prole

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[–] prole@hexbear.net 44 points 4 days ago

Yeah, and that is amazing propaganda for our side. Now more people are showing up in these costumes because of that video. The most important thing to do right now is increase our numbers. There is no real resistance until that happens.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 80 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

I think there is definitely a place for this kind of non-violent 'resistance'. It's an easy way to move public sentiment and bully fascists in a way that can't really be reframed by the media and such. No one is going to think people in these costumes are doing violence because it's absurd. Onlookers will start to understand that the idea of riots, gangs, etc is simply a lie.

That said, non-violence is not a long-term solution to fascism (obvious to most of us I imagine). The US people just aren't in a position to do much else. Any real resistance would be crushed at the moment because the numbers are simply too small.

Edit: should also note these people are still doing something good by wasting ICE resources just by being there. They can't be ignored by ICE or other cops, so they can even serve as a distraction for other activities and any time a cop is dealing with these goofy antics is time they aren't doing something much worse.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lying about how close the election was is very Trumpian. I bet the crowd at her book promo was also the biggest in history. Everyone knows Kamala Harris is the greatest politician of this generation. Some even say the greatest of all generations. Many people are saying it.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I also shaved off an eyebrow in honor of my dead grandpa

[–] prole@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They definitely have reported on this. I read about this story days ago and I definitely don't follow NJ news.

But even searching just now I can find articles from lots of major outlets over the last 4 days. CNN, NYT, People, CBS, ABC, etc. Super easy to find, not sure why you would just make this up without even trying to look first.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Only in Utah in Minecraft

[–] prole@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It'll go to court after dozens of people's lives get ruined and the court might overturn it.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Ok...? I didn't say it was okay or anything, not sure why you felt the need to say this. Not like there aren't already a dozen comments saying the same thing.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A lot of padlocks like this don't even need to be cut. Pretty much any of them with a spring loaded catch can be opened by hitting it. Don't even have to hit the cheaper ones that hard.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

How do you lean in two different directions at the same time?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It depends! There are some species that never leave the water (axolotls are one of these) and then some stay in the water for mating season from early spring through late summer, usually about 5 months. Some never really enter the water again after their juvenile stage.

Edit: salamanders are neat for a lot of reasons, but one of them is how often they seem to evolve into subspecies. For example, Crater Lake has a subspecies of rough-skinned newts called the Mazama newt.

The neat thing about them is that the rough-skinned has one of the deadliest neurotoxins (tetrodotoxin) and the only predator they have is garter snakes (they are in an evolutionary arms race, garters are immune to the poison). However, garter snakes can't really fuck with Crater Lake because it's so cold and the Mazama lost its neurotoxin over time.

The horrible thing is that some colonizers introduced fish and then crawfish to the lake 100 years ago and since they lost the neurotoxin the mazama newts are now endangered! Luckily there is an effort by local zoos and I think a school to keep some in captivity to breed and eventually reintroduce them.

Anyway, special interest info dump is over...for now

 

Ok so, somehow I ended up being a manager at work. Mostly I just don't bother anyone and protect them from the bosses when I can. However, I'm a software dev and they had me make a bunch of scripts and such to measure productivity. I didn't really want to because fuck that, but as I was working on it I realized none of the bosses will ever look at this code or question the output.

I ended up padding the stats quite a bit in "honest" ways by doing things like excluding weekends and holidays. I also round everything up to the nearest whole number. But then I decided to just add extra values here and there as well. Instead of starting the count at 0, I start at 1.

The bosses asked for a monthly report, so I give them 28 days (and don't count the weekends). I drop the lowest count days if there are more than 28 days in the month and present all of the stats as monthly.

Anyway, just remember there are lots of ways to help your coworkers and you don't actually have to do any managing if everyone understands what's up. Just be really careful and try to always give yourself plausible deniability. LLMs are a great excuse to shift blame right now even if you aren't using one

Anyone else have ideas or things they've done?

 

Recently I've had some frustrating conversations with people. Someone said Oregon is "deeply red", which sounds like an absolutely unhinged thing to say when you consider all branches of government in OR are controlled by Dems.

I'm sure I was rude to the person, but I tried to explain how ridiculous that is. If Oregon is deeply red then what is Alabama? Just because the rural areas are conservative? I spent way too long on this one.

Anyway how do you handle this kind of nonsense in the world? I usually just say what I'm thinking to people these days, but more and more it's feeling like I should just stfu and let people believe whatever

 

I've looked at a few lists here and there, but it seems like there just aren't many co-ops that recruit strangers online. Anyone have any experience working for a co-op as a dev? It seems like it would be an awesome way to structure a small web/app dev team. Part of me wants to try to start one myself, but it's hard to imagine maintaining the motivation needed for a task like that when I can barely function as it is.

Anyway, what's up with the lack of cooperatives? Sorry if this is the wrong comm, seemed like the best place

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