Pretty much. It means give maximum output, which can easily be over 100%.

And that means burn out

What’s your risk tolerance? If every moment of data is irreplaceable, there’s so much more you could be doing

If this is just like… Your data, you’re already doing a paranoid amount

If your data is local and backed up in the cloud, your house could burn down or the cloud could accidentally delete your data. If both those things happen at the same time, I guess you could lose your data. That’s a freak accident. Having another backup of any kind is unreasonable, and a second freak accident is borderline impossible

The first backup is smart, but diminishing returns kick in quick

That’s a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload

The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it’s cemented

They’re truckers, it’s going to damage the economy of the entire country

You can’t destroy the rainforest. There’s a careful balance to these things, no one benefits from it burning down long term

And more individually - if you can work fast, and you consistently save the day when the chips are down, you’re a magician. They will value you, and excuse any weirdness, because that’s just how magicians are

If you work fast consistently, you’re a workhorse. They’ll depend on you, but they won’t value you. Your successes will be normal, providing less than maximum output will be failure, and for some reason they’ll think you can be easily replaced

It’s symbolic. Apparently saying the quiet part out loud isn’t enough anymore, now they’re performing metaphors to make it really sink in

The destruction of the east wing is the pointless and haphazard destruction done to the government. The great Gatsby party was a feast celebrating people starving. A ballroom bigger than the white house is promise the president will keep the rich having fun first and foremost

The building itself doesn’t matter… But the kind of president that would destroy a national monument just cause is the kind of president that doesn’t care about our country, let alone human rights

Have you considered using fire?

• Sun Tzu

Fair… When people ask me how I am I say I can’t complain, because I can’t… It’s not socially acceptable

You can have canned questions too, but I find that makes the whole thing feel even more empty. Personally, I like to talk about the weather not being normal, or about store prices rising and such. Just little observations that any sane person would agree is both true and a problem

It’s my own version of checking if they’ll make friendly noises… If you can’t acknowledge the world is falling apart or think Trump is going to magically fix it, we don’t have the common ground to keep talking. I’d rather sit there in awkward silence

I think a lot of social situations become easier once you flip it around and ask what outcome you want out of it.

Maybe it’s ok to have deeper small talk. Maybe when people don’t respond with friendly noises, they’ve failed your friendliness test

Mitochondria are specialized mini-cells

They have their own DNA like bacteria, just floating around inside their membranes. They undergo their own mitosis inside the cell, some cells can have hundreds of them

And they always come from the egg. They’re purely maternal

It is a mixed bag, but the people who can be saved don’t think these things are related - they think ICE are going after criminals

They don’t think ethnic cleansing is the answer, they just think this is about crime

No, see that has meaning… This doesn’t. No information is contained in 6 7, there is no concept or reference or anything to it

It helps to have canned fallback responses. Mine is “I know, right?” in a dry/sarcastic tone. It works for any comment and most questions, because it’s a meaningless affirmation

It even works when you fumble, it’s so vague you can use it to reply to a question and recover

Well in this case, you’re going to have a hard time trolling Trump supporters on the fediverse

I think memeing at the right is one of the few acceptable uses of Twitter at this point

No, this is totally unconnected. This is just a run of the mill win, this was inevitable

It has nothing to do with how the Senate snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in exchange for nothing

It’s a meme where you say “6 7”, optionally with a hand motion like you’re weighing something

There’s no meaning. That is the full context. Any situation where you do any part of the meme is a valid use of the meme

And that’s why I personally find it uniquely annoying

It also requires an egg, just with the nucleus removed

We’ve done similar things before, these mice have 3 parents. The mitochondria come from the maternal line and have their own DNA

Oh, they tried to talk him out of tarrifs. But he personally loves them, because they make other countries come to him and kiss his ass and make “concessions” that were already in place to get them removed

You can’t rehabilitate these people. What you can do is make them feel betrayed so they point in the right direction, then later shame them back into keeping their racist bullshit buried deep down

They’re never going to fully accept that ethnic cleansing is wrong, or even that it wouldn’t accomplish their goals, but they can be made to understand it’s not socially acceptable to share those opinions

And doing that makes them even think about it less. But deep down, people who cheer these camps and ICE raids will always be deeply racist and lacking in compassion. This isn’t ignorance, this is naked desire for an enthnostate.

That degree of racism will always be there, and must always be kept under the surface by social pressure

Do you know how illegal it is to steal federal funds? It’s super extra illegal, control of funding is where most actual federal power lies. The federal government has surprisingly little direct authority over the States, so I find it difficult to believe this, especially since the 8 States announced it was coming out of their own budget

I’m pretty sure this is all just bullshit to muddy the waters. I think any truth in this was coordinated with the States, I don’t think they’d reach into the bucket and pull out more than was provisioned to their state

And as far as Louisiana paying it? Not only are they one of the most corrupt states, they’re extremely reliant on aid programs. I find it very easy to believe they had money laying around that they repurposed to avoid a massive problem

No. Actual liberals, like ones that aren’t bought and believe in things, aren’t that bad. They’re just frustrating because they lack imagination about how things could be different

Unfortunately, we’ve basically just had neoliberals since Clinton, and so while actual liberals are pushing in the right direction, they only want to take teeny tiny baby steps to avoid threatening anyone’s bag