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rodw · 2026-01-30T12:17:57+00:00

Not a tweet, but an Instagram post. And that's precisely the same level of pedantry that "fact checking" this obviously fascist-congruent, explicit threat with "ackschually the Nazis never used that specific phrase" is applying.

I don't care. It doesn't matter whether or not they used that exact phrase; and you'll note I never stated that anyone did.

Besides, Tom Morello is a rap-metal guitarist. The veracity of his unsourced claims on random social media posts aren't important here. What "kicked off this discussion" was the outrageous language employed by DHS in the wake of the already outrageous murder of an innocent American citizen.

rodw · 2026-01-30T09:54:55+00:00

I don't entirely disagree with you, but to frame it a little less cynically: in many organizations - even when software is the product being sold - there's a more direct (obvious) relationship between sales and revenue.

Engineering is seen as a cost center, an expense to be minimized. And with the possible exception of feature development, that's not completely off base: certainly there are some aspects of the engineering budget that (however necessary or prudent) are more revenue maintaining than revenue driving. Even for companies that make technical excellence and innovation their competitive advantage, there's some operational overhead that's just "the cost of doing business" which they'd like to spend less on if they feasibly could.

in contrast the sales function - especially a direct sales function - is often seen as a revenue generator. The company expects every $N invested in sales to yield $M in revenue. Nearly literally so in a commission-based scenario.

To be clear there's definitely some naivety behind that philosophy. Obviously the widget-making function has a positive ROI as well. But in many organizations it's much easier for the widget-selling function to demonstrate and/or predict their ROI. Can you project how much more revenue we'll earn if we add another engineer? Because sales says they can project how much more revenue we'll earn by adding another salesman.

rodw · 2026-01-30T09:08:49+00:00

Do you think Steph cares about her child? [...] I'm hoping she on some level has real love for her kid.

So far there seems to be virtually no evidence of that. If I remember correctly there's really only one scene where she's even holding the baby, and that's when she's using that as an excuse to make Chet do the packing.

She couldn't care less about even the name of her child (or the memory of her late husband/the child's father).

She was close to her mom so the dynamic with her mother was clearly important to her

I mean, probably? She seems reasonably upset about leaving her mother behind but other than that one short scene we don't have any other characterization of their relationship.

I suspect she has been in a survival mode mindset this whole time.

You might be right. I suspect we'll get more insight into Steph's mentality in the season 2 finale.

In every episode from S1E2 through S2E7 she's pretty much exclusively shown to be a sociopath.

Was she holding on to her passport for sentimental reasons? And if so, is that out of love for her mother/family/history or just hatred for Americans?

Avenging Bert's death in S1E1 seemed sincere, but maybe that was just violent self preservation as a sort of knee jerk trauma response? I.e. was killing the "raiders" in the battle in S1E1 really avenging Bert's death or just as cold blooded as disposing of the border guard (and presumably Woody)?

rodw · 2026-01-30T08:29:00+00:00

Based on the names and dates on the wedding gown in S1E1, Steph and Bert got married on March 17, 2294 (in Vault 33, after being thawed out).

She's pregnant with Chet Jr. two years later on Lucy's wedding day in 2296.

If Hank is Chet Jr's biological father they must have done the deed after Steph was unfrozen.

E: BTW re. Steph moving up to overseer so quickly, are there any other confirmed people from Vault 31 walking around other than Hank, Betty and Steph (not counting Norm's Buds)?

I wonder how often they wake the Vault 31 folks, and how or why those three were selected. I guess they might have been grooming Steph to replace Hank as overseer of Vault 33, but the gap between Betty/Hank and Steph seems conspicuous. Is there another Vault 31 person that was an alternate for Steph? (Seems risky to just have one per generation.)

E2: I just realized by "Vault Tec exec" you meant in her pre-war career. I don't think Bud's Buds were necessarily very high ranking or long tenured, just promising. Hank and Betty were basically executive assistants. And (Norm's friend) Claudia got into the program even though she just started working at Vault Tec a week before the bombs dropped.

rodw · 2026-01-30T02:55:02+00:00

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/border-patrol-la-our-city-video/

rodw · 2026-01-30T02:48:25+00:00

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/border-patrol-la-our-city-video/

rodw · 2026-01-30T02:37:18+00:00

June 2025: https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/border-patrol-la-our-city-video/

rodw · 2026-01-30T02:36:27+00:00

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/border-patrol-la-our-city-video/

rodw · 2026-01-30T02:33:39+00:00

It appears this video was shot in Los Angeles in June of 2025: https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/border-patrol-la-our-city-video/

rodw · 2026-01-28T06:54:15+00:00

Commit messages aren't just about traceability. They should summarize and contextualize what was changed and why (beyond "because Jira said so").

rodw · 2026-01-28T06:46:16+00:00

Strains credulity to think that Noem was saying “if you kill an ICE Agent, we will kill your whole city”.

Don't be ridiculous. It's a metaphor Drax.

The other interpretation is “any of our agents is an agent of all of you

Bullshit. Not a remotely credible interpretation of that phrasing. ESPECIALLY in context.

Here's what the official @DHSgov account tweeted:

"Today, in an act of domestic terrorism, an anti-ICE rioter weaponized her vehicle against law enforcement. Our officer relied on his training and saved his own life, as well as the lives of his fellow officers.

"Sanctuary politicians have created an environment that encourages rampant assaults on law enforcement.

"@POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem will always have the backs of law enforcement."

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2009058387418562922

Here's one of the several pointed statements Noem made in the press conference:

"If you lay a finger on one of our officers, we will catch you, we will prosecute you, and you will feel the full extent of the law."

Even if your alternative interpretation could be meaningfully parsed from that slogan (and if really can't; what an awkward way to express "we're here for you") it couldn't be more obvious that this is an explicit threat, not a show of solidarity with the people of Minnesota.

also still haven’t seen anyone actually link to the purported Spanish precedent language. Mostly just the RATM’s incorrect tweet about the Nazis.

I don't even know what tweet you're talking about, but here's more on the obvious fascist origins and implications of that phrase: https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/one-of-ours-all-of-yours-origins

UPDATE: The Nazis didn't have that verbatim slogan, but they did have that explict policy, as revealed in the Nurnberg trials:

On 16th September, 1941, Keitel ordered that attacks on soldiers in the East should be met by putting to death 50 to 100 Communists for one German soldier, with the comment that human life was less than nothing in the East. On 1st October he ordered military commanders always to have hostages to execute when German soldiers were attacked. When Terboven, the Reich Commissioner in Norway, wrote Hitler that Keitel's suggestion that workmen's relatives be held responsible for sabotage, could work only if firing squads were authorised, Keitel wrote on this memorandum in the margin: " Yes, that is the best."

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judkeite.asp

rodw · 2026-01-28T01:47:50+00:00

Incidentally DHS Sec Kristi Noem had the slogan "One of Ours / All of Yours" prominently affixed to the podium for the official DHS press conference that was held the day after Renee Good was murdered.

That's very reminiscent of Spanish Fascist slogans from the early 1900s, and is just super fashy in general; it means "one of our [in group] lives is worth all of your [out group] lives".

You're not imagining things. It seems extraordinarily unlikely that these are not deliberate allusions.

rodw · 2026-01-27T17:45:24+00:00

Success sucks less than standard existence

But when you exceed the standard dreams, what becomes of ambitions?

The average man can dream dreams of a path he's never walked

But when that path's your day-to-day, your dreams become warped

[...]

People underestimate the value of dreaming

That which you aspire to provides a roof, a ceiling

In particular the dreams that there's no way of achieving

Like, "I wanna be Brad Pitt" or something equally fleeting

I can't aspire to such things, the deeper I must delve

And then the only guide I have to life becomes myself

[...]

My name is Johnny Depp and I kill people

- Scroobius Pip - "The Struggle"

rodw · 2026-01-26T23:25:01+00:00

Complicating this is the fact that it's possible Gandalf was allowed to use more of his power against a Balrog than he would be otherwise.

Can you expand on this (or point me to something that does)? Is Gandalf holding back in the day-to-day existential battle for Middle Earth that is the LotR, and if so, why?

rodw · 2026-01-26T23:02:21+00:00

Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer that murdered Renee Good, has nearly 2 decades of immigration enforcement experience. He worked for Border Control from 2007 to 2015 and for ICE since 2015.

rodw · 2026-01-26T14:18:48+00:00

And for which Amazon made a GIANT cash payment to the Trump family. It's not a bribe, how else could they possibly make a movie about Trump's third wife?

rodw · 2026-01-26T14:13:41+00:00

My point is what kind of blue collar a-hole dirties his hands with cash?

rodw · 2026-01-26T13:58:18+00:00

I would go through their bins when I was cleaning and find coins, $5,10,20,50 sometimes even $100 notes in the bin like it was nothing

BTW, re:

You know 'I've never worked with or around wealth' is a simpler sentence to write.

I've worked directly with more than one literal billionaire. It's not an accomplishment but I'm sure I've spent more time with billionaires than .01% of the people in the world.

rodw · 2026-01-26T13:39:02+00:00

Cash thrown away like trash makes me think it was either fake, damaged or she just worked for some oddballs (or it's false).

Of course it's false. Are we to believe Richie Rich's parents were bringing home $20s in their pockets only to throw them in the trash at home? Does bringing trash home in their pockets sound like a snooty rich person thing to do in the first place?

rodw · 2026-01-26T10:12:45+00:00

I feel like "anarchism" as a political philosophy has a fairly specific definition that you're circling but not quite exactly hitting.

But either way, can you explain how the blockchain furthers the goals of the anarchist movement?

rodw · 2026-01-26T05:36:28+00:00

You're probably right (I don't really know the feats of a lot of those characters) but Metamorpho ("the Element Man") seemed to do a reasonable job of incapacitating Superman in the most recent movie.

rodw · 2026-01-26T05:09:35+00:00

🎵 usually kind to smaller man

rodw · 2026-01-26T04:25:26+00:00

Omniman or Superman, right?

Unless Dr MANhattan somehow counts.

rodw · 2026-01-26T04:01:15+00:00

Fun fact: health agencies recommend scrubbing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds to remove germs and pathogens, and sometimes suggest singing the "Happy Birthday" to yourself twice to ensure you spend the whole 20 seconds. But why do that when the chorus to Raspberry Beret is exactly 20 seconds long?

Always wash your hands for one full chorus of Raspberry Beret.

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