I agree with you, words have power, but only the power we give them.

By adopting this growing strategy of using gay coded innuendo as a weapon - we are telling the maga crowd that we respect it as a weapon, we are validating that we think it has power.

What you mistake for “oh the soft weak left has a no-no list that holds us back” was us not reacting and thus not giving power to using gay innuendo as a weapon, so that lgbt peoples existence isn’t thought of as a weapon.

We were quite close too - I Haven’t heard much anti gay rhetoric used as insults by the right, no where neat as much as 10 20 30 years ago. The right had realized that that stuff had lost effectiveness and thus switched to different insults.

But here with these stupid memes and signs that I see more and more often are re-weaponizing anti-gay discourse and I hate it and it definitely will lead to a lower quality of life for lgbt people, it will definitely keep more lgbt people in the closet, and all the knock on effects of that including suicide.

Words have power, and we give them power by using them. Think about what you are giving power to.

This isn’t what 50501 should include in its movement.

In good faith, that’s how it’d work - but the system has set the bar for removal from office so high as to have never been completed - even by terrible presidents including trump.

We should change that so that citizens have a more direct way to force an election or vote of no confidence or recall or otherwise remove elected officials that have lost the backing of the people, despite still having the backing of the president’s cabinet and Congress.

As it stands there is no legitimate path for this action. Should we act illegitimately? To be determined, but we’d all have to get real comfortable that it’d be a textbook unconstitutional coup.

We dont live in a democracy we do not live in tyranny. I’d like to live in a true democracy. America is a republic, and that comes with all of its downsides and historical rationale.

But I get what you’re trying to say, the meme

I don’t think I think that way, and I have plenty of concerns with parties and establishment. I think the American constitution is fundamentally flawed, and I’ve said that both under Obama and biden as well as, of course trump.

We must acknowledge that trump is an elected president, he is not a king, and despite everything we dont like and that which makes me anxious and defensive, the system is working as designed, just no longer in good faith.

They are executive orders by the president of our republic.

Are we comfortable that our system can operate this way with bad faith actors? I know I’m not.

I think justice should catch trump and his enablers, and good faith returned to the system, and then likewise, the system updated to be more resistance and resilient against bad faith actors like trump and the maga movement.

If we just call trump king, we’ll blind ourselves to the structural problems and likely ignore them once he’s gone, leaving the door open for the next group.

I agree with on where the difficult part is, I think a book would be better served on educating product teams about development and vice versa, of which its a populated field - I think the dichotomy develops from the two different perspectives required for each skill

Product teams most abstract goal is to identify a solvable problem Development teams most abstract goal is to solve an identified problem

And the communication failures and difficulties appear when product teams are not able to communicate their problem, or the development teams do not believe the problem is solvable as is.

^ not to mention to internal team issues such as different product stakeholders not internally agreeing on what the problem is or how its described - or development teams not internally agreeing on their solution and architecture

In this style, there is a natural antagonism which between the two mindsets

There is plenty of literature about how product teams should define problems and determine if they’re solvable

There is plenty of literature about how development teams can solve problems and designs

But yet the tensions and difficulties and slowdowns still occur - even on teams where product owners and developers are closely collaborating

I don’t think ai will help - even if the dev teams were all regretfully wiped out and it was just product stake holders describing identified problems to an ai hoping for valid solutions, they would be just as slow if not more since those product stakeholders lack the solving perspective and intuition and they lose their collaboration partners who can fill and interpret gaps gracefully.

I do believe that creating things, identifying and solving problems, will always be fundamentally hard and time consuming

People discover this themselves when they try to pick up a side project and realize identifying and describing the problem just to themselves is quite hard, and then transcribing that problem into a solution - with code or not - is equally as hard even if they have a good grasp of whatever technology they’re employing

A person armed with ai but no experience in identifying and describing a problem, nor with solving problems - will struggle to inform the ai, will likely identity an unsolvable problem, and will not be able to distinguish an acceptable solution from an invalid one

Coding is not the complex part, code is basic logic applied and becoming familiar with documentation - the hard parts of a coding project are not the code but everything surrounding it - collaboration, budget, trust, policies, acceptance criteria, etc

All of those are distinctly human problems and are inherent to any project - coding or not.

In my opinion, as an experienced software engineer who has delivered many projects on both simple and complicated code bases, is that the code is always the easy part, almost the reward to be able to do - once completing/advancing all the other parts of the human problems of a project.

There is no ai that can or should tell you what is acceptable, or how you should collaborate with your friends or partners, or who and how to trust, etc

Wholesome :)

I’ve thought about this to, I’m doing quite well financially, not rich, but rich enough where I could buy a humble couple acres in the countryside and do sustenance farming/gardening while following my hobbies and doing small work to sustain myself slowly rather than working my big corporate job and paying a mortgage and running the capitalist treadmill

I haven’t made the decision yet, but I’m building towards it

I have a nice, but small, garden in my backyard with a hammock, and I find myself escaping to it whenever I have a spare moment because its one of the very few places I feel calm and happy and meaningful - and eating veggies, herbs, and flowers strait from the garden, from your soil and labor, is something that truly is special and not reproducible at any store or restaurant - no matter how fancy

I think I’d rather live slowly and simply and humbly with my garden and hobbies, than how I’m living now rushed, complexly, hollowly in the city with my corporate job

And likewise, if you’re concerned about tankies driving the message of the protest, join the movement and add your voice.

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I need America to not fall to the current fascists literally in power right now, who are making lists of people with genetic traits, who are kidnapping residents and citizens off the streets and putting them in black sites, and who are arresting judges, while they stiffle Congress, supreme courts, and state and city governments.

I have one enemy who wants to kill me, and another who wears a colored shirt. I know who my enemy is and who I need to protest against.

I know which plays a larger threat.

Please show up at your local mayday protest next Thursday, check with 50501. This cannot continue.

The cabinet will not save us.

The legislature will not save us.

The courts will not save us.

We must save us.

3.5% or more of the US must come out and protest this coming Thursday and through the weekend.

Skip work, skip school, skip whatever you can, if it’s not stopped soon with a show of unity we will not recover.

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I don’t have a solution, but its really beautiful to hear your relationship’s clear communication, accepting love, and respect for each others needs.

Its a tough spot to be in, the solution agreed on may require a sacrifice in the way things are today, but even still, the fact that you can talk and share and love through this is a powerful thing and will lead to a better solution than otherwise.

So long as you both are listening, respecting, and loving each other it will be OK even if how the relationship is defined today changes.

Really important that she both acknowledges her privilege, and also the oft neglected responsibility to make actions with that privilege to advance the goals of those who do not have access to that privilege - what a role model.

I’d counter part of that is that US law is based on common law, which is defined by prior court cases not just law - vs civil law which is only based on law.

There are issues with both of course, but, its common law that requires lawyers and knowledge of every court case and knowing what a judge in the 1800s thought a word means to win or lose a case.

I think the common law system of justice is deeply flawed and leads to this legalese where everything is vague and malleable with no certainty

You will have infinite time to be dead whenever you die, there is no point to being alive other than to serve as the singular fragile short pause between two infinities.

What you do with this time is up to you.

You can only change things when you are alive.

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