dirtmerchant

Joined 11 years ago

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Comment · 8 months ago
Amazon does not claim to be “pro-consumer “

Instead they claim to be “customer-obsessed “

Obsession is rarely a net-positive for the target of the obsesser.

Comment · 1 year ago
Caregiving is an amazing opportunity. It is life-changing for the person receiving the care. It is fulfilling and soul-affirming for the person delivering the care.
Comment · 1 year ago
Imagine a world where Joseph Smith had chosen to lean into his undeniable skills as a writer of historical fiction.

Instead he chose the path of religious charlatan, and western literature is all the lesser for it.

Comment · 1 year ago
Imagine a world where Joseph Smith had chosen to lean into his undeniable skills as a writer of historical fiction.

Instead he chose the path of religious huckster, and western literature is all the lesser for it.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Please enlighten us. What do you mean by "clean up"? Keep in mind, we're all engineers here, so details matter.

I'll wait.

Comment · 4 years ago
Let's leave aside the atrocities committed by British Colonialism. In fairness, those crimes are far bigger than any one person. Instead, focus on the individual. This is a woman who brow beat her daughter in law to the such a degree, that her two choices viable options were suicide or deportation. All for the crime of being born with a trace amount of black blood in their veins. This was not a good human being.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I have enough in my todo list without adding “learn emacs” to it.
Comment · 11 years ago
Where can I send donations to the political party that proposes a license to breed?
Comment · 11 years ago
Check the fine print. Even with the self-hosted version, Atlassian is scraping the chat data for analytic purposes. This was confirmed by Atlassian support via a HIPPA audit at my last gig.

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