It’s an illusion. Not that many people care (which was the problem in November), but the ones who do are loud about it.

The issue is one of education. The Republicans have been spewing non-stop misinformation, and the populace is too uneducated to understand the difference. When people actually know what’s going on and understand it, they overwhelmingly oppose conservative policies. Which is why Project 2025 wants to take a sledgehammer to public education.

If Democrats diverted all of their advertising budget toward remedial education of the electorate, I think they’d find themselves in a much better state in 2028.

It’s not exactly 0%. Their ineptitude is still fully on display, and that’s always been our greatest hope. But it is pretty bleak, and pinning our future on the hopes that the other side makes a mistake only makes it bleaker.

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That just means it’s in active development and will come to the beta browser soon, and then to the stable version.

“ugh I know exactly why this is happening” is such a frustrating feeling. Especially when it’s stuff that should’ve been found in testing, or that you know probably was found in testing, but they deprioritized the fix.

The reasoning he went through on that was hilarious. It’s definitely something that a person stuck on Mars would think about.

I’m currently mid-migration from Windows to Linux, so I have to wait until the Windows release or until I finish migrating (I’m not really up for building a beta at this point), but I’m very excited.

I’m keeping an eye on Zed: https://zed.dev/

Yeah, AI, whatever. It’s written in Rust and looks pretty great.

I mean, the real reason is that Chrome added them four years ago. Like it or not, when Chrome adds something, it becomes a de facto standard for browsers.

People work for corporations.

They are mostly the same as keeping them in separate browser windows, but with the advantage of being in one browser window. They also have the advantage of being label-able.

I don’t keep tabs open forever, but back when I used Chrome I regularly used tab groups when I was working on multiple projects simultaneously; the Jira ticket, the PRD, the API documentation, the necessary AWS consoles, and the GitHub PR for one project go in a tab group. Name that group and collapse it, and now you can easily reopen it again when you’re ready to switch contexts.

“Why not just put them in a separate window?” Sometimes that’s preferable. Sometimes both solutions together are better. On a single monitor, having everything in one window is usually preferable for my workflow. In any case, you can’t name a separate window. And if you use a sidebar extension, they aren’t persistent across multiple windows.

“Why not just use bookmarks?” Bookmarks are a long term solution. Tab groups solve the short term problem. They’re ephemeral.

“Why not just close the tabs until you need them again?” I do that as much as I can. But it’s not practical in all cases. One project is in active development, one is in PR Review, one is in QA, and I have a support escalation I need to work on in the meantime. Each of those tabs might be needed at any time during the week.

And frankly the only one that matters, assuming they can get the voice cast signed on for it.

Edit: and maybe even if they can’t. The kids are going to age out of their roles at some point anyway, and while Bandit’s and Chilli’s voices are iconic and perfect, I think if I had to choose I’d rather have Brumm writing and someone else doing the voices than the original people voicing the parents and Brumm out.

He was an animator on Peppa Pig, yeah. I don’t think he ever had any creative control.

It’s remarkable to me how much better Bluey is than Peppa. Kids have no taste, but hopefully that quality keeps Bluey at least as popular as the pig.

The “I want to buy your house” things are a little bit different, because they’re usually not technically scams (though they are definitely predatory). If you work with them, you will probably receive money in exchange for your house. It’s just that your sale price is likely to be far, far below what you could’ve received by listing it yourself on the open market.

They’re exclusively targeting people who don’t know how much their property is worth. Usually people in transitioning neighborhoods who bought their home 40 years ago for $10k, who don’t know that their property alone is worth $200k today and will happily take $80k cash from some rando on the phone because they think the 800% return is a great deal.

I’ve lived in neighborhoods like that for a while. The phone calls we receive are insane; in our old house, which we knew was worth $300k because we had just had it appraised to put it on the market, the guy on the phone offered us $65k sight unseen. I was like, “if you even took the twelve seconds to look at this property on Street View you’d know why that is a laughable idea.”

I’m a parent, and I don’t want special treatment. Some consideration would be nice, but honestly I just want every employee to be treated like adults.

Yeah, I get twitchy when I have more than about ten tabs open. My senior regularly has thousands, across multiple browser windows. There are two types of people.

It’s not your right to (do) work. It’s the employer’s right to (have) work (provided to them at low cost). So you’re absolutely right about the FFPUWW.

It’s not your right to (do) work. It’s the employer’s right to (have) work (provided to them at low cost).

True. But that doesn’t excuse someone’s decisions when they are presented with the consequences of their actions. Even if it doesn’t affect anyone you know, you can still make moral decisions about how to treat them.