I realized this because we have a younger engineer who didn’t even have an Adblock running on their browser. When I asked them about it, they just told me that they grew up seeing ads so it doesn’t matter to them 🤯

But the name won’t be really America, though.

This is true, I ate fried grasshoppers once and it tasted so much like shrimps I ate handfuls of them.

The sad thing is that once you’re in the system, you need to make compromises to advance your agenda. However, some people on the left see this as capitulating to the status quo and a betrayal of the movement.

You could argue that pushing for radical change (i.e., a revolution) would be too drastic and that you won’t get any meaningful change made.

But on the other hand, you could say that we’re currently headed toward a massive disaster (climate change), and making incremental changes won’t cut it.

I understand why some people on the left are attacking him. To be honest, as for me I’m already exhausted, I’ll just do what I can to ensure my community has resiliency in the coming upheaval and just hope for the best.

Best place to build a community, basically we’re just hanging out on someone’s porch (instance admin) until they decides to close up shop until kick us out.

How would you handle the CSAM issue though?

Few years ago it was an issue since someone spammed CSAM that it got federated to multiple servers and it took concentrated effort from community mods and instance admins to solve the issue.

If you have adhd I suggest getting a good quality IEM or headphones. I can sit still and just listen to music if it’s layered and lush and have myself fully stimulated trying to piece everything.

I can’t help but think this shift in doctrine could lead to the fall of an empire, with a new ideology in power rising from its ashes. We saw a very similar pattern during WWI, where changing doctrines led to an imperial collapse and paved the way for a new ideology taking power.

We might be on the verge of seeing history repeat itself.

Satan != Antichrist

Depends on the Djinn, if they’re Muslim they’ll follow halal rules. If they’re not, 🤷

Sub to their sync service for just one month?

I can just hope that the orange despot is the bottom and if we go even lower we’ll be back to the Stone Age level civilization if we’re lucky.

Baseball, huh?

My org just rolled our own project management tool that matches our workflow now.

Well they’ll just show the no drivers available screen and give the rider option to widen the search criteria?

I put everyone with a {{ first name }} + {{ surname }} except for my SO, which is My {{ their nickname }}.

Yep, I’ve worked in systems like these and we actually had doctors as part of our development team to make sure the diagnosis is accurate.

Just discovered Masayuki Suzuki and been going through his discography. My vocal range is practically the same as him so I got a lot of new karaoke songs under belt.

They played some kind of RPG.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump

It just need someone snapping and starts shooting ICE. Then all hell will break loose. IIRC there’s some political scientists doing a simulation on how a civil war might start in modern America and it’s eerily similar to what’s been going on right now. There’s only two steps left, someone shooting ICE and then the federal government starts sending troops to take over State and clashing between federal military and the national guard.