#we're using a minimum of 25 fucking threads

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I've spent the last three days trying to optimize a multithreaded program to get it running faster than the single threaded version that took me like an hour to write. As a last ditch effort I did some cursory searching on the web and confirmed my suspicions that there is literally no advantage to multithread this use case because the computing overhead of managing the state would literally always outpace the advantage of actually having more than one thread do it. 👍 cool great, I love university, I'm learning real world skills 👍

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[Image ID: ten screenshots of a twitter thread, all by twitter user muffins 'n milk (@/milknmuffins) reading as follows:

Tweet 1: Hey. As a homeless person staying at a salvation army shelter...

Please don't donate to the salvation army.

Tweet 2: Don't donate your money.

Don't Donate your time.

Don't donate your toiletries, blankets, or food. Do not support this organization.

Tweet 3: The shelter I'm staying at is one specifically meant for housing vulnerable women

Tweet 4: But there is precious little help here. There's no aid or comfort.

Tweet 5: The RAs are cruel and robotic and often treat us like we're less than human. I often hear them speak negatively of the women here.

Tweet 6: We're looked down on. Condescended to. And when one of us attempts to stand up for our dignity we're thrown out onto the street with a smile

Tweet 7: In the absolute most sing-song tone: "Bye! You can come back in thirty days~!" 😋

Tweet 8: I've seen domestic violence survivors thrown out into the dark wailing and screaming and sobbing because they dared to get a little mouthy.

Tweet 9: They literally put up signs threatening women here with PROSECUTION if they took too much toilet paper

Tweet 10: They frequently throw women with mental illnesses out of here if they have any sort of symptoms. Especially verbal ticks.

Tweet 11: But the really insidious part is that after they throw those women out, if they don't pick up their stuff within 7 days, it's confiscated.

Tweet 12: Confiscated and sold alongside all your donations at their fucking thrift stores.

The women in here? We don't get any of that shit

Tweet 13: Women's valuables and their belongings frequently go missing while in the staff's possession, and there's no recourse available.

Tweet 14: Just a shrug of the shoulders and a "Welp, I dunno". And if you show any anger or indignation over it, you're out.

Tweet 15: They threw my friend out of here because she asked a staff member to keep their voice down during a call to her orthopedic surgery office.

Tweet 16: And not only did that particular staff member throw her out, she also pulled her into her office and -

Tweet 17: - proceeded to abusively scream at the TOP of her lungs. So loudly that I could hear her in that office from outside and up the street.

Tweet 18: My friend was in tears almost the entire rest of the day. She was a nervous wreck.

Tweet 19: Of course, when we went to the higher ups for help, they all but gave my friend the middle finger.

Tweet 20: The employee who screamed at and threw my friend out of here denied all wrongdoing. Nothing came of it.

Tweet 21: Her job title, by the way?

"Women's Advocate"

Tweet 22: Anyway, that sort of abuse is commonplace here. They have all the power, and we have none.

Tweet 23: THis place exists for one reason, and that one reason is to farm revenue from these women

Tweet 24: Revenue through government funding.

Revenue through cash donations.

Revenue through the sale of stolen goods.

Tweet 25: They do the absolute minimum necessary to keep this place running so they can fucking farm cash under the guise of helping.

Tweet 26: Example: They have been "working on" a kitchen here from which they intend to serve meals of some sort.

Tweet 27: It's has been in a state of "almost done!!" for

six

fucking

years

Tweet 28: The shower room has inadequate ventilation and drainage. There are pools of watery slime on the floors constantly

Tweet 29: The sheetrock on the ceiling is riddled with mildew. Or mold. Whatever it is, it's black.

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DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY