More than that, “software engineer” has been drifting towards “software technician” for a while now. If you don’t have any additional physics, math or engineering specialty on top of software skills, things are pretty crowded. Anyone can learn to write decent software. It’s really never been a traditional academic topic for the most part, and AI is definitely making that worse.

Also, if you are reliable and literally just show up to work reliably, retail is an easy ladder to climb because there is soooo much of it literally everywhere. Store managers earn 100k pretty easily.

It’s a pro Trump .ml troll who goes into every thread and rants about liberals and Democrats.

It’s complex and my interaction is mainly with fairly educated and well off Shanghainese who aspire to have their children leave China. The Fudan to Harvard pipeline, as it were.

People are proud of what China has accomplished, but many educated Chinese do want more. They understand that the party holds them back, and that a lot of oppressive Chinese policy is driven by, “protect the sins of the father” stuff. They are thoughtful, philosophical and very aware of the world outside both Shanghai and China.

I will admit that my language skill is nowhere near good enough to really get into it, so some of this is definitely vibes. In a weird way, urban Chinese have a lot in common with older US neocons, in that they hope globalization lifts them up, but they are also wary of western liberalism and its perceived desire to destroy their cultural folk heroes. Even though they understand their heroes are flawed, they don’t want to see them through a westernized lens. Again, these topics are really pushing my fluency.

Most of them are legitimately scared of talking about certain topics. My grandfather in law was an academic, and was persecuted during the cultural revolution and lost a hand at some point but nobody will discuss how. He told some of the story on his death bed but I do not understand his dialect well enough to know more than it was maybe a farm accident, but that might be a euphemism.

I know Lawrence of Arabia, which one was he?

Notice how he literally never posts outside of .ml, because he cannot handle anyone being free to argue against his edgy keyboard warrior bullshit without threat of the ban hammer. He’s legitimately a fucking coward.

Most criminal defense lawyers have a 24/7 on-call line and you don’t need to pay a retainer until you call it.

How will the children fit inside?!

PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!

itty bitty living space

“Gee I wonder why people are so mad at us for building this platform”

One of the very first bans I caught on Lemmy was pointing out to some tankie that I actually have family in China, speak the language, and have been there many times, and was therefore more qualified to comment on Chinese politics than some edgy western teenager.

We have pie! And our main dev isn’t participating in the “be the most cringe person on the Internet” contest!

Bruh bleeding out in a pit of mud on the battlefield as other random people fall on top of my already crushed ribs is way fucking worse than a bullet to the dome.

Plus, this revolution could easily go the other direction and I’ll end up being tortured to death anyway. I feel like this take is possibly the most historically ignorant one possible.

On thing that drives me nuts is weight measures for dry ingredients vs numerical egg measurements. Just give me ingredient ratios normalized to the egg mass.

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Honestly when this was airing it would have been like gen X talking to a young millennial.

I’m down to an eight ball every other week.

On and off. But I have fairly mild allergies/eczema which seems to flare up when I am stressed more than anything. Like, I can’t use regular aluminum deodorant every day or I will get a rash. Three days is the limit for most cheap bars, and fuck off with native charging $20/stick, I’d rather just smell bad.

Same shit with most fabric softener. But again it’s like a cumulative+ stress thing. I can go months without an outbreak and then the combination of a long week at work and some dry weather will give me itchy thighs.

Personally the sooner we rip off that bandaid, the better. .ml is far from the only activity pub project out there, but they are absolutely one of the most toxic forces on the fediverse and seriously harm the on boarding experience for new users. Nutomic is a bigot and a liar and Dessalines is a cringe keyboard warrior and nobody would put up with them if they weren’t writing code. But if Lemmy is no longer the only mature option for federated social media, why should we continue to tolerate their shit?

Gottem