The Executive is the most visible branch of the US government and it lends itself to celebrity worship and cult of personality, being embodied in a single person. Most Americans can't name their representatives at any level but everyone knows who the President is.
And like a CEO, the President tends to get credit for everything.
I remember when Hillary Clinton said "it takes a village to raise a child" and she was mocked by conservatives and accused of undermining parental rights and wanting governments to control families.
And when BLM made it part of their charter to encourage community support for children beyond the typical nuclear unit they were accused of a radical Marxist agenda to "destroy families."
For some reason the very concept of extended families and community engenders deep anger and hostility from some Americans, and that's odd for a nation of immigrants considering how common the "whole society of aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins" is in the rest of the world.
> For some reason the very concept of extended families and community engenders deep anger and hostility from some Americans
I think because excessive individualism plays into the hands of large companies. There is an individualist culture that has naturally grown over time in the US, but it has also been pushed by big corporations because if you can't depend on your neighbors and extended family, you need to spend money to fill the gaps.
But when leftists says things like community support, it doesn't bring up images of traditional villages and extended families. It brings up images of communists saying things like abolish the family. Naturally, due to their history.
It's not like leftists are known for their traditional family values now or then, so why should it be taken that way?
Yes, when you intentionally take what leftists say in bad faith and stereotype them negatively, then the bad faith interpretation and negative stereotypes make sense. But normal people don't hear "communism" when leftists say "community support."
Also given how many people espousing "traditional family values" among the right turn out to be abusers, pedophiles, rapists, deadbeats, etc, what you might consider "traditional" values don't actually mapped to the left-right political axis at all.
And I assume you didn't bother reading my comment or this thread very hard and just wanted to dunk on the left, but the American nuclear family isn't "traditional family values" to begin with.
>Pick the wrong one and your project gets screwed when the random anonymous instance owner decides to shut it down or go on a power trip.
You say this as if it happens often, but it's more likely that a smaller instance will go under because of costs, and there are tons of perfectly fine instances where this doesn't happen at all.
Also you can join more than one instance.
Also it costs very little to host your own instance.
This is not a problem that exists for most people using Mastodon.
I agree the onboarding process is a bit confusing but really it isn't much more confusing than subscribing to a subreddit, except your identity only exists on that subreddit rather than a separate account.
Which I would definitely agree is a flaw but not an insurmountable obstacle.
The "anti-DEI camp" is basically entirely MAGA and MAGA-adjacent bigots.
It would be one thing if they were actually arguing for actual equality in hiring (which wouldn't bias for or against any race or gender - under the naive belief that no implicit bias exists to begin with) but one can very easily tell by their dialogue that they believe all people of color and all women are fundamentally unqualified by default and that a "fair" playing field would, in their view, reflect white supremacist and patriarchal ideals.
There is no "anti-DEI" movement to speak of otherwise. As with so many other "anti-woke" movements, it's bigots all the way down.
Biden is guilty of being a Democrat in the middle of a Republican putsch. If Trump had tried forgiving student loans it would have gone off without a hitch. Congress would have fallen in line and SCOTUS would have favored him. Everyone complaining that Biden was practicing communism would be praising Trump instead.
Weird how the NRA party is currently trampling on freedom of the press, freedom of expression and protest, but America's well armed patriots are just sitting around polishing their barrels about it.
No. I'm talking about the current administration, which has done far worse in attacking first amendment rights than Obama ever did by any sane measure.
If you're going to do a whataboutism at least try to make it work. America's gun owners were practically chomping at the bit to start shooting over Obama's imaginary Marxist revolution, as much as they couldn't care less about Trump's actual authoritarianism today.
I absolutely do think more people need to use Lua, especially for config. The language does have some rough edges (what language doesn't) but I always suggest Lua tables whenever a thread about JSON and its discontents comes around. It's minimalistic, it allows for comments, you don't have to quote strings. You do have to avoid the temptation to add logic. But at this point most of 'yall are using some bespoke language to generate YAML to probably generate more YAML so the horses of complexity creep have already fled the barn.
That said I'm probably too old school but I really still prefer the "old" method of templating. It's a lot easier for me to reason about the structure of the HTML site-wide when I can actually see the HTML. Of course a lot of modern programmers can't read HTML and it would just seem like noise to them, which is fine. I think a lot of the rationale behind something like this is readability and that's often a matter of what you're comfortable with. I personally worry that this would become difficult to follow once you're dealing with a large and complex site with nested and fragmentary templates.
Then again, this is basically how most modern websites work using front end templates with javascript - all of the HTML is generated, so I'm probably just being an old man yelling at clouds here.
The point about the old design parsing HTML is fair, but if you want a templating language at some point something has to do that and you don't want it to be the browser. You don't want to do what most untemplated PHP does and just toss interpolated strings into the response and just make it the end user's problem. The Lua version here inevitably winds up doing a lot of the same work. Treating a templating language like an actual language and having an actual parser may seem like overkill but it also makes features like context-aware escaping, caching and plugins easier.
I don't think that attribute order is a problem in HTML - the spec doesn't care, the browser doesn't care, you shouldn't care. But if you do care, I don't think arranging attributes in alphabetical order is the best solution. There is apparently an informal HTML attribute ordering standard for this: (https://dev.to/bawa_geek/a-standardised-approach-to-html-att...). Which again, doesn't really matter with HTML but does match what developers would expect to see.
If I had to suggest improvements in terms of architecture it would be to either use something like Teal (a compile-to-lua language that lets you add types,) and LuaJIT, which has plugins that improve the performance of strings and tables, and serializing data. And rather than dynamically generating everything, statically cache as much of the HTML as possible.
Just remember that if you publish them to the web, you give up "first publication rights" that might prevent you from being able to publish them elsewhere later. The web does count as "publishing" regardless of whether you get paid.
If you don't care about that, just make a website and put them all on it. Maybe avoid a third party platform since you won't have complete ownership of your content. Any static site generator will work. I personally suggest Nikola but it doesn't matter. Anything that can generate a simple blog format should work.
You might also consider setting up a Mastodon account and pushing links to your stories there. I don't know how big the writing community is there but it's probably not nothing.
I wouldn't bother with a literary agent unless you're a professional looking to be signed by a major publisher and self-publishing platforms tend to be scams.
Problem is everything else is getting eaten by AI so I wouldn't even know how to market in this scenario.
The go-to site for finding markets for speculative fiction used to be ralan.com but it looks like it closed in 2023[0].
This is true. Personally I always try to get my work published with a third-party first, and then I talk with the editors to clarify policies. Most smaller magazines and publishers are pretty flexible, they’ll often have some provisions in place to allow you to re-publish original works on your own website after a certain period of time, if that’s the route you want to take.
It’s the approach I’ve used in the past with places like Paged Out and 2600 Hacker Quarterly.
I know the author of the Martian published that story first on his website, but I don’t really know the layout / or what “first publication rights” be or entail. I have to do my research - and yes, I never have used AI writing any of them so I’m kinda scrambling now to find a way to do this before it can. thank you
This entire thread has swiftly descended upon by bots, shills and sockpuppets. It'll be flagged before any hope of finding good faith conversation in the morass.
It's just weird to see it here, honestly. I wouldn't have expected the ROI on this board to be worth it. It just feels, whatever the admins think, more like reddit with this crap.
The problem with green alt accounts trolling threads like this has been getting worse for a while. I don't know what can be done about it other than to just flag them, but that doesn't stop them.
And like a CEO, the President tends to get credit for everything.
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