I still use emacs

“Bom dia, queria oito pasteis de nata pf”

“Uuuitu? Paxteeeix?”

I’ve been able to communicate with people from Porto and Lisboa using my Paulista Portuguese, and to get around little Portugal where I live.

They know immediately that you’re Brazilian and will be vaguely condescending about it the entire time, but you can communicate.

There’s a super reform synagogue in my town, their president is an out lesbian, they turned out for blm marches, host families traveling to get medical care for their sick kids, etc.

And they’re generally super pro-Netanyahu, pro-NeoNaqba.

It’s baffling to me that you can understand that there is rampant racist police violence in the US, and not in Gaza or Jenin.

Remember an M.D… voted to install this dipshit because he’s a Republican.

It’s almost like an OS that wants to be useful is a better experience than an OS that wants to push you ads and steal everything you produce to feed into llm slop-generation.

I was trying to shout out that your username is Madison, it came out a lot bitchier than I wanted it to, sorry.

But I do think it’s a valid argument. The assumption from the Federalist Papers that the different branches would not cede power to one another because of their desire to hold it themselves has proven to be untrue. Factional loyalty to GWB, then to Trump, has driven Congress to ever-greater depths of obesiance.

There’s no argument, imo, that SCOTUS is not at least as loyal to an external faction (ironically, to people calling themselves Federalists) as Congress, and actually even more corrupted by money.

Therefore, I think a morals/behavioral based argument that SCOTUS will want to preserve their power in the face of a tyrant from their faction isn’t convincing.

I appreciate you cosplaying as a coauthor of the Federalist Papers, but I think the “institutional jealousy” theory of the balance of power has been comprehensively shredded by the behavior of Congress since about November 2000.

And the Supreme Court will kiss the feet of the people dragging them away.

Why else would they give him explicit advance immunity for assassinating his political rivals?

At least she’s honest about throwing in with fascism.

The rest of the Democratic party is pissing on our leg and telling us it’s raining.

I don’t think anybody who administers a mastodon server thinks it’s superior technology.

What mastodon isn’t is funded by fashy techbro asswipe VCs who will turn it into a torment nexus over time, just like X and Meta and Alphabet.

So Mastodon will continue to attract a small minority of people who don’t feel safe or wanted on a fashbro site. And that’s fine. I want to talk to people who think I’m human, not a bunch of Andrew Tate gargling fuck heads.

2028 primary election polls?

I’m busy planning the Orlando Magic’s NBA title parade, while we’re worrying about realistic concerns.

This is how you know they have reached escape velocity and know they will never face another election.

He’s above the law. He knows it.

All these fuckers are our neighbors and for many of us former employers.

We know exactly how they think, and what they think of us.

Andreesen is the tip of the iceberg.

Mitch doesn’t scare anybody any more now that he’s only half there.

Every photo of him looks like he’s barely hanging on.

Dude, republican degens would line up to drink her bathwater. She’s gonna be fine.

My boobs disagree. Have you ever actually had sex?

What an absurd comment, pathetic that this is where republican bootlickers find themselves these days

They learn it in church, exactly the same behavior.

I found that keeping up with people over video works better when you’re in the same time zone. When I was managing teams at +8 hours and -12.5 relative hours, communication and trust just weakened steadily over time and creative collaboration stalled. Spending a week there in person usually got things unstuck.

I know people on split engineering teams between LA and Seattle who prefer all virtual and it’s worked long term. LA to NY I think would be a heavier lift.

And, of course, this whole discussion is always dominated by software engineers; there are lots of jobs that involve actual manipulation of matter where in person collaboration is essential to communicate skills.