Peer pressure is one of the only things that can change minds. Facts don’t do it so much as your friends and people you look up to pushing back on you.

Maybe we can work together with Gen z to overthrow the capitalist hell scape that has made a handful of people disgustingly rich while the world burns.

Projection is a psychological defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s undesirable traits, feelings, or impulses to other people.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychological-projection-defense-mechanism.html

Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)

TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.

This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.

That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.

I hope the ultra-rich lose everything. I hope they weep.

I thought this was the onion. This is real? What’s the opposite of eating the onion? Crying?

It’s a big multiplier on incompetence. It lets someone who’s kind of bad at their job produce a lot more bad than they could before.

When I was young and that video was new, one weekend I went to hang out with a bunch of friends. They were all quoting it and I hadn’t seen it. I was real worried about Al’s butt until someone showed me the video.

Does signal do like team meetings anyone can join with a link?

Apparently yes: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/7860719423002-How-to-create-and-share-call-links

But I’ve never tried it for that.

I use it for text voice and video with friends though.

$3 million. Averaging 10% returns is plenty of money without touching the principle.

Then there’s sliding “hmm this is risky” down to maybe $2million. Far below that I don’t know if it could tank a market dip or sudden expense.

Mandated in office is a climate crime. Send the leadership to do climate repair and seize their wealth. /Bangs judge gavel

You can use uv to manage python versions and deps now. You shouldn’t fuck around with your system python much.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/

15 years then free domain.

That’s what I always say. Weirdly, a lot of people who don’t have anything copyrighted themselves argue for longer copyright.

‘I know he was going to start deporting people but not innocent people, not hardworking people,’ she said.

Heartless.

she voted for Trump in the 2024 election, mainly for religious reasons

What religion? Some trimmed down Christianity that skips the good samaritan and sheep&goats , give your possessions to the poor stuff?

Probably. There’s a lot to cherry-pick from the bible, and most people aren’t critically thinking scholars.

Ghost jobs should be illegal. Any org found posting a ghost job should be required to pay a year’s salary to every applicant, and everyone involved in authorizing the post should be barred from working in HR for life.

I hope no one reads that top-down and comes away with “Don’t vote. Delay today”. That’d be a silly way to read it.

There are two main things that change people’s minds: Peer pressure, and trauma.

We’re social creatures and we take cues from people we trust. The right wing has done an excellent (and horrifying) job of creating unified in-groups for their followers. They have fox news. They have talk radio. They have churches. They have also demonized their opposition - “ivory tower elites”, “coastal elites”, queers, commies, etc. Many people will struggle to change their mind when everyone around them hasn’t.

There was a thing I was reading about a while ago, about flat-earthers. A bunch of them got shown a lot of evidence to contradict their beliefs. They all stuck to their flat-earth nonsense, except one of them. The guy who’d started dating someone sane, and hanging out with her friends. He changed his mind. In large part because he no longer saw the flat-earth community as such a vital part of his in-group. Or so the author argued.

The other way is trauma. If something really horrific happens to someone, they might reevaluate. But if they’re still in the same social groups, they’re likely to fall back into their old ways.

In the book “Dying of Whiteness”, the author interviewed a variety of people. Among them were gun violence survivors. There was one passage where a woman said something like, yeah, easy access to guns is why her son died. Maybe he shouldn’t have been able to just go get a gun and shoot himself. But, she said, she would never say that to her peers.

So, in short: No, not really. The social groups carrying maga identity are self-reinforcing. They’re all looking at their peers, who are all still maga.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe is a good comic about some of the same ideas, too.

They are prioritizing the financial interests

Sums of why a lot of things are bad

Don’t over think it. Meet other people.