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gooba42

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I'm a programmer, I help people clock out and go see their kids.

Just for context - In the US, SW Missouri currently.

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KawaTora, to random

Normal People: What was the civil war fought over?

White Supremacists: It was about states' rights.

Normal People: States' rights to do what exactly?

White Supremacists: To make and enforce their own laws.

Normal People: Laws regarding what?

White Supremacists: Property and theft.

Normal People: What kind of property? Theft of what?

White Supremacists: Well, people were stealing slaves and taking them to free states.

Normal People: Who was stealing slaves?

White Supremacists: The slaves were stealing themselves by running to the North and those damn Yankees didn't want to send them back.

Normal People: So what did the South do about it?

White Supremacists: They got a federal law passed in 1851, that forced the Northern states to ignore their own laws against slavery and recognize the South's right to have escaped slaves sent back. It was called the Fugitive Slave Act.

Normal People: So you pushed for a new federal law to force states to ignore their own state laws and constitutions in the name of "states' rights", is that correct?

White Supremacists: Yep,

Normal People: Then what happened?

White Supremacists: Those damn Yankees got control of the house and the senate and the presidency and tried to ban slavery nationwide.

Normal People: So they wanted to use a federal law to force Southern states to change their laws, kind of like with the Fugitive Slave Act you pushed for a decade earlier, right?

White Supremacists: No, this was different because this time it effected the South.

Normal People: So what happened as a result?

White Supremacists: We decided to commit treason against the USA and start our own country to keep slaves.

Normal People: So you admit the Civil War was about slavery.

White Supremacists: No it was about states' rights. States have rights to own slaves but no rights to refuse to recognize slavery.

gooba42,
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@KawaTora Ultimately the most fucked thing about this argument is that the Confederates themselves didn't make it.

They openly and explicitly stated their rebellion was about white supremacy and slavery, even to the point of telling us their flag stood for the supremacy of the white race.

It's only people that came after and want an acceptable veneer to hide behind who deal in this states' rights nonsense.

luckytran, to random
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Six students have measles in an outbreak at a Florida elementary school.

How did Florida's health department respond?

Their Surgeon General sent out a letter that supports parents sending unvaccinated children to school during the outbreak and doesn't recommend vaccination.

gooba42,
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@luckytran The whole point of fostering the COVID outbreak was to consolidate power, kill off undesirables and scare people into clinging to fascist leaders who assured the public they were the only ones "strong enough" to answer the threats.

We can't give all that up just because it's killing children.

RickiTarr, to random
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99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

gooba42,
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@RickiTarr We keep asking after better benefits. I work for a major medical insurance and watching paperwork go by for fully covered single claims for amounts well under my deductible is rough sometimes.

Likewise we ask for better communication and management is sure we just want to hear more words so now we have more pointless town halls where the CEO brags about how his international vacation brought his family together so everyone should take one and then bullshits jargon for the VPs.

gooba42,
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@ianhecht @mentallyalex @RickiTarr The flat out lying to me is the worst part.

I would respond more positively to a voice message that said outright "We're never going to staff up to cover normal call volume. Please wait."

gooba42,
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@RickiTarr And the worst of the worst are somehow the ones who feel most entitled to tell everyone to follow their models.

We have Costco guy quietly going "Hey, just pay everybody and treat them nicely" (individual Managers can and do differ here) and nobody's listening.

On the other side we have every wannabe Jack Welch getting lauded publicly for "Employees are disposable, just use them up until they're empty and turn them out into the streets!" in every media.

gooba42,
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@RickiTarr I've said, not really joking, that every generation of management commissions a new study by academia to figure out how to improve work productivity and morale. The study always says "Pay and treat people better" and they bury the results, complain about "ivory tower academics" (who worked from their real world data!) and we go another 20 years without fixing anything.

GottaLaff, to random
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" is even or ahead in the polls because millions of swing voters have no idea just how authoritarian a 2nd term would be

Blame the media's massive failure to pound the drums about 1/6 pardons, 'retribution' and looming dictatorship."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/trump-47-second-term-dangers-authoritarianism-20240314.html#loaded

gooba42,
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@GottaLaff I read this one just today.

SrRochardBunson, to random

Toxic masculinity is the gateway drug to fascism.

gooba42,
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@bob_zim @SrRochardBunson It's really both, isn't it?

Men as participants in, and victims of, the patriarchy keep reinventing systems that center masculine toxicity. They end up poisoned by, and angry at, the system they built. Then somehow convince themselves that the problem was that it wasn't toxic and patriarchal enough so they reinvent fascism against which they eventually rebel and the cycle repeats.

benroyce, to random
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The Fermi Paradox says we should have contacted alien life by now

The Great Filter says we haven't because a civilization's capacity for self-destruction increases to certainty over time

I thought for us it would be an exotic technology or scientific discovery that instantly destroys on a large scale

Nope. Far more depressing and mundane

We simply watched ourselves destroy our climate and lacked the will to do anything about it because someone was making money off it

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

gooba42,
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@benroyce Turns out that "capitalism" is the Great Filter.

Once we invented a system to justify and reinforce greed, destruction was guaranteed.

dangillmor, to random
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As @pluralistic reminds us, capitalists absolutely hate capitalism, and they're systematically returning us to their favorite system: feudalism.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/

gooba42,
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@dangillmor @pluralistic I'm glad somebody with more clout is finally saying this too.

More people need to understand that corporate personhood is creating a class of immortal ruling aristocrats that share no values with humanity.

ThomHartmann, to random
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How much longer are Americans going to tolerate corporations claiming that they are “persons” and have rights over humans under the Bill of Rights?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/have-we-reached-the-point-where-corporatism-f56

gooba42,
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@ThomHartmann Corporations are the first and only non-human persons recognized and protected under US federal law. This is even more important to talk about now that corporations are trying to tell us their fancy chatbots as autonomous entities for which the corporation is no longer responsible.

We've arrived at a place where Hobby Lobby can practice religion but churches are being banned from feeding the hungry.

The USA needs to just come clean and admit it's a plutocratic feudal state.

festal, to random
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If corporations are a form of slow AI, then what @pluralistic calls is indicative of an "alignment problem", when the objective function (paperclip maximization) is persued by destructive means. And like all alignment problems, it has to do with a lack of, or the wrong, constraints.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

gooba42,
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@festal @pluralistic I've been saying for a couple of years now, corporations are the inhuman competing species we've been afraid AI would become.

We are both dray animals and livestock to this predator and it's winning the evolutionary arms race against us.

RickiTarr, to random
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One of my favorite philosophers stories is someone was trying to start an argument with Diogenes that motion did not exist, and he just didn't acknowledge them and kept walking to prove it in fact does.

gooba42,
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@RickiTarr Diogenes was such an asshole but I can't help but love him.

therobburgessshow, to random
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I’ll bet the 15 Republican governors who just rejected summer food money for kids in their states all describe themselves as “pro-life.” Moments like this are why I always refer to them as “anti-abortion” instead. How is refusing to feed the poor kids you forced into existence promoting life?

gooba42,
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@Oldfartrant @therobburgessshow Make Das Kapital required, cover to cover, reading alongside "On The Wealth of Nations". Actually reading these for ourselves, cover to cover, will expose people to information worth thinking about.

Smith's own critiques of capitalism are highly relevant as we watch the whole world fall into exactly the failure modes he described in the chapters nobody assigns anymore.

18+ SrRochardBunson, (edited ) to random

I'm a curious cat. :blobcatthink:

If you can't hold your nose & make yourself vote for Biden in November, what will you do?

Please boost, if inclined.

gooba42,
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@courtcan @theogrin @SrRochardBunson I keep saying that you can only oppose fascism actively but you can support it either actively or passively.

andrew, to law
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I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of , , etc.

Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?

@law

gooba42,
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@andrew @law We can't trust for-profit entities with critical infrastructure. Particularly not in the USA where they're legally obligated to maximize profits for shareholders and basically nothing else.

There will eventually always be someone outbidding you for your own data.

StillIRise1963, to random
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It’s so shocking to me how we’re letting extremely wealthy people kill the future.

gooba42,
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@StillIRise1963 As so many abuse victims have done before, we've collapsed our judgements into "Is this good or bad for my abuser?" and shrunk our perspective accordingly.

mboelen, to linux
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With more people joining after recent news, it may be good to focus on some core commands 🎓

Before you think 'uptime' on the question below, the article got a few alternatives included.

When did a system start? Learn how to query the boot time (uptime) of a system using commands like uptime and ps: https://linux-audit.com/system-administration/faq/how-to-see-when-system-was-started/

Got other options or useful commands that can be added? 🏗️

Feedback and boosts welcome 👷

gooba42,
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@Corb_The_Lesser @mboelen @visone There's a very tricky middle ground between scaring them away from the hard parts and hiding the hard parts to turn into a "gotcha" later.

Trying to hit the sweet spot of "this is available and useful if you need it later" is one of the very hard parts of doing user education.

GayDeceiver, to random
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Apparently, Mt Everest is such a great vacation destination, that long after we are gone, aliens will still be able to get a good sampling of how we as a species ruin anything we touch. Trash, bodily waste, bodies … plenty of samples preserved for as long as the area around the peak remains frozen.

gooba42,
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@GayDeceiver So at the rate we're going maybe ten, fifteen years left?

ai6yr, to random
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Remarkable how out-of-the-mainstream utilitarian cycling seems to be in my neighborhood. Strong car-centric culture in Southern California, for sure. (yes, I was, until recently, part of that). 🤔

gooba42,
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@ai6yr I have spent a lot of time getting places on foot and it's absurd how people respond to it.

You can go to the gym, get on a treadmill and pretend to walk somewhere for an hour and people are fine with it.

You can go out on the sidewalk, walk for an hour to an actual physical place and people freak out about it.

StillIRise1963, to random
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The only people who'd bet they’d be okay in fascism are people WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND WTF FASCISM IS.

gooba42,
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@StillIRise1963 The machine that eats people doesn't stop until it runs out of people.

It may eat some people first but everybody gets their turn eventually.

LALegault, to random
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Good point. One lost on many a liberal.

gooba42,
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@LALegault Humans judge others based on themselves and we forget others can be wildly divergent from our own contexts.

It's why the fascists all think we're trying to get one over on them because it's what they'd do.

We make the same mistake when we assume that fascists are just differently informed or haven't grasped the details.

They can be educated out of fascism, it's not a rational belief system you can debate. It just wish fulfillment for selfish evil people.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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IIRC, turbulence is another little hazard of a warmer climate. It might just reduce air flight.

https://youtu.be/uak-Zm4qhBk

gooba42,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell I'd say people would maybe stop leaving their seatbelts off but I saw how masking went.

Binder, to random
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I’m starting to think that Sales loves acronyms not to tighten up their communications but to obfuscate their ignorance of what they’re talking about.

gooba42,
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@Binder I worked for a company who started having to send a dedicated engineer with their sales team to avoid having any more contacts fully negotiated for parts that can't physically exist.

You're definitely onto something here.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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So, you might ask yourself, now that has started alienating major advertisers from the platform previously known as Twitter, where are they going to spend their advertising budgets?

One place seems to be LinkedIn, which has seen ad revenues grown by over 10% in 2023 & prices being bid up.

The Q. is will the exodus become a flood in 2024 & if so can X survive such a shift in its business model to (as is already clear) a more subscriber basis?

Of course, here we might say: who cares?

gooba42,
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@ChrisMayLA6 My assumption, from the get go, is that Musk acquired Twitter for purposes of preventing the next Arab Spring backed by loans from the Saudi royals.

Everything he has done since then is consistent with the theory.

If he can serve some Russian disinfo goals on the way down, that's just gravy.

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