This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.

What an exciting time to be building software! With AI, we’re able to achieve production outages with unprecedented frequency!

Mainly just piano. I like playing chords with my left hand and the melody with my right hand. I’m not great at keeping steady rhythm. If I or anyone else starts singing along, I immediately lose focus. I mostly just play for myself for stress relief.

I’m trying to learn guitar, but it’s slow going for the time being.

Duolingo isn’t just teaching vocabulary — it’s teaching real communication.

Wow, nice, even the article’s written by AI! /s

Come to think of it, why would I even bother learning a new language in the first place? I’ll just have my AI talk to my friend’s AI, and that way I won’t have to think or interact with another human at all!

That’s fair, although this paragraph buried at the bottom of the post felt more like a disclaimer than anything. Yes, I’m white, and I have never wondered if I should join the Black Panthers and I have no issue with the fact that it’s not a space for me. I clicked on the post because I was interested in hearing a well-articulated explanation of why it is important to that organization to be, for lack of a better word, discriminatory in it’s membership as well as what people who find the concept of armed protest appealing can do instead. And instead of getting either of those things, 90% of the article was “lol, white people and their lattes, am I right?”

I’m not sure why this is even being upvoted. The entire blog post is just using stereotypes to lambast any white person who has ever participated in a protest related to racial injustice. It almost feels like the goal is to deliberately alienate potential support and sow division.

The title makes it clear that the blog post is about white people, but nowhere in the entire post does the author even bother to try and describe how white people can show support or unity with groups like the New Black Panther Party. It feels pretty bad to structure the entire discourse around the idea that all white people are virtue signaling and not even entertain the idea that some might actually want to help.

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In Texas, voters just passed a constitutional amendment giving parents the right “to exercise care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to make decisions concerning the child’s upbringing” specifically for cases like this. Almost everyone I spoke to was in full support of it and kept saying “obviously a parent should decide what’s best for their child”. But as someone who grew up in a toxic religious family, it makes me so sad to see that there’s no protection for kids in these situations. Parents can ensure they’re doomed to a life of ignorance and bigotry before they even have a chance. :(

I’m kinda with you tbh. At the rate he’s going, maybe, just maybe, the frog will realize it’s being boiled.

Ah, yep, that’s what it is. Thanks for the clarification. Found this in another article:

The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.

So does Texas actually. But the part that I finally found in this article which is noteworthy is this:

The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.

So what got sent to the federal government included additional PII not present in the public dataset.

My experience from community college was quite a mixed bag. Some of the professors were amazing and genuinely loved to teach, and I benefited so much from those classes. And then some professors just seemed bitter that they weren’t at a university and made their classes miserable. I even had a few classes “taught” by someone that didn’t even have a bachelor’s (through a technicality where the dean proctored the actual exams). Overall, I learned enough and got the degree, and I was able to break into software engineering with just an associate degree and no debt. So worth it in the end!

They were not

Where are you getting that from? As I mentioned in another reply, you’ve been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I’m not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government…

Yeah, I’m kinda confused here as well. You’ve been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I’m not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government…

Damn, that’s one painful way to get some extra protein (and chitin) on your commute…

Yeah. I opened the comments because I was genuinely interested in how communism tackles this and was kind of looking forward to a thought-provoking answer. The above just kind of dances around the question entirely. I especially loved this line:

No one knows that communism looks like yet.

Gives me major “trust me bro” energy. Kind of reminds me of the religion I was in as a kid where every difficult question was answered with “no one fully understands God, you just have to have faith”.

The book also revealed that in the 1980s Karlson would “indulge his Nazi fetish”, and that on at least one occasion he threw a party at his home to celebrate Hitler’s birthday.

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Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.

This is such a bizarre take.

I wouldn’t characterize musicians who depend on some financial return as “low effort” at all. Almost all the best musicians, going back to classical music and beyond, were dependent on their music as a source of income.

If anything, the people who do music as a side hobby are usually more “low effort” than those who actually make it their main career. And if artists can’t make money of their music anymore, we’ll really only get music from rich people who can afford the lessons, instruments, recording studio, production, etc. as an expensive hobby rather than a source of income.