Relatedly, that internet-famous Nazi bar story:

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.” And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed.

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

And i was like, ohok and he continues. "you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

JWZ: “I prefer to meet people where they are” says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar.

It’s Bluesky. The Nazi Bar is Bluesky.

UBI on its own is a dead end under capitalism, because companies would raise the prices of good & services to absorb it, and real estate prices & rents would similarly go up to absorb it. And you know that other social safety nets would be dismantled, on the excuse that UBI serves as their replacement. Those social services would be privatized, making the situation worse.

Unless you’re a member of the big club, I’ve got bad news for you[1][2].

FUCK IT, WE’LL DO IT LIVE!

They had spyware, anyway. We don’t know that it still works.

As of March 2023, Pegasus operators were able to remotely install the spyware on iOS versions through 16.0.3 using a zero-click exploit.

The current version of iOS is 18.1.0.

The fact that I now know is the very reason why I no longer start.

Don’t tell those other suckers, though, or else nothing will ever get started.

$ echo 'main;' > main.c && gcc main.c 2>/dev/null && ./a.out
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ 

• Cargo cult programming
• Five whys
• Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is

It’s bigger than it looks: our data is spread across 64,000 worksheets.

Our “big data” is ActiveSheet.Rows.Count big.

Yes? “Consciously” and “knowingly” would be synonyms in the context.

This is the ideal tech worker. You may not like it, but this is what peak technology looks like.

We don’t always have the luxury of choosing our tools, and some tools are garbage.

Sure, though you’re arguing against an entirely different thing. Nobody said writing code is bad.

Found the Java developer.

Trick or treat is a threat. They can’t refuse you treats because of the implication.

It’s not that, it’s that I’d like to know more about this battery technology.

I wish this article weren’t so light on details.

There are a few China Bad Times stans who reliably downvote anything remotely positive about China.

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