Notices by Modern Industrial (modernindustrial@mastodon.club), page 19

@allan It's really tragic. There's now a whole genre of stories coming out from this - parents whose kids would still be alive if there had been a more inclusive sex education at the time.

Not that this would be the sole determinant, but for kids that were bullied, confused, or felt broken, this education could have made a difference. Heartbreaking.

Got factory blueprints from our customer's intern today that were rendered entirely in Excel

So, @allan I think I've found a future employee for your company

@gargron Absolute unit

The local Canadian gang wars are getting serious. Just found this in Jam territory:

My mother-in-law bakes a lot, so I bring in cookies to work weekly.

I'm three months in, and so far the only person to bring in baked goods.

New person starts last week. Today, she brought in banana bread, made from some end-of-life bananas from our cafeteria.

What I love is that *she doesn't know that bringing in baked goods isn't a normal thing here.* She just saw my cookies last week, and assumed.

Anyway, be the change you want to see in the world. Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

@ink_slinger I'd be willing to bet that it will be an option longer than we think. Self driving cars seem to be following a path similar to planes, where autopilot works for initially ideal circumstances, then gradually becomes more functional in less-ideal situations. Driving through the lightly tamed country may still require drivers for a while.

"Trans Mountain Pipeline" sounds like it should be way, way more progressive than it is.

@allan I wonder if this driven in part by engineers being particularly conservative relative to the general populace.

40% - yikes. How much potential are we wasting just through closed-mindedness?

@allan The first person who I knew was gay was my mother's coworker. They were both engineers in an engineering firm, and she put it together based on his actions during their business trips (he wanted to go out solo, meaning to a gay bar). He later came out to her - and I think her alone - after she subtly indicated she was okay with it.

This was in the mid-Nineties, when coming out was often dangerous. I sometimes wonder if he would do anything differently today.

@allan Live the dream, Allan

the code you write is fine.

it works, and i'm not judging you based on how new your stack is, or whether you're using some hype new framework.

problems need solving, and you're the one who stood up to solve it the best way you know how.

I'm not sure my armor is thick enough for today's allotment of slings and arrows.