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They wanna profit off the water before the water wars begin. Usually the war comes first.

Potential upside: I know several housing collectives who sued for collective ownership of their trailer parks over disputes with rusty water. Of course, they literally lost thousands of dollars in damages clothing and in lost income from illness before that was possible.

I’ve found that building rules systems that are accessible by middle managers of various departments to be good at keeping the inevitable complexity of business logic away from the codebase itself, as well as in one place.

Before:

FooBarMeeting’s integration team has started their testing with our API and the registration endpoint is broken. Looking back through my notes, I was under the impression we’d sorted out their registration requirements six months ago for their last event. We would really appreciate a notice prior to any large changes to these systems so we can prepare. Can I can get an update on this ASAP? Their next event is in three weeks and they’re kind of freaking out!

After:

Hey! Just wanted to put something on your radar. FooBarMeeting’s next event is about two months out, so I was going through my prep checklist and spot checking their registration rules. For their last event, we added a new rule that would stop users from registering if they hadn’t completed the disclaimer form (reference ID is 52d7517d-d6a9-4a3c-b28d-68bfd9b2a643). I saw you left a note on it that it would break once they launch their v3 Compliance API, which they say is happening in a couple weeks. I have a follow up with them on Tuesday, so I’ve for details on what breaking changes they expect. I’ll get you the info when I have it. Are you good to get me an estimate for the next sprint once they do?

You can follow individual communities as if they were people on Mastodon. Underneath the hood, communities are essentially bots that boost people’s posts to aggregate them into a single feed.

“Don’t give your money to the homeless! They might spend it to fund the genocide in Yemen!”

I could see something a little more abstract too. Like the whole “building is a different color behind smoke” thing is neat and may work better with really simple colors and minimal shading. But this is really the worst of both worlds.

Yeah the comic reeks of PMC brainworms. I say that as someone with PMC brainworms. “You’re special enough to make decisions, but make sure you cultivate too much self-doubt to make true change.”

I like the term “twice exceptional”. All of my biggest strengths are aspects of myself that come with tradeoffs. For 20 years straight, I was praised for the strengths and scolded for the tradeoffs. Motherfucker, you can’t enjoy how quickly I learn things I’m interested in and also treat me like I’m lazy when you expect me to sustain equal amounts of interest in 10 different things that bore me and I fail. You can’t enjoy all the art and tech I make and then get annoyed when it’s difficult to break me out of a hyperfixation.

I firmly believe that the tortured artist stereotype is bullshit. There’s nothing about being an artist that requires you to be miserable. But we sure do treat people like shit when their brains work differently.

If a conservative starts agreeing with me, I just keep doubling down until I get a “well, I don’t know about that”. Works like a charm. I’ve been pleasantly surprised several times while talking about union politics with entry-level factory workers. But them’s just material conditions.

I think academia in general seems to be going well as a target. Teachers can be seen by fascists as footsoldiers of the liberal academy, trying to funnel kids onto campuses where they’re taught to be less conservative.

That said, college campus politics are a dead end. There’s an upper limit on how much people give a shit about fascists getting talked over by college students in places they’ve never heard of. So, like you said, teachers are a good bet.

So The Purge started as an astroturfed pogrom? That’s fucking brutal.

My pappy† always used to say, “you can’t have a nation without culture, language, and borders”. I think this sort of project could really bring us together by keeping our attention on our ideals for the future. We could call it futurism!

†My pappy was a fascist if that matters

If it didn’t fuck up the car, that’s pretty neat

Imagine the size of their codebases. Imagine the amount of things that can be added automatically following a flag set by a manual human review or audit. Imagine the canary branches and the internationalization and the regional offers and the legacy contracts. They may be looking at months just to be able to definitively list all the possible ways they may in theory fuck over their customers

The FCC may as well start fining them now

Mouthy AND effective? I maintain a cautious pessimism.

providers must itemize the fees they add to base monthly prices, including fees related to government programs they choose to ‘pass through’ to consumers, such as fees related to universal service or regulatory fees

The amount of times ISPs falsely blame price hikes on regulation and falsely attribute good deals to their own generosity instead of regulatory windwall is wild.

I enjoy this

I think that’s just how Ben draws women

I’ve received skepticism when bringing this up, but American fascism is currently doing a distributed breadth first search to figure out how to best coopt socialist language without calling it socialism and create false consciousness.

James Woods is an actor best known (afaik) for playing Hades in Disney’s Hercules. He’s also a Trump supporter. He recently tweeted that if Elon Musk removes blocking, he will be leaving because it would make Musk’s Twitter just as bad as Jack Dorsey’s, to which Musk replied, “Then delete your account”.

The woman in the cartoon is Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino. Woods also tweeted out a picture of her LinkedIn, which included the fact that she’s previously worked at the World Economic Forum. Trump supporters have opposed the WEF because of some false consciousness about how the WEF is run by liberals and isn’t mask-off enough about supporting the American Empire. Woods captioned the tweet, “Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I wonder how they got to him?”

As far as I can tell, this is the only association between Yaccarino and Woods. So Garrison is saying that Elon has hired her to do the dirty work of silencing conservatives while still publically pretending to be a free speech warrior. So he’s…. kind of right? Just not in the way he thinks. Also, he’s inadvertently positioned cat turds as equivalent to Trump supporters? I don’t know, I don’t go on Twitter.

Also, it sucks to see all the pro-Elon bots here insisting on calling it X. Don’t you know Musk is an authoritarian?

Fuck the IOU. Small business tyrants will take out their rage over every stolen item on the one person who left an IOU and get them kidnapped and imprisoned by pigs after everything’s over.

It might work for small family businesses (actual small ones, not part of a local fiefdom) if there were a system in place with the understanding that the community would help rebuild businesses and make people whole after everything was done, but everyone would have to stick with it and trust it, including the business owners. That’s a hard sell and there aren’t many cities or towns in the US where it’s even worth trying anymore.