i’m genuinely starting to wonder if novara media, break through news, breaking points, etc. are the next iteration of hasbara/american-propaganda since they they let slide in all of the same narratives that fox news, npr, cnn, etc. do, but mask all of it with the buzzwords and aesthetics of progressive themes.

I blame pink floyd.

the wall is probably the same energy as 1984 or animal farm – neoliberals blaming socialism for capitalism’s failures.

switch to drinking coffee like a boomer. lol

done old school style not ai which

i was going to say that AI caused the downvotes, but it’s clear this sawant is turning into another graham platner clone.

i wish i could use any of the tactics that the people have tried, but i get the feeling that it’ll all blow back on me.

our hands are tied

– rosa luxemburger

Then why say anything at all?

you’re not living unless you piss off all neoliberals by just breathing. lol

i’m pretty sure that the canadians don’t like it when we remember. lol

they already did their part w the geneva convention and all. :p

what do you think tiggered the downvotes?

i only top and it has to be flesh & blood only to satisfy the bucket list item.

besides, if it were that easy, it wouldn’t be on my bucket list. lol

what did you do to trigger the downvotes? lol

one of daily show’s brood said it best: american politics has devolved into ignoring what the other person has to say until your guy lands a sick burn.

i blame the reticence to discus politics in polite conversation; it’s made us culturally incapable of political discourse.

dp is also on my bucket list and i envy her for it. :p

or you can just leave it as is since it already conveys the needful information.

larger universities have more specified degree programs; i now of 2 of such programs.

the flags are important. there are too many that refuse to accept that the genocidal and violent colonial forces depicted in this meme are the same ones that are committing a genocide and ethnic cleansing in palestine – especially gaza – right now.

when it actually does become a craft, like it sounds in your case, it REALLY does become something to behold.

the half baked code base i inherited as my primary responsibility at my new IT gig is inspired by the most artisan like proof of concept and besides the recent revisions by my manager and i; 90% of hasn’t changed since 2010.

it’s a non-profit entity that serves the community so it can afford to keep running in the same manner for extended periods of time unlike commercial institutions typically do – apparently. the last time i beheld such quality was with my first software engineer job in mountain view, california and it acclimated me to a particular threshold of work that i never expected to see again after leaving silicon valley.

so i was surprised to encounter something that surpassed that threshold after learning to expect to encounter spaghetti in my subsequent years in the field – and at a cash strapped community service non-profit no less. i think that watching this piece of work trudge along with virtually no updates in almost 20 years and having had serviced over hundreds of thousands of people in the city and surrounding area i live in has to be the highest testament there could be to true software engineering craftsmanship. it literally outlived it creators.

i already know that whatever i end up completing will never be as good as it’s predecessor and it REALLY makes me wish that just a teeny tiny fraction of the talent to goes towards making the epstein class richer could be trickled down to community service organizations like ours so that we could build a worthy successor. we and our sister organizations that depend on the software are the only things standing between people and generational poverty and being able to get a fraction of that kind of talent would help literally millions of people in the future. i know for a fact that google, circa 2014, spends more in a single TGIF afternoon of wine, cheese & entertainment than our operating budget for an entire quarter so i CANNOT 👏 STRESS 👏 ENOUGH 👏 HOW 👏 TINY 👏 OF 👏 A 👏 FRACTION it would be.

also: i learned recently that the person who spearheaded the effort to build this proof of concept did it by pooling together the talent from all of the sister organizations even though he was never an employee. he was a retired ex faang software engineer who probably thought of his work in the same way you do – considering his talent – and part of me imagined that he was you as i read your comment. lol