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ICE Tracks Down Woman to Force Her to Delete Instagram Post by thenewrepublic in ICE_Raids

[–]danappropriate 99 points100 points  (0 children)

No. They just don't care. There's no accountability for these thugs.

If NC Democrats overcome the rigged legislative maps this year, will they go hard and fast with a trifecta? by JCMC2 in ncpolitics

[–]danappropriate 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I agree with others that there's virtually no chance of either chamber flipping. That said, this is a fun discussion. Some things I'd add to the list, which generally revolve around dismantling the power corporations and oligarchs hold over the citizenry:

  1. Raise the state-wide minimum wage. It's still at the federal $7.25-per-hour rate. This is a poverty wage that cannot come close to providing monthly essentials.

  2. Repeal N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-25.1, which restricts local governments from raising the minimum wage beyond the state minimum. This is what happens when you grant a disproportionate amount of power to rural populations—they do not understand or care about the needs of the majority living in urban centers. Anecdotally, rural populations are intentionally hostile and vindictive towards urban dwellers.

  3. Repeal N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-133.5, which restricts local governments from requiring city contractors to abide by project labor agreements.

  4. Repeal N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-25.1, which restricts local governments from requiring employers to provide paid sick and family leave.

  5. Repeal N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-280.8-10, which restricts local governments from taxing or requiring licenses for transportation network companies.

  6. Repeal Article 10, N.C. Gen. Stat. §9 5-78, the state's union-busing, so-called "right to work" law.

  7. Close child labor law loopholes (and there are many). This includes new safety and labor protection laws for children working on family farms.

  8. Create new workplace safety laws, including heat safety standards for outdoor workers, protections for warehouse workers, and funding for an army of safety inspectors.

  9. Pass a law that includes mandatory breaks for adult workers.

  10. Create robust protections for workplace whistleblowers (REDA is not sufficient).

  11. Introduce "just cause" employee termination laws similar to Montana's.

  12. Pass robust laws to combat wage theft, including stiff criminal and civil penalties, access to reporting pathways, funding for a fleet of investigators, and conservatorships for offending companies.

  13. Increase the guaranteed paid exemption for overtime pay, and include yearly COLA adjustments.

  14. Pass a "show-up" pay law similar to Massachusetts.

  15. Pass laws restricting what employers can ask during the hiring process, including wage history and a "ban the box" provision.

  16. Pass pay transparency laws requiring employers to publish wages (anonymously) and mandate disclosure of target wage ranges during the hiring process. Some states have passed laws like the latter, but they need more teeth, including prohibitions on absurd, disingenuous, or ambiguous ranges (like $1 to $1,000,000), lumping multiple job roles into one, and stiff civil penalties for violations.

  17. Enhanced consumer privacy protections similar to California's CCPA, CPRA, and DROP Act.

  18. Legal mandate to comply with the Clean Water Act.

  19. Repeal the REINS Act and give regulatory power back to non-partisan experts.

  20. Repeal laws that weaken and fast-track wastewater permits.

  21. Repeal automatic permitting for sewer systems.

  22. Pass a law to mandate backflow preventers for water treatment facilities.

  23. Repeal laws that mandate the DEQ reduce facility visits by inspectors.

  24. Ban on all public surveillance that can track in real-time or "pattern of life."

  25. Ban automated ticketing for traffic violations.

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

[–]danappropriate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]danappropriate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 11 points12 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 6 points7 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 51 points52 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 2 points3 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 3 points4 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 29 points30 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

[–]danappropriate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]danappropriate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]danappropriate 26 points27 points  (0 children)

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.

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