My personal crackpot theory is that the Republicans collapse and end up becoming a more-left-than-Democrats in their pursuit of populism while the Democrats continue their pursuit of norms. I know it sounds crazy and seems incredibly unlikely, but that’s been the story of the last decade.

that’d skip right past legal scholarship and go straight into civil war territory

who’s repping the altoona pizza corps

tbf a large part of the userbase just likes to recreationally complain

don’t mind me, my doomscrolling, doomwatching, and doomposting for 20 hours a day uses exactly zero resources and does not rely on those darn filthy datacenters or hundreds upon hundreds of miles of intermediate networking equipment

Soccer is one of the most enjoyable sports to watch, partially because of how difficult it is for broadcasters to insert commercials.

It’s just unreal how little thought or planning Congressional Democrats went into their role as an opposition party.

I’ve been working on going back to a VM I build with Vagrant. It still has its issues but at least it won’t meddle with documents.

Chris Murphy isn’t fighting or doing anything. He’s just blabbing on Sunday talk shows.

He is a senator.

He can withhold unanimous consent and he does not. He has levers to pull. He is only successful in fooling folks into making it look like he’s doing something without doing anything.

It’s been a bit since I did math on the time-of-use plan but I want to say it gets even cheaper (iirc about $3-4 assuming ~4mi/kw) if you can get on Dominion’s time-of-use plan.

It’s crazy how cheap it is to drive around on electricity.

Take a moment and search some of these domains, odds are, quite a few are trackers. You can tap each domain to see which app talked to it.

Deleting these won’t guarantee more privacy but it can help prevent contributing more data points about your behavior without your consent.

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Privacy Tip for iPhone Users:

Go to Settings -> Privacy and Security -> App Privacy Report

Turn this on. Come back after a day or two. Scroll to the bottom to “Most Contacted Domains“

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Email: Subject: Limited time: Normstrom is giving back We're doubling cryptocurrency deposits for the next 2 hours Body: To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Nordstrom is giving back! For the next 2 hours only, we'll double your cryptocurrency! Send cryptocurrency to any of your unique deposit addresses below, and we'll send you right back 200% of the amount you sent. For example, if you send $2500, we'll send you right back $5000 to your sending address Here are your unique deposit addresses:

Email headers showing it passed SPF

Soooo I take it Nordstrom got pwned

so much potential content for the “year in review” videos. at least it came back for 2020.

Why *anyone* would think it’s appropriate to send the “we’re ending your ‘old’ account but don’t worry we’re open M-F 8-whatever if you have questions” at 9pm *on a Friday*…

I like how Washington Gas gives me a fantastic surprise 3 hour notice about terminating service.

I’m moving between rental houses and have a month overlap between the two. I thought I made this clear when scheduling my move-in/move-out and on the phone.

Given what's going on, glad my landlord installed an EV outlet for me last week... And given that natural gas might go up in cost, I switched my electric service to time-of-use billing a couple days ago (www.dominionenergy.com/en/Virginia/...)

What’s amusing is how many non-dev/not even dev-adjacent people are weighing in as if they know what they’re talking about.

Even before AI there were a lot of cowboy coders slinging junk around. AI by itself doesn’t mean bad code, it’s still on the development team to ensure the code is correct.

It's crazy how bad some people's DIY electrical work is. If I end up buying a place, first thing I'm doing is ripping out all of the breakers and throwing in AFCIs, I just don't trust people.

Welcome! I highly recommend the For You feed (how I and probably a few other random folks found your post). The default Discover feed is okay, but For You does a lot better surfacing more topics.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

It’s amazing how well Silicon Valley aged. I wish they could pull off a reboot for one season with all of what’s happened the last decade.

Photo of me laying down taking photo towards my legs with an orange cat laying on my stomach and his right paw extended in a hug-like manner

My orange cat does not want to start this morning

100%. I think too many people conflate “this department at my job hasn’t been visibly useful to me” with “this business function can be eliminated across the board”

It’s just wild how many people want to reduce other people’s job titles down to a sentence without understanding what the jobs actually do (and my critique of this extends to nearly every job that people say will be replaced)

The extreme takes of “AI is awful and has no use” and “AI will eat all of our jobs” seem so bizarre. For example, software dev is more than typing out code, there’s the function of understanding and planning around a business objective. IMO it’ll give more time to understand requirements.

AI has made coding SO much more fun.

Is it perfect? No.

Do I feel more motivated when most of the gruntwork is being done for me? Yes.

Do I have even more time to audit what I’m doing to make sure it’s correct? Absolutely.

The idea was sold on tracking groups, but it very well could be abused.
Many groups are transparent and advertise, plus the larger ones get permits anyways.
It felt like an intrusion of first amendment rights, especially peaceful demonstrators and random supporters just tweeting they support a cause

Near the end of college I was desperate to find a job and was referred to a place. Day 1, find out the product was to scour social media to map protest participants from Twitter streaming data. I quit.

It was a quick lesson that taught me to learn the ethics/impacts of my work before starting a job

Green Day starting off with Holiday, alright I’m on board with it.

“Don’t let people control cars with (metaphorical) Xbox controllers” -> “well, we aren’t…” -> cool! guess we won’t need to discuss this further!

A lot of the Waymo discourse around that article shows a lot of prominent posters are just in it for clicks and attention. Framing it like there’s a room of folks playing Forza isn’t helpful at all to any productive discussion about safety/regulation.