Every society is three hot meals away from chaos.

I very much agree. The key part at this moment in time is to craft an appealing narrative that’s at least as palatable as what the right is peddling. What’s happening is that people in the mainstream are increasingly becoming disillusioned with the system, and they’re starting to become open to new ideas as a result. They’re going to start shopping around and settle on a narrative that makes sense to them as an explanation of what’s going on and what needs to be done to make their lives better.

The right has been doing a really good job convincing people of their narrative because a lot of it builds on the existing tropes, small government, more personal freedoms, etc.

The really challenging part for the left at this time is to come up with a narrative that’s easy to digest, that inspires people, and gives them a long term vision for the future. It has to be a long term vision, something people feel that’s worth fighting for, even if there’s no quick reward on the table.

Black Heart from Nine Treasures for expanding horizons :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TRPCPoVhw&list=OLAK5uy_ki7KfC9keEcJRL5bnPdpa_M_aedfAXFSE

the best thing about memes is that anybody can take it and remix it to make it better :)

A reminder that wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the NYT, you can download and run it as a single self contained HTML file from there https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle

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Yup, we tend to take our world for granted, but there’s so much to see even in things that normally seem mundane. Learning to stop and appreciate things has been a really eye opening experience for me as well.

I’m sorry to inform you, but Burgerland is not technologically advanced enough to tally the results in a day.

haha nice work, that is an improvement :)

haha can’t believe I forgot that gem

indeed, it’s basically a spyware company at this point

Any problem that’s not repeatable is incredibly frustrating, and you’re rarely sure if you’ve truly fixed it in the end.

oh haha oops

one’s not sure why and the other is don’t know

Also worth noting that the US continued to do business with the nazis well into the war, and IBM famously facilitated the holocaust.

lol yeah that sounds like a nightmare

I find setters/getters are generally an antipattern because they obfuscate behavior. When you access a field you know what it looks like, but if you pass it through some implicit transformation in a getter then you have to know what that was.

I got into photography during the pandemic as a way to go outside and stay active. I find it makes you pay attention to the environment around you a lot more closely. Things you normally wouldn’t notice become interesting.

wasps 🤝 genocide

The fact that somebody would be asking this question after a year of genocide is phenomenal.