[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

I agree, the job of politicians is to reframe Trans rights as policies that benefit everyone. If everyone at a negotiation feels like they are winning you have a successful negotiation. Who cares if the new policy disproportionately benefits one group, we are all better off because of it, and in the case of Trans rights give them the same (non-codified) protections as everyone else.

(This is if course ignoring the oft used tactic of the far right which is to do the opposite and reframe beneficial policies (eh. ACA) as something that only benefits one group by calling it a funny name (eg. Obamacare), so it's easier said than done, but that is what the democrats should be doing more of, imho)

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

I mean, yeah, he'd have to hold the phone, no way that thing would stay the nook of his shoulder with a neck like that!

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

"...they fight for airplane meals...", now we know what goes on behind the curtain, a Mile-High Fight Club!

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Judges hate this this one trick. Call them rude words then they can't convict you because that would make them biased!

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Bring back national service, but exclusively for Orcas, they have too much time on their hands!

(Policy courtesy of the British Tory Govt)

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

It's "Golf with your Friends" not "Golf with your Comrades"!

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

I'm in my forties and I think every milestone decade has been better than the last. I also wholeheartedly agree with the above statements. I hope you continue to do the things that make you happy and carry on your enjoyment of them :)

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"sorry, I'm not interested" and hanging up is fine, cursing my family and telling me what a PoS I am, not so much. I think it's clear you've never had to work in the service industry if you think that working a job like this dehumanizes you and justifies rudeness of this scale.

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

Cold calling telemarketing ("Do you have time to answer some questions about x?"). Felt grotty with every call (got yelled at a lot too, be nice to people who call they likely don't want to call you any more than you want to receive the call), lasted 2-weeks.

Swapped out to data entry of paper responses into a spreadsheet, was so much better but only lasted 2 days before I went back to the phones. Am verg grateful I don't have to do that any more.

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Haha, I always suspected!

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I wanted to learn and I do that best by making games (find it holds my attention), found it a mixed bag, in that Bevy is quickly becoming the de-facto game engine in Rust (I know not strictly true but it is very popular), however that involves learning Bevy, rather than Rust.

So instead recently I've started making games with Yew (Web lib, using WASM) and Warp, to get to grips with those. I've been doing a game dev live stream too, where I work on a project (FOSS) to try and show the stuff I learned. Mostly just for the enjoyment of solving maths problems with an audience!

Sadly when I was laid off last year I couldn't find anything in Rust but I'm hoping my next contract might involve at least some.

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