Is their media any good?

I’ve honestly been convinced that doing evil melts your face like the dark side of the force

Take Caroline Levitt… She’s so young, and yet in months her face has started to droop. On the other hand, you have people like Mike Johnson and JD Vance… They have the sith eyes, you just instinctively know they’re inhuman

I mean… They kind of didn’t though

In major cities, sure. Even smaller ones will have Indian places. But they’re proportional to the amount of Indians in an area

Because there’s a big difference… Everyone can go to a Chinese restaurant and confidently order. Everyone knows what sushi is, even if some people don’t eat it. Thai foods are less known, but the menus are very Americanized, so you go once and you get the idea

I know the good Indian restaurant back home, but I only know the dishes by color. Lots of naan and wet dishes… They were good, but I couldn’t tell you what they were. And if the sign says Indian food, I don’t know what they serve. So I’ve only been to the one place

Vindaloo and curry? That is everywhere, but I’ve never had an Indian version of it. The British spread vindaloo and curry spread itself

I think Chinese food spread was more organic, they helped each other immigrate, shared recipes, and acted almost like a franchise in how new restaurants were chosen in unserved areas and given a general playbook

And then the Thai government did it more formally, Korean culinary movement copied the success (or maybe the other way around)

But that’s a response to “they took our jorbs!”. It’s a reframing for immigrants targeted at the reactionaries. But it is the reality - immigrants, particularly undocumented or agricultural visa recipients, are the bedrock of our society

It’s terrible that they are in such unethical conditions. It’s terrible that they have a carve out for child labor for seasonal farm workers. The entire power dynamic is akin to indentured servitude at best

But what we have to do is give them legal status and protections first.

They are not working the worst jobs because that’s what we tell them they can be, they’re working the worst jobs because they’re extra exploitable

Come on, resistance matters. Even if it’s just slowing it down slightly, it affects people in very real ways

It’s ok to take the little wins

I’m not sure you get the problem here

You can talk to an llm at any moment of any day. They will engage with you endlessly. They’re becoming the front end for search, and at some point might become the primary interface for your device

It’s a huge problem if they manage to make it a propoganda tool, and that’s the goal here

Remind them what, that Trump says it’s good? There’s nothing to be gained there

No, just document it. Report on it. Ask the Democrats what they’re doing to stop it. Challenge Republicans to make them comment about the horrors to come on record

But the white house? They’ll add nothing of value, better to keep asking the questions that make them nervous

Why? They’re going to brag about it and call the victims criminals

I literally do that. With real world customers, and real world payments and real world consequences running through the system, all the time.

I live in fear.

It’s a tool, our job is to collect tools in our toolbox and use them appropriately

TDD is great for when you want a really, really tight interface - whether it’s your exposed surface to customers or you’ve got a lot of people working on something, it makes sense to write the standard and code to it, instead of documenting after the fact

Otherwise… Well, in practice it’s an idiot proof methodology. That’s useful, but it is a lot of work

I mean… I can think of a lot worse things in recent days

This one is just extra transparent, because they’re panicking

I’m sorry, I’ve been coming at this wrong

Need more sauce for jerking. For OSHA reasons

I like the furries because they’re really accepting

But come on…Understanding how progressive movements fail and how it’s usually because the CIA destabilized the regime actually matters.

Especially now. Less circle jerking, more historical analysis with clear messaging

I have a neat trick. I say “if I were a me, where would I have put this?”

I don’t remember where things belong, but I know immediately that I would put vitamins in the cabinet, on the counter, on the table, or in a travel bag. There’s basically nowhere else I’d put them unless something very unusual happened, so then I’d look to see if they fell from one of these places

Yeah, but what do you do with that? Just give up?

You’re not going to convince everyone, but every once in a while someone will dig into it. It keeps the knowledge alive

He worked really hard to thread the needle between capitol and some actually progressive policies

Which, in the effort to avoid making enemies, just basically pissed off everyone, because it took a nibble of the profits for the tiniest wins possible

But I’m sure it was a lot of work

Yo, put up some context or you’re just circle jerking. Not everyone knows those historical deep takes, everyone not in the know will dismiss this as some level of conspiracy theory without sauce

Messaging matters

Yup. We need to purge every seat

People aren’t illegal. Even fucking Reagan wanted to legalize the people that were already here, living and working