Normally I'm not one to tear down the creative output of others, but articles like this make it very hard to not do so. It reads like a barely-cohesive list of tangents loosely tied together with a poor attempt at a "lesson," but lacks any substance or voice. What is it trying to say? Even the author doesn't seem to know, beyond waxing poetic (poorly, I might add) about how difficult it is to have a job and how our individual consumerism is creating a class of "undesirable" jobs that can otherwise be eliminated with just a little more mindfulness and self-reliance...I think? Maybe?
At its core though, this to me reads as a poor attempt at defending the wealth class and shifting the burden of responsibility to the individual. Nowhere is there a discussion about the actual issue with CEOs in society (hint: it's not because they exist or don't have a "tough" job, but because the wages and compensation are grossly and wildly out of sync with the product of their indovidual labor), or a discussion about what the author learned in the course of their one week playing housekeeper dress up and how it relates to CEOs in any way? Instead it reads as a privileged teen's incoherent ramblings about that one week they played grown up, while simultaneously testing various blogging and SEO strategies (all the unnecessary links, formatting...etc), all tied together (poorly) with an attempt to set it in the foreground of "conscientious" hot topics like labor, effects of rampant consumerism in modern society, class consciousness, and environmentalism...
Love this, but now I'm also realizing how awful my workflow is in general. More than half of the time when I get into a groove I don't even switch directories between tasks and end up just calling the relative path like an animal 😆
You can comfortably run pihole, unbound, and a VPN like wireguard on a pi zero or zero 2. You can find entire zero 2 kits for under $35 if you're patient
Yeah, the fact that he even has to waste time and money on this bullshit should have the D.A. immediately disqualified ever serving in the role again. What a fucking waste of time and resources.
So in response to the actions of a few they flatten 50% of the I frastructure and kill dozens of thousands, 70% of which are innocent women and children (not to mention the journalists, their own citizens, the hostages...etc).
Also, there was nothing "random" about the attack. It's not like Israel hadn't been running the largest and longest running open air prison in Gaza for decades and continued to steal land from Palestinians without recourse.
This argument, imo, frames the problem as an individual one and shifts the burden to the individual consumer, whereas it really is a societal problem and the burden should be on economic regulators and tax laws to ensure that disparities like this are not possible in the first place. Yes the individual consumer can choose to shop at smaller competitors, but this is 1. not realistic for everyone due to geographic/economic/other reasons, and 2. ignores that fact that massive competitors have the ability to take temporary losses if it means putting the smaller competitor out of business. Not to mention that while the exorbitant CEO/worker gap is unconscionable, having systems that work well at scale is a good thing and should be encouraged.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
had they not resorted to what amounts to forcing the burden
This is a justification (and not a good one, imo), like the ones I was talking about above. There is no just war. No just response. It just creates more death and destruction.
There is no such thing as "normal" or "good" or "moral" warfare. War is war. And war is hell. Regardless of where it's happening or what reasons are given to justify it. Every bit of time, resources, and effort directed toward war is time, resources, and effort stolen from advancing humanity and uplifting ourselves. By it's very nature, war has no rules. The dream of a "self-contained, limited-casualty, non-permanent damage" warfare is frankly naive. My experience may be colored by having grown up in and witnessed war in various times in my life, but there is NEVER a reason for war. Because at the end of each and every disagreement, conflict, war...etc., one thing happens: they have to sit down and talk. So it's all just futile and wasted effort. We steal from ourselves and our children only to end up doing the very thing we should have been doing all along: putting ego (in the psychological sense) aside and talking.
Observing the same here. Will look to see if the bug exists later (or if you end up filing it) and maybe play around with it. There are a few cool Thunder feature requests that would also be killer (like ability to custom configure swipe actions). One small and purely superficial thing that I'm loving though is the font preview menu. Great user-first design and engineering.
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