jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website -4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Because my driving to work in my car is somehow so much worse on our entire world compared to what billionaires are doing

That wasn't the claim. My point was that driving makes the world worse. The presence of other people making the world worse to greater degrees or at greater speed is irrelevant.

You're arguing against a made up claim, probably to justify feeling attacked. Your ego is threatened. It's common for people to lash out when their sense of being a Good Person is threatened.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

As discussed at length in last week's planning meeting, we agreed to continue using isort at this time. Here is the decision document to review: {confluence link}. If you would like to relitigate the issue, which I would not recommend, please add it to the tech planning meeting agenda.

(More seriously, I started using ruff and have no complaints about it.)

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Cop's actions fit the colloquial definition of murder, but maybe the laws are strange in MA.

Either way, the cop's life should be over.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 43 points 1 week ago (17 children)

"years of pleading" for an open relationship is kind of a flag. Maybe not a red one, but certainly a warning of some sort.

Also, not to repeat myself, but I think a lot of guys are kind of bad at dating and dating apps. There's a lot of self sabotage and then blaming external forces. A message of "hey" isn't going to win any prizes, and yet that's all some people can muster.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

You don't need to be in amazing shape (though it probably doesn't hurt) but you need to be way more interesting and emotionally mature than the average guy.

If you're the kind of person who gets upset like in this meme that your newly non-monogamous wife got more dates than you did, you are not mature enough to be getting dates with other non-monogamous people.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Democrats aren't especially left, so I'm not sure you can really look at states controlled by the democratic party as a fair comparison. The US doesn't have much of a left. Many democrats are conservative, especially when its things close to home (eg: nimbyism, "i like black people i just don't want to live next to one", etc).

We have outliers like Mayor Mamdani who want to build more housing, but he's notably a DSA member. He does have policies for housing which are more effective than "fewer regulations and the market will solve it".

As such, if the argument is "Conservative controlled areas have fewer regulations, and thus more housing gets built", that's a very tenuous argument. The right wing ideology at play isn't "We should build more housing" but rather the usual "No one tells me what to do" attitude endemic to right wing thinking.

Furthermore, conservative areas tend to be sparser, which makes for more room to build, with fewer restrictions New York City is already dense. Adding more stuff is going to be more difficult and complicated than adding another building to Tumbleweeds, AR.

Lastly, if you did somehow prove that "conservative solutions to the housing crisis are good, actually, and aren't just deregulation and capitalist market solutions", I guess I would have to update my statement to "Almost all right wing ideas are bad". But as I'm not convinced this is the exception, I stand by my original claim.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Building housing isn't a right wing idea.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I agree, play the class how you want, it’s one of the major appeals of the game

I remember the first time I encountered systems that aren't strict class + level, and realizing I had so much more freedom to make the ideas I had. D&D (and close relatives) are surprisingly anti-creative.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 31 points 1 week ago (8 children)

“Public space in Paris is chaos,” right-winger Rachida Dati said recently

No right winger is worth listening to. I know nothing about Dati, but I am confident they are full of bad ideas.

Dati’s proposals for the city include making it cheaper to park and getting rid of the low-emission zone in the city centre.

As foretold.

Every right wing idea is bad, and people proposing them should at best be laughed out of the room.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

It is kind of sometimes a can't-win situation.

If you don't fluff them up first, then they get upset that you're too blunt. But if you do add the fluff, then other people get upset that you're wasting their time with fluff.

Personally, I think a healthy person should be able to accept an email that says like "Please update SomeLibrary to 9.0.2 (or later) by Friday. The maintainers fixed a security issue, and we should upgrade" without crying about how you hurt their feelings, but many people are not healthy.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago

I think all of my shirts either have no logo, or have a logo for something i like and want to talk about (eg: a band, a local attraction).

I wouldn't want to advertise some soulless megacorp like adidas

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