xmunk @ xmunk @sh.itjust.works

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No, Español es mas facil.

Excuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.

Who could have predicted this would have led to massive fraud. When I first saw headlines about the cuts that certainly wasn't immediately obvious to me! Oh, woe is me... were that I was wiser all those months ago!

Protest anonymously, function anonymously.

My magic eightball says, "Signs point to yes" - we're in a global state where every winter there are pretty significant health risks to flying and outbreaks... if you don't know someone with long COVID then you're extremely lucky, it's really degenerative in some people I love.

The difference is that if something like those first two COVID winters happened again it's unlikely we'd see any sort of mass order (and government mandate to allow remote work) in America like we saw before. But up here in Vancouver most jobs that can be done remotely have now shifted to that and people avoid going to crowded places when an outbreak is happening. You'll often just see Skytrain extremely vacant if people have heard a flu is going around.

Countries outside the US have invested independently in better staffed research teams to fight annual outbreaks and sane countries have rolling mailing lists (I got an invitation two weeks ago for my next free shot!) about when to top up your flu/covid/rsv vaccine. If the US wants to be a breeding ground for outbreaks we can't stop them, but we're trying to insulate Canada as well as possible and working with the EU to do so.

It's capitalism, baby!

Our kitty shelter named our first of two cats (sadly now passed away) Thomas. So we named our second cat (which the shelter named Vesta which I found weird) to Nikola. They were generally pretty chill towards one another unlike their namesakes.

Shopify. If it sounds awful and involves Canadian tech CEOs it's always Shopify.

Canada didn't effectively do more than posture because the tariffs were canceled. He claimed intent to cancel a starlink contract and supported tariffs on energy. I'd give him (and gave him at the time) fair credit for his response. I fucking hate him - but his response was supportive of a unified Canadian response which contrasted with our permanent least favorite premiere fucking Smith who tried to weasel out of tariffs in the hope that Trump might roll back oil tariffs specifically.

Since push didn't come to shove we can't be certain if it was all posturing but I think it was genuine and I'd even say that the posturing he did was likely helpful in showing Trump that we weren't going to be pushovers.

Just get the fuck out so we can end the headlines of "Canadian firm actually [American thing]" they're clearly just a bunch of MBA assholes.

Force the fucking toadies go on the record as voting against reducing corruption.

Trump must be literally going into debt buying enough fuel to burn all these bridges.

Additionally: some people (i.e.Trump in US elections determined by the electoral college) make a big deal out of general population voting patterns. You should always vote, no excuses.

This especially coming from someone in BC where conservatives suddenly and surprisingly did quite well in a recent election.

Help... dunno... but moral support:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/conservative-caucus-tariff-division-1.7468415

Five BC Cons members recently voted against condemning US tariffs and to enable retaliatory tariffs and then Rustad tried a laughably "never gonna happen" no confidence vote against Eby. BC Cons aren't a non-threat but they certainly are laughably incompetent.

Disappointing but not particularly surprising and, in my opinion, not necessarily a good oracle about the federal election.

Doug Ford literally just got all the good press of standing up to Trump and looking righteous which swept all the bike lane and greenbelt scandals under the rug.

When a code repository is shut down on github the expectation is that it's removed. We're all aware that the internet will never forget that API key you accidentally committed once but the expectation was always that it wouldn't be github itself doing the remembering and openly sharing it with others.

A minor correction... it's actually "revoltingly American"

Petty. Playground. Bully.

Jon Stewart is the kind of fucker that'd happily cut his hand to smash a mug like that... and he's handled far worse (Bill O'riely and Tucker Carlson).

Considering the agreement is to air it unedited I'd be utterly unsurprised if we get an amazing video of Elon freezing halfway through a question early into the interview and then just walking off... that alone would be worth the price of admission.

As a born and raised Bostonian, I hope this interview happens more than I have ever hoped the Red Sox would win the world series before 2004... and that's a seriously deep fucking hope.

Someone at all familiar with the status of ATC staffing who isn't a complete idiot would clearly not have exacerbated this situation.

I'm a developer - I'd even classify myself as pretty far to the "move fast and break things" end of the spectrum. But I'm a senior developer because I ask questions and understand things and write tests to confirm that understanding and prove a new system correct before fucking breaking them. Once that's done I've totally got a sledgehammer in hand and am wildly swinging it around to rebuild it cleaner but, critically, we do this in a development environment.

This fucker is hot fixing production without a fucking clue how anything works. He's in a little fucking bubble where the only opinions allowed in are "Elon is a genius" and he's drinking the fucking Kool-aid. I've seen executives like that and the only correct response is to jump fucking ship.