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Powderhorn , 1 day ago

Poorly thought-out Facebook posts are forever; coverage of city council malfeasance from two years ago, not so much.

Powderhorn OP , 4 days ago

Fixed the hed. Archive link should be viewable.

Powderhorn OP , 5 days ago

She felt it was preferable to still having anything tying her to her father. For valid reasons.

The collar is just inexcusable. I hope for the sake of my neck that it's gotten a bit duller over the years.

Powderhorn OP , 5 days ago

I'm aware of the cliche. What is why I drove from Portland to Tsawwassen on Thanksgiving night 1999 to catch the ferry over to Vic and bring my Canadian girlfriend down for the rest of the weekend.

I just thought that would be the end of it.

Powderhorn , 5 days ago

Worth noting: this is 90% effective for HSV-1, but not tested on HSV-2. That's on their radar for research. It's nonetheless a breakthrough, and the Hutch has pulled off some interesting things in the past, so I'd imagine they'll get there.

Powderhorn Mod , 5 days ago

I've enjoyed milk for the flavour and texture only once: the semester I lived across the street from a dairy. To this day, in the weird circumstance I have milk in the fridge for cooking, I shake it vigourously.

Much of it is about sourcing and practices. Raw milk is not inherently dangerous, and we'd be out a whole world of cheeses if they had to be made from pasteurized.

Powderhorn OP , 5 days ago

Sure as fuck happened to journalism. Except they had the balls to offer buyouts instead of just saying "your service counts for nothing unless I see the back of your head every time I meander around with a coffee mug."

The truly absurd bit of it to me is absent Covid, already working remote for years would not have been a problem. I went remote in 2016, and there's no fucking way I'd be like "oh, the recent grads you hire to chew and spit out are an issue for remote? Sure, why don't I restart the pointless thing of driving for an hour and a half a day with concomitant fuel costs, having to choose my food for the entire day at 7 a.m. or paying four times as much, and generally being more surly in my personal life so that you, dear boss, can prove you have something to do?"

Powderhorn OP , 6 days ago

How impressive this is will hinge on whether there were any shenanigans behind the demos. I find it difficult to take breathless announcements at face value given recent issues.

Powderhorn , 6 days ago

If you know, you know.

Powderhorn , 5 days ago

I'm not really aware of anyone still shooting porn after 15 years outside of HKJ, and if I'm being honest, I'm not entirely sure she was active yet ... it was a different time.

It was also damn near impossible to monetize back then (self-host, find payment processor overseas that took 30% minimum, self-advertise), especially anything outside of male-centric boring shit you've seen a thousand times, which led to more of a discovery process and a tighter-knit community for those shooting or appearing in kink.

I'm glad she's doing OK after just an event, but I never found myself wondering why she didn't post anymore.

Powderhorn OP , 9 days ago

It's only hubris when it leads to your downfall.

Powderhorn OP , 9 days ago

I was angling for a coding role in my last job search. I am not in the area code of a know-it-all there. But here, I just apply 26 years of experience to determine news value.

Powderhorn OP , 9 days ago

Dunning-Kruger applies when you aren't already competent.

Powderhorn OP , 9 days ago

I have been trying for so many jobs, and I never qualified in tech. I'm trying to determine what this now looks like. Journalism is this sort of thing where there is a substantial wall at roughly Sept. 10, 2001.

From here, those aware of how shit worked up to there was not ideal.

Powderhorn , 11 days ago

Shareholders and journalism do not mix. All this prevarication on the part of the Times stems directly from wanting to goose numbers sted committing journalism. And goosing is a time-honoured first step.

Powderhorn , 11 days ago

It's abundantly clear that we are not going to learn from history.

The really fucking ironic point is bin Laden's stated goal was to destabilize the U.S., and boy, howdy. No need to enumerate the problems stemming from that.

Powderhorn Mod , 11 days ago

We had a far more robust fifth estate 24 yeas ago, and that election is as much as anything what got us started down this path. Before 2000, election results were simply accepted.

Powderhorn , 11 days ago

Darmok and Jalad ...

Powderhorn , 14 days ago

Always the sign of a stable democracy.

Powderhorn , 16 days ago

A genuine Bob Ross-level happy accident hitting the magma before.

I'm curious where full production at this new plant would leave the nation as a whole, given the 90% for residential usage and 70% of overall use of geothermal. That with extra efficiency is sort of the holy grail for renewables, since batteries are no longer central to resiliency (short of maintenance, of course). 100% uptime at constant output with zero emissions in excess of a nation's needs would be amazing.

Powderhorn OP Mod , 16 days ago

I had a great conversation with that professor, so a big part of the challenge was keeping the topic to "things a general audience likely doesn't know but could easily understand in context."

Powderhorn , 18 days ago

This is an education problem as much as -- if not moreso than -- a tech problem. Before the GOP gutted critical thinking wherever they held a majority and two generations were able to grow up under those circumstances, a video of any current president rounding up Christians would have been roundly rejected as either satirical or disinformation by the vast majority of the population, owing to the absurdity of the idea.

Once we got to the point of a not-insignificant minority of the population believing that the true power in the United States lies in the basement of a pizza shop with no basement ...

Powderhorn , 18 days ago

It's also then just one step removed from refusing to accept any friends or romantic partners who don't do exactly what you want at all times because life is supposed to be tailored to you.

Powderhorn OP , 23 days ago

Making the decision to fucking go back ... That's its own thing. What I'm looking at is how for some fucking reason, this is all about something other than conveying news.

It's a good thing I know how to talk to press folk. It's almost a D/s thing at this point. Couple days in, oh, yeah, the National Science Foundation is there for it.

Powderhorn Mod , 26 days ago

Archive link here

From the story: Business groups opposed to the rule, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have said that the contracts are necessary to protect proprietary information and training, and justify investing in workers who might otherwise immediately jump to a competitor.

No employer in any field I've applied in since around 2006 has wanted to do any training beyond operating requisite proprietary vendor software. The expectation is that you're fully educated in all other skills that might ever be needed, preferably having worked in Rust for 63 years and internal-combustion-engine design since the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

Proprietary info has always been need-to-know and, where possible, distributed such that no one below the C-suite knows how all the parts interact, even as those same leaders have no functional understanding of how the parts actually act.

All noncompetes do is drive down wages.

Powderhorn , 27 days ago

Mixed bag this week. Like, life went from being stuck in neutral to getting a job (but then not starting today because IT didn't create my account) and having to navigate healthcare decisions for my dad while also getting back online after an IRS refund actually went through for the first time in years.

Pretty sure I've not gone to bed with the same mindset I awoke in for a couple of weeks at this point, and while most of the developments are good, I'm nearly in overload in terms of processing ability. Neutral to fifth only works if you're already going 60 mph.

Powderhorn , 29 days ago

I went to school with a Palestinian woman when I first started at community college. Smart, friendly and aware of how the world viewed her. That we collectively assume these are terrorists because we're told to is rather a regurgitation of the three-fifths problem.

Powderhorn , 1 month ago

Very little. He has no outlets where he's going to suddenly be discovered.

Powderhorn OP , 1 month ago

Fair points. Unfortunately, that's on a subed for not fact-checking ahead of the story going live.

Powderhorn OP Mod , 1 month ago

I'm quite familiar with Betteridge. Strict adherence gets to your question; the larger issue, as with anything, is that so many question heds have been posed where the answer is "no" that it became a "law."

In journalism, there are problems that showed up far earlier than clickbait question heds, such as garden-path or irrelevant ledes. I've written and run question heds that were correct display copy atop stories in which the reporter tried to find an answer but couldn't given conflicting information from sources. At that point, the correct approach is a question.

Question heds atop stories that definitively disprove the question are lazy at best and disingenuous at worst. But to categorically remove a form of hed writing as valid based on statistics or anecdotal data isn't an improvement.