct 7 2023 attack on Israel was an act of war,
- Israel is committing a genocide in response,
- these are both unacceptable, and
- we’re going to fucking do something about it.
Is this really such an abominable idea? If so, why???
I like Bernie and AOC, and I’m thankful for their joy (despite their exhaustion) over growing the progressive caucus. But what’s the plan to grow the movement?
I’m trans and I’m ready to fight. When I volunteered for Biden in 2020 and they had me soft-phone cold-calling voters in swing states to make sure they’d go vote, it was the biggest waste of time I’d ever spent volunteering. Nobody wants a cold call, and even if they did, the latency of soft phones destroys the ability to communicate like a regular human person. Further, being trans, a) my voice is a perpetual betrayal, and b) I acknowledge that my identity is too marginal to be useful to reaching the centrist constituency that they so desperately seek.
So this year I’ll be volunteering in local elections, supporting local leaders who are more aligned to the causes that are important to me. I’m here to support the next Bernie and AOC.
The Biden camp is welcome to go canvas the dying malls and suburbs of the blue USA for help in their re-election army, and honestly I wish them the very best. Good luck with that.
If they want my help (and the help of so many more), I’ll be waiting for them to earn it.
No wonder I can’t find a TPM job anywhere. The senior devs are doing all my work.
Curious.
I keep a close eye on the job listings posted to Mozilla’s job board. They don’t post new job openings very often, so I always want to be tuned in when new listing pop up. All of a sudden, a lot of new job openings have appeared for a company that just laid off 36 people…
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