Frondo

It seems like you're conflating several things:

1) Save Our Mesa is the group that pushed back, successfully, against this project, to further the tourism interests in their town, according to the article and according to them.

2) Some infrastructure projects "like this" (i.e. not necessarily this one, but simply projects "like this") draw backlash from environmental groups for whatever local reason. (also, this does not mean Save Our Mesa, the group responsible for stopping this project, is an environmental group.)

3) A local group (Basin and Ranch) was happy that "grass roots killed this project" and they were "happy to help" (in an undisclosed way) -- this also does not mean that "environmental groups" stopped the solar installation "because it would be an eyesore," which is what you said in your original post.

Look, I get that environmental groups sometimes behave in ways that seem irrational, too focused on some small local issue (Basin and Ranch likes the tortoise habitat more than they like solar), but this kind of sliding different issues, takes, positions, etc., together is dishonest and shitty, whether intentional or not.

I bought an iphone because I want a phone that'll last five years and get security updates for at least as long. I also bought an iphone because I have a lot of confidence it won't have design flaws that break its gps (like the motorola I had) or have its ecosystem EOL'd (like the Windows phone I had, which was an incredible piece of hardware, and I loved it!)

I wish the android hardware ecosystem had half the longevity you get with the cheapest iphone.

> the phone call he is making with someone else's phone is not depriving him of his freedom/privacy, but its owner's.

Maybe he's not being hypocritical, but that position -- I will pragmatically use others' phones for my convenience, but I will not retain one myself -- just seems shitty. Not sure why, maybe because it's even less of a universally applicable tenet than "phones are bad, mmkay," it's just "I'll use the systems as convenient for me, no matter how others may suffer under them."

Did you read article #2?

The group that stopped the solar installation was something called "Save Our Mesa":

> But a group of residents organized as “Save Our Mesa” argued such a large installation would be an eyesore and could curtail the area’s popular recreational activities — biking, ATVs and skydiving — and deter tourists from visiting sculptor Michael Heizer’s land installation, “Double Negative.”

The group itself is not in any way an environmental group, they claim to be locals who want to save their tourism industry.

Their own website: http://www.saveourmesa.org

> The majority of our community’s revenue comes from tourism. We lost a lot of tourism and businesses when the shrinking lake levels of Lake Mead occurred closing a nearby beach. We have struggled but built back our economy through OHV tourism. When people come and camp/hotel for a week, they buy our gas, our groceries, eat in our restaurants, use our mechanics and parts stores. This allows these businesses to thrive thus keeping us self sufficient. Feedback from many of our Snowbirds was that they would look for new places to go, that’s lost revenue. People would not come to recreate, that’s lost revenue.

I would certainly like to see a marketing-savvy billionaire start a sustained campaign of "ride the train/bus." I've wondered for some time, both what that would look like and whether it could have a meaningful impact in any given metropolitan area.

(And rinse and repeat for other vital public goods, like parks, libraries, public health, and so on.)

One other thing about VSCode being an Electron app -- it is by far the snappiest and most responsive and least bad memory-wise Electron app I've used. This isn't like Slack or Discord. It's like magic what they've built on Electron, one of these days I'll dig into the code to see how they did it.

He's referring to William Halstead, whose cocaine habit let him work long hours without sleep, and who was one of the instrumental figures in developing the modern medical residency system (with its brutally long hours):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted

The NLRB is the one making the recommendation for a new election, and, since they found that Amazon interfered with the election not just by removing this material, but in a number of other ways, why shouldn't they recommend holding a new election?

What's the alternative? When corporations violate labor law and interfere with union elections, do nothing about it? More broadly, if Amazon trusted the employees to research and vote of their own volition, why interfere (as determined by the NLRB) at all?

Unions are a part of the free market, unless you'd like to remove people's freedom to associate just because they all happen to work at the same place.

C# does, as do quite a few others. Heh, this is kind of interesting:

https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/String_concatenation

This is the issue: it's unreliable, and its results presented as a matter of fact.

This is also the latest I've heard of, in a long line of the criminal justice system presenting what's often closer to fiction as an indisputable fact of someone's guilt. One of the cases that made me incredibly angry was the junk arson science surrounding the conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas in 2004:

https://innocenceproject.org/cameron-todd-willingham-wrongfu...

But I also think of how unreliable eyewitness testimony is, and yet people's recollections of events (when we know, and have known for so long, that memory is plastic!), sometimes years later, are treated as fact:

https://www.ncsc.org/trends/monthly-trends-articles/2017/the....

I don't know how to solve this, since the "proven" part of "innocent until proven guilty" seems like it's built on a house of cards, and the only people with a direct incentive to change it are suspects (i.e. the people that the criminal justice system has already decided could've done it, and how can you trust a criminal's motivations? eye roll)

No specific employer is obligated to employ a specific employee, but we as a society have an obligation not to allow a slave-wage class to exist. We can do this, but we choose not to.

Hey man, similar thing here. Every six months or so, almost to the day, I've got a spell for about 7-10 days where I have an immense fatigue, like sleeping 12-15 hours at a stretch, and a brain fog that makes it impossible to concentrate on anything. Then it all lifts, and I go back to my usual 7 hours a night, thinking all day and night. This all started for me in February of 2020, too, just before the lockdowns; I didn't get a positive test at the time because my live-in partner did receive one -- the testing clinic said with the positive exposure to just stay home and go to the hospital if I can't breathe -- since then we've both had the same symptoms at roughly the same occurrence.

It sucks.

There isn't a tech labor salary on the planet that would make me suddenly be comfortable with at-will labor -- no matter how much they're paying me, when they can pull the plug at any time and I have no process to seek recourse, that's not right.

If I'm giving up my one non-fungible resource, my time, it had better come with protections beyond the smile of the manager who insists they've got my back when they're really looking for the right place to stick the knife; if you haven't been burned by that one, that too is a kind of, as you put it, extreme privilege.

I've known quite a few union members who were paid out of their unions' strike funds when they went on strike. This is not so cut and dried.

I've also known hundreds of people who love their unions, from a variety of industries and walks of life (health care, service industry, trades, heavy industry.)

This is also anecdotal, of course, but it doesn't seem right to make such broad claims with a veneer of fact or universality and then add that one little caveat, "anecdotal, I know"

> sorry, it's 5:01 and

You are entitled to your time. If you're set to work til 5, then your employer should pay you a minute's overtime if they need you to turn that screw.

Why would you volunteer for someone else's money-making venture?

The first aerial bombing on US soil targeted striking coal miners, at the Battle of Blair Mountain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

That seems more like "literal war" than a gang turf war.

SAG-AFTRA is a union.

The NFL Players League and the Screen Actors Guild do not operate this way. Their top performers negotiate significantly higher salaries for themselves (check out what Tom Cruise is getting for a film) while retaining the protections of the guild.

Why wouldn't organized labor in software build their unions the same way?

It's unfortunate that the link to the actual survey:

https://www.fourth.com/resource/truth-about-dining-out-infog...

is now dead. All this is is a news site quoting it, second-hand, and I have seen enough news sites get original reporting wrong not to place a great deal of stock in them getting it right.

Was it your intent to conflate things that are arguably necessities for participating in modern life ("smart phones, unlimited data") with things that are not ("eating out 3-4 times a week, uber eats")?

Because when someone pushed back on you, saying that smartphone ownership now is like car ownership became at some point in the past -- a necessity -- and then you changed it from "smart phones" to "the latest hot gadget".

So it's no longer clear whether you think smart phones and unlimited data are indulgences like ubereats is, or where one might draw the line according to you.

It's a somewhat clumsy restatement of the just world hypothesis, which seems like it's built into much of the discourse and attitudes of American society and has almost always been dominant.

> Ah yes, an intricate lie.

Not a joke -- what do you think resumes are?

I dislike the content-spamming recipes for another reason -- they're an accessibility nightmare. I seem to get eye strain more easily than most, despite having normal vision when my eyes aren't hurting, so I use the screen reader a lot.

Any of those recipe sites? they'll read through several minutes of navigations, links, ads, and story before getting to the site. I feel badly for anyone who must listen to that, i.e. who doesn't have an option to read it visually, what a horrible experience.

> That's your opinion that you're deciding for other people

Others have spoken to your other points, but as for this, yeah, exactly.

We're talking about how we'd organize society (or some aspect of it), the basis of which involves making decisions for other people, in the sense of developing rules that hopefully people will abide by as participants in the society even if they disagree.

Oregon has a long history of encoding racism into law, from the Black Exclusion laws from its early history to sundown laws that lasted into the 20th century.

Idaho, too -- the Aryan Nations had their headquarters in the Hayden Lake area for a long time, until the early 2000s if I remember.

It's only in the big cities that you get a lot of a liberal/progressive presence, outside that you get anywhere from libertarians to evangelicals to the outright racists/alt-right types.

Taxpayer here, and former low-paid wage slave, I agree with alienthrowaway.

Yeah, it is a game. Dressing up is just playing the game, to show that you're one of the boys. But you know what? It's also an extremely low-hanging fruit kind of game to play, so why not? What do you have to gain by refusing to play that one, when what it might take is a few hundred bucks and an afternoon going shopping?

I saw that too, and that I think was such a crucial mistake. Discretion, as they say, is the better part of valor. Is it fun to point out someone's hypocrisy? Probably. Is it going to be productive, especially to do so in a public manner? Absolutely, absolutely not. You're embarrassing them, to what, teach them a lesson? Well, lesson learned, but not the one you intended -- they'll learn that the boss is not above a little public humiliation to score a point. Trust gone. I'd sure start looking for other places if my manager, or the CTO, started doing that, severance or no.

Frankly, unless you've been doing a somewhat systematic survey of "businesses that have been boarded up" and "businesses that continue to operate as normal" and are doing so across the city (and not the very small part of the city where the protests have been taking place), this seems like an ideal situation to point out that the plural of anecdote is not data.