My young friends are forgetting the days of IE where we really did almost lose the web. It's been a constant struggle, always, against the corporate interests who only see the internet as a money printer.
I am more excited about the web today, with the fediverse for example, than I have been in a long time. Maybe since those days, when the future of any browser but IE was in doubt.
The pieces of wood shaped like slices of bread are disturbing.
It feels like there should be an ActivityPub-enabled easy-to-deploy personal site setup, but I haven't been able to find one.
No, thanks. The first comment, ok, I hear it. This one? No.
Until more of these start shaking out where the people get justice, the cops should not be given the benefit of the doubt. We gave it to them for centuries. Enough. Clearly they have abused and continue to abuse that trust. The default now should be that the cops are lying and trying to cover up their bad behavior: it is the most common thing we see in these situations.
Alternate take: look at these fucks trying their same old bullshit and now they're getting caught. Makes the other assholes doing this stuff start to worry a bit more. "There but for the grace of God..."
This is not what happened. Takes like this, that oversimplify and make things seem inevitable aren't very helpful.
For decades before 1988 and for decades after, people have advocated for the environment. The shift to an understanding that we can have an impact on our planet has been slow and hard-won. Don't pretend like one person or one hearing or one technology could have prevented all this - that's just not true.
You may be upset that nuclear wasn't or isn't used more, but it doesn't really matter at this point - we are here, and we have really inexpensive and seemingly low impact technologies like solar and wind with battery or other types of storage. Plus, we can now have a more distributed grid with installs right in people's homes.
Move past whatever has you hung up on nuclear, there's lots of other ways to have a positive impact on our environmental future.
The other people in this thread are arguing semantics - whether he is "guilty" or not. They may be correct.
Thing is, they're still trying to split hairs about a man who raped someone to make sure he gets the benefit of ... semantics or something.
I mean, Intel has been putting them in stuff like it helps their sales, lately... so...
How much do you think you'd need to get out? (Asking, in a kidding way, as a Californian who is tired of these memes about how it's bad to live here when you're just describing any major urban center in the world.)
Edit: you're not wrong about the challenges, it's just that they're not unique to California.
My buddy was talking to someone in a coop game and I tried walking past to talk to someone else and a war started.
In 10 years you haven't made any professional connections who would want to work with you again?
That is the single best avenue to other jobs: foot in the door through someone you have worked with who can vouch for your professionalism and ability.
If you're not making those connections, something is wrong. It could be the kinds of jobs you've taken, eg: if they're all solo contracts and you don't interact with anyone on anything other than deliverables. Or you are taking roles where your output is used only by a small sunset of the company or something?
If you're taking reasonable roles and have decent interaction with co-workers and no one is willing to refer you for a job, then you need to think about what your relationships are like at work and why they aren't positive enough.
Also the group was collectively pregnant, injured and hypothermic - just so we are clear on the dire threats they posed to the crew.