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jtrek

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  • What was the last live theater performance that you saw?

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  • Coincidentally, I was taken as a plus-1 to a Broadway musical, "Ragtime", this month. I normally don't go out much for theater, but it was free so I went.

    It wasn't bad. The style of music isn't my jam, but it had some fun parts.

    Also interesting is the play's message seems to be "the only way you'll get something approaching justice is violence" and I'm not sure if that's the author's intent.

  • For those of you with a living room or multiple rooms; do you have a TV in your bedroom? Why or why not?

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  • Technically yes, but it's ancient and almost never used. Someone got me one of those toy NES things that's plugged into it, but I don't use it much

    . I need to donate the tv (no one on free cycle offered to take it) or send it to an e-waste place. It's very heavy so it mostly just sits there.

  • Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices

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  • I just saw a play that has a plot point about how someone gets robbed by some racist, well connected shits, and the police won't do anything to help. The closest he gets to justice is vigilantism, where he hunts down and shoots 3 of his assailants dead. Only then does anyone start to listen to him, but when he agrees to talk peacefully they shoot him dead.

    I'm not sure "the only way you'll get justice is with your own bloody hands" was the author's intent, but that seems to be the message.

  • Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation

    Some people are very fragile and have poor emotional regulation. When they see other people doing good, it makes them feel bad, so they lash out.

    Environmentalism, biking, veganism, all commonly evoke this behavior.

  • ‘They’ve lost the jury pool’: Jeanine Pirro’s office is struggling to win trials this year

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  • Mistrust and anger with the federal government appears to have contributed to a willingness of some of the jurors to nullify, meaning they refused to side with prosecutors to send a larger message, people familiar with the jury’s deliberations told CNN.

    Good. Nullify everything these assholes do.

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  • If I'd made 500k for a couple years I'd be happily retired at like 40. Buy a home for less than $1mm, then live off the interest and safe investments

    Rich people are bad at money.

  • Greg Abbott called out for sharing AI rendering of rescued soldier

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  • It's a post-truth world for many people and maybe always has been. Feelings are the only things that matter. The "facts don't care about your feelings" line was, as always, projection.

  • David Ellison says 70% of Americans are centrist. Surveys tell a different story

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  • I think few people think they're reasonable and not extremist, even when they are relative to the Overton window.

    Like, the guy who wants to deport all immigrants thinks he's a centrist because he doesn't want to kill them.

  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • No. Voting in big elections is not the only action you take. This is a conflict with multiple fronts. You need to organize, talk to people, use every option.

    Just abandoning the electoral front in this conflict is stupid

  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • The car is already skidding on the ice. Saying "we should have taken the subway" is not useful at that point in time.

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    Chickens

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  • In the Gameboy one , you can kill the chicken with the fire wand thing and then the swam stops.

  • Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC

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  • I switched to Linux a year or two ago. Pretty much every game I've played has worked fine. (Elden ring, guild wars 2, nioh2, pillars of eternity...)

    Even non-steam stuff was basically click and go with Heroic launcher

  • Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’

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  • Seriously, folks, how hard is it to just walk away?

    I read recently that "will power" doesn't meaningfully exist, but it's rather the result of many other factors. That said, many people seem to be bankrupt of what one would call willpower. I don't know why.

    Maybe it's the capitalist hell scape. Maybe it's the plastic in our bodies. Maybe people are just largely social followers, and with a large enough contingent of idiots many people who would behave better follow down into the slop.

  • Does anyone else have a silly nickname for social media?

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  • I affectionately call lemmy "the commie site", but my current instance I think defederated with a lot of the spicier places.

  • As Americans bear costs of the Iran war and DHS shutdown, Washington politicians leave town

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  • They're still there for, well, I can think of three reasons.

    People vote for them. Organizing people to vote is hard for various reasons, but that mechanism is still present.

    They're not murdered. Always an option, but certainly an escalation that doesn't scale well.

    They're not expelled. Wikipedia says "In the entire history of the United States Congress, 21 members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and six from the House of Representatives. Of these 21 members, 17 were expelled for supporting the Confederate States in 1861 and 1862. ", so that's not a commonly used option.

    Personally I worry that if non-violent options fail, more people will see violence as an acceptable option.

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • We used to do retrospectives at one of my old jobs, because everywhere loves cargo-culting agile and scrum stuff.

    I quickly realized that a lot of the problems were largely outside the team's control. It was shit like "The CEO doesn't believe in designers or UX, so he won't hire one, so we spend a lot of time doing that work badly ourselves." Or, "management is making us spend all this time in 'planning meetings' so we don't get anything done"

    Stuff that has easy solutions, but we can't do because some idiot or powerful cry-baby is in the way.

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • My last job was pretty good about code reviews, when people actually spent time on them. My front end code got much better when the front-end expert actually reviewed it.

    My current job, code reviews are a rubber stamp farce and I've seen total garbage sail though. The code base is a tire fire. These things are related.

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • I suggested at my current job that we adopt a policy of fixing things as we go. Boss wasn't interested. He said his boss said "he doesn't want people gold plating things".

    Okay. I guess we'll keep this tower of bash scripts that breaks once a month.

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    Showers, morning or night?

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  • Late Afternoon? I work from home. I shower before going out into the world socially.