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I suppose you could suggest it would be off-putting to users, but the current method seems to have done the same.
Does anyone know what the endgame is for freenode? Is there one?
They are clearly within the boundaries of New Jersey, yet a part of New York (state and city). These also fall under federal jurisdiction as they are homes to national monuments. Yet control has been contested in the federal government at least five times since the 1800s, most recently in 1998 (Ellis Island) and 1987 (Liberty Island).
There’s a great book called “When the World Seemed New,” by Jeffrey Engel about the monumental world events which during George H.W. Bush’s presidency.
Tiananmen Square took place ~5 months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of the points made in the book (and other Cold War-related texts I have read, though pointedly in this one) suggested the events in China really gave the (East) Germans and Soviets pause on how to handle a rising protest movement. It’s still regarded as a bit of a miracle the Leipzig church demonstrations and the Wall falling occurred without bloodshed.
Would a peaceful resolution in China have changed the ultimate course of the Cold War? I don’t necessarily think so; Iron Curtain nations were already fraying. But it would have been very, very interesting if two major communist countries, nuclear powers fell in quick order in terms of economies and alliances.
In the U.S. it’s been discussed how the recent stimulus has led to the improvements in the unemployment rate slowing. People aren’t interested in going back to low-paying, degrading jobs — like fast food. It’s forcing businesses to increase their hourly wage to find willing workers.
It makes you wonder if Facebook will face the same fate soon with its moderation jobs.
Will there be a point where the cost to hire and support these people becomes unsustainable? Will they master moderation by machine learning before this occurs? Seems Facebook may be faking it while it’s making it.
I mention these schools because if your friend is looking to study out-of-state anyway, a non-resident may have an advantage in the application process. All things equal, an out-of-state student will bring in more tuition dollars than an in-state resident, and high-end universities like GT, VT don’t like turning away money.
I’ve given thought to how a new web site or business quickly grows an audience without social. With search engines, the site still needs to be “seen” by the engine and compete with more established sites.
(I sincerely apologize up front for being the grammar police.)
Where you have the badge noting the app is free on your web site, you write “3 touch access to helplines.” When I first read this I was a bit puzzled, thinking, “why is there a limit for the number of times you can access the helplines?”
I believe this should be “3-touch access” to convey it would take no more than three taps to connect with a mental health provider (which makes sense to me as a feature — if a user is in crisis you don’t want them struggling with a way to find support).
Again, thanks for this. May you be blessed with good karma for such a good deed.
Do you have benefits with your job? There may be short-term disability benefits you can use for a couple months while you heal. It sounds like you just need rest — not necessarily institutionalization or sleep, rather time away from work to let you do healthy things like reconnecting with nature, exercising, frequent trips for therapy (weekly vs. monthly), etc.
Also, please remember mental health matters fall under ADA (which accounts for mental health among temporary or permanent disabilities) and Family Medical Leave (which would be unpaid unless your state requires the employer to accommodate paid leave). These are federal laws which protect you; your employer must provide reasonable accommodate or permit leave for a health condition without penalty. Talk to your doctor about this; he/she would likely provide documentation which your company would have to comply with. Then, maybe, you will feel more at ease about approaching work?
In the short term, if you need access to therapy but cannot find someone to talk to, ask about your company’s EAP which may be able to get you access to a therapist/counselor more quickly than if you investigated private practices on your own.
I really hope you are able to find a solution which helps you heal. They are out there. Don’t give up hope. Keep trying to find the one that works for you. Be patient and kind to yourself in the meantime.
Mainstream media is not necessarily left or right; it is corporate. Media bends to the demographics that can bring in revenue.
If it wasn’t apparent before 2016, that election stripped any façade of journalism being separated from the business of media companies. Everyone benefitted from Trump’s antics and they rode stories about them all the way to the bank.*
You would think only “right-wing” media would have benefitted from the Trump campaigns and presidency, but the death of the fairness doctrine made it easier for these media companies to target siloed demographics — left and right — and feed off them.
There was also a seismic shift in newsroom mentality when media companies downsized and went with cheaper, inexperienced journalists and editors. A great deal of the industrial knowledge accumulated by veterans was never appropriately passed on to the new generation.
Also: Too many journalist see themselves as personalities and brands because of the potential financial benefit outside of the newsroom. This has been exacerbated by social media influencer culture. It is hard to be impartial when you insert yourself into the story.
That said, there are good journalists out there who are not looking to do anything other than report on interesting and important matters. Unfortunately in the current media landscape, it can be very tough to filter signal from all the noise.
* not a political statement; simply an observation on how, regardless of leanings, media corporations exploited high ratings.
Absolutely. I teach programming and one thing I have learned is my presentations must be heavily scripted to be effective.
It is not that mistakes cannot happen during a presentation, but they should only be included with purpose (“I’m going to show you how this breaks...”). But mistakes that appear when unscripted, unless quickly caught and spun as being introduced on purpose can lead to a lot of confusion.
Even the end result (to me) is scripted and won’t account for all the different scenarios that might occur in a real-world setting (i.e. spec changes, different environments).
It’s entirely possible cooking videos may result in good-looking dishes, but since we never get a taste of the final result... :)
I found it fascinating scientists were already making the connections to immune system problems, which, in fact, turned out to be a hallmark of the disease. They were on the right track, and yet given how far buried that detail was in this story, you get the sense it wasn’t the flashing red light we know it to be.
I’ve often thought of the counterculture to online space as those who are breaking free of centralization and the digital “monopolies.” They’re the people who are homesteading on tildes, Mastodon, or their own self-hosted instance, for example. In cyberspace, FAANG are the new industrialists (the new informationalists?), so to me it makes sense that a portion of online society wants to separate or rebel from this establishment which controls a good portion of this cyberspace.
As IoT becomes more prevalent, I can see those who seek a break from connectivity in general as countercultural, too. Some of the ideas in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” or Ted Kaczynski’s* “Industrial Society and Its Future” reflect this.
* I do not condone Kaczynski’s actions. I’m merely stating the concern about technology’s negative impact on society has long been thought about. It makes sense that there would be those who seek to shun it entirely.
Do you plan to make it open-source?
It’s a pity we never saw what was possible. The land for Walt Disney World has its own government and possibly could have developed the concept without public interference.
Disney (the company) commandeered the idea of EPCOT concept thinking it would be a nostalgic nod to the founder and created a theme park and real estate development which barely, if at all, reflected Disney’s (the person) vision.
Meanwhile, Celebration kind of turned into a dystopian situation.[1]
[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/celebration-florida-how-disney...
I don’t think there’s a long-term tolerance that builds up. I get the sense it is short-acting. I’ve read once a cat has catnip, giving them more in a 15-20 minute window is pointless because they’ve already been “activated” by it. They need to come down from the initial dose first.
My cats’ vet has suggested to use catnip to encourage activity (they’re a big chunky and need some exercise).
I appreciate projects like this as a newbie. People say, “you can learn a lot by reading other people’s code.”
Unfortunately, most of the projects I try to learn from are quite large. It can be overwhelming to dissect. A project like this which sticks to the language (with few or additional libraries) allows me to pick apart what everything does.
I hit 40 this year and soon understood a quote by Allison (Ally Sheedy) in “The Breakfast Club:”
“When you grow up, your heart dies.”
I’m desperately trying to find a certain... soul that existed in my younger days. I want to explore, yet my mind tells me I’m supposed to know these things already as an adult.
A provision of the protest law does not make a driver liable for injury or death if fleeing a mob. What if a person is in the path of a car fleeing? Does that individual have the right to shoot at the driver if he/she feels threatened?
A common tactic — used prior to protests this summer — is to get a line of cars stretching across all lanes of I-95 and driving slow to cause traffic backups. I wonder if these will be grouped in with the “on foot” protests.
Genuinely curious about Internet history details. Thank you!