> My personal experience is that adoptive parents are overwhelmingly conservative.
The current republican leadership has been pretty shit lately insofar as being human. “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy” being a direct and recent quote by arguably the most powerful man on the planet.
That isn't to disagree with your personal experience by any stretch; just point out that those in power/pushing these laws are much more... raging asshole. MGT celebrating the popes death today as another example.
That's why the current voting trends frustrate me so much; base morality seems to have left the conversation. :(
"Even a journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step. Unless you're an AI hyper then taking the first step is the entire journey - how dare you move the goalposts"
I had the last non-butterfly MBP, and work tried to get me to move to a new one for years - i fought to keep mine.
Then I switched jobs, got a butterfly MBP and the laptop was honestly one of the worst I've had. After 2 years, I had lost a number of keys (i simply never used the built in keyboard when possible) and the battery started expanding. I couldn't even make it to the normal refresh cycle. Maybe bad luck, but such a POS. Apple phoned it in the generation prior to M1.
You still have all of those things; but no the 95% also have it (albeit in a walled garden). It's more "Others are participating, but not how I want to" than anything I think.
I do wish more tech oriented communities ran off RSS/blog/etc instead of Twitter though.
>but no the 95% also have it (albeit in a walled garden)
They have it but are in a prison or a butchery, which sort of defeats the entire spirit of the before-tools.
>It's more "Others are participating, but not how I want to" than anything I think.
You could phrase it like that. I dont want Musk to tell me who to subscribe to. I don't want Google to hide specific articles I searched for, even when I surround with quotes. With my feeds, I would simply unsubscribe from such muck. Here, you surrender your feed to the platform. But apparently the majority love being shepherded into whatever makes the company the most money. Content is content in their eyes.
It's not how I want it. I also speak out against it because how they are doing it is dangerous. But perhaps it is too late these days.
there are a lot of them, actually. I added the Kagi Small Web feed to my RSS reader a few days ago and I'm kind of overwhelmed.
considering where I am in my personal journey (discovering a ton of bloggers) this whole thread is so weird to read but increasingly I feel like I live on a different planet
I don't know if its golden rule or common-sence when applicable.
If our testing framework is in Python; writing a wrapper to code tests for your feature in Perl because you're more comfortable with it is the Wrong way to do it imo.
But if writing a FluentD plugin in Ruby solves a significant problem in the same infra; the additional language could be worth it.
The current republican leadership has been pretty shit lately insofar as being human. “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy” being a direct and recent quote by arguably the most powerful man on the planet.
That isn't to disagree with your personal experience by any stretch; just point out that those in power/pushing these laws are much more... raging asshole. MGT celebrating the popes death today as another example.
That's why the current voting trends frustrate me so much; base morality seems to have left the conversation. :(