Adam Compton

Americans are already paying for this war in blood. Now, struggling under the weight of this administration’s policies, they will pay in treasure, too. [...] Do not tell us there is no money for health care. Do not tell us there is no money for college. Do not tell us there is no money for child care. There is money. There has always been money. What we lack is leadership. What we need is the courage to seize it. For every day this Congress fails to act, Americans will pay—in blood and treasure—for a war no one debated, no one authorized, and no one can justify. Ortega Democrat for Congress

With seven U.S. servicemembers confirmed dead and crude oil futures jumping 25 percent to $115 a barrel, the campaign issued the following statement on the human and economic costs of this unjust and illegal war. Read the full statement.

I was taught to think critically and question what I was told to insulate me from heathen public school curriculum, but then it occurred to me to do that with the religious teachings too

He's on the faith-based circuit now, tons of roles over there hanging out with Dean Cain

I know, I was so sad

I appreciated how Warehouse 13 had conventionally attractive male and female leads and from day 1 said "nope, never, not even if they were the last people on earth". It was refreshing!

It's good for the techs too! It sucks to have someone confront you with a problem you cannot fix, but it's always in your power to help someone else feel heard and try to find workarounds/alternatives/ways of coping

Daylight savings means nothing to me because I use epoch time. Oh it’s “11 o’clock?” Cute. It’s 1772991390 o’unix

I used to do IT and I learned that when people call they have two problems. The tech problem, and the emotional problem that they're upset enough to call. You have to fix both for it to feel successful. People need to feel heard and respected, especially when they already feel dumb and defensive

Did you know there exists an ODBC plugin for Excel, so that you can use a spreadsheet as a database and run queries against it? I learned this fact while working for a hedge fund.

Reminds me of all the HN posts about people building a Slack clone in a weekend. "It's just IRC, how hard could it be?" What makes it hard is the polish, the thousands of hours of fixing problems you didn't realize you'd have. AI can't give you that because you don't know enough yet to ask for it

I read this story ten years ago and watching its reality get closer and closer ever since has continued to terrify me every time I think about it. What happens when the robots can super-saturate the most powerful drives humans possess? We'll find out in another year or two at this rate

I have known only a few gun owners, but they uniformly fantasized about what it would be like to use them. I can't help but wonder if having a power fantasy running in your head tied to holding a gun makes it harder to feel powerful/capable without one

move slow and repair things

Now _this_ should be the next Bluesky "share some minor personal information" meme. (2876698)

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Drunken locksmith and invented the scrub sponge

Kind of like how the popular concept of "Florida man" is mostly because of the state's open records law exposing all of the crazy things people get up to, not because the state is uniquely crazy

(I think those also happened because e.g. the Lavender Scare made it unacceptable for men to have close male friends, but I take your point)

I feel this way whenever people talk about the rise in autism diagnoses. There have always been eccentric uncles who really liked trains, you know?

Flowers for Algernon (complimentary)

Claude (which like any AI has a knowledge cutoff date a couple of months ago) finds out about the newest Middle East War during a research (screenshot from Reddit).

I feel you, Claude, I really do.

TroubleStarter uses Mind Detonator! It's super effective!

Oh good, they built the torment nexus from the book Manna by Marshall Brain. I was wondering when we'd get here.

This feels like another instance of the ol' "maintenance isn't flashy and nobody cares about it until the bridge fails" problem you see basically everywhere. I wish we had a general solution for it

A landscape photo of a vivid blue sky and rolling green hills

It's wild living in the Windows 95 wallpaper

The best one I know of is The Westing Game, which isn't quite a comedy, but has lots of humorous elements

Lok'tar ogar!

25 years ago today, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US began its worldwide invasion on @newgrounds.com.

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Interviews are the pinnacle of an expensive and time-consuming process. Spending the first half trying to make the candidate understand your system so you can start asking them questions is a waste of everyone's time.

Use silly toy systems instead and get everyone on the same page instantly.

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