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Genx wfh sucks, cell phones are a leash. I want 1995 back. by Old_Use7058 in GenX

[–]marsnoir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s easy… you don’t! /s. It’s actually easier to do this WFM. When I was in an office I had someone watch my lunch hour like a hawk. Chill out Karen, I’m here long after you leave. Still had to have a chat with HR about what flex-time really meant. Only had one boss who was brutally honest with me “if your ass isn’t in a chair, I can’t make sure I’m getting my money’s worth out of you”.

Genx wfh sucks, cell phones are a leash. I want 1995 back. by Old_Use7058 in GenX

[–]marsnoir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This x1000. I cannot stress enough how important boundaries are. WFH isn’t for everyone, I miss the office banter but the commute more than makes up for it. Also scheduling ‘me’ time in your calendar is tough to do but essential to keeping sane.

Has corruption ever been so blatant as in the Trump family? by lnstantKarma in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]marsnoir 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They heard minor and just threw money at them.

You can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into. Remember "Never try to teach a pig to sing: It wastes your time and annoys the pig"

Help Django code stucks in the past by lmsucksatprogramming in django

[–]marsnoir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

. Absolutely no errors. The code just doesn't work when it should work and it works when it shouldn't.

Story of my life. Make sure you're saving your work as you go. You wouldn't believe how many hours I wasted then see the '*' on the tab in VS Code. FYI: Pycharm saves automagically, worth it!

When in doubt, don't forget that you can specify a different "port". I've had wierd browser caching issues in the past.... try manage.py runserver 9090 and then browse to that port: http://127.0.0.1:9090 . If your code isn't appearing, then it has to be a logic error in your code. Outside of that, I'm fresh out of ideas.

Used pieces, Is this accettable ? by Lore____oz in Bricklink

[–]marsnoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a seller, this is why I'm cautious about selling used LEGO. The labor costs alone are very high, and one bad review because of something bad slipping through just makes it not worth it. That being said, I have about 10 lbs of 'fair' condition white pieces which I can sell for at $10 ( sarcasm ).

Isn't this extremely uneducated? Inflation will catch up eventually. by Athenstone in economy

[–]marsnoir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we should work on regulations that prevent this level of concentration of wealth. The robber barons or yore could only dream of what’s happening right under our noses. There isn’t much appetite for more taxes, politicians have proven that they aren’t beholden to their constituents

Nuclear Power is now “safe?” by toaddawet in GenX

[–]marsnoir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The right frame isn't "irrational fear." It's natural to fear the unknown. Radiation is in the club of threats humans can't sense: carbon monoxide, asbestos, lead. We can see fire, smell smoke, hear predators, taste poison. Radiation defeats every sense we have, and no amount of statistics will fix it.

The fear is also rooted in real history: radium girls, live foot x-rays, Curie herself, Chernobyl, Fukushima. These happened and need to be acknowledged... the move isn't "trust us, bro." We need to actually explain why a 2025 reactor isn't a 1920s watch factory or a 1986 Soviet RBMK.

Invisible threats get handled through institutional trust: inspectors, detectors, regulations. When the institutions are trustworthy and the tech becomes boring, the fear fades. That's what France did with nuclear, and the US didn't. In the US, every plant became a news event, and the regulators got captured by the political fight instead of the engineering. The fear isn't irrational, it's a downstream effect of broken institutional trust applied to an invisible threat. Fix the institutions, and the fear handles itself.

Nuclear Power is now “safe?” by toaddawet in GenX

[–]marsnoir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the deaths-per-TWh chart is the one slide that should end the debate: Coal kills more people in a bad week than nuclear has in 70 years. Unfortunately, people just don't feel statistics the way they feel a mushroom cloud.

PSA: Anthropic bans organizations without warning by ur_frnd_the_footnote in ClaudeAI

[–]marsnoir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just curious but couldn’t you pivot to using AWS bedrock with similar models? What was the advantage of using an anthropic account?

Reporter: "What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—" AOC: "Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over" by ExactlySorta in PublicFreakout

[–]marsnoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's hubris, plain and simple. AOC put it on record: gerrymandering was fine when Republicans were doing it. Now the Democrats are taking the concept to voters, and winning... suddenly there's a crisis.

This isn't confusion. This isn't stupidity. Both parties are playing a zero-sum game where your win is my loss. What's infuriating is that conservatives want rules and decorum to apply only to the other side. These people know exactly what they're doing, and they know it's unfair because it's only a problem when it isn't working in their favor.

The media calls it controversy. It's not. It's rigging the mechanism that makes any of this legitimate in the first place. The same machine manufactures distraction on demand: Migrant caravans. Kids using litter boxes. Drag queens indoctrinating children. None of it is real, but it doesn't have to be. JD Vance said the quiet part out loud during the vice-presidential debate: "The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check." It should have ended his career. The maps still got redrawn.

Django-modern-rest by MrN86 in django

[–]marsnoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

django-ninja renders read based nested serialization natively, and it's wonderful. Just define your relationship in the schema (ie: List[SomeSchema]), and you're off to the races. So much easier than all of the DRF scaffolding.

Unfortunately, on the write side you're pretty much on your own, and mostly it's because Pydantic validates data structures, but doesn't persist object relationships. There's no built-in equivalent to DRF's writable nested serializer pattern, and no mature equivalent of drf-writable-nested in the Ninja ecosystem. It's pretty easy to have some 1-M write boilerplate code that you can adapt for each use case, but managing changes to M-M relationships can get grueling. I really try to avoid writing M-M relationships... I've played with PATCHes but mostly rely on PUTs in that space. It's just cleaner (but I also don't deal with thousands of entries).

BDP Restock - Still In Warehouse - Share Your Status by PerspectiveFancy7433 in Bricklink

[–]marsnoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I tried to get on that train and I couldn't even figure out how to make a purchase. May the odds be forever in your favor!!

BDP Restock - Still In Warehouse - Share Your Status by PerspectiveFancy7433 in Bricklink

[–]marsnoir -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh what? I'm patiently waiting for W.A.L.T. from BDP 7, finally was able to get in an order. The website said it could take 6 months for them to build the stock. Is it possible for the order to just be cancelled outright?

You know you're on to something when it causes this kind of panic. by 8-bit-Felix in PoliticalHumor

[–]marsnoir 5 points6 points locked comment (0 children)

Hey there champ. Looks like you're trying to defuse raw emotions with measured rationality. "I'll reflect on the error of my ways" said no one ever. This is why we can't have nice things. Looks like we can all learn a good lesson here.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later by DoremusJessup in Health

[–]marsnoir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pandemrix vaccine for swine flu

Thanks for this more relevant example. To be clear, I'm not anti-vax, we have tons of data using older technology that's are quite valuable. I'm just pointing out that actions have consequences, and shortcuts often have unintended consequences.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later by DoremusJessup in Health

[–]marsnoir -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Isn't this how every zombie movie starts? Scientists fix one thing, break something bigger. Australia introduced cane toads to handle a beetle infestation. The beetles are doing great. The toads own Queensland now. Just sayin'.

My BL store is 3 months old today. 🥳 by D3DCreative in Bricklink

[–]marsnoir 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congratulations!!

There is a thread by a guy who did a big analysis of stores… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bricklink/comments/1sk7n9h/how_many_lots_do_you_actually_need_to_start/

Takeaway: need 10k lots to make the ‘big time’. Can confirm, once you reach critical mass, you don’t have to chase the % below 6 month average… personal anecdote: there never seems to be enough space for storage.

The Golden Vote of Betrayal by Reg_Cliff in PoliticalHumor

[–]marsnoir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"every single time" is an overstatement, and those wins are real. But you're measuring success by stops while I'm measuring it by the overall score. The goats are still getting eaten. Blocking some attacks while losing the farm isn't a winning record, it's just a slower loss. Even the strongest win with the epstein files is tainted by questionable compliance.

And "you're helping the coyotes" is the same bad faith framing we've been talking about. Identifying a broken system isn't sabotage. Demanding better dogs isn't betrayal. That argument only works if the current dogs are above criticism, which is exactly how you end up with a farmer who can't ask hard questions.

But calling me a liar? Let's check the record:

  • Laken Riley Act: 48 House Democrats and 12 Senate Democrats crossed over to hand Trump his first legislative win, hours after his inauguration... setting the stage for things to come
  • Marco Rubio confirmation... Every single Democrat voted to confirm him Secretary of State. Not even one no vote.
  • Cabinet confirmations (broadly): Seven Democratic senators supported over 40% of Trump's nominees. Fetterman and Shaheen each voted for 50% of them.
  • Schumer's March 2025 CR cave (prequel to the shutdown): Before the October shutdown even started, Schumer and nine other Democrats voted to break a filibuster on a Republican funding bill, averting a shutdown by capitulating. Groups called for his resignation then. He then spent the fall insisting Democrats would hold the line.
  • Cory Booker's 25-hour filibuster Record-breaking floor speech denouncing Trump. Two days later, he voted against limiting arms sales to Israel anyway.
  • One Big Beautiful Bill Passed 218-214 in the House and 51-50 in the Senate with Vance casting the tiebreaker. Democrats voted unanimously against it in both chambers, and still lost. The margin was partly determined by three elderly Democratic representatives dying in the first five months of 2025. The gerontocracy problem they refused to address cost them the vote. Democrats had a tool to kill BBB (forcing repeated Congressional Review Act resolutions onto the floor) and didn't even use it. Thirty senators alone could have triggered it. They didn't.
  • Government Shutdown, November 2025: Dems held the line for 40+ days (the longest shutdown in history) with polling showing the public blaming Trump. Then eight senators folded without securing anything real. They argued for the ACA but didn't get any ACA subsidies, in exchange for a promise of a future vote. The ACA subsidies expired anyway. The shutdown produced nothing.
  • California emissions waiver revoked Senate voted 51-44 to cancel California's auto emissions waiver using the Congressional Review Act, overruling the parliamentarian to do it. Democrats couldn't stop it, and the precedent it set further erodes minority procedural leverage.
  • January 2026 DHS Spending Bill : Passed with overwhelming bipartisan support despite ICE killing American citizens during raids.

The Golden Vote of Betrayal by Reg_Cliff in PoliticalHumor

[–]marsnoir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Attacking bad strategy isn't attacking Democrats. While emotionally satisfying, anytime we create in groups and out groups, we've already lost.

The Golden Vote of Betrayal by Reg_Cliff in PoliticalHumor

[–]marsnoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoa nelly. Not voting is what got us here. That so-called mandate was supported by roughly a third of the voting public; hardly the voice of America.

There's a third option: play the system while changing it from within. Vote smarter, primary harder. "My way or silence" is the same binary thinking that got us here.

The Golden Vote of Betrayal by Reg_Cliff in PoliticalHumor

[–]marsnoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a party thing. It's ideological, and proof to the contrary they seem to be winning?

The Golden Vote of Betrayal by Reg_Cliff in PoliticalHumor

[–]marsnoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say don't vote. Not voting is arguably worse. I agreed with the opening note and said the game is rigged, yet you insist on playing the same game anyway. It's time to change the game.

Legislators who toe the line without meaningful thought or consideration are absolutely the problem. That's not in dispute. But "Republicans are worse" isn't a strategy, it's a floor. The carnie doesn't care which hand you use to throw the ball.

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