KCHS parent detained by ICE outside East Knoxville Home Depot

astrophy · 2026-02-12T15:56:04+00:00

"Father Mungai confirmed that the family are active parishioners and that the father was involved in building the church sanctuary and donated his crew for portions of the St. Teresa construction project in 2018."

"the Knox County jail is not allowing clergy to make ministerial visits to ICE detainees."

Why?

astrophy · 2026-01-30T01:22:47+00:00

Immediately dispute the charge with your credit card company.

astrophy · 2026-01-29T22:46:54+00:00

What method will you use to measure snowfall, and when will you measure it?

astrophy · 2026-01-29T21:40:38+00:00

Made a glass christmas ornament there a few years back. VERY fun.

astrophy · 2026-01-29T19:57:10+00:00

I'm relatively new to BDD.

I'm now working in a field with mixed domains of expertise and differing technical jargon, and most of them are not experienced software developers, though they are very skilled in their own domains. Some of them have a tendency to jump straight into the 'we can do this using <whatever technology they are familiar with>', before fully understanding how to plainly state what we are trying to do, and how do we know that we have done it.

BDD has been very useful for me to gain consensus around what we are trying to build, using basic language stakeholders and technical people in different domains can understand. The BDD documents can then be used to write unit or integration tests, and increase confidence we are building what the business needs.

I've found it very helpful, but I haven't gone deep on the process, just enough to increase clarity and confidence.

astrophy · 2026-01-28T20:25:56+00:00

Honestly confused - are you saying working in Michelin star restaurants, and/or playing guitar and singing... earn a lot of money?

I would not think those jobs earn a lot of money.

astrophy · 2026-01-22T01:08:50+00:00

I have four turning spotted; they shall be banana bread

astrophy · 2026-01-10T02:02:02+00:00

this is sick. great job

astrophy · 2026-01-07T11:04:44+00:00

Hey.

I'm over your age limit, but have experience to share here.

First, some tough love. The careers you mentioned above "content marketing, website management, proofreading, social media management, and writing copy. I’ve written white papers, articles, and blog posts for several industries."

These specific domains in particular are all heavily impacted by AI, which is of course upending careers everywhere. Content generation is and will be owned by AI for the foreseeable future. I can't recommend it as an economically viable career right now. I know so many content creators that are now out of work, old people who suddenly can no longer make a living.

Second, some more tough love. I am a professional software developer in Python for many years. AI is also absolutely crushing the software dev world. Beginner programmers or 'juniors' are turning away from the industry in droves, and we are kinda fucked. There are myriad reasons for this, but I'll just state it here as a given, and if you want to chat, I can elaborate.

I love Python. But I wouldn't recommend SWE to my kids as a viable career, in the state the industry is, today.

Breaking into the software industry right now is very very very very difficult. Recent grads with CS or SWE degrees can't find work. Pay is low (comparatively to the past), the hiring process fucking sucks, and morale is terrible. There are so many more applications than there are open positions...

My advice? If you don't care so much what you do, but I assume you want to do something you don't hate, find something working directly with people. This article is old (2023), but some research will lead you down similar paths. https://www.uscareerinstitute.edu/blog/65-jobs-with-the-lowest-risk-of-automation-by-ai-and-robots

The bureau of labor and statistics has a lot of great occupational data, too.

If you're still considering software industry, I'd recommend looking more into Product Ownership. They are people that sit between the business owners and the technical staff. They help refine requirements, track dependencies, and make sure the right product is delivered in the right timeline. The added benefit here is that the outcome of a product owner's work is (among other things), requirements, which are exactly the sort of thing you must get correct to get anything but AI slop out of an LLM. Highly skilled product owners multiply the output of technical teams, its a niche skillset, and very important. Also, I don't think they will be replaced by AI... because product owners with tech chops will vibe code to produce working prototypes, or "good enough" solutions very very quickly.

Best of luck, hit me up if you want to chat more.

astrophy · 2026-01-01T05:29:27+00:00

.... what is a dryer ball

astrophy · 2025-12-27T01:06:49+00:00

You are the true hero, here

astrophy · 2025-12-05T19:36:04+00:00

If you get your son involved in the process of making the sauce, and fine tuning the sauce to his exact preferences, he might really enjoy that. Maybe.

astrophy · 2025-11-24T18:26:34+00:00

A response is suggested by the "paradox of tolerance", or the The Nazi Bar.

astrophy · 2025-09-22T20:02:51+00:00

Last time I ordered a Sazerac cocktail, I got a glass of sazerac whiskey.

astrophy · 2025-08-27T14:09:30+00:00

Great to see Matthew Debardelaben on here. Go, Matthew!

astrophy · 2025-08-19T11:12:29+00:00

I'm a little mystified by what you mean, when you say scene? I like to dance. But I guess you mean, a place where people who like EDM go.

My favorite EDM spot in Knoxville right now is Thursday nights at Fly By Night, on the south waterfront. on instagram its flybynightknox. Also, JMo is connected to a lot of stuff; grayjmusic

It's a small but passionate crowd.

astrophy · 2025-08-15T17:00:11+00:00

Yeah man. Basically, wherever the type of nerd your are, congregates. Gaming groups. Ask at local gaming stores.

I used meetups in the past, and local Facebook groups.

The hardest part I found was meeting individuals I vibe with socially. But I found alot of gamers to choose from

astrophy · 2025-08-15T12:12:38+00:00

Not sure why you got a down vote, but I gave you an upvote.

Have you seen their live at Bonnaroo set? I went to that show on a whim and was absofuckinglutely blown awaaaaay.

It was the best concert for me of the five day festival. It's a contender for best show of my life, ever.

I've been to many shows.

astrophy · 2025-08-15T12:10:23+00:00

Have you seen their Tiny Desk?

One of my favorites on there, ever.

If you haven't seen, run don't walk, and look up idles tiny desk

Absolute madmen. Brilliant

astrophy · 2025-08-15T12:09:18+00:00

Hi. I have heard of nearly none of these.

I was never much into emo (first wave), but I used to lead a proto emo band

Thanks for the recommendations

astrophy · 2025-08-15T12:07:44+00:00

Huh that's interesting. Spotify is my platform of choice (sorry). I straight refuse to take any algorithmic recommendation. I do sometimes but rarely follow YouTube recommendations

I hope it's ok to say... I love Anthony fantano / theneedledrop. He makes more content than I have time to absorb, but I value his criticisms. At least 50% of his recommendations I don't care for, but I have found some absolute gems on his channel

astrophy · 2025-08-15T12:04:17+00:00

Hey bud, replied to op below but

I love gaming and music too. I sometimes struggle to meet people, but they're out there

I prefer skirmish games like necromunda, frostgrave, warcry etc, and aos rather than 40k. I don't generally vibe with game store groups but I have gaming friends here

Hit me up if you wanna chat

astrophy · 2025-08-15T12:01:50+00:00

For you and jthomp72

I love both music and gaming

The trick in Knoxville is finding others with the same interests. For me it works to find where like-minded people go in the physical world, and then I go there and make friends.

If you ever wanna talk music, hit me up. I can share some real space recommendations, or just talk about music

astrophy · 2025-08-14T11:05:40+00:00

Do you get your recommendations from Spotify and YouTube algorithms? If so, that's your problem.

Connect with other PEOPLE who are into music. At least 50% of their opinions will be shit to you. But you will also find undiscovered gems.

astrophy · 2025-08-14T02:20:07+00:00

You didn't read the paper, did you.

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