NYC. $0. Walk and take transit. Sorry, I’m insufferable about this but it’s really nice.

In America, we resolve our political differences at the ballot box,

Do we though?

There need to be harsher penalties for anti union actions from employers. Like, the business should be seized and given to the workers if they fire someone for trying to unionize.

That doesn’t really address people betting on horrible things and then making them happen.

Also “it will just go underground” is still kind of a win? The average person isn’t going to navigate sketchy underground arrangements, but they’ll find a slick website with good SEO.

Bad idea. Fertile ground for abuse, intentional or otherwise. As others have said, it’s hubris to think one or two untrained adults can do professional grade teaching.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don’t give chainsaws out to children. We don’t use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that’s not a big reveal.

Cool. Safe bike lanes are a higher priority for me but I’m not mad about this.

I dislike postman. I see job postings that are like “MUST KNOW POSTMAN”. Fuck, people should know how to make API requests but postman isn’t the only tool for that.

Furthermore, if I’m doing automated tests to run on PR I’m not going to use a GUI. Pytest or jest or whatever testing library your language has.

I did use Bruno for a while for convenience during local development, though.

I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words

Many of them know they are using words dishonestly. They don’t care. They will say whatever in the pursuit of power.

Some are just legitimately stupid and have no internal consistency beyond emotions.

The insurance companies want to make money.

There are no (enforced) laws prohibiting this behavior.

Very few insurance company decision makers are murdered in the street.

Change one or more of these, and you’ll get better results.

I thought it was pretty okay.

I think I might be old and grumpy but I find myself saying “just talk about your feelings!” at the TV a lot in this show. But I guess they’re all basically teenagers, so it would be unreasonable to ask a level of emotional maturity that many real life adults fail to meet.

Surely we’ve all seen the relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1217/

Sure, being too picky can lead to loneliness. But that’s kind of off topic from “you’ll have more rolls of the dice in a place with more people”, which was my earlier argument.

I wouldn’t want to settle for someone with no shared interests and a not-my-type body just because they’re here. Everyone involved deserves better.

“you’ll settle for whoever’s around” is a compelling argument - if whoever is around happens to be good enough

Bit of a tautology there. My point is if there’s only 1 person of your age/gender(s) then it’s longer odds they’re going to be a good match. Sure, they might be “good enough” but wouldn’t you rather have “great”?

Hm maybe I’ll try that. Looks like there’s an android version

I think a lot about how one time we spent s few hours estimating how long a project would take. Management came back and said no, that’s too long, we’d need to finish in a month.

Well if that’s how long it has to take why not lead with that?

Bunch of idiot empty husks doing cargo-cult “agile”

I’m don’t think “you’ll settle for whoever’s around” is a compelling argument.

Furthermore, there are few places where it’s actually like a rom-com and the waitress sets you up. There can’t be a lot of people in that situation because then there wouldn’t be so few people that they can be matched up. Most people live in cities or suburban wastelands.

Well, they can be unhappy about it but that doesn’t change how you’ll have more chances of meeting a partner where there’s more people doing more stuff.

Dating apps. They suck, but there’s a lot you can do (without paying money) to improve your odds.

Go to meetups. They exist for hobbies (board games, running, bird watching) and regions (North Brooklyn hangout). Don’t go cruising but go for the thing and meet people.

Join a rec sport league. There’s a bunch of soccer ones here.

If you live somewhere shitty, you’re going to have a worse time. I live in a big city so there’s a lot of people doing stuff. If I lived out in the sticks, there might be a dozen people of my desired age and gender(s) total.

Firefox. It’s fine. The ai stuff is concerning , but nothing’s caused me enough pain to switch yet