stankmut

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • stankmuttoAnarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comFree Arturo
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    6 days ago

    It didn’t really look like he raised his weapon towards the crowd. He had it lowered until they either started yelling or shooting, hard to tell from the video, he only raised it into a running stance. It was still pointed mostly sideways.

    I thought the video would be a slam dunk against him, but it just looks like he panicked when the shooting started and ran away.





  • stankmuttoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlArcaneGPT
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    17 days ago

    It’s a common thing in programming. There’s some legacy code that isn’t being used and yet removing it causes things to break. Nobody has the time to figure out what is still referencing that code, so it just gets a comment next to it saying “Not used, but removing it breaks the build” and then forgotten about.






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    2 months ago

    Allowing Google to run an ad campaign targeting their members wasn’t the benefit Blue Cross was talking about, that’s a side effect from them not turning off the data sharing option in the Google analytics settings.

    The analytics data is used for prioritizing development work. If a tool they have on the website relies on a library that isn’t compatible with a new version of React, for instance, do they know how many people use it? Having analytics allows you to decide what’s worth spending the development time to maintain.



  • stankmuttoBoycott US@lemmy.ca*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    My constructive suggestion was for people to stop saying they are unintentionally boycotting things. It just seems self-congratulatory and smug and every boycott discussion is just choked with those comments.

    I was writing third paragraph about how if you aren’t shopping somewhere that is being boycott, you can help by spreading the word. I deleted it once when I had the realization that it doesn’t matter what I say, the next boycott post will have the same comments and that I’m getting worked up over something I can’t change.



  • 2019 Elon was an asshole who called people pedos, cared more about the aethetics of the factory floor than worker safety, manipulated stock value by blatantly lying, fought unionization, and attacked whistleblowers. His open right-wing political ‘turn’ didn’t start until people told him he needed to follow the rules to prevent the spread of Covid.

    It’s so hard to believe that Cybertruck buyers are surprised that people hate them. They ignored all of these things about Elon and Tesla and then they bought the ugliest car ever made. They didn’t hear a single thing about Elon in the last decade and then dropped $100k on a stainless steel death trap that is awful at doing actual truck things and is barely held together? Like how did they hear about the truck in the first place if they are so disconnected from the world?




  • stankmuttoBoycott US@lemmy.ca*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know why I even bother going into the comment sections of boycott posts. There’s only three types of comments. Smug “heh, I never shopped there anyway” comments, self-defeating “I’ll never shop there again even if they change” comments, or ‘boycotts don’t work, give up libs’ comments if you have some conservative trolls.

    The “unintentionally boycotting” ones bother me because they are always the top comments and it’s not actually boycotting. You don’t show up as missing revenue because they support genocide and stopping that support won’t win you back. You might as well not exist to those companies. I’m happy you don’t have to deal with an HP laptop, but you weren’t boycotting them.