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Holy insufferable change, Batman! Why?????

This is why I provided the first link. Follow the threads. This is not a single event, this is a theme.

But yes, I do think people should be accountable for what they say. (I know the fun term is "cancel" but let's call it what it is, shall we?) If victims of child abuse have to be called to account, so that _he_ may be convinced, then I do not think he is a person we should hold in high regard.

Just in case people don't want to follow the threads, here's Stallman on statutory rape in 2006:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

(He himself recanted the statement years later but he had to be convinced by victims that victimization is a problem.)

Don't let one bad action color your feelings about a person. There are plenty more.

I'll even help with a starting point: https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac...

I once brought up RMS, in relation to a project a friend was working on, on misc@google, when I worked at Google in my 20s. This was circa 2005 or 2006 maybe. Within minutes I was called out by female engineers for promoting someone I'd come to learn was well known to be pretty sexist. That was about 20 years ago and the details of events shared are lost to me now but the sting of promoting a project he was on (and was later removed from) is still there.

I find the management software to be... lacking. That's where ubiquti does great, in my opinion. I have some Mikrotik wireless wires and they're great but I never look forward to having to touch them (which is extremely rare).

With all the price creeping and content being spread out everywhere, piracy and a storage array are the cheaper option. My MIL bought a piracy streaming stick at a naval base (I had to stop that because it didn't use a VPN). Before the sharing crackdowns, you could load balance costs but now it's just bad spending.

I can code. I hate meetings. I like my home office and have been remote for about eight years.

I don't think you know what people managers do.

Because it's incredibly difficult to do. Look at just something as simple as launching an instance. How do you know the state of the instance ahead of time? The instance ID doesn't exist and you can't do search filters for it because it's not there yet. Yes, you could use some half baked conditional logic to try and search and load values only if your instance exists and create if empty but terraform really isn't good at that. And that's just the very simple case. You could use something like the CDK or pulumi and avoid state but it's still work and it's useful work.

Shootings actually happen here. Not infrequently. We're a lot more sensitive to them.

> The left however tends to shun the fact that a lot of the toxic masculinity comes from women and their expectations on men and boys

This just isn't true. The fact that men AND women are taught this "manly man" crap by both their mothers and fathers is commonly discussed. It's often reported that women don't self reflect but follow any prominent feminist and you'll hear them talking about this often.

> There isn't anything men can do to stop toxic masculinity until women stops propagating it

This is both false and a poor human excuse for bad behavior. You can have better conversations. You can model better behavior. You can call out misogyny. It's fun or comfortable or do but it's with your control. Don't push all the hard work to others. Do it yourself. (I do. It's not fun but it's important.)

> the left sees no problem with women and teachers propagating toxic masculinity, at least I've never seen them talk about it as a problem that needs fixing.

Be honest with yourself. Where are you looking? Articles like this that make it seem like we should over index on self inflicted wounds or aces where women talk about the difficulties they face because of heavily patriarchal society?

Yes. Those women are, in fact, supporting a culture of toxic masculinity.

I'm not sure what you're trying to prove though. It seems like whataboutism

I'm 42. I have a number that when I hit it, I will stop because the math covers the rest of my life comfortably. It's not $2m but it's not a big number. At that point, I will spend all my time either tending to my small farm or with my family, enjoying the world.

Again, opposite goals. I destroyed every bit of evidence from my childhood for personal reasons. I don't regret it. I spent most of my life avoiding cameras. That changed with marriage and a kid but I still don't let people take pictures of me with their phones because I have a compulsion for control. I also want to make absolutely sure that certain people can't find me, so no geotags or landmarks in digital form.

By avoiding digital photography, I reduce my risk significantly.

I'll take analog every day.

Edit: I'm not the target market. I have special considerations. My wife is though. She wants pictures. I want to stay somewhat incognito. This type of thing solves the problem better for us.

Because there are people with the opposite desires. My wife loves having photo albums. In fact, I have to run to CVS today to pick up some physical photos.

I hate using my phone as a camera. I own a digital camera for that reason. I don't own a good photo print because they are either ridiculously expensive or crap and I haven't found the good-cheap (of the "pick two" triangle) yet. I'm the market for this. I'd much rather keep my photos offline.

If it can parse signal from the noise of slack channel overrun, I'm in.

My wife waits months for specialists. She's currently been trying to find someone to do a biopsy on something that's probably not but could be cancerous. She has an appointment for December. That's the soonest she could find someone. We're an hour north of Boston and we've searched all directions. Medical has become impossible.

I would pay that without blinking if the care was good and getting appointments didn't take 3-12 months. We just waited a YEAR for a new patient appointment for my chronically I'll wife and the doctor is terrible. Told her he basically had no interest in helping figure out her problems and if he did, he wouldn't be a PCP.

It's not misleading, it's incomplete. You have to fight to keep your property value reasonable so you're not murdered in taxes. My sub 2000 sqft house in TX was valued at a million dollars. I couldn't sell it for 800k last year. I lost most of the debate with the county. Things have to be paid for but the uncontrollable valuations are just nonsense and have forced people out of their homes.

We stayed 8. Moved just outside Austin in 2016. By 2018, the neighborhood doubled and traffic tripled. The pandemic absolutely destroyed the neighborly facade. Then the last few summers hit peak heat and that was it. Our 2.5 acres with a $12k playground castle was all but unusable most of the year. And the people were becoming more and more cruel. We left for New England. The weather is much better and so are the people. I won't go back to CA. I spent most of my life there but it's not the right home for my family. We're much happier here.

Because most people don't think about how systems can be abused and if you're interfacing with public agencies, you do it less. If it's not explicitly in the requirements, it's not worked on. It's wild how often simple things get overlooked because "nobody asked."

We opted fo chip-and-sign over chip-and-pin, so it's probably safe to assume that everything we do is a touch less smooth and safe.

Then again, we don't really the regulation framework for making me feel like cell phones are a safe way to move money around. (Because I have trust issues with tech.)

That's a lot of messages moving around. Kafka?

Who qualifies for financial aid? I can afford $25k. I don't want to but I can.

It's financial. It's a lot more complicated for me to inspect an app than a website. I understand that the modern generation is pretty comfortable with this but us old folks have a lot of money and don't trust our phones with it as easily. (I beta tested Android while at Google. Smart phones aren't new to me. I just have a different level of acceptable risk than my kid does.)

Holy crap! I will let you come chop wood on my land for significantly less!

Really though, that's unfortunate. It seems like a really great experience but unavailable to most. I wonder what it would take to do this as a summer camp program without the liability of overnights. I would have loved something like this in my teens (also now in my much olders)

FFS... Maybe it's time to switch to a regular carrier and pay the Apple tax. This is unscrupulous.

Can I sign up? They told me that I'm useless after 35.

> I’d personally prefer to use GitHub for issue management but I can live with JIRA.

No, you wouldn't. I promise. You'd spend months fucking around with GitHub Projects, hoping you could figure out how to unclusterfuck it and you'd miss Jira. It's not good enough. I didn't know how much I actually didn't hate Jira until I worked at a company that tried every other option. They all suck. Jira sucks less.

I wish I knew about this sooner. I'm in the board of a sanctuary. This looks great! Thank you!