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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I’m a software/data engineer, so for work I obviously use a computer all the time. I also have a very nice personal computer but it doesn’t get as much use anymore as it used to. I play the occasional game on it, use it for tracking our budget/finances and stuff once a month, manage my plex server, and do the occasional random task on it that requires things like typing or photo editing. But it’s not been getting a lot of attention since I finished school, even less since having my daughter. Also I have automated a lot of my tasks so that I don’t need to manage it as much.

    My phone is my main device for most of my entertainment, web surfing, news reading, banking, etc. plus it keeps my todos/shopping lists, my wife and I’s shared calendar, my alarms, digital coupons for groceries, GPS… all of my regular day to day task helpers. Not to mention is takes and stores my photos, allows me to call and text people, and gives me mobile access to my cloud files and services. It’s definitely my primary device.

    But I still love my desktop and wish I had more time to do my own work on it.


  • Ok, so serious question. What would it take for you to work for ICE? For your job to be rounding up people that are usually not harming anyone, that may be hardworking, industrious, and smart members of their community, that may have families, that may have been here most of their lives. To take those people, jail them, push them through a vicious court system without representation or language assistance in many cases, and ultimately kick them out of the country without a home, job, sometimes without their family and sometimes into the waiting arms of cartels. Often those people are actually children. What would it take for you to choose to work in that role.

    I can get where someone may think it’s important to uphold laws and thus want to enter law enforcement. But then you could work for your local police, sheriff’s department, state police, FBI, ATF, etc. instead of ICE. So, why ICE specifically?

    Plenty of people just fall into work, so I’m not going to suggest that literally every single ICE officer was actively motivated to seek out work with ICE specifically. I’m sure plenty are just content and uncaring without active malice towards their targets. But for those who were motivated to seek out work with ICE, I really can’t help but to think that that motivation had to include some amount of racism and xenophobia. If I had my pick of law enforcement agencies and my first choice was ICE you would be justified to think I must have some deep animosity towards the type of people I would be disrupting and deporting. Rather than seeking justice for victims of crime, catching murderers and rapists, keeping dangerous drugs out of your community, I would be choosing to deport immigrants as my primary role in law enforcement. Not that other law enforcement agencies aren’t full of terrible people with awful motivations too, but I can’t see a single redeemable rational reason that one would desire to join ICE. They are all either racists, apathetic losers or completely deluded about what they are doing.



  • If it were me, and my show, I would mute him immediately when he started that. I would say, “This is an interview, not a pulpit, not an editorial. I will not allow any guest to take over my show to force their unfiltered messaging over my questions. If anyone gets to editorialize on my show, it is me. And here are the facts as I see them.”

    And then I would list all of the questions he failed to answer, fact check the ones he did, and then draw my own conclusions based on those lies and evasion, and I would do it all while his stupid face screams ineffectually into the camera, completely silently, until he stormed off in anger. Then I would plaster the stupidest, maddest face he had made in the frame instead for the remainder of my monologue.




  • These people are dumb as fuck and don’t even slightly understand what they are legislating. They are just politicizing scientific developments, drawing arbitrary lines, and attacking things on “the other side”. mRNA vaccines could be a game changer for creating vaccines with fewer risks, but these stupid assholes can’t be bothered to even learn how they work, why they are better, or they do “learn” but they listen to crackpot conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr. who lie about what it does or the dangers associated. This anti-intellectual bullshit has got to stop.










  • DEI isn’t a hiring quota or mandate to prefer a minority candidate over a non-minority candidate. It is the mindset that different experiences, backgrounds, cultures, and viewpoints provide more variety and richer ideas than a single homogenous set, and as such, those differences should be considered as a positive along with other qualifiers as part of the hiring process. A company that values DEI still hires straight white men (speaking as one who works for such a company), as ours is still a viewpoint that should be represented and adds value. But they may also choose a minority candidate over a white male candidate with comparable qualifications if they fill a gap in experiences or culture that the company/team is missing. However, in fact, the reverse is true. If a team is oversaturated with, say, Indians, women, LGBT, etc., a straight American male candidate may be the preferred hire in that case. Should that white guy feel like he needs to justify his position?



  • Laws do differ state to state. Trespass may be more or less restrictive in different places. In Louisiana where this took place, the trespass law reads, in part…

    C. (1) No person shall remain in or upon property, movable or immovable, owned by another without express, legal, or implied authorization.

    This does not require that the person be given direct notice that they are no longer authorized or had their permission revoked before they are required to leave like some states may require. The only requirement is that they no longer have authorization (expressed, legal or implied). If conditionals for authorization were given and you knowingly break those conditions, you no longer have express or implied authorization. That is trespass.

    Again, all this is hypothetical. I’m not saying that these conditions were expressly given by the NFL or anyone else involved with the Super Bowl or half time show. I’m just say that there is the realm of possibility where they could have been, and in that case, the moment he violated those conditions, it would be trespass.