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And they woulda got away with it too, if it weren't for that damned Debbie Wasserman-Schultz & The DNC™️!

The proposition of liberalism is dead simple: An attack on the basic rights and political equality of one group is an attack on all of us. We do not know when fascists will turn the violent arms of the state against our group, so we must treat an injury to every group as if it were against our own.

Hell, they could build out a party that runs on explicitly *not* being "The Democrats" (like the DFL). "Tell The Pedophiles In Warshington To Go To Hell!" Then you caucus with the Dems in Congress of course because you're not evil.

Yes & I think one thing progressives and "farther-left" folks can do is organize and work like hell to build credibility and political institutions in more rural red states. Otherwise Dem Sen leadership is *always* going to reflect centrist concerns because that's how we get to 50+1 at this point.

And we are seeing a similar version of this in the United States right now.

Research by @chenoweth.bsky.social and the Crowd Counting Consortium suggests that the perception of democratic threat, from Trump's power grabs and ICE, have played a critical role in motivating a mass resistance movement

I feel like the fundamental Schumer Problem's not going to be addressed by primarying him. You'll just get another Schumer. Because Schumer's elected by the Dem Senate caucus. Different leadership is gonna take different caucus composition.

Mostly joking, but there's always: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persist...

Water in a martini glass is a classy alternative

Why not just map the thing as God intended?

Having to get tooling & infrastructure up and maintain it. Non-trivial debugging. Interprersonal stuff obviously.

"Low hanging fruit of software development" == "you'll never have to spend a weekend wrestling with Kubernetes network cluster configuration again."

There are 1,000,001 trivial, exasperating "hygienic" tasks knowledge workers have to put up with every day; it boggles my mind when people dismiss that. Today I asked it to upgrade Gradle and get it back to health and it spent hours doing that while I went to church with my kid & on a bike ride.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
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That was the NRA's initial response before the backlash.

have struggled to come to terms with this lately and i think it’s because i would never in one million years do this. nor anything else like it. that’s not a brag or virtue signal. i literally cannot occupy the mindset of a person for whom calling the law on a kindergartner is an appealing choice

I'm safe because I stopped using orchestration tools after the Knight Capital fiasco. Also, I refuse to use git because it degrades developers' ability to deal with linear time.

Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision The depth of the Supreme Court’s corruption has forced us to find...

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Tommy Robinson was barred from the US. Trump's border force has now let him in The anti-migrant activist reportedly received a visa hours before his flight departed

British far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson), previously barred from the US because of his long rap sheet, secured a visa and has met with Kari Lake, the self-proclaimed acting CEO of USAGM. He has recently been revealed to be in the pay of the Kremlin for decades.

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Sure, some are gonna say "That's impossible" or "I don't trust that robot" but we should at least talk about it.

If we're just gonna shout out fantabulous nonsense, why not just build a benevolent powerful robot who will rule to the benefit of all citizens? Seems pretty parsimonious to talk about tweaking the constitution.

Why would you need to change it? Why not just only allow good laws to take effect? Or build a benevolent robot that rules fornthe good of humanity?

agreed, insofar as there is misunderstanding, but the debate's over at this point and both the people who can't drive the forklift and the people who insist the forklift can't lift stuff have lost

AI lends itself so well to software development because of the combination of tools and skills that SD entails: well-structured directories, meaningful naming conventions, good version control hygiene, linters, compilers, command line tooling, etc, etc, etc..

I've spent many years thinking there are lots of devs out there whose entire day is engaging with and cracking interesting puzzles. Heck, I've switched jobs a bunch of times in order to chase that. I guess I've been unlucky what I've ended up with is 20% fun puzzles and 80% stupid stuff.

"LLMs are basically just lies."

No, LLMs are basically plausibilities.

I think what he was saying is there are two orthogonal questions: a) it's a scam; and b) it's unsustainable. Also if b is true then a should sort itself out in short order, no?
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Totally valid. I'm in a small shop that does everything from client to server to mobile to weird beacon/RF/nfc stuff. I can imagine a lot of people's situations are a lot different than that.

This really is the key question: there are two "flavors" of skeptics. Those who think it's hype around a fundamentally useless tool, and those who think it's an unsustainable bubble. Ok, there are *three* types of skeptics. The third think it's both fundamentally useless but also unsustainable.