Just found out we get the keys to our new townhouse tonight instead of tomorrow! Weeee!
On my way to the new digs now to greet our PODs delivery, via Podzilla! An amazing thing to watch if you've never seen how they do it.
And tomorrow we spend the day unloading it all.
So I'll be MIA unless a news alert pops up that's worth sharing.
Employment is actually one of the clearer ways to understand our perpetual headwind.
There are two companies. One company absorbs the other. It doesn't matter why.
Afterward, the combined company has ALL these costs. All these children getting fed, all these pets receiving care, all these aging parents being supported.
That's expensive. The company doesn't want that at all.
So it makes a little spreadsheet and cancels as many obligations as it wants. Unilaterally.
@tillshadeisgone A formerly homeless organizer I work with told me that which party is in power in the state or federal government determines how much help poor people can get in terms of SNAP benefits, housing assistance, healthcare, extra support for their kids’ schools, etc. Or whether people in need can get those things at all.
So I don’t really believe this stuff about “both parties are the same to people who are actually struggling.”
I just saw a picture of an optical illusion posted with an alt text of "if you can't see, this one isn't going to be fun, I'm sorry".
And they're right, technically.
But also, the text in the post did not mention that it was an optical illusion at all.
So, you're letting vision-impaired people know that they're missing out, but you're not even telling them _what_ it is they're missing.
Also, you could totally describe how the illusion looks and what it's doing.
@james You are absolutely right, and I’m not trying to say JavaScript developers are to blame here, but rather the culture perpetuated by Facebook and others.
It’s more a problem with people who write posts on Medium than people who actually write JavaScript.
I am a JavaScript programmer! I love writing JavaScript! And I hate that everyone keeps telling me to install a dependency to do anything at all.
So you’re right, I was not clear, and I apologise.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I think the USA needs to see regime change, and I think we're going to see it in our lifetimes. Also, I don't think the GOP intends to make any real recovery at all. Their entire argument at this point amounts to pointing out how insane and hypocritical shitlibs are. The two choices in America right now are megalomaniacal jews who can't balance a budget (Democrats) or staid jews who can (Republicans), and neither really represents my interests at all.
So on the one hand, yes, they did rig the 2020 election and they're in the process of rigging the 2024 election even harder, but on the other hand, lol who cares.
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