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Comment · 3 years ago
I read a post from someone who got as far as showing up to view an apartment on reservation only to find there was no reservation or available apartment. "Oh, that's our chatbot!"
Comment · 3 years ago
There are plenty of reasons to not like him. Few of them relate to business.
Comment · 3 years ago
Both sides pledged to support and defend the constitution when they took the job. One side is refusing to do that. The compromise is they pay their debts and think about this the next time they want to give billionaires a tax cut.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/sectio...

>> "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
The constitution is, in the end, a piece of old paper in a climate controlled box. It's on humans to bring it to life. Humans don't always do the things they say they will on paper even if they put one hand on a different book of paper and swear to while everyone watches.
Comment · 3 years ago
A bottom 20% can become a top 1% with more life experience. Humans are versatile.
Comment · 3 years ago
Losing a job, like any major life event, can cause a rethink on this sort of thing. The average age of a successful startup founder is 45 for a reason. Most of them spent some time employed in the industry of the startup. Before that, they probably bounce between a job and trying to make it on their own.
Comment · 3 years ago
You'd think she would have been more sympathetic to trans people and understanding of the anger underlying a lot of the response, given all that.

It's true that not enough space is given to de-transitioners, but much of the discourse focuses on the very, very, very tiny number of people who did it because they didn't have dysphoria rather than the vast majority who did it because the social stigma and difficulty with employment turned out to be worse than the dysphoria. Detransition is turned into a weapon against trans people when it should be something that exists at peace with the majority who transition and are happy with it.

Comment · 3 years ago
Calckey recently gained the ability to migrate posts. Even from Mastodon. Maybe that'll motivate Mastodon and the forks to prioritize it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sidekiq seems to be the culprit from what I've seen and read from people who've run into this issue. It gets overloaded fast if you don't have enough processing power in front of the queue. Lighter implementations apparently do something different, or are more efficient in handling their queues without whatever overhead Sidekiq adds.

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