Any hope for DACA? I get a consultation every few years but they always tell me i'll have to leave the country for consulate appointment and possibly not be allowed back in.
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zapataband1 commented on My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards jackevansevo.github.io/my... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
This is the only keyboard I've been interested in: DataHand
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand
DIY: https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard
Using a single direction for activation, requiring massive movements in 2d space, seems so silly. I haven't been able to find one, to purchase.
Related, I'm still learning how to use this one, since it's the only non-DIY equivalent I could find (great founder btw): https://www.charachorder.com/products/charachorder-one
It supports sequential and non-standard chords, mostly with x-y plane activation. Pushing down actually isn't used often.
That's pretty cool, my Kinesis might finally have a worthy rival
zapataband1 commented on Tech workers demand high salaries despite hiring slowdown www2.staffingindustry.com... · Posted by u/pg_1234
Because most of us can afford to be funemployed indefinitely.
not me
zapataband1 commented on Tech workers demand high salaries despite hiring slowdown www2.staffingindustry.com... · Posted by u/pg_1234
We haven't had a problem hiring talented people yet.
If we had, that would indicate their price was reasonable and that we needed to change our salary ranges.
Well if the market ever bounces back I think people will be a lot less loyal about leaving places with subpar salaries esp after all the layoffs
zapataband1 commented on Tech workers demand high salaries despite hiring slowdown www2.staffingindustry.com... · Posted by u/pg_1234
Everyone always says that tech doesn't need unions because of the ability to negotiate. Doesn't seem to be working out well for the industry as a whole.
We have basically the same problem as UPS/Auto industry -> no trickle down.
Top 3 auto companies set to make 32 Billion this year. -> 580,000 employees Apple profit is 250 bill -> 164,000 employees
The current state of printers is sad. Everything wrong with tech is enclosed within them.
1. You get DRM inc, which increases the cost even you buy the "required toners" [^1]
2. Don't get to control what they print:
- Adds stuff to your page [^2] - Won't let you print certain patterns [^3]
[^1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/chip-shortage-ha...
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Also the recyclability of those toners and ink cartridges, they'd rather sell you a subscription for cartridges than allow 3rd party refillable ones
zapataband1 commented on We are all animals at night hazlitt.net/feature/we-ar... · Posted by u/casca
I did not read it that way and I think that she would have phrased it differently if so.
“an industry where women get to call the shots” she would have said “would get” imo if your interpretation was correct, just as you use ‘would’ in your comment.
I took her to be describing sex work in the present, not some hypothetical future sex work.
Here is the excerpt for those who want to judge for themselves:
‘Unlike sex work, my “good” jobs didn’t threaten to overthrow traditional power structures. Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the reason so many people in power work to keep the commercial sex trade marginalized is because they’re threatened by it—by the idea that it’s the only field where women outearn men, that it’s an industry where women get to call the shots, and that women profit off something that men have been told they’re entitled to for free: sex and attention in equal parts. In my experience of the corporate landscape, there was none of this radical power structure, only an upholding of the traditional: men talking and women listening, men in powerful positions getting both credit and profit for the labour of women beneath them’
Women can call more of the shots in places where it is legal like Nevada or other countries. Not saying it's a perfect system but the alterntive so far has been a trade that is controlled by criminals, bad customers, and law enforcement.
zapataband1 commented on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/andrewl
> This isn't complicated: marijuana is addictive to some people, but making it illegal doesn't solve that problem--it should be legal. But it's apparent that's too much nuance for the average politician.
If weed is illegal and the law is enforced then fewer people will use it and fewer will become addicted. That might not "solve" the problem but it helps.
I'm not arguing that weed should be illegal, only that making something illegal reduces its use.
Making something illegal also weaponizes the state against an entirely new group of people. It's not something to take lightly. The FBI was just found to have framed four muslim men for a terrorism plot to bomb a synagogue. This is what happens when you make new crimes and incentivize our broken forces.
"undermines the privacy of people who interact with the criminal justice system and compromises the integrity of ongoing investigations."
Crazy how dishonest this response from the police is. Public buildings have restricted zones that the public cannot enter, they are clearly defined by the law, such as a public lobby vs someone's office.
Not saying there is proof, but we just found out Ukraine blew up the Russian pipeline so it seems weird to just squash debate at the 'that's too crazy to ever happen'. Way crazier things have happened/are constantly happening.