washingtonmonthly.com Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly
Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didnāt vote for him.
They did a good job covering that in The Last of Us (season one, episode...4 or 5?): 20ish years post-apocalypse, someone very prepared has kept battery cells in a refrigerator (in acid maybe?) and they have to rebuild the battery before they can use the car, but the battery works.
I think he also genuinely can't comprehend anyone doing anything that isn't for personal gain.
Sometimes it's easier to stop something if you understand why it's happening.
Yeah, we really fucked up making individual wealth so powerful. A healthy society needs at least a balance of collective wealth and individual wealth, and we went way too far. And now they're trying to dismantle the last major structures of collective wealth we haven't already ruined.
Stop asking, "but don't they know how much harm they're doing?!" Yes. They do.
Source is I heard it somewhere and of course now I can't find it. :/
Except sexual selection usually affects one sex, not both. And the extra bone doesn't make the jaw stronger, it makes it weaker.
Yes. Humans have chins, which make jaws weaker. Chins are useless extra bone and essentially a structural defect, but not bad enough for evolution to do anything about.
Yeah, she still seems like a terrible person but probably the least terrible of this whole crew. Certainly less terrible than SBF.
Yeah, for the last couple of years at the food bank when they give out soy or canola oil plenty of people turn it down and say they don't use seed oil because it's toxic. People are missing out on perfectly good food because of these clowns. (I don't like the taste of canola oil but I'll still use it if it's what's available)
No, the mods will just get constant streams of false positive flags they have to clear.
Well he was super violent.
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
Upvoting that probably gets a ban now.
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My mom and I went to Orkney in 2022 and overheard part of a conversation in a shop. My mom asked the clerk what language that was. "... English."
Yes, I only respect journalists who never update their opinions or recommendations given new information. Everyone needs to use psychic foresight to determine the best takes and then never ever change them. Meta was always exactly as bad as it is today. /s
Yeah, I edited the post to call that out specifically
That's not what the article is about. Stack Overflow has kept content that Luigi created up, but removed his username, in violation of Creative Commons. Edited the post to make that more clear.
Preemptive compliance.
Do you have other examples? Because the article gave an example of a similar account that was not anonynized like this. Sure, accounts are often taken down, but the content isn't left up.
substack.evancarroll.com The erasure of Luigi Mangione
The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.
Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magioneās account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as āuser4616250ā.
This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.
When the author asked about this:
As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.
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At a certain point, even with an ever-expanding number of lanes, everyone having their car becomes limiting not freeing. Because we're all on the roads all at the same time all the time, it takes longer to get places and we have to spend more of our time planning on the off-chance there might be traffic because a short drive to Tacoma could be 30 minutes or 2 hours. It doesn't make you feel free to do what you want, because everyone else is also using their freedom to the point that everything is clogged and backed up all the time and everyone is so tired of it all they've taken to driving like maniacs since the pandemic.
This is what toxic individualists don't understand about collectivism: sacrificing a little bit of freedom can get you more freedom in the long run. I sacrifice the freedom to kill random people and in exchange I get freedom from most of the fear of being randomly murdered. I sacrifice the freedom to throw mercury in the garbage and I gain freedom from mercury poisoning. I sacrifice the freedom of driving straight out of my driveway onto a big ugly stroad and I gain the freedom to walk safely out of my front door onto a nice quiet street.
IMG_0001 by Riley Walz: an infinite stream of random iPhone videos from 2009-2012
"Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly."
Babies doing cute things, aerobics classes, amateur drag races, pets looking confused, work presentations, friends hanging out, boats for sale, amateur marching bands... just people living their lives. Most of the videos have fewer than 15 views.
Is there a good "random acts of kindness" community in the fediverse?
I have a friend who likes making care packages for people; anyone know of a good outlet for that? Before Reddit got big there were a few good places on there but I'm drawing a blank now.
wagingnonviolence.org Columbia students are sick at heart ā just as we were in ā68
An organizer of the 1968 Columbia University protests on why the message against war, then and now, is the same.
Most of the leadership of the Columbia strike in 1968 was young men like myself. That no longer appears to be the case ā either at Columbia or the other university protests around the country.
In 1968 we made the mistake of answering the police violence with anger, fighting them and calling them pigs. We blurred the line between nonviolence (the occupation of buildings) and violence (our slogans and rhetoric), thereby undercutting our moral position.
The students protesting the slaughter in Gaza, with their diverse leadership are making no such mistakes. They are thoroughly nonviolent. There may be individuals or provocateurs who defy the strategy, but at least the protesters are trying to make their intention clear. In a little-reported Instagram post last week entitled āColumbiaās Gaza Student Protest Community Values,ā they wrote āAt universities across the nation our movement is united in valuing every human lifeā and āWe firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry.ā Setting up te
www.404media.co Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals
National Nurses United has repeatedly warned about the use of AI in healthcare, saying it put both patients and nurses at risk. Healthcare giants are increasingly integrating it into patient care.
āLife-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,ā the union wrote in the post. āFor example, tell-tale signs of a patientās condition, such as the smell of a patientās breath and their skin tone, affect, or demeanor, are often not detected by AI and algorithms.ā
āNurses are not against scientific or technological advancement, but we will not accept algorithms replacing the expertise, experience, holistic, and hands-on approach we bring to patient care,ā they added.
Video and Blog post: Molly White shows how to start editing Wikipedia
blog.mollywhite.net Video: Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes
A written transcript of my video, 'Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes'.
I started editing Wikipedia more seriously over the last couple of months, and this video has a bunch of useful information and how-tos that I wish I had then, and some stuff that I still didn't know. I really like contributing to such a useful resource, and knowing that every little edit I make helps everybody who wants to learn about that topic!
www.semafor.com NBC News demands Trump campaign take down fake clip of reporter | Semafor
A video shared by a top Trump adviser contains audio edited to make it seem like an NBC reporter is mocking GOP presidential candidates.
A senior Trump advisor shared a video that seems to show an NBC reporter badmouthing Republican presidential candidates. It appears AI was used to imitate the reporter's voice.