The goal is to emerge from the fight and still be better than the people you were fighting. Otherwise, what’s the point?

I’m not here to influence things. I was in the thick of it for a bit, but I’m here now.

I love coding. I get to do it for money. It allows me a nice little apartment in a nice environment and with my wife chipping in her half we’re a little insulated from financial strife. A little.

That’s it. I code, I eat food and live with a beautiful girl who seems to care for me, and we occasionally get to go see family or a strange new place. I’m flying as close to the sun as I dare.

Find peace in your existence and enjoy what you’re doing, whether programming is the bread or it’s the butter. It’s all a means to an end of doing something you love for what little time we have here.

Both sides

That just doesn’t even make sense in our electoral system. Please leave the American tropes where they are, thanks!

The homeowners have two options, and both options suck.

• sell
• don’t sell

Both alternatives carry costs. But they own a home worth 4.4mil and have to pay 2% of that each year. That’s pretty low.

You’re planning to tax on events like sales and hope there’s enough churn to still fully-fund the things property tax provides for? That’s really hard to make a case for.

Given bungalows rarely deliver a town enough to recoup on providing and maintaining services anyway, you’re starting with a very tricky goal to maintain. Detroit happened, and that was with consistent, recurring payments.

Then you want to put a home sales tax on that is big enough to pay the back taxes plus borrowing cost to hold the debt and you think people are gonna go for this? What if you’ve owned your home 15 years, paid no taxes on the infrastructure maintenance, ambulance fire or police service, mail service, street lights and pavement, and then your house burns down? You could very well owe more than the lot is worth alone. What do we tell the homeowner about that? The town can’t absorb the loss given margins are so low.

Nah. I don’t think you can sell that idea to the voters.

Yes. Always remind them of the guestapo.

Wow, guys. I don’t know her from whatever the shit Fox said, so forgive me for discounting the speaker for something you personally witnessed. I’d ask what she did other than be the target of the Bernie backstabbing, but it feels like COVID and 2 Trumps ago.

So. She has a point.

Remember when we didn’t kill the messenger because we remembered what Genghis did for that?

Yeah. When I’m working a problem with someone and need my hands free, okay. But that’s a tech call and not a procto appointment.

I’d love to use a headset, but

1. New phones are shit and have no jack
2. Radio earbuds are shit with shit batteries sold by shit companies for shit phones
3. End of list

So I’ll talk in my private office on the speakerphone and get things done quickly. And curse ducking Samsung for copping out and ripping the jack out and making all the usual shit excuses because they can’t say “you’ll still buy it ya plebe”.

That’s like those halfwits who talk into their phone and hold it like a slice of (not Neapolitan) pizza.

1. This isn’t a reality show
2. You’re dumb enough to be on one
3. If it’s not working well, shouting won’t help. You’re actively impairing its noise cancelling and you’ll only be more noise to it.

Use your phone like a phone for best results.

So, you’re saying, “why try, because it was never that good anyway” ?

Is that your point or am I misreading it?

Survivor bias aside, I’m not sure the UI doesn’t make this drive-by trolling worse. The reddit UI (hi Lemmy) is threaded but disjoint, and the excellent response to one tree of responses isn’t useful to or seen in another tree – and those trees will develop in parallel in almost every discussion.

I worry that quips and cheap takes stand out because they’re fast and block actual discussion more, so have that mock ‘finalising’ effect. Ending a discussion thread is not concluding it .

… and we all have that cousin whom no one invites anywhere because he’ll argue the shit out of something like a jackal worrying a carcass, until people just give up and let him wander smugly off to his little corner in contrarian triumph.

Yep. The skin appears thin at points.

whose primary purpose seems to be to disagree

What’s survivor bias again?

I mean, aside from the thing everyone is saying, to which you’re replying ‘read the article’, that is.

Prepare for Conservatives latching onto this error as a conspiracy to lose them votes - as a lame third-place duck here - and harping on it with a laser focus for years. Unless Mark wears a brown suit or something.

You’re asking for a distro to best fit certain criteria; what’s better for you.

What you’re going to get is everyone waving the flag of their favourite distro and selling you on it as a solution; what’s better for them.

Let me show you the predicate that failed.

Rule by law, in contrast, connotes the instrumental use of law as a tool of political power. It means that the state uses law to control its citizens but tries never to allow law to be used to control the state.

As a completely unfounded opinion on the role of ethics, this blatantly beggars the question.

She was the best candidate at the time.

She may be the best candidate at time of polling.

Decide:

• if the issue was the message and framing, then keep the candidate and fix the framing and message.
• if the issue was a career justice worker, educated and thoughtful, with the ability to speak a 9-word sentence without tripping over the 7th-grade words, then find someone better suited to weed out corruption and show the hardest workers in America that they’re welcome and respected again. While you’re at it, find a better running-mate than the Coach. It’s America’s step-mom and wide uncle, squaring off against that creepy old man and his weird kid. And keep the message.

America was overconfident that an actually good candidate with an excellent resume was a obvious fit for a job against a career felon and fraudster; more believable and better for America. If America can’t see it, it’s an education issue that can’t be solved until better leadership is in for a decade. Until then, I guess it’s hammering them with a “this is your America; do you want to fix it or not?” message.

I know one Dutch girl. Can confirm, an absolute man-killer, deadly gorgeous and fierce as fuck.

It appears that’s the joke.

people can’t handle not looking professional 😭

For weeird definitions of ‘professional’, right?

At both my jobs, I talk in points; I write in points; I rewrite their long-winded shit “just to be sure we’re clear,” in points.

It’s not god’s work I’m doing, but it preserves my sanity when it’s distilled down to facts and goals like my technical writing prof recommended so many years ago. \shrug