blikkie.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Dutchman in New York. Dad, nerd, Software Engineer in Test, rock climber, occasional chef. I can talk about biking around and liveable cities all day. Ex-JW Player […]
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[US Pol: SS good for them]
@futurebird The "people 150 years old" meme is bullshit.
Social Security in the US runs on mainframes using code written in COBOL going back to the late 1950s. It predates the idea of undefined data in a database! So they picked an arbitrary date in the past—1875—to […]
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The list of calendar entries that Google chose to remove from their calendar:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
HOLOCAUST. REMEMBRANCE. DAY.
😱
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@timbray man, fuck that guy. I'll make sure to avoid Shopify whenever possible when I'm in an online checkout.
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@futurebird we need a narrow passenger train for New Yorkers without cars
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@futurebird it's a great time to botch a migration and cause extended down time to make the whole org fear making that change.
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[US Pol: tuning out the noise]
I do think deciding "Trump/Elon et al" said this horrible thing! is not "news" is reasonable.
Tracking the utterances of liars is worthless. Only their actions exist. Their lips move only to confuse and distract. They destroy information each time they speak.
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this is an appointment read, I recommend blocking some time to experience the feeling of being stuffed into a barrel and rolled down an infinitely long hill of wtf
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@kissane fascinating. I can't believe it's not fraud
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@kissane fascinating. I can't believe it's not fraud
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A reminder that obnoxious, blocking cookie consent banners are not required by law but are there because tech companies had a massive tantrum at being prevented from tracking the bejesus out of you by default.. They don't need to be annoying or intrusive, companies can absolutely choose not to […]
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@cstross _I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't._
— Paul Verhoeven on Starship Troopers movie
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Before this election I thought this tendency to turn politicians into characters was, if not exactly harmless, at least unavoidable and not worth fighting.
Maybe that’s just how people stay engaged?
But now I can’t stand it. “Trump humiliates Elon” isn’t news it’s fan fiction. And why would […]
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I should point out that the number one way mainstream journalists say Democrats should win back disaffected Trump voters is by abandoning progressive values.
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@futurebird one thing that helped me was when my partner helped me internalize that "concern is their love language". It can be quite painful in the moment regardless
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This is changing. The "new Israel" that is currently in the making will no longer be democratic (even to Jews) or liberal (even to Jews). It is becoming theocratic, authoritarian, and violent (not just to Palestinians as it always was, but to all citizens). As we've seen in Gaza and in the West […]
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@futurebird I don't want them to be a role model, but the "Let's Go Brandon" crazies didn't accept anything for a minute. So why should we?