Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 7

Democrats are looking at France and gritting their teeth in disappointment of the rise of the left lol

"we spent too much on funding prisons and not wind farms"

Blocking is more healthier than I realized.

@dansup It doesn't have to be a "wild west", no? That's solely on how we develop the space to be.

me: why do I keep running out of space?

also me: downloading projects to my computer, compiling them, poking at parts and then never deleting them for weeks because it's easier to view and walk through code locally than in the browser (for me! LSP is so good now)

#neovim

def just nuked any Rust project I had the sources of locally that had a `Cargo.lock` file (a mistake with a command). At first, I kinda freaked out but everything I think I would have is in version control (and I keep backups so I found some stuff)

god that was stressful lol

but I got back 120 GB!

Dang I should have figured it out. In order to win at politics, I don't have to give a fuck about people. I gotta be rich

My sincere condolences for those forced to celebrate the horrific declaration of colonial intent by the gentried class today. As with ever, the 4th of "Lies" is a celebration of the wealthy declaring their sustained intent to continue the decimation of land on their notions of Christo-nationality.

In the same way that Indigenous Peoples' Day is now commemorated as a day of reflection, today's one to think of the millions of people lost to fulfill the colonial perversion that is the United States of America.

https://www.avclub.com/neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-assault-1851576240

> The second woman, known as K, says she was 18 in 2003, when she met Gaiman at a book signing in Sarasota, Florida

He ... did this again last year (the book signing) at a lot of local libraries (I'm very close to that city hence my awareness)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/biden-crisis-debate-democrats/

I checked the URL three times to make sure it wasn't a good fake.

IMO, this is good news (but for the wrong reason, shows which critics get to be heard)

Platform/protocol supremacy is weird! Imagine if we did that with spoken language! Or Nationality! Or our fave social constructs (gender+race+class)?

Oh wait.

America's referred to as "the belly of the beast" by folks who are focused on decolonization and anti-imperialist life.

Where do you think the head of the beast is?

The little-known racist origins of the 'pro-life' abortion movement by @wagatwe https://wagatwe.com/blog/racist-origins-pro-life-anti-abortion-political-movement

Patriotism is a form of societal cancer. Nothing is more important than people. No state, no constitution, no religion, no ideal, nothing is more important than people.

This elephant ear is going to be a lot bigger than I expected 😬 #gardening #homeGarden #plants

All of them died 😭

Biden did a good. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjeerggvqw1o

Would be nice to know how rapid benefits would be restored for folks, veteran benefit systems are clunky

@cferdinandi I got called back (on a contract basis).

The rest of this is risky for me to say, but I'll do it anyway:

Layoffs are still the heaviest hammer that can be deployed, strongly recommended by boards, and conventionally the sole option that leadership take. It's rare to see furloughs in SV tech (more in the NGO + civic tech space, but even then, it's usually closer to federal roles).

Other options like job sharing, pay cuts, four-day work week at four-day pay, cutting fringe benefits, voluntary layoffs (I remember one person doing this, my manager's manager IIRC), furloughs, etc weren't discussed (folks were concerned about stability). Staff tends to be the most expensive part of a business (but again, hard to tell without numbers and what part of staffing contributes to burn).A tight reminder that our severance was contingent on a partial gag (Section 11–13 of our agreements held that, with the "reopener" of Section 14).

What's done now is done, and it's left the mark it had. I still wish the board showed their face in these conversations. And I'm looking to see how executives aim to lean into other options, versus running to the one that looks like a quick fix.

@anildash @emma

@dansup (that comma by "or feedback") isn't needed ;)