Rentlar

Trump during the campaign has said a lot of things during the campaign. Some very concerning, some things appealing broadly. Some things he has said polar opposite things at consecutive campaign rallies. (You can still see it happening now with the “Ukraine started the Russian occupation” then “Russia started the Russian occupation”). Some promises he hasn’t done a thing to keep, such as make life affordable. I think a lot of people were holding on to that promise.

A lot of other things he didn’t promise at all, he is doing, supposedly to bury the lede. Did he ever talk about Denmark, Greenland or Panama in his 2024 campaign? We know he likes tariffs but I think the 51st state BS came about after his election.

When your design goal from the start is to pay artists and actors to shit out a product to sell, don’t expect any artistry.

When they lose their job, lose federal grants to their state, lose their immigrant friends, have their grocery bills rise, have unemployment insurance and social security benefits cut, lose business in-town, and their kids stop talking to them…

A good chunk will still blame minorities despite all that. We still have to hammer home to anyone that will listen, that all this stuff is what hate (embodied in the MAGA anti-DEI, anti-woke moment) does to you.

On thinking before you speak, it means this: if something is said that makes you want to respond right away, when you sense a physical reaction (of hurt, anger, sadness or wanting retribution), or you are in a situation where what you say matters a lot (an interview, a meeting with higher-ups in a company etc.), it’s a mental cue for you to block immediate responses which can cause you to run your mouth in ways you later regret. Instead, you actively make an effort to listen more, and consider your situation and the other people’s situation before responding. So it’s not a 15 second pause after each sentence, but a 15 seconds you take while the other person is going on about whatever before you inject yourself into a conversation or before you make your point when it’s your turn.

On interacting with your coworkers, they’re not your therapists, so you can talk about what’s new and the fortunate and unfortunate things that happen to you over the course of a week, but the basic idea is to avoid making your problems their problems when you do.

I’m of a more positive nature but I love to info-dump on my coworkers about my favourite topics. I try to offset that by involving them and asking their opinion, showing them cool things, and then taking the turn to let them discuss their own intersts and thoughts on things, and follow up with that. And I try to get a sense if they aren’t interested in talking at a particular moment or are losing interest in the middle of a conversation. EQ skills are about taking that pulse.

If you need a place to start: The idea is give and take, and it should be in relatively equal amounts. Would you be able to tell me what has been on the minds lately of Coworkers 1-3? Or have you spent most of the conversation about yourself and your issues? (#4 doesn’t sound interested much in sharing their personal life, so you don’t have to probe them on it).

77 million people had better be constantly asked the question: are you wishing you had a Black woman President right now?

And after Trump butts himself into the picture, Team Canada served him a tourtière of humiliation to his face.

So are scientists going to be forced to adopt newspeak?

Time to stand up and fight back, folks.

And if there was one city and state that was waiting for any opportunity to give Trump the middle finger, that would be New York.

The US can push all they like. It’s up to the other country whether they fall over from these stupid bluffs.

Instance A defederating B or vice versa is the same result. Any posts on any inaccessible remote communities will remain and act like local only communities, specific to your instance.

There was a lot of humming and hawing about what Trump “really meant” about “dictator for a day”.

Okay… so in less than a day, any plausible deniability that Trump thinks himself the dictator of the USA has completely evaporated.

The steel tariffs were “signed” by Trump, due to take effect March 12, the general canada/mexico tarrifs were “signed” but then postponed, due to take effect March 4. He also last week signed a reciprocal tariff plan, I’ve not found a planned implementation date.

The auto and chips one are still just talk, but the former has been suggested to take effect April 2nd.

I’ve so far not had success with my Akai EIE Pro on Linux.

Ooooh nice going! Saved this post because once in a blue moon I come up with short jingles, and I’ve been wanting a software that can record MIDI stuff without lag.

So the Supreme Court overturns the Chevron doctrine, saying that only the judicial branch can interpret US law.

Donald Trump Executive order’s himself to be one of the two people in the executive branch who can interpret US law.

Quick! Congress, pass a law saying that only you can interpret US law, so we get a bingo!

That feature to search a multitude of websites via Duck Duck Go was a gamechanger when I found out about it some years ago. I’ve not gone back since.

“If you can get me an officer of the United States military to get on the stand and say that because of pronoun usage we are less prepared, I will be the first to buy you a box of cigars,” -Judge Reyes

That is a damning statement. The US admin is a buffoon for even trying to defend this.

And Musk is also playing red-light-green-light, so is only running DOGE when people are looking away, so no need to scrutinize that much.

Hochul, a Democrat

This governor needs to be described as a flip flopping Democrat fish.