My state (Colorado)

• Repealed our 18 year old ban on same sex marriage (yay).
• Failed to pass ranked choice voting (boo). My impression from talking to folks is that many people (especially older people) don't really know what it is and when they read it on the ballot they feel like it's weird and complicated.

My city (Boulder) is a liberal bubble and predictably our local issues are all disagreements between upper middle class+, over 40 property owning NIMBYs vs. progressives who care about affordable housing and the homeless. Literally every city council candidate's platform is EXACTLY the same, except on housing / homelessness issues. Every election, I google all the judges and city council candidates and vote for the ones who seem least NIMBY. The judges are almost always NIMBYs. The city council members I vote for almost always loose.

If the CU students who were eligible to vote in Boulder would do so, this wouldn't happen.

Is python being easy to learn actually true?

I've never found this to be true, I think that's partially because I don't find Python to be very fun to write in, so I don't enjoy it very much, so I don't learn new things about it very quickly.

There is absolutely only one choice, no need to even think about it it's this.

Are we living in a world in which the JS/TS ecosystem is the yardstick by which we measure well written code? I mean... Wait a minute! I figured it out! This is the Bad Place!

An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.

Linux uh... Finds a way.

It's probably less about telling off the UN and more about sound bites / video clips that will play well with his bosses and their political base back home.

Historically, right wing isolationist ideologues of all nationalities seem to cheer and double down when faced with international criticism. They know it's them and their beliefs against the world and they have a fantasy that they can win, right up until an overwhelming number of them die for it.

Israel as a nation is not in a mood for self reflection and definitely doesn't want to understand the hole their digging themselves into.

I spent 10 years LARPing with kids professionally. Age may be "irrelevant", but kids imaginations are special.

This meme reminds me of two very specific incidents.

1. We're running an adventure about zombies. A coworker has a group of six year olds. One of them is late getting picked up and we're all hanging out together sword fighting with this kid pretending to be zombies. When the kid's mom finally shows up, he runs up to my coworker, gives her a huge hug and says "I love zombies!"

2. I'm running a group of 8-10 year olds and they're traveling to a big "good aligned" city in a big "good aligned" kingdom. One of them randomly decides to bust into a farm house, tie up the family, load them into their own donky cart, drive them into the city, haul them out in the center of the town square and start shouting "Slaves! Slaves for sale! Get your slaves here!" At every step of the way, I keep asking the rest of the group if they're going to do anything about this and they don't care. So the city watch shows up, overwhelms the party, claps them in irons and they spend the night in jail. When they're dragged before the magistrate the next day, the rest of the party is indignant, protesting "Why are we in trouble?? We didn't do anything!" I took great relish in (playing as the magistrate) squinting at them, nodding my head and saying "That... is why you are in trouble!"

Man, Unions in America are anaemic. I REALLY wish our labor force would grow that kind of spine and stand up for each other that aggressively.

Yep.

I have an old Google account from like 2012 that was a spam trap account I made back when you could easily sign up anonymously for gmail over Tor. It will not let me log into it anymore unless I connect a phone number to it. It hems and haws about how this is "for your protection" but really it's pretty simple that your activity has no value to Google unless they can tie it to your identity and connect it to other activity and then bundle that and sell it to advertisers. (And fuck you Google, I'm not protecting that account from anyone except you... hackers are WELCOME to know I types a throwaway email into some online medical insurance shit...)

In fact, if you don't want companies to collect your data, you're more and more locked out of any app, service or platform that asks for a verified email. I've encountered things recently that won't accept protonmail emails (and invite you to use OAuth to sign in with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, fuck that noise).

I actually imagine that OAuth locked to a major provider FOR EVERYTHING is the future those guys would all like to see.

It's amazing how for a culture that fetishizes "freedom" we're willing to accept a reality where you have to give it up for half your waking life just to live and provide for your family.

I wish we would stop.