Tangent, but I was recently thinking about how FAANG, is now MAANG, and the definition of mange :
(from a google search, lol)
mange
/mānj/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: mange
a skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites and occasionally communicable to humans. It typically causes severe itching, hair loss, and the formation of scabs and lesions.
"foxes that get mange die in three or four months"
I find it oddly poetic, but, this is my last day of magic.
kinda fun is probably a trauma response, I thought I was one of Warhol's Superstars, the images and videos that persist are not things I consented to. What I should have said, was at the time I thought I was having fun, and a lot of the johns were very nice. But, there is a mental cost when you see your younger self in that position. You want to protect a person who no longer exists. I would never tell a 15 year old to do porn or be a hooker, or myself consume porn of that. And it felt innocent till I was violently raped the first time, I had innocence, I look like the boy next door, and maybe now the single dad next door, but I can't really answer this question with any sort of reasonable answer, there isn't one. Trauma makes you irrational
lol, it wasn't shitty, it was weird. there have been maybe 10-20 horrible days in my life. I also got to hang out with every rock star I looked up to, and hang out with almost every celebrity I loved. I have a few left on the list, but, with great highs come great lows. And, I never smoked crack, so at least I can say that.
Umm, I honestly didn't have a problem with the sex work I did when I was younger until I was raped by NYPD officer at 17. I started off doing webcam shows, and I don't really have anything bad to say about it. I started prostitution at maybe 14, and it was honestly kinda fun, I don't recommend it, but a lot of the people paid for me thinking that I was an 18, if something bad happened I would pull the you just raped a child card, and have them empty their bank accounts at an ATM. And I still support sex workers. I was human trafficked not as a sex slave, but as a software and creative worker due to not having a visa in a country when I was about 19. I was being driven around in expensive cars and living in one of the poorest ghettos in the world. I didn't realize I was working for a gang until I had a package in my lap I was told not to look into, and obvi, I did and it was a brick of powder, so probably cocaine, but maybe heroin, and I kept doing the work, sleeping on my pile of clothes in a vermin infested home with plywood floors. I ran for my life when I came into the office and there was a pile of blood and a dead body. And when I say I ran for my life, I mean the physical act of running from people trying to murder me to shut me. Sorry for the vagueness, and lack of advice. Don't be a sex worker if you don't want to be raped, don't be lgbtqia+ if you don't want to be raped, and more than anything, don't be a woman. It's a reality for men as well, but most rapists are men, and most "victims" are women.
I probably am not alone, but if I hadn't wasted money on drugs a decade ago and had just kept the bitcoin I would be a rich person. No one I know read a white paper back then, we just found the Wild West, snorted, shot and popped it up
I'm not a fan or opponent of crypto, but the pervasiveness of child pornography is insane. I started doing sex work at 11 and was later human trafficked, and got a tattoo when I turned 18 near my groin, in large part to know what images and videos were of me underage. I consume and love porn, and have no shame in that, and I'm sure a lot of reposters think they are posting a barely legal image, but I have seen myself as a child online so many times in legitimate places, Tumblr, twitter, reddit, etc. This is a reality for so many people who have been abused, there was an article recently on here about MindGeek, and there efforts to make sure they didn't have child porn on their products, and the takedown of x tube and all of that change, but it's fucking hard. It's so much easier to tell if it's an 8 year old than a 15 year old, even though the trauma is similar for the victim. I don't know, I'm rambling, consume ethical pornography.
I was violently assaulted after writing the original comment, and raped. This time I fought back, I don't understand the universe. The first time I was violently raped it was 2007 and I was 17, it was an NYPD officer, and I screamed a bit, but eventually just went numb and let it happen. Saturday night I was raped by a cab driver, and I fought for my fucking life and he did not cum.
I feel no guilt for beating the fuck out of him, I am not a moral person, because I am an ethical person. I do what is right in that situation. And right now, I am in a ton of pain, but I do not feel guilty for fighting back, I feel proud and strong. Rape is usually talked about as a women's issue (if you've read KKT,this is a major point), but I am a man, and I have been raped more times than I can count, and I fucking want to talk about it, and I want to fight it. And I think it's perfectly ethical to kill someone who is trying to rape you, and you should feel no guilt.
I had a john explain ethics to me when I was a 16 year old prostitute. Ethics is doing the right thing with information, whereas morality is doing what you're told. Like, killing a baby is morally wrong, but if you had a time machine it might be ethical to go back and shoot baby Hitler (terrible example). He ended up coming to my rescue when I was arrested a year or two later, and I got off with no record after breaking into an abandoned historical building, which is a whole other story. He died not long after in what appeared to be suicide. But that explanation has had an impact on me, I don't think I'm a moral person, I'm an ethical person. I take what information I have, for instance, King Kong Theory, and apply it to the choices I make in life.
It worked, another funny story, the last time I had a gun pulled on me it was a very real shot gun, in a very sketchy part of Detroit. My response, "Thank god the first time I had a gun pulled on me in Detroit was by someone Asian, I love representation and defying sterotypes!". They ended up buying me a schwarma and we had a laugh about it.
Funny story, well, funny to me anyways. I was living in Paris and dead broke after college. I had a steady cam system to sell, and obviously, I put it on leboncoin and went to deliver it near the Bastille. I went into the apartment with a dear friend, and as we sat down to do the sale, the purchaser pulled out a gun on me and asked if we could lower the price. I laughed, out of panic, and said something in French to the effect of, "Bitch, I'm from Detroit", I then realized, the gun was in fact a toy, and the purchaser relented. I gave them a 10 euro discount, and they made us both a nice proper pastis and we all eventually had a laugh. I haven't used the website since.
I have more dead friends than living, and I have spent the last several years trying to heal, and mostly succeeding. Sometimes the only thing you can do is cry, and while I'm not a single parent, I have accepted that there are so many things in the world that are going to bring me back to so many dark places, but, for me, I always have a song I can play and cry to and come back to life. Because, I wan't to live the hell out of the time I have left.
This is massively tangential, but stick with me. The book King Kong Theory (King Kong Théorie en francés), has a really interesting chapter about Minitel and how people were using it in the 1980s for prostitution. It's a small part of an amazing feminist text, and as a lifelong Francophile and Minitel fan it was eye opening. I highly suggest the book to anyone.
Eloquent JS, for coding,
On Photography by Sontag for Photography,
Anything James Baldwin for literature,
Anything Angela Davis or Emma Goldman for political theory,
A blank (perhaps square lined, Rhodia brand) notebook and a pack of Stabillo pens for creativity.
I love pair programming but remotely, with only audio. Live share in vscode, and jetbrains has their own version. The one keyboard paradigm is gone and you can work in two parts of the same code base at the same time. It’s not an all the time solution in my mind, but I frequently see higher quality code coming from these sessions with way smoother pr reviews. Just my two cents, as an introverted former pair programming hater (pre pandemic in the office).
What is the best option for someone who mostly listens to books read by the author and has relatively low brow taste? Recently two of my favorite musical acts, sleater Kinney and Liz phair released audible exclusives that I loved. I hate the idea of artists being screwed over, but, I’m at a loss for where to turn. Audible is a huge part of my life, but I don’t want to support artists being screwed over.
Text pixelization is only useful in highly visible projects where you want people to be engaged to the point they figure out what the text is. Viral marketing, film, etc. this is a great tool, with very few valid applications.
The only app I have that really tracks my background information is Pokémon go, because I’m an idiot and my location gets me farther in the game. It took me approving background location attempts that Happened about fifteen times in each instance over a day or two period for my iPhone to stop. I think you’re basically fine as long as you use common sense?
If I was in your position I would post your contact information, even a throw away account on this post as you’re on the front page of hn and you might never get to have this great of an opportunity again to find legal employment.
I know of this movie, but haven’t seen it and I don’t drink wine, but I know that when I’m asked to bring wine that people do not mean merlot from buying it from a Costco or whatever before. Fascinating that a movie I heard of, had such a profound impact on an industry.
I intellectually fall into the "Fuck Off Google" crowd (with a gmail account, and a paid YT), but, https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=GoogleAlternat... , their list of alternatives are all not easy as a centralized solution. I don't think by any means the intent of this page is to be elitist, but this is a large ask for someone who fairly component technologically speaking, let alone the average user.
Just understanding something isn't the best choice, is not enough. You need to have the ethical argument, better ideas, and better products and results and that is hard beyond my capabilities and don't know what the answer is