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hrefna , to random
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I really by and large have mostly lost faith that anything short of a miracle will get to where I would like it to be, and the forces working against success here are just hard to even look at

I support the groups that are trying to define a way forward, and I suspect in many, many ways the battle is lost until and unless one of those efforts succeeds well enough to define a better way forward, and there's no way to know what that would look like or if it is even possible.

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blaine ,
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@hrefna if it makes you feel any better, I felt that way just about 14 years ago. A previous iteration of the protocols, a different social landscape, but your sentiments feel very familiar. There's been a LOT of progress, though, and I have more hope than I did even at my most optimistic in the past. I share a lot of your concerns, but have hope that sooner or later we'll get there. All the work is important, even if it feels a bit futile in the moment. ❤️

blaine , to random
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I'm not sure it's ever going to be a "thing" like but here's my contribution to .

This absolute unit (actually kind of small for a moose, but still) visited our yard yesterday. No sign of Rocky. 🫎

A moose walks across a small glade in a primarily coniferous forest.

blaine , to random
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The real reason to write rust is that sex is good, but have you ever tried a successful build after fighting with the esp-idf+cargo toolchains for 12 hours?

blaine OP ,
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@dymaxion lol, fair. I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to sustain 12 solid hours of foreplay though. 😂

blaine , to random
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One must imagine Sisyphus listening to "Happy"

pluralistic , to random
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Etiquette proposal: if you invite someone from another to a teleconference, the onus is on you to present all times in their local timezone, rather than your own - that is, the person asking should bear the labor of timezone conversions, not the person being asked.

blaine ,
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@pluralistic *as someone who has spent immense amounts of time reminding people that 9 ET is 6 PT, strong agree with a slight tweak: if developers are building a tool where timezones are likely to be discussed, they should build affordances to make the translation easy for everyone. Email clients could easily support something like this, but product manager laziness precludes it.

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