Posting in there would ruin it.

Is there anything left?

When an online conversation is getting too heated, stop responding for a while. Give everyone a chance to calm down and get perspective.

Most of the jobs I’ve gotten were through friends I made at uni. Thanks to my education, I’m capable and skilled, but the friend network I made at school has gotten me in for interviews.

According to my sister-in-law’s then boyfriend (who was a biologist or an insect guy or something), spiders and insects can have lung-line organs called book lungs. So they have options. Creepy buggy insecty options.

Words would be so much easier to understand.

A thirty-something woman was trick or treating at my town’s trunk or treat. She’d put effort into her costume. 🤷‍♂️

Isn’t that link an ad for TunePat? It looks like a ripper that pulls tracks from Spotify.

I’m facing the exact same problem. My guy isn’t used to computers yet, so I’m trying to figure out how to get music onto the device in a way that works for him. I’ll probably end up buying and copying stuff by hand. 😞

It’d be great if there was a decent offline hardware option.

That sounds really frustrating. What kind of phone is it?

There are a tonne of realities that are very close to ours are populated by cockroaches and mutants.

lucky guess

Your original statement was

Those that just vandalize random art or monuments that have nothing to do with climate change can fuck right off.

From the links you supplied, in two of the three cases (Stonehenge and Flowers) no damage was done. In the case of Stonehenge, the protestors chose a marker that wouldn’t damage the monument. For Flowers, I’d assume they knew about the glass. But that’s me giving them credit.

For the third (Warhol’s soup), damage was done but remediated.

The protestors are being unfairly accused of fucking up art without justification. Others have used that to dismiss the protests and the cause, which is bullshit.

The protestors have a good cause, they’re getting people to (at least) talk about climate change, and they’re taking the punishment for their actions.

The protestors stuck around to be arrested and sentenced, that makes it way easier for me to excuse.

IMO minor damage is acceptable, given the cause.

The gallery previously said the gold-coloured frame of the glass-covered painting was damaged in the October 2022 attack.

Apparently the painting was protected by glass. I don’t know the cultural significance of the frame.

Climate change will cause more droughts, fires, and heat waves. Millions of people will die and be displaced.

There’s a handful of people who want to do something to prevent this, but, given our system, there’s basically nothing they can do to change the outcome. So they’re resorting to civil disobedience.

I think it’s fine. From what I’ve heard, these are mostly minor inconveniences. Given the scale of suffering they’re warning us about, the inconveniences don’t seem minor. Disrupting medical care isn’t acceptable, etc.

They’ve successfully gotten people talking about climate change, so it’s working.

I love shitting on Python, but I feel like all those problems are present in libraries for other languages as well. There’s a tonne of that crap for JS/TS.

Similarly, I find a fair number of Rust crates (that I want to use) have virtually no doc or inline examples, and use weird metaprogramming that I can’t wrap my head around.

If it’s enforced, it’s more of a tax, isn’t it? I thought the whole premise was that people are doing it out of altruism.

It looks like a pretty minor change, but I appreciate it nonetheless.

I’d kick a couple of bucks towards a membership. I’m pretty sure I’ve dropped cash on my favourite instances at some point.

I’d be surprised if that kind of model could pay competitive developer salaries. Existing media platforms got started with mad VC money until they had a user base large enough to justify huge ad spends.

you only get one body so may as well look after it

That’s a really good way of putting it.

this is the only thing I’ve found that allows me to escape my mind and be in the moment

That’s what I really like about snowboarding and inline skating - if I’m not focusing on the activity, I take a tumble, so I have to pay attention. I don’t know if either of those are something you’d enjoy, but maybe give them a shot?