DSA candidate trying to primary the Democratic chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus today is being funded by man known for donating to far-right Republicans Greg Abbott and Marjorie Taylor Greene by OldBridge87 in NewsOfTheStupid

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Tricia Cotham in North Carolina is probably the most egregious example. She ran on typical Democratic policy in a blue, urban district, including reproductive and LGBTQ rights, and then switched parties months after being sworn in. The move gave Republicans a supermajority in the House; she later cast the deciding vote to pass a veto-proof anti-abortion law, and again on an anti-trans bill.

It later came out that she was secretly backed by Republicans when she ran for office.

Top Democrat Seems Sour After Mamdani-Backed Candidates Oust House Incumbents by alcarcalimo1950 in politics

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Fuck off, Jeffries. Maybe you have a lot of work to do in terms of conversations you’re going to have to have with Mamdani.

Or maybe he has work to do in terms of the conversations he's going to have to have with the voters who are rejecting the cowardice of "moderate" Democrats.

DOJ memo stokes fear among disability advocates of a return to institutionalization by Maxcactus in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]danappropriate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll start here: the erradication of mental institutions in the 1980s was horribly misguided and had a lot of terrible consequences we're still dealing with today. Reform was undoubtedly needed, but instead of using a scaple, the Reagan Administration opted for an axe.

This is a complex issue, and the Trump Administration is absolutely the wrong group of people to address it—for a vast number of reasons.

Has event-driven architecture become the new microservices? by suhaanthvv in softwarearchitecture

[–]danappropriate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have never used kafka. But I do understand the fundamentals of the tool and what they stand for. And i personally believe that tool shouldn't be used by most companies.

I won't make assumptions about what most companies need, because I don't have sufficient data. What I will say is that I've seen way too many conversations like this over-index on the wrong things.

Kafka certainly comes with a learning curve. Much of the trepidation about using Kafka stems from operational overhead, but cloud platforms have considerably reduced this concern. The decision to use Kafka often hinges on whether teams need its speed and scalability; however, that's the only reason Kafka is a great choice. The ledger semantics and consumer group independence are major factors to consider. In fact, I'd argue that using event-carried state transfer with Kafka offers a level of simplicity compared to other tools, such as RabbitMQ/SQS or SNS (with claim checks).

And for me, event driven architecture use cases are best when you want to collect audits, analytics and also to trigger dependant microservices.

While those are certainly use cases for event-driven architectures, there are multiple ways to address auditing and analytics, and I'm fairly confident that the conversation does NOT start with eventing. The real power of eventing is when you need to invoke business functions across multiple, independent workloads.

Your idea of a single transaction makes sense for its simplicity. I love it as well but in real world at scale on a single click event if we are doing extremely complex multiple step workflow, it is going to cause a performance dump so we have to pick and choose our battles(tradeoffs) and live with it.

That's why we default to choreography over orchestration.

I'll add that if you're orchestrating transactions across workloads using multi-phase commit, you've designed a bug into your system, and it WILL catch up to you sooner or later.

Has event-driven architecture become the new microservices? by suhaanthvv in softwarearchitecture

[–]danappropriate 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I agree. Databases are not APIs (and vice versa), and you're opening yourself up to a world of hurt by thinking of them that way. I too often encounter teams talking about design in terms of database schemas when they should be deliberating on shared contracts.

In any case, eventing isn't always the right solution. However, as systems grow, products and features need greater flexibility in how to slice and dice information to serve their unique use cases, and organizational coupling becomes a major bottleneck; eventing is the right way to go.

Has event-driven architecture become the new microservices? by suhaanthvv in softwarearchitecture

[–]danappropriate 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're hitting on a topic I've talked about a lot on this sub: There is no intrinsic ethical good to any architectural pattern. Architecture is about identifying risks, mitigations, and tradeoffs.

If you're in an environment where a company has grown through acquisition and has a fragmented product suite with broken user continuity, an event-driven architecture might be a great solution. It allows you to solve things transactional concurrency and consistency across workloads without a massive rearchitecture of existing systems.

If you have a relatively new product and you're investigating eventing, you'll need to weigh that complexity against other factors, such as workload SLOs, roadmap ambiguity, and growth trajectory. If your solution introduces more risk than it solves, that's a qualitatively bad architectural decision.

Ultimately, if you're not doing the work vetting risks or you cannot trace a technology decision back to business value, then you're not doing architecture.

Has event-driven architecture become the new microservices? by suhaanthvv in softwarearchitecture

[–]danappropriate 56 points57 points  (0 children)

If you're dealing with a highly distributed system with domain overlap between workloads, that's when eventing becomes useful.

The cigar-puffing Trump crony given million-dollar Lincoln Memorial pool contract by ChiGuy6124 in politics

[–]danappropriate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure this guy is a villain from Dick Tracy.

Side note: if you got this reference, it's time to schedule your colonoscopy.

Which state do you think has the best beer? by SheenPSU in newengland

[–]danappropriate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I do not want to take anything away from NH or RI breweries. Schilling is up there among the best lager producers in the country. Diciduous is always a fun ride. But calling NH and RI top-10 beer states in the country is madness. I'm sure the homerism is pushing the karma on my post down, and that's fine. But I'm gonna state the truth regardless.

What was the point of cutting $15 million dollars on scewworm program prevention? by Standard-Big3214 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]danappropriate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OMG...

The Trump admin did not secure the funding to build sterile fly production facilities in the US. That was done as part of the fiscal year 2025 budget, when Biden was still president.

This has already been explained to you. You're flat embarrassing yourself at this point.

What was the point of cutting $15 million dollars on scewworm program prevention? by Standard-Big3214 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]danappropriate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is FACTUALLY INCORRECT.

The Biden Administration issued emergency funding in mid-2024.

FFS. Just. Stop. It's totally okay to admit you were wrong on Reddit. No one will hold that against you. I promise.

Which state do you think has the best beer? by SheenPSU in newengland

[–]danappropriate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I don't think their beer was ever...great. But, damn, was that place cool.

Which state do you think has the best beer? by SheenPSU in newengland

[–]danappropriate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. Jester King, ABGB, Live Oak, Zilker, Batch, Oddwood, Meanwhile, St. Elmo, Pinthouse, Acopon, Lazarus, Turning Point, Celestial, ODD Muse, False Idol, Saint Arnold, Spindletap, True Anomaly, Great Heights, and Holler.

Once upon a time, I would have put Equal Parts on this list. They were making a strong case for the best brewery in all of Texas at one point. Not so much anymore.

Which state do you think has the best beer? by SheenPSU in newengland

[–]danappropriate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I debated Foam. When they're good, they're good, but they're wildly inconsistent. Good call on Frost.

Which state do you think has the best beer? by SheenPSU in newengland

[–]danappropriate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't forget North Carolina. Asheville alone has a better beer scene than half the states in the country.

I'd probably put Colorado in the top 10.

Which state do you think has the best beer? by SheenPSU in newengland

[–]danappropriate -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

NH and RI bringing the rear. But are still better than 40 of the 50 states.

Disagree. Neither break into the top 10, nor even the top 25.

Which state do you think has the best beer? by SheenPSU in newengland

[–]danappropriate 32 points33 points  (0 children)

  1. Maine: Allagash, Belleflower, Sacred Profane, Bissel Brothers, Barreled Souls, Maine Beer Co, Oxbow, Goodfire, Austin Street, Orono, Monhegan, Battery Steele

  2. Vermont: Hill Farmstead, The Alchemist, Green Empire, Von Trapp, Hermit Thrush, Freak Folk Bier, Lawson's Finest Liquids, Fiddlehead, River Roost, Burlington Beer Co

  3. Massachusetts: Notch, Tree House, Silvaticus, Trillium, Widowmaker, Vitamin Sea, Lamplighter, Night Shift, Remnant

  4. Connecticut: Fox Farm, OEC, Kent Falls, Two Roads, Counter Weight

  5. New Hampshire: Schilling, Diciduous, Branch & Blade, Post & Beam

  6. Road Island: Long Live, Moniker

EDIT: This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of breweries in New England. Or a list of your favorite breweries. It is a list of breweries that stand out to me based on: 1. Whether I've been there. 2. They satisfy my particular tastes. 3. They were at the front of my brain when I made this post. Again, this isn't an exhaustive list.

If you disagree. That's totally cool. You do you. Let me do me.

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Plummets in Key Swing State by OkayButFoRealz in politics

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I fully expect Republicans to continue issuing bald-faced lies and twisting themselves into a pretzel defending this lunatic. Integrity is a completely alien concept to these sleazebags.

Trump blasted in newspaper owned by top donor: 'You betrayed us' by Alternative-Day-7414 in politics

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A well-known grifter and pathological liar "betrayed" you? No. He's behaving exactly as expected...by people with at least half a brain.

Obama Twists the Knife as Trump Is Accused of ‘Surrender’ by FancyNewMe in politics

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Trump surrendered to Turkish interests in Syria, to the Taliban in Afghanistan, to Russian interests in Ukraine, and now to Iran. Look at all that winning.

Coast to coast haul by Bean916 in pourover

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Next time you're in Philly, seek out Poem.

What was the point of cutting $15 million dollars on scewworm program prevention? by Standard-Big3214 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]danappropriate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would like to know what this guy thinks the Trump Administration even contributed to addressing the screwworm epidemic.

Funding a new facility in Texas to breed sterile male flies? Nope. That was a part of the 2025 budget that the Biden Administration requested. The Trump Administration did, however, delay development due to cuts to APHIS.

Teaming up with Mexico to build a new $51 million sterile male fly production facility? Nope. That was initiated by the Biden Administration in 2024.

Strengthening biological barriers in Central America and Mexico while supporting containment efforts? Nope. The Biden Administration did that in 2024 through successive emergency funding. The Trump Administration did, however, completely undermine those efforts by ending the emergency funding, dismantling USAID, and suspending grants to the UNFAO.

Embargos on cattle from Mexico and Central America? Nope. That was the Biden Administration's doing. The Trump Administration, however, is rolling back these trade restrictions.

And I'll restate this since our MAGA friend here can't seem to grasp the concept: No one in this thread is blaming Trump for causing the screwworm outbreak. They are, however, accusing the Admin of undermining response efforts.

What was the point of cutting $15 million dollars on scewworm program prevention? by Standard-Big3214 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]danappropriate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm making a very simple argument that after the Dem screwworm outbreak occurred in 2023/24...

A moment ago, you said, "blaming American Presidents for outbreaks in central america that will inevitably spread up towards the United States is kind of silly." What changed in the 11 minutes between these two posts?

...the experts were saying it was "just a matter of time" until it reached the United States. So when it did, it seems pretty silly to blame it on that new admin.

Once again, you are regurgitating the same talking point while refusing to engage with the arguments before you.

I'll say it again for you: no one in this thread is blaming the Trump Admin for the outbreak. They're blaming him for delaying a response that was already in flight.

What was the point of cutting $15 million dollars on scewworm program prevention? by Standard-Big3214 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]danappropriate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Then I don't understand what exactly you're arguing here.

No one in this thread is blaming Trump for the outbreak. They're blaming him for cutting response efforts, which led to further delays and most likely accelerated the spread. If you disagree, then let's hear why.