You could also probably get there with universal basic income

Boycotts are only one tool in the box. Legislation should be addressing things like consolidation of power and anti consumer practices.

Unfortunately, the US has one far right party that has many lunatics that don't believe in government (along with other insanities), and one center-at-best party that does that wield power effectively.

It's the unchecked capitalism.

Better labor protection and antitrust laws would help, but the fundamental push is towards maximum exploitation of worker and customer. Power consolidates and then abuse for profit becomes easy.

I mostly work in Python, but we use types at work. For a hack day project I skipped typing stuff for like an hour, and then went "wait this sucks" and added types. It was easier overall.

Here there's main. You branch off. Do your work. Make a PR to main. Build passes and someone approves, merge to main. Production release is done by tagging main.

The branches are short lived because the units of work we select are small. You have like one pr for an endpoint. You don't wait until the entire feature with 20 endpoints is ready to merge.

Seems to work fine. I think this is different than trunk based development but honestly I'm not sure I understand trunk.

The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. She’d examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.”

No shit. Well. Good for her for doing research, even if it was much later than it probably should have been and started on questionable assumptions.

Edit:

She, too, had been outraged by school mask mandates and vaccine requirements during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Big sigh.

In real life? I'm not sure. Years of struggle to change government to enforce regulations, break up consolidation of power, blah blah blah.

In a like ttrpg or movie? Murder. Murder the board and other management and anyone they replace until the greed stops.

I'm glad I was helpful to you.

Don't dox yourself, so feel free to not reply or dm me, but what part of the UK are you in? I don't actively know anyone who lives there, but I spent a weekend with someone from Bristol and I'd bet money she was involved in cool queer stuff in her area.

The band Martha ( https://marthadiy.bandcamp.com/album/blisters-in-the-pit-of-my-heart ) are queer and from Durham.

I bet you could use Bandcamp to find music in your area and from that find people. Most bands tag themselves with their city origin, and maybe tag themselves with queer.

Maybe! I meant to write in my previous one but forgot: often when the person is making the sweeping generalization in this kind of context, they're upset. They're annoyed. They're not going to be their most kind, patient, self. You probably wouldn't be if some strangers just told you they were going to [threats and insults].

So while it's in a sense true that we should avoid broad generalizations, I think it's fair to cut someone slack in this kind of context. They are probably not looking to be nitpicked.

Think about times you're annoyed. Like, let's say FedEx just delivered you a smashed package for the third time in a row. You go "FedEx sucks they always ruin my packages". You probably don't need or want someone to go "actually, them deliver more than 99% of packages with no problems. Maybe you should [unsolicited advice]". It doesn't matter if that's true. That's not what you're looking for in that moment.

All of that aside, yeah, we should be mindful of speaking in absolutes.

Cool, i’ll give this a go, see if I can get some kind of trans support group going. Cheers.

One queer friend said this, too:

""" Also you have to account for people being in the closet. Remaining closeted is much less common than it once was, but when I chaired the LGBT caucus at my old job I had closeted members so I had to keep the email list secret and stuff """

I fixed my previous post's markdown. It is finicky about whitespace, but hopefully my whole message rendered for you.

Ape together strong is funny, but not an answer.

What is the practical purpose? Safety, solidarity, emotional validation, political might, fun. Off the top of my head. Sorry for the flippant answer before, heh.

I know queer people, who maybe know some other queer people they’re friends with, but there isn’t any community, and they’re spread across the country, few and far between. They have no interest in any community. I’ve tried to organise a thing for us all to meet up, but no one is interested. Everyone needs money, they have phones for making themselves feel better.

Ok I'm not myself queer, just most of my friends are, so I can't authoritatively speak on this topic. I'm going to text some friends and see if they'll humor me by telling me their takes on if queer community exists.

My impression based on the number of explicitly queer events one friend goes to, and the spiraling social network around that, there is definitely community. They go to a lot of trans punk shows, I think. Plus picnics, beach trips, marches, parties, other stuff. I think they want to organize a knitting circle or something too, maybe?

My other friend who answered between me starting this message and now said, when I showed her the part I quoted: "That’s not consistent with my experience".

Thinking about it, I know someone else who runs a queer book club.

Maybe it's part of an elaborate vampire hunting scheme. It seems like something idiot PCs would do in a role playing game, and the protagonists of "What We Do In the Shadows" would fall for.

What the practical purpose of this is and how or if it benefits anyone?

ape together strong

i.e. the “gay community”, the “trans community” but it is clear there’s no such thing,

hmmm i don't think everyone would agree that's a true statement.

How to start and/or join a community

Folks seem to like meetup, facebook, plura, eventbrite. One group of I know has an email list and website. You can often advertise in bars or smaller locations.

I don't know a lot about organizing groups.

I know folks who do stuff for queer community. They organize picnics, happy hours, concerts, discussion groups, and more. So far as I know, they started with someone going "I wanna start this group here." Advertise on meetup/facebook/whatever, and be ready for minimal turnout for a while. But over time you accumulate more people, and more options open up. With enough people you can accomplish more- lobbying, volunteering, making people feel less alone and terrible.

Google Voice is google's free telephone service. I'm not 100% certain it exists in the UK, but a quick search makes it look like it does. It's safer than putting your real phone number because it's more transient. You could probably also use email, signal, discord, or whatever, but phone numbers are the most ubiquitous.

As to what to write, since you don't know of anything happening, you might have to start the group. Is there something you want to volunteer to do? Litter cleanup, volunteering somewhere, helping people register to vote (ok that's probably a dystopian task specific to the US), or whatever?

I am by no means an expert on this.

But just spitballing, let's imagine the victim (often but not always a woman) says something generalized like "Men are assholes online." The man hears this, and since they are a man, and since men were just called assholes, they feel like they were called an asshole. That hurts the sense of self, the ego, to accept.

I think it's the group identity thing, really? Like, the group they're a part of was insulted, so they feel personally insulted. Accepting that the group isn't great is hard for the brain. They don't want to be part of a group that's bad (men online) because that hurts their sense of self, the ego.

I'm a guy, but I don't, like, care. Not in a gender-queer or trans way, but it's just not a big deal to me. Maybe that's why if someone's like "Men are trash" I can just shrug. But if someone was like "People in New York City are pretentious, rude, assholes" I'd probably have an emotional response. But patriarchy is a much bigger and more wide spread issue, so it's not really the same.

My hypothesis is it's two major parts:

1. Protect one's ego at all costs. Anything that makes you feel bad, at all, is to be rejected.
2. Join in-groups that do not value or respect women.

For most people, belief is more social than we'd like to admit. So if your in-groups are a bunch of jerks who think women "talk too much" or whatever, you'll probably adopt that. It'll be continually reinforced from your socializing. Then with point #1, any time contrary evidence that does manage to break through you'll reject it rather than doing any hard work or introspection.

It's frustrating because it's all done by people. Like if a volcano erupts you can't really get mad at it. It's just physics stuff. But all of this? People are making these choices. People made of meat and bone. Like, you could find the decision makers at Google who decided to shit up their product and kick them in the junk.

I don't think poor clarity is tightly coupled to vocabulary. Poor clarity often comes from extra words and poorly organized text.

"John walked to the grocery store"

vs

"The man known in his building, but not throughout the entire city, as John, took it upon himself to walk the winding streets of Brooklyn on foot until he reached a open storefront that sold mostly, but not exclusively, groceries"

The latter is pretty limited in vocabulary but is a mess.

What is casting a spell in debug mode?

Can you put a breakpoint in your spell? Picturing a devil having a smoke while the wizard puzzles over all the runes suspended in the air.

How much is system specific? I don't really play DND or other d20 games much anymore. Playing Fate now, for instance.