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its bizzare and dumb, to me, that tumblr forbids people from making third party apps. I understand the impetus businesswise but from an open source perspective its stupid. if you want to view it as "competition", then competition drives change. that's one of the beauties of open source.

If you're afraid of people making something in their free time being better than what you've made, then what you've made fucking sucks, tumblr. other people could make a better experience for your users but you stamp your feet like a petulant child and say no.

Idiots.

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Medical Bankruptcies by Country 2024

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Honestly sites like LinkedIn and Indeed are worse than useless when it comes to finding jobs. It's just utterly demoralizing in that I don't know if I've ever had a job suggested to me that actually matched what I put in for skills. I get my hopes up just a little until I hit "7+ years experience with Redis". Honestly my skills wouldn't match any job descriptions outside of Salesforce development, but there aren't enough jobs of that to be able to send notifications saying "30 new jobs!" every day.

I really hope one of these non-profits/works with non-profits comes through.

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Source: NPR

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this post deserves 100,000 notes

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call me stupid but i don't get why people act like you "own" the house if you haven't paid it off

you mean you owe money every month? you have to pay for something you "own"? and if you dont they will take it away from you?

sounds like Rent v2 to me. biggest update is that if you pay enough rent, then you own the house

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american idiot (2004) - green day

“dont wanna be an american - fuck america”

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[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

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capitalism

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"I think we need to be challenged. We need to hear challenging, radical, provocative things, even if we don't agree with them, because it's those things that make us react and want to bring about change.

We have the freedom to express ourselves, but also to hear the thing we don't want to hear, and that is equally important - the freedom to be challenged.

Let's embrace that. Let's not squander our freedom."

from The Freedom to be Challenged TEDx, by Sarah Maple

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on a completely unrelated note, science has shown that conservatives are less tolerant of uncertainty

unfortunately, “it’s complicated” continues to be the correct answer to most questions worth asking. yeah I’m annoyed about it too

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it's so fucked. they don't even try to hide it

Image transcription: Tweet from @Dch1United Not-so-fun fact of the day: Amazon has A/C at facilities that have robots because the robots overheat in this temperature. We don't have robots at DCH1, so we don't have A/C. Amazon cares more about their robots overheating than their workers overheating.

but they still deny it

note: the source is Vox, which ranks just below "Most Reliable" in terms of of rating the accuracy of their articles. you can see for yourself here. So take this at its face value: complaints from Amazon employees

CEOs are all like "we need people in the office for that energy, for that culture to come back" and they seem to be unable to grasp that the average sane person does not care about the success of their company more than their own health. telling people to perform at a less healthy state for the sake of the numbers.

they only - and i mean this - only have eyes for what's "better" for the corporation, which the will gladly admit is for the shareholders. they give 0 fucks about what is better for the employee unless it hurts the numbers.