I’m top-left (my job pays well, it’s engaging, and it has a positive impact on the world).

I have some friends in a 5th category that are hyper-busy with traveling, social engagements, etc. I feel like I have to book time with them weeks in advance.

I don’t think the US states backed out, they’re just stuck waiting for the legal right to switch. BC got tired of waiting for them and decided to switch on its own, as being deeply coupled with those states is now less desirable.

It won’t happen in my lifetime because your guardrails failed at all levels, including voters. A vile president is supported by hypocrite judges, confirmed by a spineless legislature, voted in by amoral voters. 20 years ago Republicans were the “family values” party. There were issues with that, but it was a given they wouldn’t threaten allies, meme themselves as Christ, celebrate war crimes, promote gambling, be pedophiles, be brazenly corrupt, etc. Then they, and their voters, shed their morals like snakes molting. Even if somehow they started acting like right and wrong were real concepts again, I won’t trust them to not shed that again when it’s convenient.

This, but also if you aren’t putting your soldiers at risk then war becomes more palatable (and thus more likely). For example, I doubt Trump would have attacked Iran if he had been quoted 1000+ American causalties in the first week.

I do think this is underappreciated advice though. In 2015 after I finished my Bachelors I wasn’t having any luck with job searching, so I started printing my resume and hand-delivering it to the companies instead of responding online. My resume sat on the desk of my future manager for a few weeks until he eventually decided to go through with interviewing me. If I had only applied online I suspect my application would have been looked at only once, and I probably wouldn’t have been hired.

That’s fair. I wouldn’t reject money from Google but instead build up an endowment with it for when it eventually disappears. If you can recover your market share (maybe by investing in your browser - the peformance is lagging) then you can also demand more money from Google to set them as default. Finally, Mozilla is a non-profit and I wouldn’t be opposed to them just asking for donations, like most non-profits.

I had an ad in my Firefox settings for “Solo AI Website Creator”. It’s a product from Mozilla for using AI to build your website. Note that it’s not open source, and you must rely on them to host your website (no export functionality, and recurring fees outside a basic free tier).

I agree with you, I wish Mozilla would focus solely on their mission instead of trying to build all these side projects people don’t want.

Wasn’t MS just saying that they were going to work to de-shittify Windows? Evidently the same decision makers for the previous shit are still in charge.

I’m annoyed because I only saw it on my feed today. Luckily I was about 2 sentences in before I checked the date.

What you are saying may be true where you live, but you shouldn’t confidently (and incorrectly) speculate on laws elsewhere. Where I live, a couple living together are considered married after 2 / 1 years (provincial / federal definitions). No need for a ceremony, no need to call each other “wife” or “husband”. It just happens. https://beyond.ubc.ca/what-bc-couples-need-to-know-about-common-law-spouse-entitlements/

Seriously this. Oil is a global commodity. Iran was being dumb for allowing oil to ship to friendly countries, because them using that oil frees up other oil for the US and reduces the one leverage Iran has that Trump cares about. But I guess it doesn’t matter - Trump is rescuing them from their mistake.

I can imagine future TVs refusing to work without an always-on internet connection.

It’s not clear in this image but I saw it in the plans the NYTimes posted for their article - but why does it need a gun range? I’m not familiar with American gun culture, but is it typical for government facilities like prisons to provide gun ranges for prison guards to practice?

I would be curious to see how often people actually upgrade their frameworks.

For me, I’ve upgraded my mainboard to a newer CPU generation for better integrated graphics (old one is in a case as a home server) and I upgraded to their matte screen when they released those.

FYI the tariffs will likely remain, they just have to be introduced in a different form. So 100% don’t expect prices to decrease, and that won’t even be because businesses are greedy.

I hate these articles because they imply that anti-depressants aren’t useful (“just excercise more!”). In my personal experience, having had about 20 years of depression and suicidal ideation since I was a child, nothing worked until I finally was on venlafaxine. That drug seriously saved and transformed my life, and I hate that there are people that will read this article for whom it might be the only treatment that will work for them, but they’ll try excercise, not get better, and blame themselves because they always could have exercised more.

Depression is a symptom of likely different hidden diseases, and some treatments will only work for some of them. That’s why it’s not uncommon for patients to need to try multiple medications before finding one that treats their underlying disease (for example, the first drug I tried, wellbutrin, actually exaccerbated my depression).

Likely excercise can be a successful treatment for some people, but it won’t work for everyone, and a headline that says it’s as effective as medication fails to communicate that that’s averaged across a population. Just like how a typical anti-depressant is only somewhat effective (amazing for some, nothing for others), I imagine exercise is the same.

Other people have good points, but even if you don’t care at all about open source or MS, Github’s reliability lately has been really bad. I think they’ve had 3 outages this month already? It’s been disruptive at my workplace and we have concerns about how we’d deploy a fix if we had an outage at the same time (since our deploys are automated using GH Actions).

Question is whether the Republican govenors still end up going “unofficially” or whether they all refuse to actually meet Trump.

Why is it indefensible? It’s literally an island which limits attacks to air and sea.

They don’t need to; most developers rely on Github.