I'd love for politics to not infiltrate most aspects of life. Until everyone is able to, at least in part, persue life without being oppressed because of their immutable attributes, their belief or lack of belief system, who they choose to love and/or how they view themselves I think it's our civic duty to crusade for those causes.
> I think it's our civic duty to crusade for those causes
Why crusade using the resources of a technical community though? Surely it alienates the people who don't happen to align with the causes important to you.
There are myriad ways to perform your civic duty in your city. You could knock doors and encourage people to vote, for example. Why do it through a technical community?
There is zero way you don't alienate anyone. Ask women software engineers if they ever feel alienated. That's the reason why some communities like the python community do outreach for minorities in tech.
I'm a white man, and I have never felt "alienated" in so-called progressive spaces.
Why is there no outreach to other minorities in tech, like the Amish, for example? They are certainly more underrepresented than women in the python community.
Or how about male ballet dancers? Why isn't the python community allocating some of its resources to helping them feel seen and included?
I'm giving ridiculous examples because the whole premise is ridiculous. And my general question remains: Why devote the resources of a tech community toward one social issue/group or another? There are plenty of other outlets more suitable for doing our civic duty.
> Why is there no outreach to other minorities in tech, like the Amish, for example? They are certainly more underrepresented than women in the python community.
Well the amish wouldn't want the outreach, because they're amish.
> There are plenty of other outlets more suitable for doing our civic duty.
I kind of hate this mentality, because there's no logic or reasonableness behind it.
There's ALWAYS another place you can do something. Always. Where you draw the line is arbitrary. There's no rulebook anywhere saying we can't do this in tech. That's just your opinion, that you made up. We don't have to do that and, evidently, we don't.
> There's ALWAYS another place you can do something. Always. Where you draw the line is arbitrary.
Yes, that's the point. If you're drawing a line that agentively impacts others, you are the one responsible for defending where it's drawn.
> There's no rulebook anywhere saying we can't do this in tech.
Nobody is telling you that you can't do these things (except where impermissible by law). They are telling you not to rope or pressure unwilling others into it.
I think where we disagree is the "roping people in" thing.
If you're part of an organization, you're gonna be roped into their organization standards. Whether that be for behavior (no cursing on their forums), or for outreach, or whatever.
Joining the organization is optional, and if you feel, say, the python foundation doesn't align with your own beliefs, then just don't join. That's always been allowed.
As for working with people you might not want to, that's also just a part of organizations.
> Ask women software engineers if they ever feel alienated.
I have, on multiple occasions. The general summary of what I have learned from doing so, is that they find it cringe to ask, and appear annoyed by the suspicion that they're getting roped into someone else's political battle.
> That's the reason why some communities like the python community do outreach for minorities in tech.
No, they do it because it aligns with the cultural values of the people in charge. (As it happens, it also aligned with GvR's values when he was in charge.)
> I'm a white man, and I have never felt "alienated" in so-called progressive spaces.
... You don't feel alienated when people in your vicinity openly use pejorative language to refer to groups that you belong to (and don't have a choice about), or decry politicians or even pundits that dare to validate your grievances as extremists? You don't feel alienated when it's proposed that your grievances are inherently invalid because of that group belonging? You don't feel alienated by being repeatedly told that said group belonging makes you inherently incapable of "empathy" for various others, even as that same "empathy" is demanded of you? You don't feel alienated by the cultural assumption that a desire for more progressive income taxation, or cleaner energy, dictates a raft of social policies? You don't feel alienated by the entire body of in-group jargon that associates your group membership with negative qualities, or the opposition to language unilaterally deemed to reflect your "privilege" regardless of actual etymology?
If you haven't experienced these things, please let me know where to find the "progressive spaces" you frequent. I don't think I've seen one since at least OWS.
It's upsetting that it's commonly pushed that something as complex as "the economy" could ever be summerized or understood through a single, uncontextualized number. E.g. GDP, jobs reports, SP500 or unemployment rate.
Even just breaking down unemployment rate by race starts illuminated a better understanding of our current conditions. Labor participation sees at least some discussion in the main stream but trying to distill everything into a 5 second headline is hurdling us to doom.
I have pretty good success with a regional provider. I have the option of a national (Verizon) provider, but since switching to fiber on the regional I've had a ~two disconnects, a few minutes of down time in two years. Fiber just seems more reliable.
It's not wrong, that's exactly what I'm paying them for. If they didn't have the education then they wouldn't be a doctor, and I wouldn't be seeing them for a consultation.
I'm well compensated not because I'm good at googling things, but because I have a proven track record of being good at googling things. If a junior was able to produce the same results they wouldnt be paid more.
I'm not sure that's fair. Its like saying gamblers 'want' to gamble, or addicts 'want' to do drugs. Its deeper, more evil, and includes less autonomy than 'wanting' implies.
This isn't our politics in general. We do not see absolute glee at being mean and cruel from people with power on the left. Biden spent four years actively refusing to be vindictive towards Trump.
This is specifically Trump activating the politics of hatred on the right.
I think everyone is underestimating how much B2B file exchange happens over SFTP/FTPS. I'm in healthcare and my system moves thousands of files up and down from over 100 unique hosts daily.
This administration is working very hard to make all lawyers redundant. The law doesn't really matter if the court is at the beck and call of the President.
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