Cheney successfully stole an election. My man just doesn’t like losers.

Toecutter > Humungus

I personally feel that leftists would be better served trying to take seats on the common council. There’s even less turnout there, and they technically have more power than the mayor as a body. When it looked like she had a chance to become mayor the common council drafted legislation to strip the office of the mayor of most of its powers. Running for mayor should happen after leftists get enough seats on the council to block any such legislation from getting passed.

Hey now, the Mayor’s role is to rubber stamp tax breaks and sweetheart deals for incredibly rich, and racist real estate moguls. Sure, an entire neighborhood of the city smells like a sewer each time it rains, the roads are completely falling apart, there’s an under-reported lead crisis due ancient infrastructure and slumlords, and the water authority was privatized and handed over to the french. All in a city where 20% of households cannot afford a car, and live in an incredibly car dependent area with unreliable bus service. But all these real-estate developers are happy so it’s all good right?

Damn, I’m sorry man. I graduated at the height of the great recession and after scrambling for a job for a year before caving and taking something maintaining some dumb custom PHP inventory system for a small business. Only got my previous job (doing driver development) through sheer dumb luck. It was as close to my dream job of OS development as was probably possible, and the company made a real physical thing instead of another pointless app. But the place really did a number on me, and I feel less capable then I used to be.

The job market is also worse in some ways now than it was then, which is crazy. There may be more jobs available now than then, but the ones now seem shittier and the job search process is somehow even more degrading. Im considering joining the local brick layers union. Wish you the best of luck, and I wish good tech jobs didn’t fall into either the dumbest product you’ve ever heard of, or working for some of the most evil forces on the planet.

This is upstate erasure. Suburban/rural upstate is full of psychos.

Uggh. I occasionally browse r/haskell since I like using the language for personal projects. Someone posted a job offering from Andruil and literally everyone in that shitty subreddit except 1 guy was gushing over the idea of working for them. Tech workers are fucking hopeless. On a totally unrelated note I quit my developer job recently due to burnout and am doing some soul searching because I don’t think I can work in the field anymore without losing my sanity.

If you hit “Ctrl-Alt-F1” after you get to the graphical login, does it drop you into a non-GUI terminal (virtual terminal) where you can log in? Does logging in work there?

I like how the title to that post is just describing property taxes that every home owner already pays.

I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might

Anyway, good luck on that three front war

I got really into ants for a while, and sometimes I think that capitalism is our species’ equivalent.

Which isn’t what happened at all. Intel is going down the tubes and can’t afford new infrastructure projects in such an unstable country. BDS did next to nothing here. Most of the blame can be put on Intel itself for being such a poorly run company, the instability of the war + Hezbollah and Ansar Allah wrecking Israel’s economy. BDS is important and good for putting pressure on Israel, but it has not reached such a critical mass to start affecting non-consumer facing products. Most of want Intel sells is to other businesses who, I guarantee you are not factoring BDS into their calculations at all. They are factoring in the fact that Intel chips suck.

Intel didn’t scuttle their new Israeli fab because of BDS. Intel does not give a single shit about BDS!

Buddy, then investors in health care companies would have to realize some of that “risk” they keep blabbering about. It would make them sad!

WWI was the defining moment of assimilation. External and internal social pressure forced a lot of german americans to stop speaking german and integrate with wider american culture. By WWII they had pretty much completely integrated into american society.

Yeah, the new US plaything is ISIS-K

Aren’t the Chinese right here? Their property market is operating under capitalism, and if you bail out capitalists it does create a moral hazard for them to keep re-creating the conditions for more bail-outs. It would also send the signal that capital is actually in charge, and not the CPC.

My understanding is that the CPC wants to use this opportunity to increase the share of social housing, but as you said is attempting a controlled demolition of the market; trying to thread the needle between saving “regular” people who invested in real-estate and allowing the whole thing to collapse. It seems like a daunting task, but China might be the only country that could pull it off. Plus there’s the added benefit of greatly reducing the power of any real-estate ghouls left in government after the anti-corruption campaigns.

Because Boston is the biggest, shittiest, college town in the country.

Is this how he sees himself? At least Bezos actually got jacked when he took PEDs. Elon still looks like a schlub.

How’s the star gazing there? I got excited until I saw it’s at the ass end of long island.