these were somewhere between basic and difficult, which is why i start with chatgpt; it’s gets you past the basic part more quickly.

ha! i’m already subscribed to half of them, but thanks nonetheless for the two i didn’t know about.

i suspect that facism is going to force me to move back into the country that my parents immigrated from if trump gets his way and in the same way that incidents like operation wetback deported millions of american citizens.

it’s more a reflection of my experience and their stereotypical blind spots:

the IT work that i did before becoming a developer has taught me to succeed by placing emphasis on delivering on time and with minimal maintainability to the exclusion of everything else and it verbally sits poorly with the more privileged engineers that i work with; but they do the same thing obliviously nonetheless. like you, they make assumptions based on who they think you are without realizing that they’re the same way.

their insistence that they own all aspects of the peer reviews; plus management’s insistence that we acquiesce to them despite seeing blind spots in the review process; plus their unwillingness to listen to someone who doesn’t fit into the in-group allows for this to happen and i’m only allowed to voice my concerns when prompted to like a soldier in the implicit security example that i shared.

developers are just a screwy as everyone else and the ones that management help to drink their own bathwater is creating a world where new developers will have to be likewise privileged to even be allowed in, in the future; i know that the ivory tower developers believe that this is a good thing, but this disconnect with reality is fueling the socioeconomic gaps that let people like trump win elections and ruin things for everyone.

i’ve never heard of parentiwave, but it sounds perfect if it’s anything like vaporwave

i’m convinced that if i had fewer vulnerable identities that i would never have been able to see through practice all the “common sense” bullshit levied against me all my life and i also think that’s the only reason why i try when others with identical backgrounds, like my family, don’t bother; i’ve learned the hard way that ignorance will hurt me long before it will hurt them.

i keep forgetting to use <snark> </snark> tags.

i think it’s better that you say something if it’s not clear for the people who lurk through all the interactions.

i’m starting there because i’ve learned that audio books are the best way to cheat at “reading” lol

even more material to “read”; now i’m wondering if i’ll ever be finished with any of it. lol

it get that they’re both bad faith ways to shut down discourse and i can see how whataboutism fits; but i was referring to the false equivalency placed between the nato’s atrocities and that of the soviet union’s in the comment

when it’s “both sides” is brought up to shutdown arguments that the democrats have done some of the same things that the republicans did; they’re likewise implying that the democrats have fewer of such incidents than the republicans and therefore the argument is invalid.

this was my half snarky way of saying that this comment is a “both sides” example can be applied in the opposite direction where it neuters the effect that “both sides” has with liberals.

thank you for that and the “what is socialism” post; but i’m encountering that theory is somehow still a HEAVY read for someone like who me has been inside the leftist sphere of influence for his entire life; there’s needs to be some sort of sound-bite-able way of sharing these messages and i wish that ml’s had the capitalists’ deep pockets that guarantees a deep bench of talent that could figure something like this out.

it reminds of my own own experience of going from technical support to software engineering by simply reading. your ignorance makes it daunting as first and you have to put in A LOT of effort to understand it when you don’t even know the basics and you’ll get there eventually if you stick with it; but most won’t stick with it and if you’re REALLY knowledgeable at it, it becomes difficult to understand why it’s difficult for other people.

this is the most appropriate “both sides” argument i’ve ever seen.

it feels like our fear of fake news is driving divisions among people who mostly agree and i love that someone finally made fun of the hysteria. lol

i’m about to do something similar and for a job that is a 56% percent pay cut for me; but it’s as far away as i can find from the profit seeking evil that has characterized my most recent jobs while still employing my skillset.

i wish lemmy had eyebleach; reading these articles is hitting really heavily rn.

like today’s democrats, fdr ignored the constructive criticisms that would have prevented such a painful episode; the democrats back then are more alike than unlike to the democrats of today.

the heritage foundation has been learning how to do it in this country through trial and error like they’ve done it in all of the other countries; they’ve perfected the recipe as evidenced by the successful kill-the-gays laws in africa.

the administrations that were sympathetic to the heritage foundation’s cause were restrained by their desire to appeal to moderates and trump, like reagan, has little-to-no such limitations.

and the democrats are MUCH worse than that since they attempted to use project 2025 as a distraction from their complicity in the gazan genocide and won’t bother enacting the equal rights amendment that would help protect us from project 2025; even though it’s already passed all the legal hurdles 4 years ago and there’s still time for the biden administration to enact it.

careful; continuing to espouse reality will get you ostracized and eventually banned on .world and nevermind that ignoring similar constructive criticism is the reason why democrats lost the election.

I’m happy that syncing works for you but privacy is very important to me so I don’t want to upload my data to someone else’s server(s).

i think that you’re smart to considering mozilla’s trajectory.

i’m kicking myself for not applying my enshitification experiences that comes naturally from profit driven organizations (especially when they claim to be non-profits). i should have seen it coming since i’ve been moving from one platform to another because of enshitification since the 1990’s and now i’m just as stuck inside an ecosystem like redditors and facebookers are; but it’s worse since the most viable alternatives are no better.