WanderingVentra

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[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

The tea party was still an astroturfed movement by many of those same rich people that were in power, like the Koch brothers.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If Trump is going to establish himself as a dictator, then this kind of group is even more important. Lots of socialist groups have toppled totalitarian leaders, and when they haven't, it's usually because of western countries like the US helping the dictator. Of course, it might have to run underground a bit more, but solidarity between various organizations will be extremely important in the upcoming 4 years.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's like being Cassandra, the Greek seer who can see the future but is cursed to forever be not believed.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The infrastructure bill and Lina Khan are the only things I've noticed. I think someone I know got a Pell Grant and was helped by that possibly? But ya, too many of these things are so mean-tested and you have to jump through hoops to get them that so many people don't benefit that people end up not caring. It's the equivalent of saying you got so many a band-aid for multiple stab wounds. Ya I guess it's better than nothing but it's not going to stop the bleeding and it's definitely not good enough for the problems the country is facing and how people feel about it. The Democrats just blame the Republicans for being awful, and they are, but they also have an extremely limited imagination in what they promise and give. It ends up leading to the ratchet effect. The Republicans turn us right, and the Democrats only reverse a few things, so we end up more right than before. This trend isn't sustainable and this combination is why we're turning fascist today.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I believe it. Coming in blind having never having seen the original probably helped a lot.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you're right that turnout in 2020 was kind of an anomaly from being higher than normal. The stats I found, and this is just what I am seeing referenced so I'll keep trying to find a source, is that Trump had 4 million less than 2020 but Democrats had 15 million less. So a general depression of turnout but way more from the Democrat's camp than Trump's.

But either way, if people are moving right, I think they can also be moved to the left, too. I tend to think that it happens when current times are bad, than they stop wanting to move forward and they look for scapegoats. We just need a more equitable economy that works for everyone, and not just the rich.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good idea. I haven't used my local library in awhile, but I'm worried about library funding with Trump. It's why this is the first time in a long time I looked into a book from the library. I'm using any excuse to like you said, argue their services are being actively used. It's good to hear it confirmed that it does actually help librarians and that they're encouraging that.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's exactly what happened. Trump's turnout was about the same, but Dems turnout was 15 million less than 2020. That shows not that people are going more right ward and voting for Trump, but that Dems turnout was depressed due to apathy or something else.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

First off, no. White men are still in everything and everyone in Hollywood is still hot, stop being a crybaby because some minorities are in your movies and games now. They're still not the majority at all, and it's nice to see some other representation for a change.

Second, woke doesn't matter. If they offer actual left economic policies, cultural clashes fall by the wayside. The only reason people fight about dumb cultural stuff like that is that they don't believe either party will help them materially. And yet that's basically the only reason Trump won. Everyone I know said they voted for him because of the economy, not once did anyone I hear mention that he'll fix "woke", whatever that means.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Going to give an old example and a new example.

I remember liking the Aeon Flux movie. Don't remember too much about it, but I remember enjoying it, and favorably comparing it to Ultraviolet which came out around the same time. Recently I heard someone bring it up in a podcast as a terrible movie and it turns out it's pretty universally panned lol.

A more recent example is The Watchers. I thought it was pretty good and kept my interest the whole time, but seems pretty middling from reviews. A lot of people especially didn't like the ending, which I guess was kind of sudden, but still alright imo. Not noteworthy in being especially bad or anything.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I thought it did some cool stuff with making the Facehuggers scary again and the

Tap for spoilerHybrid alien was cool. Although apparently that was a reference to an alien movie I haven't seen yet or something?

Anyway, I really liked it as well.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I really liked that movie. Great example for me, too.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44904749

I heard about this in the UK elections recently, and someone recommended it to me recently for the US elections, because I said I empathize with the people who are voting against Kamala because of the genocide, despite being a Kamala supporter myself (you've probably seen me around arguing as such lol).

Basically, it's a system where people in safe states, like me, agree to trade votes with someone in a swing state. So the safe state person would vote with the heart of the person in the swing state, so they can kind of vote their heart and mind at the same time.

Is this a thing we could set up? Would it be legal to make a community for that, or would it rub against laws about affecting votes or something? There was even a whole site for the UK, but not sure if it would work in the US.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42813294

Hey Lemmy,

What are your favorite horror movies from Blumhouse?

I went to Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights this year and they had the whole tram Blumhouse themed. I liked to watch horror movies during this spooky season, so i think catching up on some of these ones seems like a good place to start this year.

 

What I think I know : They tried to take a picture at Arlington National Cemetery, but couldn't? There was a physical altercation maybe? But the Trump campaign said there wasn't?

Is there more to this? Can someone explain to me the context of how this is a scandal?

Like I hate Trump but I don't understand why this is a big deal. It doesn't seem to involve the man personally, just some staffers who had an argument with a cemetery worker, and seems like small potatoes compared to other scandals he's had. Is it because of how sacred the cemetary is, or did they get into an actual fist fight, or did Trump personally interfere in some way?

 
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by WanderingVentra@lemm.ee to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
 

I'd love a Nature is Fucking Lit community over here on Lemmy. I just saw the cutest post on Reddit there and I'd love to spread it or see it over here. (I look at reddit without a profile while at my work computer sometimes, don't judge me lol).

Think I should post it to the lemmy.world one to revive that one? Looks like that hasn't been active in a few months.

I also wonder if it's better to use this opportunity when it's possibly dead to revive the community somewhere else? Like maybe mander.xyz since nature is connected to science or something? Or maybe the solar punk instance? Is there a better place someone can think of or should we stick to the Lemmy.world one?

What do people think?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by WanderingVentra@lemm.ee to c/movies@lemm.ee
 

We're looking at movies to watch for Father's Day and my dad has already watched most of the ones out right now, so that eliminates the ones I want to see (Furiosa, The Fall Guy) and he's not interested in Planet of the Apes. That basically leaves the Watchers.

Anyone see it yet and have any opinions on it? Going either way to spend time with my father, but want to know how low to set my mind expectations lol.

 

I know they're posting diss tracks against each other, but I'm not sure why? What made this start? And how was J. Cole involved? And how has this feud evolved so far?

I feel so out of the loop on this one! All I see is reaction images of the songs and Kendrick destroying Drake, but without the context of why they were posted, I'm still confused.

 

The subgenre is called "bebop." Get some Charlie Parker albums. He recorded some great songs with Dizzy Gillespie. Jet is talking to Spike about talking to Charlie Parker in a dream in the casino episode, iirc. The style of music is fast tempo, quick key changes, novel chord progressions, and virtuoso performers making new music out of standards. It's analogous to the storytelling in the manga, and to the characters themselves. Each is supremely competent, acting on their own, but complementing and supporting the others to make something extraordinary. The whole soundtrack is a wide range of genres, and it was all written and performed by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, which is especially impressive because of the sheer variety of styles.

Tank! is more driving trumpets and melodic than classic bebop, so you might also check out some Wynton Marsalis. He played what is called "neo-bop" which was a popular revival of bebop in the 1980s.

Jazz aficionados would probably classify Tank! as "hard-bop" of which there are many great albums and musicians. John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was one of my favorite albums growing up, but that was the tail end of his hard-bop phase. I would probably suggest Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers album "Hard Bop" as the quintessential hard-bop album.

 

Hey everyone, I'm part of a company that's been trying to modernize. Our team has switched to Agile, switched to some cloud storage, and is slowly trying to add automated tests to its various legacy applications. I know normally automated tests would just be done with the user story as part of the definition of done, and while going forward I want to do that with future user stories, I still I want to be able to keep track of the large amount of work to do with adding automated tests to cover the huge parts of the code already done. It will be kind of a large development effort by itself done by at least 2-3 devs/juniors, and me kind of leading this effort but pretty new at it myself lol.

We're using Azure DevOps which has organized things from big to small with Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks. We're trying to decide how to frame and track the work within this context. So even though user stories aren't the best way to illustrate this from what I've read because it isn't user driven functionality, it's the best way to track with what we got, so with that context, here are the ideas so far.

  1. One person suggested an Automated Test Feature, sticking it in this Global epic we have for miscellaneous structure and framework work. Then make one user story each with all automated tests a module has, giving each individual class and pages to test within those modules with a task, and writing within the description the individual tests for each page/class. They don't want the backlog diluted with too many of these automated test stories I think.

  2. Another person suggested creating an Epic for automated tests user stories created up to now, then a feature for each module, then a user story for each class/page to be tested, then a task for each test the developer has to make for each one of those. This person was me, I thought it felt more organized and you can see what dev is working on what piece, but I can see how it balloons the backlog with a ton more user stories for this effort. Although it's at least all in one Epic folder that's easy to ignore.

  3. Our QA wanted one only user story for all automated tests to really prevent clutter, but also was okay with the first idea when I kind of pushed back on it. Since all user stories are usually tested by them and this is kind of superfluous stuff mostly for devs at the moment that isn't application functionality, so I can see why they want it as small and out of the way in the backlog as possible.

  4. Another person just suggested creating a user story for each test, but instead of putting them all in one place, placing them in the proper Feature category that the originating story is kind of testing went in. I get the logic of this, too, but I was afraid of it being confusing for it to track being all scattered around, and user and system driven functionality mixed with tests. But then, I guess we also categorize things in sprints, so maybe this wouldn't be as confusing as I first thought.

Anyway, if anyone had any suggestions or a better way to organize it than these, let me know!

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