riga
I'm listening to a podcast about the crusades and it's amazingly gonzo so far:
example 1: Priest declares that 2/5 of the crusader army (which he points out) are sinners, and will have to be executed. To prove his vision, he subjects himself to a trial by fire. It ends like you think it does.
example 2: The first crusader assault on Jerusalem uses a single siege ladder, because that's all the wood they can find. It ends like you think it does.
riga
everyone: you should meditate
me: *old town road on repeat
riga
@Bert probs just stare awkwardly at my hands or the ground. at this point it's against social norms but I think I have to kick screens to help my mental health.
riga
Using my phone as a source of idle distraction seems like years long failed experiment at this point. Time to detox.
The Onion
Silicon Valley Leaders Sit Down With Wildfire At Investment Meeting After Being Impressed By Its Rapid Expansion https://www.theonion.com/silicon-valley-leaders-sit-down-with-wildfire-at-invest-1839476762 #naturaldisasters #markzuckerberg #siliconvalley #vol55issue44 #marcbenioff #timcook #news
boxing dank
writing automated tests is pretty tedious but its not as tedious as not knowing if your shit works
riga
I’m unfortunately pessimistic about the political prospects of the left because left ‘solutions’ are complicated and difficult. The right offers non-solutions to some of the same problems and they’re way easier for many ordinary people to understand and stomach.
bill
Smoking area discussion this morning, backups:
They should be called restoration services, not backups. Backups imply they can be forgotten. What you want is to restore when something fails, have it work every time, and across a lot of different scenarios. That is often a lot more than just unpacking some files. Fast reliable restoration takes a lot of time and money.
riga
at first I couldn't decide whether or not TECH LEAD was a bizzarro piece of performance art, but its weirdness is too fully formed for that
Antanicus
Jaycie
The fact that half-baked, rushed software can beat out well-developed software in the marketplace isn't an argument against perfectionism so much as an indictment against the idea that the market is an ideal predictor of value.
riga
I wonder how long it will take psychologists to go from "mental illness is often the result of trauma" to "the everyday experience of domination in a capitalist society is (re)traumatizing and is likely to lead to mental health problems"
newsbot
Look again at this dot... https://twitter.com/universal_sci/status/1187178615991091201/photo/1
#newsbot
Jaycie
Coining the term "picobureaucracy" to describe all the small, ever growing pile of procedures and details people are expected to follow and remember just to get by. For example: picking out a healthcare plan, figuring out taxes, logins and passwords.
riga
@Elmkast a curse by any measure 😂
Kit Redgrave 🕯️
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Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei:
When people use the term snowflake unironically, just remember they're quoting Fight Club, a satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society and become radicalized. and that Tyler Durden isnt the hero but a personification of the main character's deep insecurities, and that his snowflake speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.
Thomas, Computer Wrangler
Reminder that Blade Runner happens next month
riga
only Canadians could turn “the uphill struggle to secure life essentials” into a word as anodyne as “affordability” — the buzzword of this federal election
riga
Canadians — vote! =)
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