NB: I'm not saying community service is a bad thing. Far from it. But it should never be compulsory.
I earned my Queens Scout Award from age 14-18, which involved hundreds of hours of community service. It's valuable, educational and humbling, but it shouldn't be handed out as a punishment, or used as slave labour.
If the point of #NationalService is education, make it part of schooling. Learning by doing, in the community, while at school? Sure, but we don't call that #NationalService
@StillIRise1963 McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski also accidently revealed that the actual living wage is $20/hour., since that $45K/year is apparently a cutoff for being able to afford McDonald's higher prices.
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Train 4 of 66
RE 8 (11430)
19:06 Hamburg Hbf - Lübeck-Travemünde Skandinavienkai 20:20 (departing +19)
DB Regio AG Nord
Train type: Stadler EMU, 2 x 4 double deck carriages
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🧳: 🙂 (as double deck designs go it’s good - it’s Stadler so it would be!)
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a #UX question. If a site has both a signed out home page, and a signed in one (for example a feed or dashboard), what should you see if you're signed in and try to view the home page?
@joelanman Figma.com taking me to my Figma dashboard annoys the hell out of me. Genuinely frustrating if I want to look up their events, pricing, help etc.. If they had figma.com/design/… for dashboard and designs it would have saved me so much hassle but they never will now because everyone’s links will break.
Was haltet ihr von der Idee, allen Personen mit minderjährigen Kindern und generell allen unter 30 bei #Wahlen eine zusätzliche #Zukunftsstimme zu geben?
Ich habe 5 Jahre auf dem Dorf gewohnt, aber Postauto und Volg gab es dort wie auch in allen Nachbardörfern.
Es mag noch abgelegenere Gegenden geben, aber wenn du da lebst, bist du irgendwann zwangsläufig im Arsch, wenn Augenlicht, Reflexe oder Muskeln langsam nicht mehr zuverlässig sind.
Zudem kostet Kauf und Unterhalt eines Autos auch richtig Geld. Wenn du das nicht hast, bist du ohne ÖV doppelt gefickt.
@thomas Isopropanol und lange reiben :| Mein letzter Tower hatte so eine Oberfläche, die nach vielen Jahren dann einfach eine Mischung aus Staub und Klebrigkeit war.
I'm just a humble country chicken admin, but I've been thinking a lot about the cost of the fediverse and how we can improve it for all of the instances... in a coop kind of way
The cost of handing all of the media is THE major problem for me atm.
@shlee@Tubsta@decryption almost all colo providers will charge the same for IX / transit traffic. You are effectively buying at a “blended rate”. Transit is now so cheap that unless you are doing more than 1 gig/s sustained it is not worth getting your own ASN and ip range. At the current trend I’d even suggest not bothering below 10 gig/s.
I’ve built a few ISPs and colo networks over the years, I’d be happy to sit down with you and run through the economics of transit , peering and the different price points where changes in network design makes sense.
Today is Sorry Day in so-called Australia. "Sorry" does not refer to apologies. It's based on Indigenous practices of Sorry Business; a collective process in times of grief & loss.
It's a day of remembrance for the 10000s of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families: the Stolen Generations. Taken between late 1800s to early 1980s, the children were placed in church-run institutions or (later) put up for adoption without parental consent.
Up until the late 1950s, the children were trained for domestic servitude and unpaid labouring and sent to white businesses and households. The abuse and neglect in the institutions and elsewhere was rampant. Many died in these places; not everyone who survived found their families; and most have passed away without seeing any justice.
Every Indigenous family has one or more members that were part of the Stolen Generations. And the trauma of this particular act of genocide is intergenerational.
Sorry Day was one of the recommendations of a royal commission - the Bringing them home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Which was tabled with the Australian
Parliament on 26 May 1997.
Another recommendation was a national apology, and that occurred on 13 February. Otherwise, very few of the 54 recommendations have been actioned.
In more recent years, in addition to commemorating the Stolen Generations and advocating for their rights, this day is also for fighting for the rights of Indigenous children who are being taken away in record numbers.
Today, I think of my family members who were stolen by the government, and forced into servitude as children. Fuck the government, churches and others who participated in this race-based cruelty; who used Aboriginal blood, sweat and tears to build a white nation on stolen Blak land. Yes, Sorry Day is also a day of anger.
@KarenWyld my own US engaged in similar atrocities, but I was shocked to learn thus was still happening until the 1980s in what’s now called Australia. Heartbreaking 💔
@danblondell the ceo does go off the rails when he starts talking about slightly different UI interactions as these mindblowing new concepts, and there’s too much AI in there for comfort, but the display itself seems legit
So here's the thing. I like animals including, of course, dogs. (I don't have any because I live in an apartment and I'm allergic to most mammals.)
But when I'm running/hiking at the county park. Where leashes are REQUIRED on the trails. And dogs I don't know come running up to me.
The reason I look unhappy at the owners is not because I dislike dogs. It is not because I have an irrational "fear" of dogs. It's because I don't like complete strangers running up to me out in the woods. 😠
@_L1vY_ Ditto for "you do not wait until an outbreak of measles to get your child vaccinated for measles". Don't wait until your dog misbehaves before putting on the leash. Don't wait until you have a car crash before following the road rules. What is going on in people's heads?
@_L1vY_ It's like a fundamental loss of the understanding that some bad things are now "exceptional" because we worked to make them that way. Not because those things are not real, significant problems.