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Celery Man

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  1. PM South Austin’s mom.
  2. I’m giving myself time to work past the normal “unfamiliar = bad” feelings. I generally trust that Apple knows what they are doing. I think that this is fine, some of the changes with the icons feel funny to me. Fuzzy, cartoonish, less crisp, which feels like the opposite direction that Apple tends to go.
  3. I love love love documentaries like this and this is one of the best ones. I think about those three all the time. Heartbreaking really all around, and it’s amazing how much you start to care about them given how incredibly shitty they are as the thing opens up. very different subjects, but Michael Apted’s Up series (starting with 7 Up) is the next best thing. Another episode is coming out soon. Curious if it will be the last, as he has died. Any other docs like this that follow people through their lives, I am absolutely interested in.
  4. 1 if I can figure out how to put a guitar into an IRA
  5. i sold off a 16 year position in AAPL yesterday so just a heads up, regardless of what this ios looks like the stock is going to take off
  6. if i was fat, if I had an accent, if I didn't look like a "leader", if I wasn't raised in an environment that trained me to be adept at navigating conversations and interactions with Very Important White People. Shit, if I didn't have hair?
  7. He's not autistic but he has a trains roommate
  8. Lets "agree to disagree" that we have no actual knowledge about his beliefs - I think that Charlie Kirk himself is a perfectly good source to determine what his beliefs are and I don't have a hard time sussing out how I feel about them. Is it your opinion that getting shot in the neck in front of his wife and kids* should change our opinion about his beliefs? *did that happen? Were his kids there? I'm curious if that's true, not that I think it's relevant to whether he or his beliefs were shitty. It would be another piece of sadness to this whole thing if it was true, obviously.
  9. this relates to a thing that I'm curious about, if it's cultural or a broadly human thing or whatever. But there's the idea that a) there is an objective measurement of "more or less qualified" and b) only technical skill/talent/effort should or could matter regarding that measurement. Like, if someone believes that there is a measurement that indicates that they have the most knowledge and skill as a javascript developer, then there is no valid rationale to hire another person over them or even give some other person oversight responsibility to them or their work. Probably choosing sw devs as an example is bad because that's such a type, but I think it's widespread and maybe particularly among males this belief that there is an objectively correct choice or ranking in that type of scenario and that there is a specific kind of merit that is the only thing that can count. And that thing is such fertile ground for breeding misogyny and racism, which of course is why it is used to do that. It's the same thing as... asserting that Yngwie Malmsteen or some other technically proficient instrumentalist that makes niche music for fans of instrumentalism is a better musician than (obvious example) Taylor Swift when almost any metric you might use to meaningfully determine that (pointless and meaningless) distinction would give you the opposite conclusion.
  10. one of the key assumptions you are incorrectly making is that the status quo before DEI = race, sexual orientation, religion, etc are not being used in hiring decisions. this isn't accurate at all. the accusations are being demonstrated and justified over and over again, you are simply covering your ears and shouting "agree to disagree". this is also why I don't believe that you have an accurate read on the impect of DEI in your life and career.
  11. Would it help if I told you that we have a DEI spray you can spray on the closet door that keeps the DEI from coming out at night and giving white people’s jobs to unqualified coloreds?
  12. Dark political cartoons make strong men ✊
  13. It’s working fine without quotes
  14. oh he went after Ms Rachel??
  15. Just a quick reminder for conservatives popping in to chide people for expressing the same opinions about Charlie Kirk that they had a week ago - none of us think that Charlie Kirk should have been murdered, and you voted a child rapist into the White House twice. We're not the same.
  16. V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
  17. Yes let’s get some ideas from X
  18. Not even dead a week and they have a DEI hire hosting his show
  19. I in no way hope that this happens but want to go on the record before Ben Shapiro is murdered by an alt-furry that he is not in fact a respected academic among liberals and conservatives alike.
  20. Moderate liberals don’t feel this way and moderate conservatives really just describes people who are still trying to ignore the nastiness of their own politics (for example electing a child rapist president twice).
  21. Or, less jokingly, other fucking professional troll groypers feeding bullshit to willing participant “journalists” looking to feed their moron readers soothing headlines that tell them they are absolutely correct that all of this horrible craziness in the world is because of the woke left and not them and their spiritual leaders for electing the least Christian child rapist of all time to the presidency.
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