Notices by Estelle Weyl (estelle@front-end.social)

My retirement has gone down 5% since the inauguration, while prices have gone up about that much since then. Eggs are hard to find. Institutions that keep us safe have been decimated to a point where we are unsure if it's safe to fly within the continental USA.

The SOTU will not mention any of this. I think i'll skip the gaslighting MAGA marketing fest. YOLO, and we've spent too much time on this buffoon. The tidal wave is going to keep coming at us until 4 GOP senators get a back bone.

Mexico already has 10K troups at the southern border (a peaceful, tariff-free Biden accomplishment). This whole thing was to keep our attention focused on tariffs / int'l non-issues while non-elected nor appointed project 2025ers decimate our institutions and freedoms.

My mother, like the prez, has narcissistic personality disorder. People with NPD are never, ever satisfied.

The lesson I learned and want to share is to never give an inch. It is impossible to appease the unappeasable. There is no use trying, especially if you have to give up your mores and values to do so.

Industry leaders will hopefully learn this quickly. They have all bent the knee and kissed the ring. What they don't realize is the appeasement is always very, very temporary.

Insurance is not health care.

The media needs to stop referring to Brian Thompson as a healthcare executive. He was an insurance executive; a corporate exec in a capitalist society.

Denying health promotion and disease prevention care is the antithesis of healthcare.

MOFA Bumper sticker

Signal has no ads, no trackers, no surveillance.

It is time to install it.

It is a nonprofit

It is time to donate.

https://signal.org/donate/

Donating to Signal helps pay for the servers, bandwidth, and ongoing development to ensure that Signal remains available to the millions of people around the world who count on it to protect their privacy.

I now feel terrible that I gave the WSJ $8 for a short subscription.

The editorial board is arguing that Harris is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump. I am very, very worried.

Here's their erudite dribble: (gift link because please, please, please don't support their lack of ethics)

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-fascist-meme-returns-donald-trump-election-voters-5e513359?st=4MtZLq

A Tesla semi crashed (with no trailer), closing part of i-80 for SIXTEEN hours.

So glad Elon is taking all of his businesses out of California. Good riddance.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224576/tesla-semi-crash-fire-highway-california-i-80

@steve

Same.

I think it's a bot created by Tim Chambers.

@tchambers. There are a bunch of whackos taking advantage of that. Is there a way to only boost mentions of people who have more the x followers and have been following the account for more than X days?

Thanks for the consideration (and the bot)

A must watch for all USA peeps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

The MAGA bible is just a money laundering scheme. It enables churches to fund DJT's campaign without "contributing" or "participating" in politics.

It's time to tax churches.

Trader Joe's is suing to destroy worker rights for EVERYONE, not just the TJ workforce.

They're arguing that the NLRB is unconstitutional, and plan on taking their anti-worker stance to the anti-worker US supreme court.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/02/trader-joes-argues-national-labor-relations-board-is-unconstitutional-and-other-labor-news/

Fuck!
I hate capitalism.
I loved TJs.
Past tense, now.
Ugh.

They need to put all that energy they've been wasting on the non-existent shoplifting from national chain stores onto the very real wage theft perpetrated by those chain stores.

Yes, some very real crimes are happening in corporate America, but it's the corporations themselves committing the largest financial crimes. Want to reduce the $ lost to crime? Go after corporations. They're responsible for the majority of criminal financial losses in the USA. Let's focus on that.

A catalytic converter theft ring was busted.

https://www.overdriveonline.com/channel-19/article/15541422/tdi-towings-catalytic-converter-theft-ring-busted

You'll note the pictures of those arrested are definitely different from the people on Nextdoor keep blaming.

A mini-blog post:

Tailwind CSS: 5 best-practices

1. Use CSS
2. Do not use Tailwind
3. Exclude Tailwind from your code base
4. Learn CSS, specificity, inheritance and the cascade, and
5. Don't use Tailwind

Since the industrial revolution, industry has not been responsible for the side effects of their products. They are able to be profitable because it's future generations that will have to foot the bill for handling the waste and the side effects of that waste.

Current generations are footing the bill for some past industry behaviors, but the worst is yet to come. And we see it coming. But in the name of profits, we're doing virtually nothing about it.

All in the name of capitalism.

A fishing boat carrying 750 people sank 50 miles off Pylos in southern Greece. 78 died. 500 are still missing (and likely dead). Before sinking, many ships passed the disabled boat. No one helped.

A sub carrying 5 people disappeared miles underwater, hundreds of miles from land. Several ships and countries searched 900 square miles for days.

750 people v. 5 people.
zero effort v. every paper's top headline.
Why the difference in effort and reporting?

"Some people are more equal than others."

In the USA, first you can buy a gun, then you can drive, then you can die for your country, then you can vote, then you can drink, then you are old enough to CSS.

Do not organize conferences in Florida. After July 1, 2023, your #transgender attendees will not be legally allowed to use public restrooms.

Organizing a conference in #Florida puts all your attendees, not just your trans guests, at physical, emotional, and legal risk.

We're all focused on the Trump indictment, so you may have missed that the Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association has been arrested for importing fentanyl.

She continued to distribute drugs after she knew she was being investigated, but she's white and working with SJ popo for 20 years so likely knew she could get away with it.

https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nationworld/california-police-union-director-charged-with-importing-fentanyl-other-opioids/amp/

#ACAB