You’re thinking of Electric Six.

Hey… don’t forget Vermont!

Hmm, maybe we should check X?

It’s as good as bind kill mouse1 being a protected command in valve consoles… aka not at all.

I hate defending cowardly corporate bullshit but any tech company that doesn’t kiss Trump’s fucking ring is absolutely in for a world of retaliatory pain in the next four years. Smaller companies like mine are just divesting from the US but large companies are logistically unable to do anything.

All the tech CEOs donating to the fuckwad’s inauguration is just as meaningful as companies that put up a rainbow flag during pride month. It’s all just empty lip service.

There’s plenty of shit to rage against Apple for - donating to Trump is really low down on the list of shit I care about even if it sets a terrible precedent.

Hobbyists could probably set up IP over UHF connections though.

Ah, as someone who doesn’t hide differences do you walk into the office like…

“Hey Nigerian Dan, did you get the memo from Polish John about half-irish half-welsh Sarah’s presentation later today?”

In no way am I trying to erase people’s identities, I just want to highlight that language places an immense emphasis on gender that erases non-binary people and cements it psychologically as an important trait for social interaction.

People are fucking complex, there’s no reason to constantly bucket them into groups by gender identity.

Just #adhd-things

Yes, it is to me. English (and most languages tbh) has constructs that constantly reinforce a concept of binary genders and highlight that as an important factor.

When you learned about Mr., Miss, and Mrs. did you find that awkward? To know how to title a woman (absent the more modern Ms.) you’d need to know their marital status - but for dudes it’s whatever? That fucking pissed me off as a kid - how are you supposed to know if someone is married when writing them and who fucking cares…

To me, at least, gendered pronouns are the same way - I’m writing to a person, about a thing, as them as an individual. Gender is generally irrelevant to this interaction so why the fuck is it necessary for it.

Imagine if it was astrology sign instead: I just finished writing up a response to OsrsNeedsF2P. I hope Virgo appreciates the care I put into it because I enjoy the question Virgo asked.

Imagine needing to know someone’s birth sign to talk about them and imagine that English constantly reinforced that birth sign was the way to identify others and that there were twelve and only twelve proper birth signs.

Gender expression is an important part of our identities - I have a complex expression as a non-conforming man - but it’s not the important part of our identity. It’s a factor of our identity and, I’d argue, only really rarely a top five factor. People are philosophers, crafters, writers, artists, hikers, gamers, cooks, painters, etc… those activities we enjoy are much more core to most of our identities. Our gender expression is important but should usually only impact a very narrow portion of our identity.

So to me, yea, it’s a real issue.

It’s a really heavy read. If you’re not in a good place mentally, I’d really advise against it.

This story isn’t unique and a lot of programs for people in a rough place were designed around this kind of tough love - they started out mostly as cult like organizations for adults who had repeated difficulty stopping self-destructive behavior (Synanon was a notable example) and then at some point some asshole figured out they would try it on kids. If you ever have kids never trust programs like this…

But yea, if you’re getting ill reading it it’s probably not healthy to continue and that’s alright.

Luetin09 apparently only has 901k subscribers.

SomeMoreNews is at 884k.

DoshDoshington is at an unacceptably low 309k.

Atrioc is up near 706k.

And everyone should be subscribed to YoungScrolls but sadly only 269k people are.

So long as after the person does self checkout you have someone manually confirm they scanned all the items.

I applaud the massive theft from Walmart people pissed off with having to pay and scan their own shit have been pulling off.

I don’t appreciate pronouns being as wide spread in a working environment. For people who have had to fight for their gender identity I will of course respect that choice - but gender is a rather irrelevant quality in the workplace and I feel like the wide proliferation of pronouns on profiles in Slack/Teams/etc… improperly emphasizes the importance of gender in the workplace. I’d much rather use they/them as blanket pronouns and try and demphasize gender in our language. There are numerous more important factors of people’s personalities that are more interesting than gender like interests (imagine if there was a common pronoun for someone interested in D&D as example) and I’d rather use those factors for identity than gender.

I admit this is likely to be fairly controversial but I do think the world would be a much more pleasant place if gender wasn’t constantly reinforced in language.

I’ve lived on the east coast, west coast and in Europe. Out here in the west coast (Vancouver) the cities are nice enough but anytime I leave my home I have to walk down a hill (and my partner struggles with that due to arthritis), walk along half a mile of four lane arterial roadway, squeeze through two blocks along the same roadway on an extremely narrow unprotected at grade sidewalk while semis barrel by leaning over my head… then I get to a shopping center and transit nexus and can go elsewhere.

While living in Southern Spain I’d walk two blocks on quiet pedestrian streets to a waterfront promenade which was littered with restaurants and provided a wide (like 20 meter) surface to stroll along to reach the city center - at one point before the city center you’d need to cross a two lane high traffic road but that road had protected crosswalks every 150 meters.

The contrast between these two places (and don’t even get me started on how pleasant Barcelona is to pedestrians) is stark.

European countries have access to those same ultra processed foods and yet their consumption and the obesity rates are dramatically lower. I think there are factors beyond simple availability that we should look at fixing.

Once upon a time people worked 9-5 with a commute somewhere under twenty minutes - so somewhere in the realm of nine hours of employment before home tasks like cooking and cleaning started happening. I believe most millennials and under work at least ten and a half hour (and the number of people trying to juggle multiple jobs has gone way up).

The ultra processed and fast foods are generally the default option when you are so fully drained by a sedentary employment and craving chemical joy to deaden the depression of existence. Millennials have eschewed alcohol and tobacco like no other generation and sugar is the only chemical fulfillment they can find so it becomes a spiral of comfort food into physical pain into inability to seek other enjoyment into comfort food.

I’d hesitate to ascribe the obesity epidemic to a single cause due to the exceptions that prove the rule.

I don’t. I’m not a morning person and I’m always garbage if I try to be.

Paris Hilton is actually deeply invested in fighting the troubled teen industry (aka fuckwads like https://elan.school/ (TW child abuse and lots of other shit)).

It’s important not to reduce people into caricatures of their public selves.

Good project managers are invaluable. I’d much rather explain status to a sympathetic ear and have them reword it for diplomacy than try and directly advocate with executives - and I celebrate any customer communications I don’t have to be a party to.

When PMs act like part of the dev team and handle the communication side of the project it lets devs focus on the important shit… and if your PM is asking for daily updates then they’re too green (or you’re too unreliable) to have built up a good level of trust. Nobody fucking cares if a project is delivered at 3PM or 4PM, so who the fuck cares about daily or hourly project updates - the status won’t be materially different.

It’s like managers or fellow developers - good ones are invaluable and shitty ones make everyone’s lives harder… the difference is that PM seems to be a position that attracts do-nothing folks so it’s more likely you’ll get a shitty roll.

It’s a dumb short term move though. The employees you’re going to lose are your top performers.

Goodbye talent!