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adambkaplan

@adambkaplan@hachyderm.io

He/Him/His

Software engineer at Red Hat, former OpenShift maintainer and current Shipwright maintainer. Current board member on the Continuous Delivery Foundation https://cd.foundation/. Opinions are my own.

I used to tweet about containers, transit, and aquatic sports. We'll see what I decide to toot here!

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mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

adambkaplan,
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@mekkaokereke I saw a Cybertruck in person a few weeks ago. From the exterior- one of the most poorly manufactured vehicles I have ever seen in my life. Nothing in its form aligns, clear gaps between sides and the hood. I’ve seen 1990 Suzukis with better quality.

I hope Biden gives an ultimatum - “you have 3 years to catch up, then I can’t stop bringing EVs to the masses.”

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

adambkaplan,
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@mekkaokereke affordable childcare requires paid parental leave:

  1. Daycares compete with unpaid labor of parents (mostly women). Most staff (also women) are paid poverty wages.
  2. Infant care is a loss leader. Staff/child ratios make profits impossible - business makes up the loss in the 3/preK years.

Give parents a year to take care of their kids, and running a daycare becomes a more reasonable enterprise.

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    adambkaplan,
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    @amye @dbsmasher @hazelweakly I literally ranted on Reddit this week about being a jerk when it comes to code comments and commit messages.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/s/TrhvFUSFAr

    Teri_Kanefield, to random
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    Trump filed his reply in the immunity issue in the Supreme Court.

    It's so bad it is embarrassing. It is exactly how not to write a legal document.

    To review: The issue now is simply whether the Supreme Court will put the trial DC-J6 trial hold while it considers whether to grant cert (hear his appeal.)

    Ordinarily the order is this:

    💠 Person loses and files a writ for certiorari (which means asking SCOTUS to hear the appeal.
    💠 SCOTUS decides whether to hear the case.

    1/

    adambkaplan,
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    @Teri_Kanefield @Bam isn’t the “Senate must convict in order to prosecute criminally” undermined by the words of Mitch McConnell, in the exact moment the Senate was deliberating his second impeachment?

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    NBA basketball player Michael Porter Jr says that women's basketball players shouldn't get paid nearly what men make, because they don't have as many fans, and aren't "packing out arenas" like men are.

    Look. I'm not even mad. I don't think he's wrong about player pay should be tied to league revenue, which is tied to in person attendance, online, and TV viewership.

    I'm not mad. I just know that he hasn't looked at his NBA champ Denver Nugget average game viewership, compared to Caitlin Clark.😬

    adambkaplan,
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    @patmikemid @mekkaokereke @reesecommabill and has HUGE fan bases in the Midwest.

    I used to fly to Omaha regularly for work. Volleyball is just as big as college football out there.

    adambkaplan,
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    @mekkaokereke @reesecommabill I would not be surprised if all future Iowa/Nebraska games are outdoor stadium match-ups.

    mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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    Let me explain DEI this way.

    What if the fastest 100m high school track athlete in US history (9.98) was a skinny white kid? Would your system even find him? Or is the system set up to just default to Black track athletes only?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ejoAhVDhA5w

    What if the fastest 60m split in track and field history (6.29) was a short Asian man? Would your system find him? Or would the assumption be that only Black guys can run the 60 m fast?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fen5mbnh_k

    adambkaplan,
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    @mekkaokereke this is such a good analogy! And it works the higher up the chain you go.

    “John has an outsized presence in practice and on the bench, even though he doesn’t get a lot of playing time. Let’s hire him as an assistant coach once he graduates.”

    Etc.

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    🤷🏿‍♂️Another day of watching dudes online that know next to nothing about DEI, talk amongst themselves about what they think DEI is, and how they think it works.

    It's like watching a conversation about hockey by people that have never seen it.

    🤽🏻‍♂️The thing I hate most about hockey, is that instead of a ball, they play with a small turtle! Cruelty! End hockey!

    🏒Um.. no we don't? We use a puck.

    🤽🏻‍♂️What's a puck?

    🏒Um... Have you ever seen a hockey game? Do you even know any hockey players?

    🤽🏻‍♂️No, why?

    adambkaplan,
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    @mekkaokereke interesting emoji choice. Do you know what happens below the 🤽‍♂️water line?

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    👴🏻"The Colts aren't going to the playoffs because Tyler Goodson dropped the ball? How could he drop the ball? He's a professional athlete! He's paid millions of dollars to catch balls, not drop them! He felt pressure?! Don't talk to me about pressure!"

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqp-tAoYo6k

    Let's talk about that. Tyler Goodson isn't paid millions of dollars. Let's take a look at his contract vs his career earnings. His career earnings so far across 3 years of college and 2 years in the NFL, is $360K.

    $70K/yr

    adambkaplan,
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    @mekkaokereke you know this, but I’m echoing as a former college athlete. D1 athletic programs make it exceptionally difficult to major in a natural science.

    Need to miss practice for lab work? Bye bye “scholarship” and playing time.

    adambkaplan,
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    @mekkaokereke this is part of the reason I swam for a D3 program with stringent practice time controls (NESCAC school). 20 hours of official practice time max while class was in session. No official practice until Nov 1 - October 1 or 15 is more the norm in D3.

    And my coach was especially accommodating to science majors who had 3 hour afternoon lab sessions weekly.

    b0rk, (edited ) to random
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    what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc

    (really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)

    adambkaplan,
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    @b0rk when dealing with merge conflicts, I always confuse “Current change” and “Incoming change.” I often pull up the “clean” code on GitHub to figure out which lines are “mine” that I want to keep.

    helenczerski, to climate
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    It is completely ludicrous that anyone is still talking about hydrogen for home heating - it’s far less efficient, less safe, more expensive and less flexible than heat pumps. This report is the last nail in a coffin that is already more nail than coffin.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/21/hydrogen-boiler-home-heating-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    adambkaplan,
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    @helenczerski @lisamelton if all electric heat pumps can work in Maine (USA), they can work almost anywhere. https://www.fastcompany.com/90944101/how-maine-got-more-than-100000-residents-to-install-heat-pumps

    flexghost, to random
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    Scratch’n’Sniff

    What would this smell like?

    adambkaplan,
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    @flexghost Santorum

    adambkaplan, to Raleigh
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    starts in today! Any of my Fediverse folks in town please DM me! Would love to meet up irl.

    adambkaplan,
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    @andypiper cool! I’ll be at the Red Hat booth around 3. Does Mastodon/Fedi have a table?

    flexghost, to random
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    ** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

    Tonight’s theme is:

    🎧☆*: ONE SHOT 💿🎸♫
    —
    🎵 Sometimes you only get one shot. Sometimes you REALLY only get one shot. Post the GREATEST ONE HIT WONDERS of all time along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
    —

    He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
    He sings the songs that remind him of the better times

    🍷 Chumbawamba – ‘Tubthumping’ + A whiskey drink and a lager drink 🍸

    Post often • share • make some friends

    video of Chumbawamba which is basically the most 90s thing most people can think of besides saved by the bell

    adambkaplan,
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    @flexghost 🎶New Radicals “You Get What You Give”

    https://youtu.be/DL7-CKirWZE?si=qUhogiVqhgUJbKIh

    🍷 a Barbera D’Asti to celebrate Simcha Torah

    flexghost, to random
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    ** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

    Tonight’s theme is:

    😡🤬rrrANGERrr!!😡😤

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    🎵 It was a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week. Did You have a good one? Good. F.U.

    Post a song you listen to when you go to your car to scream bloody murder - along with what you’re drinking. (Gym music is fine)

    Let it out, darling 🎶
    —

    🍷 Cannibal Corpse “Hammer Smashed Face” * Woodford Reserve + Peroni🍸

    Post often • share • make some friends

    video/mp4

    adambkaplan,
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    @flexghost Mudvayne’s Not Falling. Also works as pump up music for a 22 second sprint.

    https://youtu.be/uhqRMzoyV4g?si=aah_-oDz768EyIkn

    🍺 Leinenkugel summer shandy to enjoy a waning summer evening.

    Alon, to random
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    What are some examples of positive, non-stereotyped portrayal of nerds or smart protagonists on television and in film? I'm thinking of Malcolm in the Middle, Prison Break, and maybe the Ross arc on Friends (except it has held up poorly) - what else?

    Coming to think of it, these are all male nerds, not female ones. Chloe on 24 is portrayed sympathetically, but is a supporting character.

    adambkaplan,
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    @Alon Maura Isles of “Rizzoli and Isles.” A super nerd who has impeccable fashion taste and fences. Her apparent affluence hides the fact she is the hidden, out of wedlock child of a major Boston gangster.

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    No Megan Rapinoe slander will be tolerated. None, you hear me? Rapinoe was the first white football player to support Colin Kaepernick. Soccer is football.

    I'm scared of France, Netherlands, and England. The US didn't get much worse. Everyone else has gotten a lot better.

    The "I'm a Fox watcher that can't name 3 players in the US Women's Nation Team" to "I'm now an expert on women's soccer, and make more misogynistic comments about the USWNT than Alexi Lalas" pipeline is always in full effect.

    adambkaplan,
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    @mekkaokereke the Thundercats inspired Nike ad they did for her (“Let it Rip!”) is sick. I don’t recall a women’s World Cup where the big brands exerted this kind of marketing effort (ad spend and production talent).

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=yOOb52AJOzo&feature=share

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    adambkaplan,
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    @joshbressers ++1. We need to adopt the LetsEncrypt /HTTPS mindset - build the tooling and infra to make security easy, cheap, and default.

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

    I'm still not talking about Black history. I'm still talking about white US history.

    Q: Why do Black kids not do well in school? Is it because their dads are uninvolved and uncaring parents? Bill Cosby and Herschel Walker told me that, and they are good and wise men that we should listen to! It's Black dads' fault! Boo Black men!

    A: No. Black kids only do poorly in school in extremely racist countries.

    #BlackMastodon

    adambkaplan,
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    @mekkaokereke there was only one Black teacher in my entire school district growing up, which still is 85% White because of racist zoning laws (New York). No shocker that the former mayor of my hometown - now county executive - helped kill Hochul’s housing reform plan.

    He got in trouble once for staging a reenactment of the “seating arrangements” of slave trade ships with my 7th grade history class.

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