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New comment by brickfaced in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

brickfaced — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:21:18 +0000

Comparing the American Revolution to random anarchist terrorists throwing bombs into crowds is... certainly something.

New comment by brickfaced in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

brickfaced — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:11:24 +0000

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New comment by brickfaced in "I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time"

brickfaced — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:45:29 +0000

Nothing about the towns with massive gang-rape grooming gangs. Well, we know why:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46684638

New comment by brickfaced in "Careless People"

brickfaced — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:27:06 +0000

Big if true. Meanwhile, most are pleased with the bans on men in women's sports and DoD doctors sterilizing children, among other executive actions.

New comment by brickfaced in "Careless People"

brickfaced — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:22:20 +0000

The 2024 general election.

New comment by brickfaced in "Careless People"

brickfaced — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:23:07 +0000

Complicity in what, exactly? Democracy? Personally I'm less concerned about Facebook staying neutral in 2016 and more concerned about their election sabotage in 2020:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3616579-zuckerberg-tel...

Of course in the end things turned out for the best, but that's almost certainly not what Sheryl wanted, so I guess it's on theme for the book.

New comment by brickfaced in "Visiting – Epic"

brickfaced — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:31:33 +0000

It's not in the same league as LA, NY, or Chicago but definitely up there (albeit during shorter time windows) with Silicon Valley commuter traffic. Part of a common theme of living in Madison where you get downsides of city living- traffic, high taxes, high housing costs- without many upsides such as good public transport, a diversified job market, or a well-developed food scene.

New comment by brickfaced in "Visiting Us"

brickfaced — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:17:00 +0000

Glad your friends' experiences are exceptional. I know a woman working for Epic in the Madison area who miscarried due to work stress. Madison housing is also a lot less affordable these days, assuming you want to actually live in Madison and not a copy-paste Verona suburb w/ zero walkability:

https://captimes.com/news/madison-home-prices-increased-the-...

And living in Madison means commuting to Epic in Verona, which means contending with Beltline traffic just as bad as 280 during rush hour.

New comment by brickfaced in "Visiting Us"

brickfaced — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:36:06 +0000

I've been told by doctors and nurses that using Epic sucks, mainly because you're doing constant data entry while trying to listen to and care for patients, but that it's still far better than using any of Epic's competitors.

New comment by brickfaced in "Visiting Us"

brickfaced — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:49:57 +0000

Epic is known locally as an exploitative, abusive employer of software engineers. Work-life balance is poor, pay is mediocre for the industry, and skills with their in-house tools don't transfer outside Epic. They have an extensive non-compete clause with EXTREMELY aggressive enforcement:

https://isthmus.com/news/cover-story/opportunity-lost-epic-n...

They're also vehemently opposed to remote work, to the point that during COVID they tried to force employees back into the office in August, 2020 (!) in violation of a county public health order (!!!):

https://www.wpr.org/economy/workers-officials-urge-remote-wo...

Epic's Glassdoor reviews are terrible. Several personal friends each lasted less than a year at Epic out of college before finding new, better-paying employment elsewhere. Since Epic is privately owned and its founder and CEO has stated she'll never sell, its corporate culture will never change. It's better than no job at all but if you have other options, avoid.

New comment by brickfaced in "The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now"

brickfaced — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:05:22 +0000

You're right, not nearly enough people are deported.

New comment by brickfaced in "The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now"

brickfaced — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:40:38 +0000

Land of the free, where police raid your home at dawn over mean tweets:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

https://archive.ph/hETjp

Not a one-off, either:

https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/germans-cant-insult...

New comment by brickfaced in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

brickfaced — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:12:53 +0000

>A story about the most destructive man in the history of high technology

This seems a bit, uh, hyperbolic

New comment by brickfaced in "Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada"

brickfaced — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:52:18 +0000

Makes sense if you're familiar with the professor in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomvEjJAI44

New comment by brickfaced in "‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks"

brickfaced — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:59:01 +0000

The simple answer is that one group's ideological allies grabbed control of the Empire and now they don't want to give it up.

New comment by brickfaced in "‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks"

brickfaced — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:14:09 +0000

Strikes me as odd how one flavor of commenters who've long called for the "end of the American Empire," reductions in our "overseas military imperialism," and closure of the VoA "propaganda outlet" now stand by the institutions of said Empire to the death.

New comment by brickfaced in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

brickfaced — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:33:02 +0000

Can describe in detail how you, a Pakistani, think America should relax its child pornography laws?

New comment by brickfaced in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

brickfaced — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:26:27 +0000

Don't worry, the professional civil rights NGO got it wrong too.

New comment by brickfaced in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

brickfaced — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:20:29 +0000

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New comment by brickfaced in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

brickfaced — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:19:16 +0000

What does the editorial decision of a newspaper's owner, which runs counter to the unconcealed biases of many who remain gainfully employed at the paper, have to do with legal freedoms of association and expression?