Not ideologically pure.
Maybe that’s the time when it is time to contemplate
why we’re getting so much love
from all these people
who are famous
for their ability
to incinerate
and say
thank you
Madame Le Pen […]
but no thank you.
Also finding it through contracts is a good sign.
If it’s not 100% cozy, remember you could spend $500 per month making it cozier and you’d still be in the green.
Good luck!
Investing $900 per month makes such a gigantic difference for anyone who doesn’t have an unlimited budget. That’s $10800 per year even before counting interest.
A shared flat is no dream situation, but this sounds like a potentially life changing difference.
I don’t think unfinished floorboards necessarily makes rodents so much more welcome.
I’d say go for the cheaper one. You save 50 minutes every day, you probably don’t have to deal with rats any more, you can invest $1000 per month for savings, and you get rid of your creepy landlady. Flatmates might be a blessing and they might be a curse, but a good first impression is a start.
Developing a platform like this is a lot of work and very technical. Communicating every step of the way to a non-technical audience would double the workload.
There’s basically two types of projects: Those that are dead, and those that are not. The fact that it is still getting commits means it’s in the latter category, and it’ll be done when it’s done.
It can be frustrating waiting for open source projects to progress, but part of what makes open source great is that you don’t need to rush half-baked features in order to meet some corporate roadmap. :)
Much more informative than my post - thank you for the write-up, sorry for jumping the line!
He ended up purged himself, and is now running as an independent.
Good times.
I find it hard to believe anyone can have such an incredibly clairvoyant understanding of the tech industry that they manage to see Mozilla as an evil megacorporation, yet at the same time failing to see any fundamental problem with Brave.
It could be a lot of things going on other than just sexism, but I cannot help but feel like any time a woman takes the lead in an open source organization a bunch of often vague but always hateful discourse follows in open source forums. Most people are of course fine, but a toxic minority will usually manage to get some weird discourse going that spreads to anyone taking whatever they spew on face value.
Often it can be hard to distinguish valid criticism from less than valid criticism, and in the case of big organizations there is always valid critiques to be made, so I don’t blame people all that much for falling for it. Still, being a happy user of both GNOME and Mozilla products for more than a decade, it tickles me just how much hatred these projects receive online.
That’s my five cents anyway.
It’s a bit of a dog whistle, I just don’t entirely understand for what yet. Basically you’re better off not asking and going on with your life.
A charitable answer is, however, that a central source of income for Mozilla is Google paying them to remain their default search engine. Mozilla is hesitant to truly attack Google, as it would be biting the hand that feeds it.
More importantly though, Mozilla has a female chairwoman. A lot of tech savvy people would rather stick with Brave, whose CEO they can relate to.
We all know Trump is Putin’s man in America. We all witnessed his presidency, we all saw their cozy little press conference with their secret little meeting.
It boggles my mind how dishonest or plain stupid one has to be, as a serious journalist, to frame MAGA Putin supporters as something intellectually surprising or out of the ordinary. Trumpism has been Putin’s project since day one, and there’s no way the journalist is not aware of that.
Journalists are so fucking hungry for a spin they obscure reality in the process.
I hate that I’m surprised by the clarity of this answer. Hopefully Netanyahu is too.
I think, like so many other realities of American politics, it needs to be understood as a sad reflection of America itself.
RFK Jr. caters to a specific branch of the mentally ill, but in a country with severe social problems and unavailable mental health care services this is not such a tiny niche. COVID sent a lot of people over the edge, and an anti-vaccine candidate in it’s wake is bound to do well.
Combine this with the fact that conspiratorially minded Americans are obsessed with the Kennedys, and you have yourself a candidate who appeals strongly to a non-negligible part of the population.
You’ll never be anything less than what you are, but that’s a strength. Just speaking two languages well already puts you at an advantage. The experiences you have of seeing the cultures in relation to each other also gives you an edge.
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to just blend in, but life is all about learning and gathering experiences and impressions, and you have a head start. It might not always be easy, but you’ll learn to appreciate it.
And as long as Poland is in the EU I’d much rather have a Polish passport than an English one.
Progressive tax is normal in most functional countries, it’s not rocket science.
Basically you define X as a base sum that needs to be controlled for inflation. Minimum wage can be 2X, whereas 100% taxation might be reached at an income of 300X. In this scenario, nobody could earn more than 150 times minimum wage, and manipulating the calculation of X to make the rich richer would also benefit everyone else.
A bigger challenge is that billionaire scum tend not to have income, only loans, so they don’t pay tax at all. But that’s also easily fixed if there’s political will.
When you play it louder the silences hit so much harder. What an experience.
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.
It’s just exploding with creativity and craftsmanship throughout the album. The opening tune (21st Century Schizoid Man) was unlike anything anyone had ever heard at the time it was released, and there’s honestly still not much like it out there. And the transition to Moonchild after it is equally mind-blowing just for the contrast alone. The title track remains one of the most incredible things I’ve heard.
Zappa also has a lot of good candidates for this list. I’m soft for Freak Out, where the madness started, but some might argue something like Joe’s Garage is a better example.
Shoes. You don’t end up saving money and it’s not worth the pain. I tried for years back when I couldn’t afford a thing and concluded that there’s simply no such thing as cheap good shoes.
But at the receiving end you’ll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.
It’s a tricky thing to get right.
The poor ambassador must have been so fucking annoyed to learn that this is, in fact, how the French government deals with its opponents.
He would perhaps have been less surprised had he ever been randomly arrested or beaten up by cops at a political protest.