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Please, for the love of God, VOTE!
  • "Being practical" and "harm reduction" seem to also be coersion, too.

    If my heart had its way, I'd be voting Peace and Freedom Party. But it doesn't, so I'll be voting for Joe Biden. And that is that.

  • I had to delete my 5-year-old Reddit account.
  • Kinda curious what kind of posts you were making that got you this sort of treatment: maybe running up against some hyper specific filters?

  • Writing GNOME Apps with Swift
  • If you looked at the original github link, you'll see that it has libadwaita (and naturally, gtk4) as a dependency.

    This isn't fragmenting anything, and adwaita already has good documentation. This is just another binding for another language, not a whole new implementation.

  • How can I send a pictures with matrix Integration?
  • If you're having issues with the core matrix integration, please file a bug! You never know who else might be having the same issue.

  • How can I send a pictures with matrix Integration?
  • If you need to include a file from an external folder in your notifications, you will have to list the source folder as allowed.

    https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/matrix/

    This applies to you.

  • Why do whistleblowers always do this?
  • He ALREADY testified: he was found dead AFTER.

    Barnett's body was found in a vehicle in a Holiday Inn parking lot in Charleston on Saturday, police said. One day earlier, he testified in a deposition about the string of problems he says he identified at Boeing's plant where he once helped inspect the 787 Dreamliner aircraft before delivery to customers.

    https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-dead

  • why are incels frowned/hated upon?
  • Great answer, and to add to this:

    There's a world of difference between someone who's single, not satisfied with it, and actively desiring/seeking a relationship (single and looking) and someone who actively self-identifies as inherently doomed to be single due to the actions/perceptions of others (incel).

    People in the former category NEVER call themselves incels.

  • Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing?
  • I totally agree, though I wrote this in the context of OPs post specifically saying (emphasis mine):

    I have seen in many US shows where they portray guys who are living with parents as losers, or there are jokes or memes about it, I never get it.

  • Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing?
  • Scrolled through the thread long enough and I still only see people blaming stigma and capitalism but... Those are just the end effects.

    It's plain toxic masculinity:

    • A man must be strong
    • Independence is a sign of strength
    • Living with your parents is dependence (for good or for bad is irrelevant)
    • ipso facto, according to toxic masculinity, guys who live with their parents are weak and not "real men"
  • Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban
  • Yep, the other workaround that's elsewhere in this thread is to set up an entry with a different authoritative DNS in the hosts file, allowing a single machine to resolve the old domain manually.

    This could be part of a greater effort, basically asking other instances to help the users evacuate the instance and transfer their accounts, before running tootctl self-destruct

  • Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban
  • OP, this title is stupidly misleading and incorrect, you should change it immediately.

    The Taliban seized the DOMAIN, aka the ownership of the queer.af name that people could type into their browsers, and their system would resolve into an IP address.

    As the Taliban control Afghanistan, (see where the domain comes from), this was inevitable and the instance owners were already planning to retire the instance as they didn't want to give money to the Taliban to keep it up.

    The INSTANCE, aka the physical server, was not in Afghanistan, and still has its IP address(es), and so has had absolutely nothing happen to it.

  • Happy Lunar New Year
  • I feel like her reply is just as likely to be to call him a race traitor or whatever. It's hard to reason with people who gatekeep that hard

  • Principled Opposition
  • If the GOP wanted to counterattack, they could always start funding hyper-progressive candidates too 🙂

  • Europe’s deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
  • I'd honestly prefer raw parroting in most cases, even if it's "obviously" wrong. I don't want people selectively interpreting the facts as have been conveyed to them, unless they're prepared to do a proper peer review.

  • Europe’s deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
  • Though btw, I also think it's fascinating the difference if you look up Pyhäsalmi Mine gravitricity "2 MW" vs Pyhäsalmi Mine gravitricity "2MW"

    You'll get different articles entirely

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    Sick of the 9-5 [after being excited for it]

    > When I was a new grad I was so excited to work the 9-5, thought I was gonna work on so many cool things and accomplish a ton. That obviously did not happen and these days it really feels like my entire job is to prove someone else’s impact. Everything feels meaningless and I’m absolutely sick of it, but this 9-5 grind is the only thing I ever envisioned myself to do. Does anyone else feel this way, and are there any routes out? What fields do people pivot to these days completely outside of technical roles?

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    Best of Blind @the.coolest.zone ISometimesAdmin @the.coolest.zone
    Wearing FANG [sic] clothes while shopping

    As a sales associate of luxury goods store, do you see customers wearing FANG likely to spend more or less (bay area)? Lets say you are in luxury stores like Hermes, Chanel, Patek Phillips, Rolex, etc

    Poll options:

    • Sales associates will like it
    • Likely to be ignored
    • Doesn't matter
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    Best of Blind @the.coolest.zone ISometimesAdmin @the.coolest.zone
    Blinder only has 120k saved up, can't propose to their girlfriend.

    > > > So my girlfriend wants me to propose, saying it’s time we get engaged and try living together. And then get married by end of next year. I am 26, she is 24 and we have been together for 4 years. I said I am no where near enough secure yet, and I want to get married by 29 - 30 and get engaged at 28. > > > > I started working only about 2.5 years ago and I’m located in Chicago, and have trouble saving barely right now. Also my girlfriend doesn’t make much, around 60k, and said we can move in to the my place and she will pick up bills such as vacations and other fun expenses while I continue to pay for main expenses due to salary disparity. > > > > My financials currently are: > 120k cash saved > 0 debt > 10k in 401k > $2-3.5k monthly costs > > > > Can I somehow make this move or am I right I am no where close enough to make this move yet. I also wanted to save an try to FIRE for myself, but she said I am over doing it and to stop worrying about money. > > > > What do y’all think? > > > > TC: 160k > YOE: 2.5 > >

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    Best of Blind @the.coolest.zone ISometimesAdmin @the.coolest.zone
    Blinder doesn't know if his gf is The One™. Gets advised to just start a fight with her.
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    I sometimes admin. But usually not.

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