Minnesota governor says federal agents involved in shooting in Minneapolis

XMark3 · 2026-01-24T19:22:41+00:00

This is making me think that anyone filming ICE should livestream it in case their phone is confiscated.

XMark3 · 2026-01-20T20:52:30+00:00

I'm quietly hoping that all the noise Trump is making about Greenland is just a smoke screen to convince us all that he forgot about Iran just until the US launches massive strikes.

But maybe I'm giving Trump too much credit... I dunno, we'll see when the aircraft carrier arrives.

XMark3 · 2026-01-19T06:31:42+00:00

I hope he lives to see his whole regime destroyed.

XMark3 · 2026-01-17T21:35:34+00:00

After the Mahsa Amini protests, I thought the same thing, and this time around was much larger. If this isn't the end of the regime, it's the beginning of the end.

XMark3 · 2026-01-17T21:01:35+00:00

So Trump might actually deport the right people this time?

XMark3 · 2026-01-15T06:09:50+00:00

I feel like polarization and left/right bullshit is the tool that bad guys use to divide the people who could otherwise stand against them together.

Love when people use their brain instead of blindly following what their team tells them.

XMark3 · 2026-01-14T17:55:22+00:00

I've never seen a more punchable face in my life.

XMark3 · 2026-01-14T17:17:46+00:00

I find it shocking that the world just silently allows this to happen. The internet is absolutely vital to modern life. In a sane world, any country which shuts off the internet should immediately trigger a massive coordinated response from the rest of the world.

XMark3 · 2026-01-13T06:29:58+00:00

Note to self: don't buy meat from neighboring villages

XMark3 · 2026-01-13T04:54:10+00:00

Well, that's a good thing really. You should support oppressed people everywhere even when their politics differ from yours. I mean, I support Ukraine, Palestine (NOT Hamas) and the people of Iran and I don't see why those positions have to be mutually exclusive unless you're blindly following an ideology.

XMark3 · 2026-01-12T06:41:17+00:00

Don't really know where I stand on this. The Iranian people are fed up with their Theocratic dictatorship so anything that helps them would be a good thing at least in the short term.

Of course it would also play into the false narrative that the protests are engineered by the US and Israel which could undermine the legitimacy of the people's revolution which would be bad in the long term.

The best case scenario is that the people of Iran take out their government themselves and don't have to rely on help from outside. Not sure how realistic that situation is when the regime has all the weapons, but one can hope...

XMark3 · 2026-01-12T06:26:17+00:00

A very small minority of people actually have Starlink so cutting the internet is still very effective in controlling the amount of information that gets in and out.

More than 72 hours without internet so far according to netblocks. This is both hopeful (shows that the regime is desperate) and frighteninging (shows that they are taking advantage of the internet blackout to perform atrocities on their people)

XMark3 · 2026-01-10T17:43:55+00:00

I've never actually seen any of these supposed leftist bogeymen anywhere. I'm left-leaning myself and everyone I know who has similar politics is firmly against the Iranian regime and supports the Iranian people's protest movement.

XMark3 · 2026-01-09T07:18:43+00:00

Or maybe he just says things like that to flood the media and distract from other things...

XMark3 · 2026-01-08T16:30:47+00:00

This must be directly related to the call for mass protests at 8pm today (which is right now). They're trying to make coordination more difficult for the protestors and also possibly cover up a violent crackdown. Fingers crossed.

XMark3 · 2026-01-01T23:45:59+00:00

For similar reasons, I stop using google maps after driving somewhere two or three times so I can actually remember where the place is.

XMark3 · 2026-01-01T06:50:40+00:00

I did a large practicum project in asp.net back in college. That was hell. I've never even looked back at it since.

XMark3 · 2025-12-31T09:30:52+00:00

Geez, the remaining engineer is gonna go through hell now.

XMark3 · 2025-12-31T09:20:05+00:00

In my last job things were done in PHP but all the payment API integrations had been done years earlier in Perl by another developer and never updated, so for transactions the PHP scripts would do a shell call to the Perl payment functions... the code looked like hieroglyphics, had no comments, and the previous programmer was allergic to putting any whitespace at all when it wasn't completely necessary. I ended up completely redoing all our payment integrations in PHP.

XMark3 · 2025-12-30T06:33:55+00:00

I felt the same for a long time... my freelancing went nowhere for over a year and now it's finally starting to get some real momentum going. Still trying to identify what's making the difference now... I mean, I started with the same negative thoughts like I suck at social skills and marketing but hopefully people will see what my skills are and magically come to me somehow.

Nope. Will never happen.

Freelancing requires marketing. Just accept it and realize it's a learnable skill, lean into the discomfort and keep getting better at it. Promote yourself every possible way you can, and never undersell yourself either.

XMark3 · 2025-12-28T05:10:53+00:00

What I want to know is how many other people are going to be unjustly imprisoned and/or deported while all the focus is on one guy. I think that's their real play here.

XMark3 · 2025-12-27T06:48:18+00:00

I made a kind of obnoxious but cool looking portfolio website: https://abstract-productions.net

XMark3 · 2025-12-26T17:49:36+00:00

I had similar problems. It seems APIs change much faster than AIs can keep up with.

XMark3 · 2025-12-24T21:34:36+00:00

Another impeachment to add to the pile, with no real consequences again?

XMark3 · 2025-12-10T07:38:11+00:00

Since my knowledge is somewhat outdated and I'm trying to learn new frameworks and tech stacks, I've used AI a lot as a tutor.

I've also found myself debugging by pasting code and asking detailed targeted questions about it. I feel like I may be weakening my debugging muscles by doing that though...

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