SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
SecondJon
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A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.
Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.
Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.
Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.
And they don’t get the hype they deserve.
Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.
SecondJon
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Source: libsoftiktok
Planned Parenthood is bringing a “mobile health care unit” to the DNC and are offering vasectomies and to help women abort their babies. Demonic.
Original tweet : https://nitter.privacydev.net/libsoftiktok/status/1824970751407227249
Planned Parenthood is bringing a “mobile health care unit” to the DNC and are offering vasectomies and to help women abort their babies. Demonic.
Original tweet : https://nitter.privacydev.net/libsoftiktok/status/1824970751407227249
SecondJon
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Democrats: “Trump’s tariff proposal will raise prices and hurt Americans!”
Also Democrats: “We need higher corporate taxes!”
SecondJon
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Six months ago at a neighborhood event where Mike Johnston, mayor of #Denver, was promoting millions in spending to reduce homelessness I asked him about the cities and states with the most spending on this and how their homeless numbers INCREASED. He assured the crowd that wouldn't happen with his plan. His plan was different.
Six months and $155,000,000 later, homelessness has increased in Denver by 12%.
The mayor's response? A victory dance over the 150 net decrease in "unsheltered homeless" (yep, that math is one million dollars per person in net decrease) and a tax hike to take another $100,000,000 from tax payers to do the same thing that saw a 12% increase in homeless over six months... But do it harder.
Which #harris policies are you most supportive of? ( Links to policy details of possible, please.)
SecondJon
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Hey buddy, can I interest you in another #salesforce Apex Trigger framework?
It's MIT licensed and ready to go on GitHub here: https://github.com/processity/apex-discovery-triggers
I wrote a bit about it on LinkedIn (sorry - the README in GitHub is fine, too, but we don't have a blog yet)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apex-discovery-triggers-aidan-harding-19jce
SecondJon
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They’re manufacturing a political sensation out of absolutely nothing. We’ve never seen anything quite like this.
With the presumptive nominee being appointed never having received a single primary vote, let's be sure we call it the Democrat convention, not democratic convention. There's been nothing particularly democratic about the Democrat primary.
SecondJon
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“This guy went into a Kamala Harris event with a Trump shirt on and then to a Trump event with a Kamala shirt on
The difference in the way he was treated is just jaw-dropping”
It's disappointing to see people straw man all non Democrats as hateful toward immigrants in order to claim that Christians must vote for the party with unrestricted abortion as their unashamed central sacrament.
I've learned there's nothing to make me so handy as getting a professional quote for work needed on our bathrooms.
I got a lot of steps on Saturday without even going for a morning run... A good number of those steps were my five trips to the local hardware/home improvement store... Renovating a bathroom and broke a pipe. 🤣
Democracy is winning without ever earning a single vote.
I'm old enough to remember the white house press secretary condemning any media that implied Biden want up for the job as "cheap fake" manipulated media.
What shocking and sudden thing happened to Biden that without any indication (other than cheap fake republican lies) he is suddenly, out of the blue, resigning? We have been assured until now that he's at the top of his game and anyone who says otherwise is engaged in election interference.
We can't just assume that #Harris and the rest of the administration have been lying to us the whole time about their nominee's fitness for office... that would make them unsupportable for lying to the public for so long about the fitness of the presidential nominee. If they lied about one nominee, they'll lie about the next.
Have we even confirmed that tweet isn't another cheap fake published on the Trump supporting X platform? Where's #Biden?
If I wrote a book about my decades in software development and platform architecture, it would likely be called: You're Not That Special.
In a democracy... It doesn't matter who we voted for in the primary, it matters who polls the best so they can be swapped out regardless of who won the votes?
Headline suggestion: Other Former Presidents Issue Statements Condemning Shooting Former Presidents.
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
