Bálint 🎭 @szbalint@x0r.be

The answer: yes, they did.

So how’s Cloudflare doing these days? Did they post a cutesy “we stand with black people” yet while still providing nazis with a shield to hide behind?

Deeply ironic that one of the few examples of effective unions in the US is for jackbooted thugs.

Instead of learning from it that unions are a powerful tool to protect your interests (and would be nice to have them for normal people), I think this will further increase anti-union sentiment in the US.

The US does need laws though that ban police unions from having any say in disciplinary matters, restricting them to wage and working condition negotiations only.

Interesting that the advent of ubiquitous phone video capabilities didn’t reveal a yeti, or bigfoot or UFOs and instead appears to show structural, widespread racism.

I guess it isn’t a solved problem after all?

I do love spaceflight, but people who say that “America needed this win” in the middle of a pandemic when the systematic racism boiled over....those people are part of the problem.

Spaceflight is a toy and you don’t get to play with toys without doing homework.

It’s not just the police btw but the criminal justice system, with DAs and coroners, prisons and parole.

So it all has to be restructured from the ground up. Police has to be demilitarized, but more than that: most police are in no business wielding guns. Take them away.

It’s not just police forces. The police unions are in the coverup business aswell. They actively block firing and prosecuting corrupt police. They have to be reformed from the ground up.

I have to confess I never understood the ACAB sentiment from a german/austrian perspective.

Policing in the US is wildly corrupted for a country that’s not supposed to be a dictatorship. It’s racist, but not just racist. It’s corrupt in the sense that it’s like being part of organized crime, with all the peer behaviour, bullying and excusing horrible behaviour. They are better than the catholic church at covering up crimes.

We should regulate the shit out of everything that is not replaceable / optional.

Friday evening party hard:

My wife and I are whistling because we realized we literally haven’t done that in years

How are you fine people today?

You know those consent screens where sites ask if you accept/decline to consent to tracking?

Where if you accept you never get asked again, but if you decline, then every fscking time?

"There is no cost to nagging users to force what we want" - they think.

So from the second time I see a consent screen on a site where I'm logged in, I report it to customer support / as feedback - as a site bug.

You're encouraged to do the same.

American cooking really suffers from the lack of metric system.

Standardized quarter teaspoon of what? It’s just so much easier to use a kitchen weight and grams.

Recipes make much more sense with more practical units and that’s what the metric system is.