aberrate_junior_beatnik

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Elon bought Twitter for this exact purpose: voter disenfranchisement in c/[email protected]
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 56 points 1 week ago

Musk overpaid a ton for twitter because he made a stupid joke, tried to back out, and got forced to follow through in the courts. It is of course possible that these were Machiavellian machinations with benefits a rube like me could not possibly understand. Or, and hear me out here, he is just a buffoon who fell ass backwards into something that ended up working for him.

Either way, he is a serious danger. But the thing that makes him really dangerous is his wealth, a thing he did little to nothing to deserve.

Because this IS a class war and our side has been consistently losing for over three full decades.

100%. I'll just point out that the Democratic party leadership is very wealthy and their class interests align with someone like Musk. Maybe one reason we're losing is because the people we choose to fight don't want to win.

I’m the Governor of Kentucky. Here’s How Democrats Can Win Again. in c/politics
Biggest bar in this UN graph in c/aboringdystopia
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 15 points 1 week ago

Gotta give it to the IDF, they do seem to be gender egalitarian

MAGA won't let us "bring down the temperature" in c/politics
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Democrats’ calls for civility may inadvertently enable fascist tactics

inadvertently

[citation needed]

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Wind the clock - A message to those asking “what do I do now?” (www.citationneeded.news)
 

I had allowed myself to hope that American voters would choose the better of the presidential options available to us, and I was wrong. I am disappointed. I am sad. I am afraid.

But, you see, I was disappointed, sad, and afraid before the election, too. In and outside of the United States, across the political spectrum, governments are and have been failing their people. And it is the people who have been fighting not just to protect themselves, their communities, and the things they love, but also fighting for people they’ve never met, in places they’ve never been, living lives they’ve never lived, facing horrors they’ve never faced.

How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be? in c/[email protected]
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Practical programming itself does not require this kind of math. The stuff you're trying to make a program do might; but even then I don't think you'll have difficulty in that context. The stuff you're learning now will have had time to "settle", and you'll be working towards a concrete goal, which makes it easier in my experience.

Another thing is that just because you're struggling right now doesn't mean you'll be struggling forever. Math didn't really click for me until I took calculus. I had a math professor who it didn't click for until their junior year of college as a math major.

So don't sweat it. But it's always a good idea to have another career idea or two in your back pocket just in case. There are lots of reasons you might not want to be a programmer as a career. You might hate it. You might love it enough that you want to be able to do it freely instead of at the behest of others for money.

These kinds of anxieties are normal for someone your age (assuming you're not nontraditional student). But one day you'll look behind you in all these worries will seem unjustified. Everything will almost certainly turn out fine.

The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election in c/politicalmemes
Bad Bunny Backs Harris After Comedian Makes Racist Jokes At Trump Rally in c/[email protected]
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik -4 points 3 weeks ago

Calling for ethnic cleansing of 11 million US residents? 👍 😍

Making a racist joke? 😱 🤮

B-based??? in c/[email protected]
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

As a USian, I'm more than happy to have europe take care of their own security, go right ahead 👍

Do you want to hear two short jokes and a long joke? in c/dadjokes
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 4 points 2 months ago

ba dum chhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Mozilla has fired Chief Product Officer Steve Teixeira after cancer diagnosis in c/[email protected]
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 140 points 2 months ago (16 children)

It's truly wild how hard of a heel turn mozilla has taken. I'm going to cancel my recurring donations to them, and get off all of their products.

It's out there. Lurking. Waiting to strike [Comiclicious] in c/comicstrips
[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 49 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I am so much more tired of people trotting this joke out every year than I ever was of pumpkin spice.

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Gender change rule (lemmy.world)
 

Image description: a screenshot of a popup in a mobile app, with the header "Tip!", and the body "If you want to change your gender just touch the icon next to your name on the HOME screen."

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