Best of all time - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Annie Lennox
Any version of the Little Drummer Boy must be cleansed from the earth with fire and poison.
Best of all time - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Annie Lennox
Any version of the Little Drummer Boy must be cleansed from the earth with fire and poison.
if I ever live somewhere with a garden, I’m ripping out the grass and planting a dandelawn.
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Killing in the defense of others is a legal defense to homicide.
If the guy were attacking people with a machete, nobody would dream of prosecuting the person who put him down.
The fact that he’s doing it slightly more slowly, but on a massively larger scale should not change anything.
Nah. Fraud is fraud.
Yes, this document says it has this guy’s signature on it, but how do you know what his signature is meant to look like?
Same concept just scaled up.
Blue cross just backflipped on time limits for anaesthesia, so
Translation:
It’s morally wrong to fight back against your abuser, lest he take it out on your kids as well. Just lie back and try to enjoy it.
It’s funny how voting for a pro-genocide government was trolleyish and so had a moral imperative, while approving of this killing meant that people were irredeemable monsters.
I never used twitter, I tried to use mastodon about a year ago and hated it, I joined bluesky a few weeks back and love it.
Mastodon gives you an autoscrolling firehose of unfiltered junk on all, or an empty wasteland of subscribed tags, with nothing inbetween. I never found anyone I wanted to follow while sifting through screenfuls of firehose, so I didn’t bother.
Bluesky has nice UX, the posts on Discover are mostly engaging content, there’s a bunch of people i’ve heard of over there, tags are encouraged via feeds, the starter packs are nice and the blocklists are amazing.
Will it enshittify eventually? Sure.
But then you just move on to the next free trial.
It took me a week to find a bunch of lefties, journalists and shitposters on bluesky; whatever comes after it will doubtless be just as quick. They’re a fungible commodity - if I can’t find the same specific set of people on the next one, ehh.
I just browse subscribed-only.
aw hell yeah, that ruled back in the day.
Might be challenging to get it running in a modern environment, but I admire your taste in the classics :)
I know you’ve heard it, but seriously, the biggedst hurdle to learning programming is having a solution looking for a problem. You can learn all kinds of stuff in the abstract, but your brain will either handwave over it or bounce off, if it can’t contextualise the knowledge into a problem-solving tool.
A source of small but genuine needs is the scarcest resource.
I know the world has moved on to big cosy high-level languages that let you think semantically about everything but honestly I’m still a big fan of starting with C; it is something of an austere discipline, but it gives you a boots-on-the-ground view of the problems you’re working with, and I think that really helps shape your understanding of what you’re dealing with.
(you could do a fair bit worse than the game ‘human resource machine’ for a slightly gentler introduction, then pick up some exercises in C, then move to python or similar - it will let you appreciate the cosy high-level stuff, and have a better feel for why you’re doing stuff)
One dollar worth of sand, teleported into the lungs of my choice.
Nobody’s going to upvote shit takes, obviously.
If someone’s being an asshole or an idiot, I’m going to downvote them.
If someone says something that needs saying, or that’s interesting or funny, I’m going to upvote it.
It’s not the unusable firehose that mastodon is, and it’s a lot less fediverse-stanny. (it’s not actually federated yet).
I kind of like it, it feels like the right level of engagement, and there’s a culture of just block the assholes, grownups are talking.
It’s worth a few days to try it out. Nice place.
Spoken like a person who isn’t forced to use JIRA
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