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re: USPol: Cops & 2A 

@mawr Those first two paragraphs describe the root of so many problems in the US today.

re: USPol: Cops & 2A 

@wobblewuffess Marin Luther King Jr. was so right about this. (You've read excerpts from his Letter from Birmingham Jail, right? hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/)

I wish his later years of activism in which he (previously an integrationist, which is now seen as a racist concept) and Malcom X (previously a segregationist, which is def racist), both working together essentially realized what has now become the more modern anti-racist movement, and the US Gov assassinated them for it.

re: USPol- Cops & 2A 

@mawr @nowak@plush.city

Scary non-white people with scary looking evil black bang-sticks! Can't have that.

They will pass it and then pat themselves on the back about how they made everyone safer.

Hell, the CA legislature couldn't stop itself from passing another assault weapons ban that was written by a State Legislator who went to fucking prison for GUN RUNNING! Fucking SB 880 was literally word for word copy of the bill written by Leland Yee in 2013.

FBI nabbed him on gun trafficking among other things and he ended doing 5 years after pleading down to racketeering and flipped on some local major Triads members.

re: USPol- Cops & 2A 

@nowak I've been saying it for a while now: This is one of the biggest reality-disconnects on the US left. They claim to stand on the platform of scientific fact and protecting minorities, and yet their gun legislation often demonstrates precisely the opposite (eg: cops enforce these laws exclusively against minorities, high cap mag bans will _never_ keep high cap mags out of the hands of mass shooters, or banning only "scary looking" guns to win political favor)

re: US Politics: Police and the 2nd Amendment 

@mawr Yup, it is intensely frustrating that a majority of mainline progressives don't seem to grok this but doing so would require them take off their privilege blinders and see a world were involving the police gets people killed and the justice system is little more than a replacement for chattel slavery and a system for grinding down the poor and keeping them little more than meat for the corporate machine.

Of course, that brings comparisons to other countries which have much more intact social safety nets, access to mental and physical healthcare decoupled from wealth on the whole and with smaller, less impoverished populations.

I guess I hate mid-upper class white Liberals in the US.

US Politics: Police and the 2nd Amendment 

The 2nd Amendment seems superfluous to those with the privilege to feel safe within their environment.

In reality, the 2nd Amendment is the last remaining line of defense against the US becoming a total police state. Those who can't trust the police rely on the 2nd Amendment to keep them safe from the police.

Gun laws only serve to give the police more power to do what they already do best: Oppress and kill Black, Indigenous, Trans and other Minorities.

re: lewd, shortstack snep! 

@IrisKalmia @Draekos Short stack teasing shortstack impcubus.. though shortstack might be redundant when talking about impcubi

re: pandemic, pessimistic 

@kistaro Despite my shot being in open air, tented outdoor air, 100s of people in line still made me hella uncomfortable and some folks somehow still don't now how to properly social distance or wear a mask.

meds griping 

One problem with having separate specialists for separate conditions is that each one of them is adamant that the most important thing in the world is to take their medication exactly as directed, regardless of everything else in your life.

This is deeply annoying when I am basically nonfunctional until the caffeine or Adderall kicks in but my general physician is very adamant that I should take levathyroxine separately and before everything else - ideally an hour before everything else, but half an hour will do - including breakfast and especially caffeine.

My psychiatrist thinks it’s fine to take Adderall XR at the same time as levathyroxine. My GP doesn’t. I’ve spent the morning trying to figure this out myself. I am pretty sure my psychiatrist is right. I also can’t find *any* citation on the caffeine thing - it keeps coming up in instructions to patients, but I can’t find any studies or documentation or known food interactions explaining it. I’ll follow that anyway because the caffeine is less important than the Adderall.

Makes me appreciate the push for “evidence-based medicine”. Rumor and tradition account for more professional medical advice than I’d like.

She laughed out loud at the joke, and all saw her fangs.
"Are you some kind of monster?" another pupil said, smiling widely. "I thought I was the only one!"
One by one, the kids revealed hidden horns, tails, claws, and fangs. All but one.
"Are you normal?"
"No, I think you are."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

When you look and sound so bad in a zoom call your boss and team members are like "Fuck, go back to bed and get some rest." Day 2 of Covid Vaccine. D:

Stage 1 of Covid Vaccine completed (Pzifer).

It has been an hour and some change.. and my body is already getting unhappy. All my usual unhappy joint and tendon spots are already getting achy and fucking hell fatigue D:

Exhausted after 4 hours of back to back meetings because I don't know... people are assholes...

Then every single thing I needed to do today requires logging into Azure.. Azure Auth Services have been down for 2 hours....

Maybe I'll just take a fucking nap.

re: a commentary on the lewd nature of mythical beings 

@Draekos This is an attack on dragons...

@fluxom_alt @kat I've just realized how much I need like _one_ episode of some anime with a wasted mecha slurring words while trying to pick a fight with a kaiju

re: Shark lady looking at a holographic depiction of a synth version of herself 

@lhos @fluxom_art

The little fin and strap button.. is so good!

Work grumbling 

So for those you that don't know, my team fell apart, everyone left but me and the same thing happened to the other major k8s project team, leaving 1 contractor and 1 junior SRE from a team of 8 (vs my team of 4).

So we hired a new Senior SRE.. h2b'ed of course, don't have an opinion of him yet beyond he really loves spending a lot of time trying to find ways to track work completed when we have a bunch of other problems.. namely trying to glue together the remains of two Ops teams (I mean.. me and 1 other guy who respectively don't know anything about the other project) while having a quarter the staffing (12 people down to 4 for the two super critical products to the future of the company.

So.. now I'm the odd person out because I'm on the west coast. They are all on the east coast.

I'm not a morning person and I never have been. When I got assigned to this team's manager I made it very clear that I basically don't function before 9am and generally my best work happens after 1pm.

Aka after they have all gone home.

So we kept my old team's standup times and that spared me having to get up super early aside from Mondays for a meeting with engineering in the UK.

Now they would like me to try being available earlier... and not so jokingly suggest I should pick up my shit and move to Ann Arbor.. because well.. 2 other SREs on different teams did that! Moved from CA to MI.

As if uh that was like a thing I would -ever- want to do. Then jokingly mentioned, well we have an office in ATL... like fuck guys I left GA for fucking reason!

As much as I HATE ON AZURE and I do a lot.. I know it pretty well and this our only Azure team (in fact we are now team AzureOps because none of them have any fucking creativity at all).

My boss offered to transition me to a West Coast team when the merge started but both West Coast SRE teams are not -product- teams they are service teams, once is all physical hardware (NOPE) and the other is our logging and metrics team which an ELK stack thing in AWS and like I haven't done shit in AWS for.. uhhhhh.. 20 months.

I barely scratched learning it before being assigned to k8s in Azure Project..

Anyway.. I kinda lost the point of this beyond.. WHY SO DIFFICULT.. work stuff.

re: Shark lady looking at a holographic depiction of a synth version of herself 

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