My manager just told me that his manager wants to PIP me. I’m my team’s sole web developer, but our team hasn’t had any web development work for the past few months due to an initiative to improve security. I’ve been struggling with doing this back end work, because I have literally no experience doing it. My manager told me he won’t PIP me (only my direct manager can), because he knows I’m doing my best and he’d be screwed when we have web development work in a couple months. This is mildly reassuring, but his manager doesn’t like him, so I’m not sure how long my manager will stay at the company either

I agree. I really don’t see where an execution takes place changes the fact capital punishment is legal. It’s not like there’s an article over execution facilities in the US or Russia.

However, deleting is a long bureaucratic process where you have to argue with a bunch of no-life randos. Many editors consider it bad form to delete and reword large parts of an article then nominate it for deletion. This is viewed as intentional sabotage and bad faith, even if all you do is delete the unreliable sources. This article touches on this crap.

Well, I tried to remove as much bs as possible and make things more neutral without raising any red flags for the editors of Wikipedia. Hopefully, that’s a bit better and they don’t revert it.

I’m trans and my wife is trans too. We recently fled a red state to a solid blue state because of all the anti-LGBT legislation that was passed. It is absolutely terrifying to watch your rights slowly be stripped away and to see your community become more hostile to you everyday. It really sucks that our only choice for president is an old guy who supports genocide and is apathetic at best to LGBT and women rights and an old guy who supports genocide and is actively hostile to LGBT and women rights.

Sure would be cool if Biden did literally anything to support LGBT rights on a federal level

The Democrats feel entitled to vote of young left wing people, but don’t feel the same entitlement towards swing voters and right wing voters. That’s part of why they try to appeal to the racists instead of the people who should be their base, but aren’t because of “healthcare pls ”

Relevant video about this: https://youtu.be/Z3dSkkEr-wk

While it costs money, the internet has been a lot more usable for me once I switched to Kagi. It has no ads, promotes small web creators, automatically deprioritizes websites with AI content and trackers, and lets you prioritize and deprioritize your own specific websites.

For example, I have right wing websites like Fox News Info Wars, shitty Fandom wikis with better alternatives, and AI art websites blocked. I have websites like high quality recipe websites that aren’t SEO spam and websites I regularly use raised.

I’m fortunate enough my work computer allows me access to regedit because I was able to turn off web searches in the start menu. It’s so ridiculous there isn’t an option in the UI to do that.

I hate how I no longer have the option for small taskbar icons. That had been an option since Vista. There used to be a regedit workaround, but a recent update removed it for some godforsaken reason!

At my last job, our product depended on an open source project by one of the company’s former employees. I came across a massive bug in our code base that was related to this open source project. Despite the fix for the open source code being like 3 lines, management kept saying, “but we don’t want to help our competitors who might use this.” (No one else used it.) At one point, management asked me why don’t I fix it off the clock because then it wouldn’t be “company resources going into an open source product”. My response was basically “fuck you, pay me.” It took me a literal month to finally convince management.

Wouldn’t January 6th count?

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Not quite. Teachers get paid the same, but they supposedly save money on transportation, heating/cooling, and support staff.

Based on responses from a sample of 342 districts nationwide, the most common reason cited as a main rationale for adoption (65.1% of districts) was financial savings; districts argue they are saving money by reducing costs such as transportation, heating, and support staff salaries (Thompson et al., in press). Districts acknowledge that reducing the school week by 1 day, or 20%, would not reduce spending by 20%, as teachers technically work the same number of hours, so their contracts, which comprise the greatest cost for the district, are not affected.

But the brain drain is completely real. Oklahoma pays teachers around $10-20k per year less than all of its bordering states on average. A first year teacher in Tulsa makes $43k per year. For comparison, in Dallas, a first year teacher at minimum makes $56,000. And Tulsa’s not that much cheaper to live in.

Isn’t that last paragraph basically describing the 2000 election?

We might start having to make excuses for the lack of terror

Trump probably said $2000 because, like most rich people, he has no real concept of money. It’s like when Bill Gates massively overestimated the price of groceries on TV a few years ago. He probably thought $2000 was basically nothing, but overshot what “basically nothing” actually is

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We have 25000 users and yet my posts and comments aren’t getting 25000 upvotes. Some of you aren’t pulling your weight