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I read the list and confirmed that Niggardly, which means “grudging and petty in giving or spending” or being stingy with money, is not on the list. It has absolutely not relation to the N word which is obviously why at Stanford it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to your students and colleagues as niggards, so long as they are tight with money.

60 Songs that Explain the 90s

The podcast is from a music critic who works his way to the title song by showing how other songs influenced the title song, or the band who made it. It’s been so good they expanded it to 90 episode.

https://www.theringer.com/60-songs-that-explain-the-90s

I am definitely from the Golden Age of Visual Basic.

ChatGPT has been great for DevOps. So much of DevOps is trying to figure the best approach to a solution and ChatGPT has been an amazing partner to bounce ideas off of, or to get recommendations.

All because Musk committed blasphemy for using joke pronouns and criticized Fauci? FTA:

> However, we do not in our community tolerate speech that is demeaning and non-rebuttable, dangerous, or factually false. By way of one example, Musk’s tweet on Sunday is at least two of these, both demeaning and potentially dangerous. In the tweet, Musk mocks the importance of pronouns in respecting someone’s identity and humanity. He also incites opprobrium against a public health professional, Dr. Fauci, who has served the country well for decades through challenging times. Given the potential for actual violence to emerge from social media instigation, this tweet seems to me to be tantamount to endangering others.

I know it’s from 1984, but it’s considered a word itself as far as I can tell. I was using it as “Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public.” Heterosexuality is the norm, it is the default. Heteronormativity is some nonsense phrase that is used in place of “normal” to try and draw a false equivalency between normal and abnormal. It is intended to muddy the waters and mislead like most contemporary “woke” language.

Terms like “heteronormativity” and “cisgender” are just ways they attempt to marginalize normal people and their normal sexual development. These people who use these terms are objectively and statistically outliers in society. And since they can’t convince anyone to accept their abnormality, they instead try to change language to remove the idea of there being a standard/normal baseline.

They think that because you’re not trying to make them “explore their gender identity” while teaching them ABCs that you are pushing something. It’s absolute projection. I support all people to live their lives how they see fit, but I refuse to use their newspeak or pretend like there is not a natural normal.

This is why my only response to Amazon recruiter emails is “No thank you”.

I set up Pi-Hole in Docker (along with Unbound) to provide recursive DNS. Then changed my router’s DNS settings to point to 192.168.1.2 which is the Pi-Hole. Works perfectly and blocks thousands of requests from the kid’s devices as well as our TVs and smart devices.

Call it ActiveZ

Thank you for your reply. All of the reasons you provided make sense, but number three was one I hadn't even considered. It seems so obvious once you pointed it out lol.

Does the tech field seem to be highly represented in the T part of LGBT? I can’t count how many times I’ve see a woman’s name as the maintainer of some software and thought, wow it’s awesome to see a woman working on something as low-level or esoteric or whatever and it almost always ends up being a trans woman. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, just an observation.

You are correct, I should have said it was unclear. I am aware of their pause in ad spend but I assumed it was to cover up for their judgement.

Stop overthinking it. Settle down and have kids. I know no one else will give you this advice, because it’s generally bad advice, but seriously…just start trying to make the baby and let nature do it’s thing. If you wait for the perfect time, it may never arrive. Or when it does, you’ll regret having waited so long. Nothing in my life has been as worthwhile as raising my children. It’s not always easy, you have to work on resolving conflicts between siblings or you and your kids (teens amirite?) and you’ll have to think of more than just yourself in pretty much any decision you make, and everything has extra steps. It sounds like a pain, but I wish I could do it 4 more times! My mother had me at 16 and thankfully I survived. I’m in a better position but not by any means well off or able to stop working, but I am happy with my lot. I would definitely say make sure you are a functional adult and in a relationship with someone you are going to be forced to deal with for at least 18. Aside from that, let the adventure begin!

Please stop spreading the falsehood that Eli Lilly lost billions because of a fake verified tweet. https://medium.com/@westwise/did-twitter-just-take-8-billion...

But pretty easy to cause blunt force trauma to the head

I’m in the inverse position, a conservative who lives in one of the most progressive counties in the country, and I work in Tech. I’m basically politically agnostic as far as anyone is concerned.

It is absolutely not literally violence to say or call someone the N word, no matter how repugnant or socially unacceptable it is. It is not illegal in the US to call people horrible names, nor is it illegal to be racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.

This isn’t to say I advocate for people being any of those things, it’s just somehow become generally accepted that these things are somehow inherently breaking the law or some kind of hate crime. Even on the rare instance someone displays some racist material in public, the news is quick to say police are investigating…investigating what, exactly? “Hate speech” is not a crime in the US.

But where does the poo go?

Did you mail this comment to HN for it to be posted?

I’d like to call dibs on “digital plumber” for DevOps Engineers

We’re not allowed to have an American identity. Trying to cling to traditions is considered a conservative thing and thus inherently racist. American can only be defined by her failures, and any attempt to point out the successes is considered whitewashing history or something.

There were a number of places that sought to, or outright skipped, the Independence Day celebration this year. It’s now totally normal for some people to find the US flag “problematic” and itself a sign of oppression.

I am having a similar problem with my son. We live in a very progressive county and he is finally eligible to work, but there are effectively zero places he can get a job. The traditional teen jobs like paper route, fast food, etc., are all filled by middle-aged immigrants.

Running all writing through AI to re-write everything in a different style while conveying the same information might work. Create a way to apply it to all online writing and you have something like a writing VPN.

> There was some fraud, yes, not a whole lot, and so far only on the Republican side.

https://news.yahoo.com/20-arrested-florida-voter-fraud-03401...

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search

> But what happens when the fulfilling, enjoyable jobs get automated?

I once read an argument that said automation would advance universal basic income (UBI) and free up people for leisure and creating art. So I suppose they’ll have more time to create art.

Only one of those things violates US law. It’s not illegal to have abhorrent beliefs or to say offensive things.

He tried to hide the domain name, but leaked it mid thread. He bought binance.ca to squat and wait for a big payout. When he was unreasonable they sued in Canada because it’s .ca.

Thank you! My kids aren’t letting me forget it’s Fathers Day, so it’s been a good day :-)