Imagine picking the top 3 candidates instead of only one.

Combine multiple districts into one, for example.

Immediately makes things more purple, and closer in proportion to the region

multi-member districts would help a lot, too.

Reddit blocks VPNs on desktop…

Oh gosh… It’s basically stock market spam

DDG is still the best.

Stop asking this same question repeatedly.

You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.

It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.

I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem’s I tried like zfs and btrfs didn’t appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.

Right now they’re xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage

The lemmy devs would probably take something sensible like that and flat out shoot it down because they think they know better.

getting accidentally hired and finally making enough.

story: every job I’ve ever applied for in tech didn’t work out. I was a dishwasher until right before covid when someone recommended me for a cybersecurity position. Before that I had obsessed about FIRE or living in a car or being careful about too much starbucks or avocado toast… without making enough for a car or health insurance. That job paid ~half of what cybersecurity should pay, but was AMAZING. My next job paid just a hair under average, three years later. night and day, able to afford to exist without help.

financial advice be damned. I couldn’t “find” anywhere with lower rent. I was in the lowest cost of living possible regionally. What needed to change was the PRIMARY job’s income rate, not adding some side hustle. Either make rent cheaper or find a higher wage.

I’m not making enough to consider your next fancy moves like getting a house.

wait, what?

We salute you! raises Starbucks to toast

The current strategy of venture capital is not success, but sabotage

It’s not good enough for you to be doing well, you have to strangle the competition and introduce yourself as an unremovable bottleneck

For example, becoming the intermediary between concerts and concert goers. The fees charged and the trouble caused is worse than if they hadn’t been there.

Amazon makes examples out of any business that dare challenge it’s dead zone around it.

VC money is meant to crush the competition and lock in the consumer to charge rent.

Why would they ever want worker control, or unions?

Why would the private healthcare industry ever stop lobbying against socialized healthcare? Why would a capitalist success ever lead to the political change necessary for it when the doctrine of capitalism is privatization

Why would any commercial real estate firm allow affordable housing to exist when they can scalp it on investment properties and leave them empty? Why build affordable housing when the margins are small?

Capitalism isn’t a savior, it’s just locally optimal to the people with capital.

I’m inclined to believe the local PD knows the addresses of officials… So they let this happen on purpose.

It’s the Hulu model

Higher up the food chain, needs more food

I don’t get it

It would be fixed capital regardless of the interior design and chairs?

… That’s what I just said. Are you a bot?

Writing to your representative is a form of lobbying

An unsolicited expert opinion is lobbying

What’s messed up is the amount of money to run and that citizens united made unlimited funds possible

Congressmen always worried about the cash they’ll need to get elected

If there were term limits we would have faceless corporate buyouts with little experience, vs someone running on name recognition

Heck I want a campaign finance max limit.

Brand recognition and developer evangelism probably.

Their competitors are good enough that it’s not worth it unless your org gets serious ™️ about performance or cost savings.

If you’ve never used any kind of APM or SIEM or uptime monitoring, you’ve got a set of competitors to use first. Crawl before you can walk

Your bank account will thank you.

I’m going to keep this in mind, I’m working on a similar tagging API

You would still need to wire the house with power outlets for phones and lamps… Cutting down on the light switch wiring is interesting but not full on Tesla