yeahbutwhatabout the fact that the trial was mostly a sham?
that kind of whataboutism?
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that kind of whataboutism?
> The IMT contributed to the definition of war crimes and the outlawing of wars of aggression.
that hints at what really happened at the tribunal. chomsky has some details:
https://chomsky.info/20070803/
The Nuremberg case is a very interesting precedent. First of all, the Nuremberg trials—of all the tribunals that have taken place, from then until today—it is, I think, the most serious by far. But, nevertheless, it was very seriously flawed. And it was recognized to be. When Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor, wrote about it, he recognized that it was flawed, and it was so for a number of fundamental reasons. For one thing, the Nazi war criminals were being tried for crimes that had not yet been declared to be crimes. So, it was ex post facto. ‘We’re now declaring these things you did to be crimes.’ That is already questionable.
Secondly, the choice of what was considered a crime was based on a very explicit criterion, namely, denial of the principle of universality. In other words, something was called a crime at Nuremberg if they did it and we didn’t do it.
So, for example, the bombing of urban concentrations was not considered a crime. The bombings of Tokyo, Dresden, and so on—those aren’t crimes. Why? Because we did them. So, therefore, it’s not a crime. In fact, Nazi war criminals who were charged were able to escape prosecution when they could show that the Americans and the British did the same thing they did. Admiral Doenitz, a submarine commander who was involved in all kinds of war crimes, called in the defense a high official in the British admiralty and, I think, Admiral Nimitz from the United States, who testified that, ‘Yeah, that’s the kind of thing we did.’ And, therefore, they weren’t sentenced for these crimes. Doenitz was absolved. And that’s the way it ran through. Now, that’s a very serious flaw. Nevertheless, of all the tribunals, that’s the most serious one.
real microphone usually fixes that.
reminds me of The Balcony Movie (saw on Mubi).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e58xwcNzjb0
...and, this is kind of the idea behind this -- for apartment-dwellers.
i'd try to pivot to IT or Tech Support.
outside of that, can't say i'm confident this is great advice but i do try to follow it, for better or worse.
Chomsky says something like, "find a problem you are interested in solving, then try to solve it."
that seems to me like a pretty good way to go.
maybe go for a 4 day work week. that leaves a real weekend, at least. to me, a 4-day, at $100k+ salary, is worth a salary reduction of at least 20%, maybe more, but that's just me. many places will claim to pay the full 100%.
i always think of Monograph -- project mgmt software for architects -- i've no connection to them:
this site lists 4-day jobs, if not many of them:
also, contracting can give you a nice separation of YOU from THE COMPANY.
HN has their monthly "Who's hiring?" pages.
you're prob a bit depressed, so might want to do all the things that people say to do when that happens. oddly, going back to work might be a good thing, assuming it's not horrific.
i think of all the 'slums' that Robert Moses and other folks demolished throughout history. they could have used a little investment instead of disinvestment/neglect, but even as is, they were successes in most folks' views -- including and especially the people that lived in those neighborhoods and buildings -- but Moses and others had the power.
does public housing provide housing to people? yes. does that make it a success? i would say 'yes' -- maybe a qualified yes.
is it still a success if there is crime and no heat and etc.? still maybe a 'yes', since the other option is probably homelessness and jail and near-total loss of dignity, but again, goes back to one's definition of success.
shoot, this lefty-ish video (11 min) says it's currently illegal for the US to build more (federal?) public housing -- tf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0KqSNHXqg
but i kind of see 'successful public housing' as 'successful [insert federal program here]' -- if a program was grandfathered in a long time ago, it might be able to stick around for a while, but even then it will continue to be under relentless attack until it is gone -- think Social Security or public education or, as the video points out, public housing.
and creating new 'successful' public programs of any kind today is probably completely off the table -- unless it's really just a facade for grift -- a way to filter a few billion/trillion to private enterprise -- think Department of Homeland Security.
even where there is massive public support for a federal program -- think Medicare for All (free/taxpayer/public-funded health care) -- maybe 70% of the population wants it, depending on which polling firms/questions are asked -- and there is little to no chance of it becoming reality because the US is a low-democracy country.
but change is always possible if the population decides to fight back. i heard an anecdote, i think from 'Poverty, By America' (Matthew Desmond), about a convergence of protests in DC where a group of Maga protesters and a group of Civil Rights protesters happened to see each other and ended up shaking hands in solidarity with each other over either the expensive cost of housing or cost of living or something. that makes sense to me. we're not there yet, but it always seems like a possibility that is lurking around the corner.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/poverty-by-america-matthew-desm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe#Decline
Decline
By 1958, just four years after the opening of the project, deteriorating conditions were already evident.[32] Elevator breakdowns and vandalism were cited as major problems[33]—Yamasaki later lamented that he "never thought people were that destructive".[34] Ventilation was poor, and the buildings lacked centralized air conditioning despite St. Louis's hot and humid summers.[27] Meanwhile, the St. Louis Housing Authority was in the midst of a decades-long problem with inefficient and costly maintenance of its buildings, partly attributed to the power of labor unions.[35] The stairwells and corridors attracted muggers, a situation exacerbated by the skip-stop elevators.[33] Its location in "a sea of decaying and abandoned buildings" and limited access to shopping and recreation (ground-floor businesses had been eliminated from the design to save money[21]) contributed to its problems.[36] Despite its size, the complex had no public mailbox.[37] The huge, 11-story buildings of the development were reportedly a magnet for criminals and vagrants from the surrounding low-rise slums;[36] a 1959 audit reported that most of the vandalism was done by transients rather than residents,[38] and a 1967 report similarly found that a "relatively large proportion" of crimes were committed by outsiders.[39] Large criminal gangs were not common in the project.[40]
i imagine it is a snowball effect in either direction.
that is, malignant design probably with official neglect from everyone in power quickly starts a downwards spiral, whereas the opposite leads to a well-maintained community that just ends up bumping up against a racist/classist glass ceiling where at least residents still have a chance at a dignified life, including and especially the children. and plenty of in-between.
but, don't know.
...someone made a movie:
i have to find out where 'report back' requirement part of Scrum comes from.
I have gotten honest, sane non-trivial constructive feedback/criticism of my work before, but I don't tend to remember it unless it was extraordinary - like someone went way out of their way to pump me up before burning me (my work) down with some accurate and correct criticism. I like managers and senior co-workers like that, good on them.
I don't necessarily remember the specifics of bad criticism, but I feel like bad criticism is bad because it is either designed to be taken personally, or is so careless that it is inevitable that it will be taken personally -- that is, it actually _is_ a personal attack, dressed up as work criticism.
I have vague recollections of various project managers and lead/senior engineers during various tenures that I have butted heads with due to their insecurities, incompetence, etc. There are petty people all over the place, esp in a 9 to 5 environment -- wage slavery can be a breeding ground for all sorts of bad behavior.
I do like working with smart, confident, nice people -- not an easy combination to find in a single person, much less an entire team/company.
That said, I like the whole 'mindfulness' approach to life, think it's worthwhile, don't necessarily see it as 'killing part of yourself' like i used to, more like a necessary evil in this very crazy world.
Bloomberg Originals: Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All
About Here: The Non-capitalist Solution to the Housing Crisis
(indy urban planning-types out of Vancouver, BC)
also, 30 years ago i got my dude a job - back when pretending to know java was enough to get you a job.
in both cases, they were real opportunities and strong demand and real needs and smaller companies who were probably generally glad to have a reco, etc. don't think there was much selling, on the whole, it just kind of happened.
i'd guess that's one of the advantages small companies have - they might hire your friends, for better or worse.
i turned down help getting jobs for decades, so finally tried it. i'm not above it, but eh.
then i saw '10' showing up in this title.
i thought it must be a different article.
It's funny - he had to say _something_ because Airbnb getting pummeled with the back to the office nonsense, but he's betraying his fellow rich.
Airship, formerly Urban Airship, i think.
a few years ago i was helped to build out a Sphinx-based search feature, integrate it into a Pyramid-based app, and something UA were doing made me want my app/docs to look/act like theirs
part of it was the search, part of it was the comprehensiveness, part of it was the magically-appearing in-page #anchor links when you'd mouseover an <H>-type header element so that you could easily refer to a section of a page -- something which i feel like is obviously crucial to useable docs, but rarely exists in real life, and part aeshetics.
a quick glance just now seems they still have docs, tho i guess most established company doc sites would look good and generally be high-functioning these days. i suspect more of them were built from scratch back in the day, but not sure -- it's prob difficult for the docs vendors to keep up with integrating api tools, etc.
reason is because there are innumerable skills/technologies that are useless to innumerable job listings and companies, so, imo, you need to pick one or three or ten or whatever skills/techs that will 'get you into IT' -- that is, that will land you a specific role.
i feel like security is a good place for newbies, esp if they are not programming/math-inclined. and i'd find 3 or 4 job roles and start applying to them - after using gpt to fix up my resume, obv, then start training, first informally, then maybe formally studying for the various certs.
that's just one path -- security. there are many. i would probably stay far away from anything web dev-related for many reasons - like it's just super-low margin, it's probably going away and already has to a large extent, programming may be going away, etc. etc.
but outside of that, most 'tech jobs' are not actually tech jobs, so there is that option, too. like marketing, sales, finance, training, etc. for tech companies.
nothing is completely safe from ai so i wouldn't really worry about that either. the rules of financial security are not changing.
i'd probably also keep asking if she has thought thru her other field options.
i don't like the "oh, don't do IT, it's _so_ bad now!" option -- one, i don't actually think that (yet?), but i'm sure there are plenty that do. it reminds me of myriad doctors i've heard over the years say, "Don't become a doctor anymore, it's _so_ bad now!" -- what they mean is they can no longer afford a second vacation home. but i don't think IT is the sure-fire thing it was 20 years ago.
English is probably super-important. if a non-native English speaker was asking me for advice on how to get into IT, I'd say start practicing your English every day -- you really need to get as close as possible to native as is practicable. listening, written, spoken, slang, etc. i would say this is a prerequisite unless you just never want to appeal to an English-speaking company. maybe that's obvious, but maybe not.
https://santaclaraprinciples.org/
also, Bluesky was apparently a project within twitter...??
>The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good.
surrounding, containing, harming, weakening, and ideally destroying Russia is the ultimate goal, but the US has already largely achieved its aims -- mission accomplished.
we're already onto doing the same to China. India is not a threat to US domination yet, and presumably won't be anytime soon.
US/Nato violence and coercion around the world will continue until the US population decides to put up a fight.
We're all going to pay for this war a million times over with the global warming it's accelerated. Spring is here and it only gets more fun from here on out.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/2023/05/01/pornhub-largest-po...
maybe Ford or GM or another big player might want them? Tesla?
if not, try and get a few pennies on the dollar from Uber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFKG8S7K0wM
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https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_ef...