Brainsploosh

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[–] Brainsploosh 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Brainsploosh 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

You're over simplifying the first, and conflating the other.

The MLK protests made change on the back of decades of campaigning together with multiple organisations applying different types of pressure and activism for the same goal, including president Kennedy, and several PR disasters for the opposition.

As for the 2001 attacks, what would you say was their political goal? Was it fulfilled by those attacks? If not, I'd scratch that up as a failed attempt.

[–] Brainsploosh 12 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Street protests are one of several necessary activities for a change movement. They can help build awareness and let off some steam, but need considerable mass to affect change on their own.

More change happens when paired with organised political action, strikes, obstruction, PR and ofc violence/terror.

The trick is to coordinate the sides towards the goal. Only street protests or only terror won't do anything, but pulling together you did get 8 hour workdays,or more recently grain import regulations (in Poland).

Then again, a million protesters over three months, including transport striking and uncoordinated violence, did not affect the French pension age.

[–] Brainsploosh 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The zombie apocalypse might become reality, only it's the oligarchs in the compounds, and the starving masses swarming to get in.

[–] Brainsploosh 2 points 4 days ago

Stupid is curable, special is chronic

[–] Brainsploosh 5 points 1 week ago

This mostly makes sense if you have need for it, costs and quality won't better automatically. And if demand remains low, there's little incentive to.

Long term the point is usually to lessen dependency on others, for example to enact war, but Dump isn't really dependable for anything long term.

[–] Brainsploosh 8 points 1 week ago

Didn't Dump himself say that it's a negotiating tactic?

He seemed happy to extract low value concessions from Canada and Mexico. Could be he wants an early win, could be he's misleading attention, could be he's appeasing some donors, and could be a fishing expedition to see what concessions he can get from the allies.

Any extraction will enrich himself and cronies, as well as please the autocrats he's serving and/or courting.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Brainsploosh to c/nostupidquestions
 

I'm not in the US, but it seems to me that the Republicans keep breaking norms and procedures, including politicising impeachment and ignoring illegal, immoral and plain bad conduct.

They also seem to be fine with not applying the same standard across the isle.

On the other hand, either Democrats follow new precedent, with even more devolving, or they keep the old decorum and get their asses kicked by Republican foul play.

What ways out of this spiral are there?

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Mood rule (lemmy.world)
 
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What's your favorite pick-me-up? (self.casualconversation)
 

Sometimes one just doesn't have the energy to do what needs done. How do you manage it?

(prompted by the thread about repetitive topics)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Brainsploosh to c/cooking
 

I've been asked to make a Thai Red curry with chicken for a larger party, and they've asked for the soup to be of variable spicyness.

I was thinking that maybe I could do the soup mild, and have an additive with extra spice.

I could go with chilli oil ofc, but I'd prefer to have the richness of the red curry flavors if possible.

Is there a good way to make some kind of red curry seasoning? Do I just offer the guests red curry paste to mix into the soup, or should I mix it with something?

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Scaling preparations (self.smallbusiness)
 

What do you do to prepare for scaling up?

We're a B2B engineering consultancy mostly selling hours and are currently gearing up to hire our first full timers beyond the founders, and boy is it scary.

We've identified a path to on-board and train them, and feel confident about that at least.

But how do you navigate taking on the extra workload so as to not overwhelm the existing staff, but also not having too little work with an extra salary to cover?

What systems should/can we prepare for quality management, book keeping, invoicing, quoting, etc? Our ideas currently seem either too heavy handed or too flimsy to scale with the 50-100% growth.

How much are we overthinking, and what are we forgetting?

 

I'm looking for new reading recommendations, specifically for stuff applicable to B2B technical/engineering consulting.

We're a small business selling engineering hours for a niche building discipline (noise design/acoustics engineering), and I find it difficult to apply many of the most common books to our situation.

I'll happily take any recommendations you have, especially about growth, early organisation, and first employees. But anything on topic would be awesome.

 

When replying to a post or comment I get the option to save my draft if ever I exit the reply. Stupendous feature!

But I'm pretty sure I've forgotten to go back at least some times and will have unfinished drafts saved somewhere.

Is there a way to check on these and/or remove these?

Do they get auto-removed, and when?

Or will they be stuck clogging up my device data until the end of times?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Brainsploosh to c/boostforlemmy
 

In the sidebar you can choose Subscribed/Local/All in the top bit, and then again in the comms list.

On top of this, Local and All show up twice in the comms list on one of my accounts.

Screenshot

 

When logging out and in, my Favorited communities are removed and I have to add them manually again.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Brainsploosh to c/boostforlemmy
 

Bug: My subscriptions don't show up on any of my accounts.

After the lemmynsfw.com update I tried to access my lemmynsfw.com account but not being logged in, my subscriptions didn't load for that account.

I've since tried to relog into that account but failed, and after that I've had no subscriptions in my list on any account.

Posts still load correctly in the subscribed feed.

 

One of my favorite creators made a little vlog [3:33] about finding herself a stick on a gloomy day.

I just found it today, and thought it might delight this comm.

Hope you enjoy.

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Dark omens (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Brainsploosh to c/justpost
 
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