It’s sorta a bummer that there’s no ‘pro democracy’ flag for Iran, just a ‘Pro Shah’ flag. But you go with what you’ve got.
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
This is what California is able to achieve with both hands tied behind its back.
Imagine if they repealed CEQA and implemented the full YIMBY agenda for housing.
5:51 PM · Oct 24, 2022
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He points out that it's even more impressive because we have half their population.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
It does not seem good for TikTok (e.g. the Chinese government) to be deciding what news 10+ percent of the US population gets. pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022…
1:50 PM · Oct 24, 2022
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The current state just isn't tenable, decoupling really seems to be happening, I don't know how TikTok can stay as is in such a world.
rat rancher 🎵🎷🐀 🏳️⚧️@__eel__
Actual recruiter convo I had:
Recruiter: what percent of your time is spent writing code?
Me: including reviews, design docs, debugging, etc?
R: No, only writing code
Me: (in my head: like <=20%)
Me: uh, 80%
R: Sorry, we only want candidates who code 100% of the time
naomi (forgetful functor) @fixedpointfae
*in morning standup* uhhhh yea today im gonna balance a binary tree, reverse a linked list, find the longest common subsequence of two strings, enumerate all the paths thru a 2d grid, and find whether 2 numbers in a collection add up to a target value. no blockers
6:44 PM · Oct 24, 2022
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@drance replies: "Is there a toilet at my desk or"
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh
TIRED: rishi sunak is the first person of color and first hindu to serve as prime minister of the UK
WIRED: rishi sunak is the first fan of the star wars prequel trilogy to serve as head of government of a G7 nation
Siddhartha Mahanta @sidhubaba
From @b_judah's Sunak summer 2020 profile https://t.co/KZfu6OUwuL: https://t.co/kIAPb1bjFA
4:02 PM · Oct 24, 2022
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The quote says "Star Wars" and it's only from context that you realize, "Wait... the prequels??"
Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
Halloween is coming which is also the deadliest night of the year for American children under 18...because of drivers. Not because of fictional news stories about drugs in candy.
6:34 PM · Oct 24, 2022
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It's commuters specifically, deaths are lower when Halloween falls on a weekend.
Rana Rahimpour@ranarahimpour
Wow! #Tehran’s underground… 5 weeks after the death of #MahsaAmini in the custody of morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly… #Iran
7:00 PM · Oct 23, 2022
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