Nick Marino

@fredlambert I would've agreed with this take until the Trump v US decision, but the checks and balances that existed last time he was in office are totally broken now. Obviously Harris isn't a communist, but given Trump could break laws with impunity next time around, who knows what he'd do?

If you feel anxiety about this election cycle, I don't blame you. That's precisely where media and social media want you. But I'd keep in mind that whatever happens if Trump wins, it likely won't be anywhere near as bad as what the left is claiming right now. And if Harris is elected, it also likely won't be anywhere near as bad as what the right is claiming. If you are on either side of that spectrum and you find yourself agreeing with only half of the paragraph above, you are fooling yourself if you think that the other side is exaggerating things but yours isn't.

@rachbarnhart @carolynhbick Yeah I will never forgive the Y for this. They neglected the city locations for decades, then cried about them losing money. Meanwhile they're dumping absurd sums into upgrading the suburbs, and surprise, people actually want to go to those locations. So backward.

@carolynhbick And Monroe!

This popped up in my feed. The city doesn’t have anything like this. But the legislature decided to direct funds to this facility in the name of Covid relief and exclude the city from enhancing its own.

@fredlambert "As its name suggests, stainless steel still stains and rust but less so than other steels." Of course! Just like how somebody who is "blameless" is still partly to blame, just LESS so. I bought some boneless wings the other day and was surprised to find they had no bones at all!

I've looked into the reports on Tesla Cybertrucks rusting already. My thoughts are that it's real. It doesn't seem widespread. There's a misconception that stainless steel doesn't rust. As its name suggests, stainless steel still stains and rust but less so than other steels. The current issue with rust spots on Cybertruck bodies appears to be due to environmental factors like rail dust and bird poop and such. The fix is easy and obvious: clean the truck. Clay bars appears to do a good job.

@FlaumEye I'm sorry, but what's the point of hiring a bunch of fancy specialists when your regular optometrists are totally overwhelmed and are booking out almost a year in advance? You can't "expand your reach" unless people can get the basic eye care they need first...

New blog article! One of the goals of the Flaum Eye Institute is to expand our reach and make sure everyone has access to high-quality eye care. In the last few years, we've expanded our reach with several new offices. Read more about expansion efforts: urmc.rochester.edu/eye-institute/…

@rachbarnhart If out-of-town landlords like this one walk, then maybe outside investors will stop driving up property prices so much, and more folks can afford to buy (and maintain) their own homes

Leaving tenants in squalor is immoral. But what the city is doing is not productive because landlords will walk away. And the city has NO plan for that. People need $ for rent. Government needs to build more affordable housing. wxxinews.org/local-news/202…

social media guy: what song should we use for the new demo elon: remember the scene in ex machina where robots stab a guy

@rachbarnhart Sure but I mean, you know this is all just a workaround for an injunction due to a lawsuit, right? I wish there were a better workaround, or that there hadn't been a lawsuit in the first place, but it kinda seems like folks are doing the best they can given the circumstances

Temporary shop can likely only stay open through end of the year. This is so much more complicated than it needs to be. #ROC wxxinews.org/local-news/202…

We’ve written and released a general purpose OSS library, called proptest-stateful, that will help with writing stateful property tests in Rust. Check out the full blog and Github repo: blog.readyset.io/stateful-prope…

@Fortissimona Also they left out the suspended hyphen, it should be "animal- and plant-based", unless they meant that each individual protein is based on both animals and plants 🙃

I'm crying, why didn't they say meat here 😭😭😭

College graduation speeches are often evergreen. They can be given at any time, similar from decade to decade. Which is why Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker’s “How To Spot An Idiot” at Northwestern’s graduation is so genius. It is the speech for TODAY

@rachbarnhart @MonroeCC Been a long time since I was an MCC student so I don’t remember all the details, but I thought it was basically free in NY already thanks to TAP

Ways & Means last night. @MonroeCC gave presentation on its budget. I asked how many students get Excelsior Scholarship. Only 200. I didn't realize it's only for 4-year track, full-time students, which makes it have limited value at MCC. NY should make community college free.

@egggirl @Nrpp15 I mean, average price on that menu is ~11 GBP which is 14 USD. That's probably about the average price I've seen for a nicer cocktail in Rochester lately. You'd expect London prices to be higher since it's a big expensive city, but the exchange rate is good right now so 🤷‍♂️

@Fortissimona That’s pretty mean to clowns

Breaking news: people find out the Supreme Court is a bunch of clowns from Clown College.

remember what they took from us

@rachbarnhart Right, but the ethical solution is to help poor people escape poverty, or at least to help them afford better housing. Rent control feels good because it feels like it's helping address inequality, but the science shows that it does the opposite on a systemic level

@Nickelization Well, if you do away with rent control, you need to fill in the gap for people with low incomes. Can't have it both ways.

The landlord quoted is correct. The city’s plan doesn’t fix the math problem. “I think we need…subsidies or incentivizing responsible low-income housing providers through subsidies to deliver the type of housing quality we want to see as a community.” wxxinews.org/local-news/202…

@joedevivo @jpease Hey, don't think we ever overlapped but I'm also ex-Basho and I'd be happy to refer you to ReadySet if you're interested. We're building an open source SQL cache in Rust and are hiring for a "developer productivity engineer" position that sounds like it might be a good fit

I'm on the job market! Hire me for Elixir, Build & CI Infrastructure, DevOps, Nix, Rust. Looking to start in July, happy to talk now.

@_saffron_ Those biscotti were just the beginning 😂

Vet: Your pet may have reduced appetite post-surgery since he fasted before the dental procedure. Marmalade: Upon coming home, IMMEDIATELY jumps on table and RIPS OPEN a bag of human beignets

Just thinking about how the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one

@rachbarnhart @KarlWaelder I agree we need both new units as well as support for people struggling right now, but the article from the original tweet seems to be framing it as an either/or decision (“eggs in the wrong basket”, etc.).

@KarlWaelder We absolutely need a massive # of new units. The point of advocates is what do we do in the short term for people struggling right now?

👉 "“The truth is, it just takes a really long time to build a building,” Weaver explained. Instead, Weaver and other housing advocates are urging Hochul to reconsider rental assistance to help low-income New Yorkers pay their rent as well as tenant protections."