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  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWould you alter your timeline?
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    i would edit my timeline to change things pertaining to my homosexuality: namely avoiding entering my marriage that doma forced me to dissolve and avoiding permanent debt in student loans that dadt forced me to take on; both were a heavy & permanent detrminents to my financial future.

    i’m living your preferred alternate timeline and i can assure that things REALLY sucked for people like me so the thought of someone else desiring it blows my mind.

    i think maybe i could see it if i were a little bit older so that i could have enjoyed the liberalism of the 70’s; but then the hiv/aids scare would have impacted me even more than it already did.




  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlHave you ever used the "column" command?
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    i love this person’s work; i’ve been working in the linux sphere for over 20 years but this person always teaches something that’s new to me and more helpful than the tools i’ve been using to get the job done; sed/awk in this case. (plus, the sense of humor also makes it fun to watch).

    i wish i were as rich as my fellow software engineers so that i can support her work because i’m convinced we need it in a world where people no longer have the same opportunities i had to learn this kind of tech because their smartphones inadvertently hide needful knowledge in the abstractions that make smartphones work.


  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlDebugging in prod
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    you laugh but i’ve literally being doing this for the last three years because my colleagues disregard the IT based overhauls we need to get rid of the bottlenecks from our architecture; but also accept that i have to keep doing it or else our client won’t pay us.

    even among the labor aristocracy that we call the tech industry; the software developer petite bourgeoisie makes life needlessly difficult for the IT underclass because they think they know better. lol


  • this is on capitalism and the democrats are only playing their role as controlled opposition for the current capitalist hegemon we call america.

    it’s on the world stage because all of the western capitalists kotow to the current hegemon and isreal is that hegemon’s current colonial settler project complete with genocide of the natives and propaganda to keep everyone distracted; exactly like the predecessor projects in north america and australia and precisely what carter was trying to warn everyone about in this book.

    the only smart look is waking up to all of it to see it for what it is; but the democrats are now saying that they lost this election because they went too woke despite already going to the right and i used to be a democrat too, so i can understand your choice to willfully keep your eyes closed to stay in solidarity with them.


  • americans are too propagandized to know that both the republicans and democrats will lead us to those catastrophically worse results because they both serve the same system whose inherent contradictions guarantees a descent into fascism no matter what.

    the democrats’ love for the trolly cart excuse blinds them to the reality of their fellow democrats increasingly not voting is a symptom of those inherent contradictions getting worse and that their steadfast insistence that they’re the adults in the room only serves to enable the reality that carter warned them against.






  • the narrative shaping in american media is so disgusting; they won’t even question whether or not my government’s expanded export controls in kicking out some of its most prolific contributors simply because they’re russian is a factor and cover it up by counting the number of lines added.

    what happens next year or the year after that? are the same contributors expect to keep working at the same scale they’re doing now? the youngest ones are in their 40’s and paid exorbitantly well; what happens when they retire? do we all just switch to bsd?