BertramDitore @ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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It took a few years to fine-tune the exact amount, sometimes he’d finish the bowl too early and whine the next morning, sometimes there’d be too much leftover and he’d whine because he wanted a fresh bowl. I finally landed on the exact amount where he always has enough when he wants it, but there’s never any extra. It’s second nature by now so I don’t remember the exact amount, but it’s somewhere just over half a cup of dry food.

It might differ depending on the cat’s personality, but I feed my cat a full serving once a day in the morning, and that’s it. He nibbles on it throughout the day whenever he wants, and by the next morning the bowl is empty. No whining or begging, thankfully, since he does a surprisingly good job of pacing himself.

He’s pretty old now, so we’ve got a good routine going, but I know some cats just won’t accept this and need their meals to be separate and eaten in one sitting.

Sure, let’s pretend that the majority and defacto default religion of the country has had it really rough while exercising their dominance over all our other religions. As a Jew, I totally remember making fun of my Christian friends for celebrating Christmas. Oh right! I got that backwards, it was the Christians who relentlessly bullied me for not being like them. But of course it’s everyone else’s fault and the Christians have been persecuted for…..wait, how exactly have they been persecuted? No examples from before the year 1600 are allowed, thanks.

Let’s just keep in mind who he’s defending:

Harlow was convictedin August 2023 of federal civil rights offenses for her role in the October 2020 invasion and blockade of the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Along with other anti-abortion activists, Harlow used force and physical obstruction to execute the blockade, according to the Department of Justice. She was sentenced to 24 months in prison Source

The umbrella is such an underrated skill. My manager is the best buffer between me and the C-suite, and I appreciate it immensely. She doesn’t involve me in any of the company’s internal political crap unless it directly impacts me. She filters out all the bullshit and protects me from our bosses getting in the way of the work.

Some of her other excellent managerial qualities: she doesn’t cold call me (we’re remote), she doesn’t schedule unnecessary meetings, she has zero contact after COB, and she trusts me to get my shit done during the day, on my own, with absolutely no micro-managing. Some weeks I don’t need to interact with her at all, even though she’s a fun person I never mind chatting with. She’s the best manager.

It all boils down to mutual respect. Respect leads to trust, trust leads to teamwork and a healthy work environment.

I wish this was all true, I really do. But there is a time and a place to be calm. This is not that time, and this is not that place.

These systems are supposed to have COOP plans (Continuity of Operations), but not all of them do. Systems are supposed to have some degree of backups, but I can tell you from experience that this is almost never the case in any meaningful way.

I’ve spoken to a number of feds who said their work disappeared overnight. They didn’t choose to comply, and didn’t have sufficient backups in place because of a lack of resources. Their manager or an administrative assistant somewhere most likely went on a deletion spree, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

Sometimes when this stuff is gone, it’s really gone. And we have every right to be furious about it.

100% agree about the media incentives, but sometimes outrage is not only warranted, but essential.

To clarify, this is because the arbitrary deadline for feds to accept the “offer” is Thursday, and there are a lot of frightened people out there who think this might be their best option. I’ve spoken to a number of federal employees about this, and none of them are convinced there’s any reason OPM will actually honor the severance pay promised in the email, so they’re just going to wait to be fired and potentially lose out on a ton of severance pay. I think that’s the right call though, at least for those who can afford it.

There was no legal foundation for this “fork,” but agencies can’t reject it since it came from their HR overlords. All the communications about this “offer” have been extremely vague with no specific instructions, guidance, or guarantees. I’m willing to bet they’ll renege on the deal (why wouldn’t they?) and everyone will have to wait and see what the Supreme Court ultimately says about it months after the damage has already been done and careers and livelihoods have been ruined.

Republicans hate the American people.

Perfectly. I’ve never encountered a codec my Apple TV couldn’t play smooth as butter. Been watching a lot of AV1 anime lately, never needs to transcode. I use Infuse Player for its Dolby Vision support, because that’s the only format the native Jellyfin app has trouble with, but Infuse is also just a really solid app in general, and for me is the perfect way to consume my Jellyfin server. But the native Jellyfin app is also solid, and there are some other players which would definitely meet your needs (MrMC for example is very good, but not as polished as Infuse).

The USPS was never intended to turn a profit. It’s not a business. Its entire purpose is to deliver mail to every American, regardless of where they’re located. Making that profitable was never realistic nor necessary for a government service.

I was responding to the comment above (and lots of other chatter like this), which said “people voted for Musk” which is just not true. And like you said, the people don’t vote for the cabinet, they vote for the person who nominates cabinet members. It’s useful to point out because these distinctions have real-world consequences. Musk is a what’s called a “Special Government Employee,” which is an unelected position.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy your time here, it has its ups and downs but it’s way healthier than Reddit imo.

For future reference, keep an eye out for which community you’re posting to, this would probably fit better in !general@lemmy.world or something similar.

It’s just common decency to call people what they want to be called. If you pronounce someone’s last name wrong or don’t use their preferred nickname (not all Davids like to be called Dave, for example), they’ll correct you and then it’s part of our social contract that you’ll do your best to get it right in the future. The pronouns in email IDs was a super helpful reminder, and they’ve only been gone a minute but I’ve already gotten some pronouns wrong for colleagues I didn’t know that well, and I feel terrible about it. If those labels had stayed, I wouldn’t have made such a simple mistake.

This shit might seem trivial, but it has real impacts on real people on a daily basis.

I don’t want to be pedantic, but okay I will. Musk wasn’t on any ballot. Not a single person voted for an individual named Elon Musk. It wasn’t an option. Enough people voted for Trump and Vance for them to win, but they were the only two on the ballot. It may seem like a distinction without a difference, because Musk functionally has an insane amount of power and influence, but that power was delegated to him by the person that people actually voted for, which is how our government works. People might have voted for Trump hoping he would use Musk in this way, but they still only voted for Trump.

I feel silly writing all that out, but these kinds of distinctions matter imo.

8, inside and out. A terrified, angry, and exhausted ninja turtle.

My entire team and I work remotely (since before Covid), and it has never been an issue. Nobody puts any extra effort into their appearance, everybody wears sweats and loungewear and women don’t wear makeup. Most of us blur our backgrounds so nobody can see our spaces, but this does not imply anything about our homes other than the fact that we all like our privacy. I can even hear my manager’s breast pump going during meetings (it’s out of frame, obviously), and nobody cares, she’s got a baby to feed after all.

We’re all people with different lives, different homes, and different bodies. As long as we all get our work done, nobody cares what we look like, sound like, or how our homes are decorated. If you’re feeling undue pressure from your employer about what your personal appearance or spaces are like, I don’t think that company is a good fit. If there are genuine mental health issues at play, then a good company will make a reasonable accommodation to ensure your work doesn’t cause any undue harm.

I firmly believe everyone should have the right to burn whatever symbol they want, be it religious, national, or otherwise.

After the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a friend and I burned an American flag to express our anger at being lied to and our disagreement with going to war in general. People we knew well came by and called us traitors, which we expected, though it was still intense. To us, burning the flag did exactly what we wanted it to. It shocked people into actively coming up to us and asking us why we were doing something so extreme. Our answer was “because it’s often the only way we can get people like you to pay attention and engage with us. You need to be shocked into realizing what we’re doing is actually patriotic.” We would then often get into a serious discussion about 9/11, Saddam Hussein, and WMDs and people would leave more or less agreeing with us, but still angry about the flag. Mission accomplished.

I can understand that the Quran might be a bit different, but it’s still just a book that holds significance for some people and not for others. If someone’s faith can be that shaken by such a simple thing, then I think they might have larger issues.

I’m frankly surprised how ravenous and aggressive the democrats have been about Snowden. I know he’s a controversial figure, he broke the law and he may have done some limited harm, but I think he did way more good on balance by exposing some truly terrible secret shit our government did and continues to do. Mass surveillance used to be treated as a joke before Snowden. I hate that he’d never get a fair trial in the States (the reasons for which are truly Orwellian and dystopian). I think he deserves that at least, and maybe not to be shouted down as a traitor in Congress.

But also, fuck Gabbard. I wouldn’t trust her to feed my cat.

This is a pretty big disappointment imo, and shows that the party didn't really listen to its voters or learn from the election in any meaningful way. He was the least interesting and compelling candidate. I wish they had gone for someone with an actual ideology and values that they've lived and acted on for years---like Faiz Shakir. This role is very important, and it would have been a great way to show us that Dems actually care about us, and not just the money. But nope, they've taken yet another opportunity to give power to a bland vanilla fundraiser who almost nobody has heard of.

The race hinged more on the candidates’ organizing and fundraising resumes than on their postures regarding the ideological soul of the party, as it did in 2017, after President Donald Trump’s previous election win.

It's true she draws from other sources, but it's an aggregation vs. Drop Site's original reporting. I always prefer the original reporting over an extra layer of remixing, but I probably overreacted.

Here is the original Drop Site News article. There’s no reason to circumvent the actual source.