it’s fine, people are blowing whistles at them, that’s for SURE going to stop them…

“We have the money to fix the problem, we really just don’t want to.”

Everyone always says homelessness is a complicated issue due to addiction and mental health and then that’s it. full stop. in many peoples heads those TWO groups are the ONLY groups that make up the homeless population. but after volunteering I know better. you have students, you have women escaping domestic abuse, you have the elderly who can no longer afford rent, you have kids who are LGBTQ+ that have been disowned by their families, you have refugees, and you have people who simply lost their jobs and fell through the cracks.

allowing students to sleep in their cars is not a solution. it’s another band aid applied to a massive gaping wound. And this isn’t just an America issue, several countries are guilty of band aid “solutions”. I mean hell here in Canada the government is talking about investing $1billion into AI for fucks sake. That $1billion could be better served in providing people with homes. There’s never any long term planning here, always short term “solutions”. Wouldn’t it be advantageous to governments to ensure people have homes in order to get them back into the workforce thus paying taxes.

Call me a heart on the sleeve soft liberal all you want but I’m of the firm belief that EVERYONE deserves and has the right to a home and food and if they can’t provide either of those things for themselves than we as a society, as a community, need to provide it for them. And I firmly believe that the majority of our society feel the same and wouldn’t mind their tax dollars going towards that. It’s just that the powers that be don’t want that.

ok champ.

I could see them detaining you simply for having linux on your laptop. If they can’t navigate around it then you’re obviously up to no good. I don’t use a display manager and could see them cuffing me simply because you need to login to my machine via TTY and know which WM i’m using.

simpler times when the biggest stories in Toronto were this monkey and the vigil for a dead raccoon.

I want to go back.

ah yes the “clean your room” chap who is actually a hoarding benzo addict.

yeah it wouldn’t. Plus Beastiality is sex between a human and an animal. Furry porn is like Disney mascots yiffing each other. and it’s all cartoonish.

I highly doubt someone at the RCMP is going to sit down and watch a dude dressed up like a purple doberman pounding town on a dude dressed up like a dragon and thinking “That dog is fucking a lizard!” then again maybe they do watch it, who am I to kink shame.

Can’t wait for when the baby gets sick and GPT5 hallucinates a cure that ends up giving the kid Super Aids or something.

you should really watch some of these videos on youtube, there’s quite a few of them and yes you’re 100% spot on that if I recorded myself doing this stuff I would be fired but some of these kids go into great detail as to what issues Amazon is having, the details of said issues, and potential work-arounds/fixes their seniors suggest to them. When on call only the new hire is paged and it’s up to them to page a senior or someone else on the team when they’re stuck. The problem is these kids don’t want to admit they’re stuck to their seniors or other team members because they feel it’ll impact them negatively. They admit to it. So I’d say 8 times out of 10 the tickets they get paged for don’t get resolved and are passed on to another team in the morning. So the whole thing is pointless.

In one video I watched they do have a shadow but it was reversed. the senior is the shadow and ONLY during the day. the new grad hire is still doing all the work. and after office hours they’re no their own. I wish I could find the video again as it was awhile ago but one kid recorded himself working on a ticket at like 3am and I was almost screaming at the screen like “NO DON’T DO THAT OH MY GOD PLEASE CALL SOMEONE!”

It’s like when AWS went down a few weeks ago I was thinking “probably one of these new hires at 2am trying to fix something”

OR They want Vance to be prez but think having an Indian wife ain’t going to help so they’re all “ok JD, pick someone other than a couch” and JD was all “Kirks wife wears leather pants” and so Charlie had to go.

because not everyone in the country is under 16. So if you’re in your 40s and suddenly decide you want to start using tiktok or facebook then you have to provide proof that you’re not a teenager. which means providing ID or selfies or both to whomever they use to verify your identity. Now with that info they can now build a profile about what you do online. Also the issue that what happens if this info you’ve provided is in a data breach. OR they simply sell it to data collection companies.

they start making php forums and using IRC, hey i’m all for that.

surprised Dougie Ford hasn’t just handed it off to his Mafia buddies to then sell.

ah who am I kidding, he probably has done a little bit.

the maddening thing is that the new kid is clearly the favourite kid as his name is Jack, named after her dead husband. And she protects THIS kid more than Wes. I mean she friggin left him ALONE as a CHILD on the Enterprise at one point for like an entire year or two. But the adult son with spooky borg powers? gotta protect that one and stick to his ass like flies on shit.

one of the many reasons I switched to codeberg and my own forgejo instance.

Github is garbage. if you can, get off it.

Wesley is such a weird damn story. Goes off with the traveler becomes like a God and then in that one deleted scene from one of the TNG movies he’s at the wedding for Riker and Troi and he’s clearly in a starfleet uniform and then in Picard Season 3 he just…doesn’t exist anymore? the ONE person Beverly could ask for help who has the power to protect her new son would have been her previous son.

At this point I just don’t even think Wes is canon anymore and his existence in TNG was some sort of collective hallucination among the crew.

so basically the same people that bought EA?

they don’t. I mean for example Amazon puts all new hires on “on call” status for like a week every month. the LAST people I would want working On Call and waking up at 2am to try and solve something are fresh grad hires. You can actually watch videos on youtube of new grad amazon hires doing this, they actually document themselves, and the vast majority of them are “well it’s 1am and I just got a call…I’m going to try and fix this ticket but really I have no idea what I’m doing” annnnnd generally nothing gets fixed or they break it worse. So they end up being sleep deprived, going into the office the next day and sleeping at whatever workstation they can find available and it leaves you wondering “what’s the point?”

I personally am of the belief that being on call for stuff like this is pointless when you’re world wide and could literally just transition the stuff to a different team in some other part of the world but I guess Amazon treats it as a sort of initiation process or whatever.

I daily driver QuteBrowser and have for awhile now. I like it. does everything I need it to do and the vim style navigation is awesome.

Sure there are some quirks that can be solved via userscripts and trust me I have a lot written for it but everything that requires an extension in firefox or chrome i have working on Qutebrowser. I don’t get adds with youtube in fact dare I saw I have it set up better than what you could get on Firefox or Chrome, I have my password management via bitwarden, it all just works. And the dev, The Compiler, is great and is always on top of issues that come up.

there’s yet to be any site i’ve come across that just doesn’t work.

the verification process. you could be 42 and never signed up for social media and now you decide you want to post comments on tiktok. Welp now you gotta verify that you’re not a teenager. So provide your ID, provide a photo of yourself holding your ID, and hope some company that is obtaining that information either doesn’t sell it or doesn’t have a security breach. and a bonus to all that is the potential to further track all activities you do online. they can now easily build a profile of you via the social networks you sign up for.

that’s the problem.