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r.v.cx

Pretty sure I’m right about: - RFC 3339 dates - ISO 216 paper sizes - Fahrenheit weather temperatures - Dot-grid paper - End-to-end encryption - Software engineering being about collaboration costs Less confident about the rest. https://linktr.ee/rvcx

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This was the inevitable next step after we accepted that millennials couldn’t get on the property ladder because of avocado toast.

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2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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I’m not saying I accept “if you’re not bound by law you’re not protected by law”. But Mangione murdered a guy who was operating within the law. Something not true of certain others.

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“Too many transactions too quickly” Now that is systems analysis.

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This is his best argument.

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Musk shadowbanned her.

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The first couple of weeks were nothing but horror. This week it’s felt like a wide popular pushback has started. Things are still getting much much worse day by day, but there is hope that at some point not too far off, the backlash may equal the destruction. And eventually we may get to rebuild.

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The GOP wants to monitor every pregnancy and ignore every infant.

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A sad truth is that American democracy hinges on right-wing media pivoting back to conservatism from the MAGA cult of personality.

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I’d just like to highlight how copacetic everyone is with the idea that veterans should get special employment considerations, and compare that with the “hire for competence” rhetoric against DEI.

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I wish I’d been able to articulate this as clearly. But beyond that, Republican legislators need to be absolutely terrified that their voters are turning on them. Democrats—elected and not—can do that. It’s not just about winning the next election; it’s about forcing the other party’s hand now.

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I’m be long been in the camp that we need something more nuanced than 230, but FFS this is just straight-up malpractice. In the middle of an outright coup, no less.

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The entire right-wing interest in “free speech” is in pointing out that the mere act of saying truly awful things is not itself illegal. Which is extremely like their theory that carrying loaded assault weapons in crowded places is not in itself mass murder.

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Are there any voters who know so little about business they don’t realize that this is the opposite of Trump’s “hire for competence” claims about why he’s so mad about DEI? “Fire everyone and hire back those who didn’t immediately get a slew of job offers” is a trivial way to lose all your stars.

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I still can’t get over the article today that tried to conflate “wokeness” with support for abortion access. FFS this isn’t a deep mystery. We know which issues have popular support and which don’t.

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…and just this morning I had to block a dude who repeated “the Harris campaign was moderate and lost—time to tack to the left!” literally four times without acknowledging anything I said in response. BlueSky is full of very confident people helping destroy the country.

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Perhaps more encouraging than 55% being right: only 21% are blatantly wrong. A quarter of Americans admitting they don’t really understand tariffs seems pretty reasonable.

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It took me too long to realize this: Memecoins are just NFTs. The whole notion that an NFT "was" the thing it "represented" was always bullshit. It was just asserted that it was associated with the thing. That's what memecoins are. It's just that the association is explicitly bullshit.

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I’ll stop harping on this because I think I’ve made my point, but “you were an idiot for voting for Trump!” is very closely related to “The Left was right about everything!” in facile counterproductivity. Trump really did win a democratic election, and there are Reasons he won.

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TLDR: Dems won elections in the past decade despite “wokeness”, and policies like sick leave are popular. Also: wokeness is opposition to racist fascism. You want to cave to fascism? Sigh.

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Want the simplest possible example of why government shouldn’t be “run like a business”? The US National Parks have never been profit centers. Just a treasure that my friends from overseas were awed by. They make (made?) America great—made Americans happy and proud—and Trump is trashing them.

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A lot of rich folks are admitting they’ve always just faked it.

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You can tell who the take-writers are who never actually held real jobs in America in the 2010s, and they’re not the ones pointing out how reductive and alienating what was coming out of corporate DEI offices was.

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I’m not suggesting everyone should spend five years getting a doctorate, although that is the best way to understand expertise. The first year, however—the crushing realization that hundreds of people as smart as you have already done all the easy work—is excellent value for time.

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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I finally had a talk with a good friend who works for USAID. It’s a complete disaster. Workers menacingly forbidden to distribute the food and supplies on hand, so it is simply rotting and expiring. Very clear this is not about saving money: it’s about saying “fuck you” to everyone involved.

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