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user-inactivated  ·  2163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 25, 2018

- My popcorn popper just let a cruncha buncha smoke and is ded. RIP. The previous owner died in '82, so I guess it had a good run.

- My boss tried to guilt me today for not working as hard as I could. I was having none of it.

- Windows 10 review: ok for playing games. The rest of it, though? Just finished writing an OpenBSD install image to my thumb drive, because I can't get a virtual machine to work in Windows 10 Pro.

- Finished reading Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Would recommend, but it is deffos a survey.

- Starting The War on Leakers: National Security and American Democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden by Lloyd C. Gardner. Impulse checkout from the Library.

- Also starting Understanding Power which is an anthology of Chomsky edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel.

user-inactivated  ·  2191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 28, 2018

    Married folks of Hubski, how did you propose?

To continue a developing theme:

She was hung over and had just woken up. I'd actually done it drunkenly the night before, but she didn't appear to remember.

user-inactivated  ·  2412 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Happy Saturday Hubski. Have a regal looking African Dog.

Rabbit watch.

Indication of possible sightings.

user-inactivated  ·  2427 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

    Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Yes.

Boomers, we need to have a talk.

You barely know how to open up anything that isn't text messaging on that S8. You're still sending group MMS messages to communicate with your family. Swype got enabled, you're not sure how, and now it takes you a life age to compose 'LOL :kissing-face: see u then' because you don't know how to turn it off again.

So, please.

Put the phone down.

Your crossover is straddling the lane divide.

Put the phone down.

Isn't fiddling with the Sirius-XM enough to keep you entertained?

Put the phone down.

Put the phone down and drive.

user-inactivated  ·  2447 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Falafel Dinner

"Wanna get crazy tonight? I could get cocaine and falafel."

Overheard a guy say that as we passed his elevator this morning.

FALAFEL IS TRENDING!

user-inactivated  ·  2452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We’re losing a whole generation of young men to video games

    Men aged 21 to 30 worked 12 percent fewer hours in 2015 than in 2000.

U-6 was 7% in Jul 2000, 10.3% in Jul 2015.

That's not video games. That's the economy.

user-inactivated  ·  2459 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 4th Weekly Bakers' Thread

I ended up not feeling well enough to want to bake, but Steph turned the dough into a pizza!

The peppers are home pickled. The half without them is mine!

user-inactivated  ·  2460 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Trump Administration Is Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights

    That would be bad to get purged accidentally. However to implement a proper system to match more than names seems to be possible and would require similar information to what was requested in the article. Last four of a social in particular would he pretty discriminating.

Kobach already had that at the state level when I got purged. See above where he's declining to share the last four with the commission. He may not be (able to be) using it in Crosscheck for legal reasons, but he's been in power for a good while now.

His failure to implement a better system in that time is damning enough.

    Maintaining ownership of a birth certificate is just part of being an adult. You use it often. And I know they go missing sometimes, but it's kind of something you just have to fix, regardless of your intent to vote.

Maybe I'm just floating through life on luck, but you use yours often? Soc Sec card, I'll agree with, but birth certificate?

The only time I can recall I've had to use mine to function in society in the past decade was to get a new Soc Sec card issued after running the old one through the washer.

You know who's just learning to adult? College students, which (surprisingly enough) Kansas has a fair amount of.

Can't think of a reason that might be an issue in such a red state. Oh, wait.

    BRYAN LOWRY: So in 2014, when we had the last gubernatorial election, there were more than 20,000 people who were in a suspended status. So those were people who could have possibly cast their ballots in the gubernatorial election but were unable to. And when you think about the governor's race being decided by a little bit more than 30,000 votes, that's pretty significant.

    CHANG: And your paper did an analysis of who these people were. What groups were disproportionately affected by this law?

    LOWRY: People under 30, a cluster also in urban areas, so Wichita, the state's largest city, college towns like Lawrence, Kan., where the University of Kansas is, which makes sense because you might have a voting drive on campus, not every freshman is walking around with their birth certificate in their wallet.

For context, Douglas county (which is home to Lawrence) voted 29.7% for Trump in the general. Sanders got a smidge north of 82% of caucus goers earlier in the year. It is a little to the left of the nation, let alone the state.

It may be that Kobach is generally concerned about election validity, but it is easy to be skeptical about how he's gone about this.

    However, the arguments of getting an ID being too difficult don't sit well with me.

There is a difference between providing ID, and providing proof of citizenship.

KS directly requires the latter to get your foot into the electoral process. They're worried about non-citizens voting, but instead of the state assuming the burden of proving the integrity of their elections, they took that burden and placed it onto first time voters.

    The court noted the "magnitude of harm" caused by 18,372 applicants at motor vehicle offices who were denied registration due to the state's proof-of-citizenship law.

Worth noting that all this is just to get registered. We also have to show ID at a polling place.

___________________________

It takes me a really long time to compose my thoughts. I've been typing away for over an hour now: I started pretty much when I saw you posted your reply.

I feel my tone here might fairly be described as 'angry', but I'm kinda strung for time so I'm not gonna go back and edit it too much.

I'm angry at the situation, not you. You're cool.

user-inactivated  ·  2460 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Trump Administration Is Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights

    4. They put a guy on the commission the author doesn't like politically. That doesn't mean a whole lot to me. Specifically the idea of voter id laws do not bother me, but this person is taking the idea of voter id laws as a systematic attack on voting rights.

Having had to deal with trying to get friends registered to vote in KS, I do have problems with voter id laws in the Kobach style.

Needing a birth certificate sounds like a low bar, until you encounter someone who doesn't have one. Then it is a fucking pain.

- They have to pay to get one.

- They have to know how to get one.

- They have to have the information to get one.

- They have to plan ahead of time to get one.

- They have to believe in the system enough to jump through all of the hoops above.

I'm pretty happy that I've gotten several friends to register and then go vote. But, I've never done it with any of my friends who didn't have a birth certificate on hand.

It disproportionately disadvantages people who are already disillusioned with and poorly served by our government. It prevents them from having a voice on the local level (people w/o citizenship proof can still vote federally in KS), where their voice will have the biggest impact.

Interesting to note: my friends without birth certificates can still register to vote federally in Kansas. But the fact that they won't be trusted to vote locally was a big enough red flag to them that they've decided not to vote at all.

    but this person is taking the idea of voter id laws as a systematic attack on voting rights.

Kobach isn't doing himself any favors in his attempts to dispel this view.

    He asked for public information.

Which, interesting to note, isn't the same as asking for information that his own department is willing to provide.

     How would Kobach use this data? Look at his efforts in Kansas. His Interstate Crosscheck program compares registration lists among states to search for double voting, but because it uses very rudimentary data—only voters’ first and last names and date of birth—it generates thousands of false matches, leading to misleading claims about the prevalence of double voting that results in legitimate voters being removed from the rolls.

I've been bitten by this.

Having done everything right, only to be turned away from the polls?

It sucks. I'm now paranoid about checking every week to make sure I'm still registered in the run up to elections.

user-inactivated  ·  2470 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski. It's a random Thursday. Share something random yet enjoyable with your fellow hubskiers.

    “Kindness is invincible.”

    ― Marcus Aurelius

user-inactivated  ·  2488 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pesky whippersnappers are now destroying Applebees, apparently.

Yep, this is basically why I still live in Kansas. Flyover land is fucking cheap.

We've got a roughly 1100 sqft apartment, built around 2000, for $750 after pet rent.

My neighbors keep remarking on how expensive it is compared to the rest of the rental market here.

Multiple local roasters in town. Two brewpubs, soon to be three. Three farmers markets.

And we're able to live working part time so we have the time to enjoy the above.

We'll probably buy a home here, but I want to travel to a few places first. See if there isn't a part of the country I'll fall in love with before I take on a mortgage.

user-inactivated  ·  2518 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm not welcome as a teacher, don't know why.

    Few hours ago I had a short discussion via email with the principal that boils down to "we don't really want you to do any more lessons" with some of the least supported by evidence reasons I've seen this side of "we need to make more ice cubes to combat global warming".

You were donating your time to the school, and the principal wasn't professional enough to have a straight conversation with you? I'd venture the reasons aren't terribly important, because office politics are inane at the best of times.

The real question is,

    I actually feel really, really, good in a role of lecturer.

do you want to find another outlet for that?

user-inactivated  ·  2535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Telling children 'hard work gets you to the top' is simply a lie

    Of course, if you are poor, a woman, or a minority, in the US, the deck is stacked against you. It is significantly more difficult for you to 'get to the top'. Unfortunately, because we invest so little in the education of our poor, by the time they grow to become their own advocates, they are often so far behind that there is little hope of ever catching up.

I read this passage last night, from the close of Malcolm's portion of The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley:

    My greatest lack has been, I believe, that I don't have the kind of academic education I wish I had been able to get -- to have been a lawyer, perhaps. I do believe that I might have made a good lawyer. I have always loved verbal battle, and challenge. You can believe me that if I had the time right now, I would not be one bit ashamed to go back into any New York City public school and start where I left off at the ninth grade, and go on through a degree. Because I don't begin to be academically equipped for so many of the interests that I have.
user-inactivated  ·  2566 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what does your productivity palace look like?

Pictured:

- grocery list note pad

- journal w/ pens of different inks for color coding

- the bowl of misc items

Located in the highest traffic part of the apartment.

I also capture some notes on my desktop

user-inactivated  ·  2571 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You must be logged in to view this post.

1) rd95's idea is a good one. Being able to share posts as an individual is a good thing. If we go behind a wall, users who have gained the ability to set community tags should be able to generate temporary share links for friends.

2) If you aren't logged in, the site shouldn't be blank. Instead, show only the badged content. That is what the community has vetted and feels is valuable. Make that our public face.

There are multiple ways you could tweak this to react to gaming by spammers, but that's the gist of it.

user-inactivated  ·  2625 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 18, 2017

- We're all moved and settled in to the new place: living in a building that has ADA floor plans is amazing for lugging bicycles about. My inlaws bought us a washer and drier, which was super nice of them.

- In light of the fact that this place is 2x as big as the one we came from, I'm pretty sure I can squeeze in a hammock-stand (looking at a turtle dog design) in here somewhere. I've thrown together the plans I'm going off of in blender to get a rough idea of the space I need, now I just need to see which room it'll fit in to. I'm waffling between buying a cheap hammock from the local hiking store, or trying to sew up my own. I know I could do a simple one sewing my own, but if I try it I'd probably want to add in a bugnet too since there is a free walk-in public use area with in biking distance of here.

- I'm learning to juggle!