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Quiet view of a busy lunchroom

For quality of life, it's hard to find a more important metric, even though it's one of those metrics that's almost impossible to measure objectively.

I hope you can do something; this is not an easy admin to hold accountable.

Weird idea: "Mean Girls", but it's the US (As Cady), with Russia, Hungary and Israel as the Plastics.

It's easy to read way too much into an email that doesn't get a reply, or nervousness about a plan that one isn't certain will work, or body language that's not clear but may not be related to something one did.

There are times when I wish there were not some part of my brain always thinking there's a nasty surprise right around the corner whenever things are not perfectly still. Sometimes this is career-useful (when I'm wearing my software-infrastructure hat - contingencies and such) but it's stressful.

One feels he's about to argue for a 60 hour work week.

One of the very few things that get me to use the block button (and also the report interface) is accounts that spam begging. I don't trust that they're real, but even if they are, we can't let the problems of the world let begging overrun conversational forums.

Report and block those without mercy

A little amused that one of my sisters has such a low opinion of my ability to make a dwelling cozy that she wants to visit my (coming soon) place in Dublin before I get settled in to help figure out what needs to be bought to settle in.

(she's right; I'm not much for comforts)

This is the best argument for abolishing ICE and transferring its responsibilities to another agency; the pre-Trump ICE personnel are presumably now a small minority and the org would take far too much effort (and a dump of almost all current employees) to reform into resonability.

The idea is not that corporations are saints. They're not that. The idea is that focusing on their greed when they're designed to be self-sustaining economic engines is not how you improve the world. It's just empty moralizing.

Regulate them. Have better laws. That's the way.

If that's your reflexive name for anyone who tries to talk some sense into you, then this isn't about what you want to hear, it's about what you need to hear.

If it makes you feel any better, go to some corporate headquarters in California somewhere and yell at the building that corporations shouldn't be greedy.

But if you want a better world, work to build political movements that can fix our politics and have better laws and regulations.

There are some things you can change - politics is how we change the rules, and there are better rules we could enact. That's the more real problem we face as a society - bad politics leading to obvious legal/regulatory improvements not happening. Not "corporate greed".

You can either shout loud about the (often real) injustices and continually make a fuss, or you can be a bit quieter, focus on living the best life you can, and stop blaming about things that cannot change all that much.

There's no guarantee of upwards economic progress; we all pick our careers (under a system of heavy constraints, and involving a lot of luck), and sometimes that leads people or families upwards, sometimes not.

Resilience helps you do better in that struggle to have a good career.

One of them is an officer; wondering what the training difference is between the two roles.

The person did not let up even when I pointed out that when Hawking went to one of Epstein's science events, Hawking had almost no control over his body left and the event was clearly science and schmoozing.

I feel a little bad about the scientists who got pulled into this who apparently had nothing to do with the girls and were just there as part of Epstein's period of funding science to get prominence.

Had a long, dumb argument with someone over this who thought Hawking was there for cheap sex.

At times I wish "resist poetry in most domains of life" were not so easy to misunderstand, because poetry is actually pretty great, in the right contexts. But the poetic urge - seeking to express feelings at the cost of meaning - is to be resisted in things requiring reasoning more than expression.

Good labels and terms always matter. They're how we understand things. Take away words, and understanding fades.

There are so many opportunities for him to show normal human empathy to people in the wake of horrible events, and he fails just about all the time.

There are plenty of pols whose politics I dislike, Omar among them. I don't want them injured, and I am horrified when they are.

If keeping the alliance alive means sacrificing the point of the alliance, nothing of value is being done.

Landfills are a kind of cathedral to waste - a sign of one of the major failures of modern society that we try not to think about.

* is fair

Not thrilled they're (I think) a maintainer on a major software project, used by at least tens of thousands of other software projects. Particularly because following best practices on the topic really isn't that hard.

Not going to name and shame on this one though.

In a technical multiple-person argument on github where one of the people is arguing that (my paraphrasing, which I am not sure if fair) traditional security and quality concerns in developing software set too high a bar and not worth the engineering effort.

Winter running tights work pretty well too.

This is probably right for some of them.

The whole "paid agitator" line is a really ludicrous mental reflex they've stuck into some people. It's not even plausible on its face; it'd be far too expensive to pay a number of protesters sufficient to make an impression.