SCOTUS declaring full immunity for anything done as an official presidential act is probably why this term feels less hollow; last time around he had to be careful not to end up in prison, this time he has nothing to fear.
The problem is that It’s a cop out, a ruse, a diversion, a disingenuous misrepresentation of what’s happening here. It’s a flat out straw man.
Casting taking down signs that say “everyone is welcome here” as strengthening our children is simply not an assertion based in reality. Yes, we need to be real with our children so they can be prepared for the real world but this scenario is not applicable to that argument.
I would argue that taking down these signs weakens our children by sending a message that being different is bad—the exact message racists and bigots have been pushing forever. It robs them of a little bit of their humanity and we should not be tolerant of this.
If you don’t see a problem with the sign being up then I’m not sure why you needed to offer a counterpoint that we’re “over sheltering” children. Taking the time to write out a rebuttal sure would seem to indicate that you think the signs coming down are a good thing.
Aside from the fact that teaching children to be inclusive and accepting is the path to these things being normal in the future, “well you have to learn to be offended” is the shield of the bully. It’s what people who want to be assholes say to protect their assholery.
But you know what, if someone needs to learn to be offended then maybe it’s the bigots and bullies that need to learn that inclusive language is here to stay and to just deal with it.
It sounds like you need a design sprint; which fits fairly neatly into waterfall as an early step.
Google (even though I loathe suggesting anything google these days) has comprehensive documentation on how they do their two week design sprints; I have done them a few times and they do a damn fine job of helping you to find the work you need to do.
If there’s a good reason to deliver a project using a waterfall approach and the only complaint is that you don’t like waterfall, then I’d advise remembering that a core philosophy of the agile manifesto is “people over processes” and suggest being flexible.
If there’s a pragmatic argument to be made, then have that conversation and see if you can agree on a path forward.
It’s best not to assume the worst of people, life is complicated and filled with nuance.
I recently moved across state lines. Two days before I had to leave, my cat—freaked out by the move and upset at not being let out at night—tore a screen off of a window and got out. We searched up to the moment of having to leave but could not find him and had to leave him behind.
It really upset us, and I still miss him, but there simply wasn’t another choice.
Honestly vanilla emacs is already pretty reasonable; doom will give you probably more than you actually need. I don’t think there’s anything you really need to dig into within your first six months.
I found doom to be too much, and after a few months instead built my own config from scratch to get just what I want. I found that doom had so much that I didn’t know what was doom and what was emacs.
Packages are a deep deep dive in emacs. My recommendation is start small, use doom as is for a while and only make a change when you actually find you need it. It’s very tempting to go way overboard.
This is why I switched from emacs to helix; my emacs config is just massive and my helix config gives me almost everything I actually want in like a few lines of config.
Glass can and will break for no apparent reason, even tempered glass.
During manufacturing the glass can take on stress that is not visible but is a ticking time bomb. Temperature differential alone can push that stress past its breaking point.
Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev Posts 2Comments 634Joined 2 yr. ago
SCOTUS declaring full immunity for anything done as an official presidential act is probably why this term feels less hollow; last time around he had to be careful not to end up in prison, this time he has nothing to fear.