All states are bad, but if we’re talking about which ones are arguably better or worse on the world stage…

“USA USA USA, WE’RE NUMBER 1!”

Proudly colonizing for 250 years?

“descent”

“middle class” is a meaningless distinction at best applied in ignorance and at worst an intentional effort at fragmenting the non-ownership class further.

Pretty much every job but “cop” is excusable in the western world if you have to work to survive.

The way things are sucks, so maybe we should roll the dice then.

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When people are like “nobody would want to sweep the floors!!!1!1!1!1” all I can think of is this dude on YouTube that just goes around clearing drains and culverts cause he likes it.

There’s a particular flavor of person for everything and even if it’s not something you love to do, it’s something people would be willing to do if it’s not something you have to do 40 hours a week or your family starves.

I did learn how to do first aid for a sucking chest wound in JROTC. The more you know^tm

I’m the parent of a trans kid, I am not trans myself. We moved from a deep red state to Minnesota a few years ago, for reasons like yours, my sister and her wife made the move as well.

I can’t tell you what the experience has been like for my son. I can tell you what it felt like from my perspective. The state we lived in is where our friends and family lived and mostly all still live. The state government was constantly coming up with new threats. Attempting to criminalize medical treatment for our kid. The school was… “Tolerant” but all of the actors didn’t act when presented with the harassment my kid dealt with.

Everyone around us went about their lives as though nothing was happening, as my spouse and I felt the weight of a state government that ignored us at best and at worst seemed actively malicious.

The weight we didn’t realize we were carrying constantly was enormous and it lifted quite quickly.

It was hard on all of us, making new friends as an adult (and in a relatively rural community) feels impossible at times. But I don’t fear our state government.

There are resources in the cities for transplants, even if you make the choice willingly it’s still a traumatic experience. You have to decide if it’s worth it.

My primary issue with windows is that teams and outlook are getting less usable, and their “updates” regularly break my workflow and/or toolchains.

It’s done nothing but get worse and feel more predatory, there’s ads in the start menu now. This wasn’t a thing like 5 years ago.

So I take umbrage with the sentiment that there’s nothing functionally wrong with windows.

I talked to a mn guardsman I know this morning about it. He said that the way they do the activations is in phases starting with MPs.

My understanding is that it’s basically a warning and a plan for where you’re at on the list of getting called up, so you know what to expect as the situation changes.

I live in a fairly conservative area that’s working class.

People intuitively understand when you describe how much capitalism sucks because they’re living it.

If you say “capitalism sucks”, you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.

If you can do that, you’ll find that they’re primed to reject capitalism, they just don’t know it yet.

“These rich fuckers don’t give a shit about us, but they have no problems helping each other out.”

“Everybody’s boss is the same, they want you to work harder, more hours, and do it all for less money. They want us to be able to barely survive.”

“The only way we can make them change is to all work together. They’ll screw over each one of us individually, but if we’re together they’ll know it’s actually them who needs us.”

This is a shitty leader.

Praise in public. Correct in private.

Not that I even agree correction was warranted.

I believe you and I’m sure they were fine.

I wrote an XML parser in LabVIEW once. Just because you can doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do lol.

That’s ridiculous. Everyone knows its best to write modern bootloaders in Matlab.

Programming languages, much like the jackass in the middle, are tools. Different tools are for different things. The right tool for the job can make your day. The wrong tool can make you question your entire career.

“We have decided that we will use deck screws to build our deck, it’s the right pattern and architecture for the job. Now get started with this hammer, the tool you use doesn’t matter as long as it’s functional as a tool. If it’s not working well that’s an optimization problem because you’re bad at your job.”

I generally don’t do GUIs for C. But I’m also an embedded C person.

When I have I’ll generate DLLs for the C portion then just pull them into a python based interface or something with easier to deal with gui implementations.

Programming languages are tools. Would you use a wrench to drive a nail? You could. But it would be painful, you’re gonna miss and whack your hand at least once.

If it’s a learning exercise, go for the C implementation, why not? I’ve written an XML parser in LabVIEW. (I never stopped to ask whether I should…) Is that the right tool for the job? Fuck no.

If this is an exercise in software engineering be an engineer and use the 99% already built and verified system to do the job it’s meant to.

Or you can write an entire theme park simulator in assembly because you like pain or something.

I’d rather let a junior engineer loose in my codebase. At least I know their intent and where they live.

Some of us turned down Lockheed and Raytheon.

I live in the us, so been denied coverage for all kinds of things.

Waited months for permission to get a new medication after going through 5 or 6 rounds of prior authorization.

Paid more in premiums every year.

Gotten less for said premiums every year.

Had to pray I could remember all my ailments when I started a new job.

Had to prove that I’d had insurance coverage the entire time I’d had said ailments.

Those last two finally aren’t a thing anymore.

So yeah, all kinds of cool shit.