@hacks4pancakes Let the great unmasking begin…

@dpnash @fedithom @hacks4pancakes And the thing about dogwhistles is they're often used in a form which is deniable. No, I'm not putting 88 because I'm a Nazi, I'm putting 88 because it's my birth year. No, that Swastika isn't because I'm a Nazi, it's an ancient pagan symbol used by many cultures. No, I didn't use all these alt-right word choices to offend. How can you think that?It's tribal recognition. It's signaling. It's gang colors.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] that’s a really fair point, and I also share your hope it’s mostly the latter.

Any other consultants out there nerd out when you get a company you’re a fan of or nostalgic over? Like, just want to happen to have their product behind you on the video call?

@hacks4pancakes this goes way over my heador maybe the editingwhat are they trying to convey?

Unions, as well as labor, consumer, and antitrust protections have prevented this to some degree in America, but half the voting country is working hard to get rid of all of those things as fast as possible.

@[email protected] I hear he zucks himself every night

@hacks4pancakes O god. What fresh hell is this

@hacks4pancakes @fesshole I Poland during the Cold War era, we had so called "Orange Alternative", they were painting dwarf grafitti in various places and later organized absurd happenings, very similar vibe.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Alternative

@tjbutt58 @hacks4pancakes @eris2cats @kauer psst, Lesley is right and knows more than you think.Even including your scenario, she's still right.

Why did they get to decide they could be THE hacker news with their hot takes and techbro comment section from hell, and we just go along with it?

I drew you a picture of Chicago for New Years. It’s not very good, but my mental health is a little better. I hope you find healthy outlets for mental health this year, too.

@hacks4pancakes This sounds like both immigration physicals I've done in the past (US and Canada), fwiw. They looked for a small set of specific 19th century diseases, and then a very general vibe check of "are you healthy enough to work", which both times for me ended up being a very light taking of the vitals and general eyeing me up and down and going "eh, you walked in, have a pulse and showed up on time, that'll do."I hope you get happy news soon!

The bitter irony in the current GOP infighting over whether Americans are competent enough to become tech workers is that numerous LGBT tech people who are frantically emigrating over hate were committing time to train people to get those jobs, often for free. My best friend wrote a whole book. So basically, they didn’t listen to us warning about Elon, they didn’t listen to us warning about the economic reality, they made fun of college education, and then they drove away a bunch of people who wanted to make tech jobs accessible to all Americans.

In fact, for lots of us that’s ongoing right now!