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This reminds me of a quote from Peter Schiff, circa 2008 housing crash. To paraphrase,

“too-big-to-fail eventually becomes too-big-to keep alive"

In practice, it opened the flood gates for corporations and oligarchs to pour money into the electoral system. [1] Do you like technocracy? Because this is how you get technocracy.

[1] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/citizens-united-...

This is the most wildly dangerous threat to liberty in this nation's history.

You better sit down before you look up “citizens united."

For single parents, this is the choice between working or not working.

I checked the source and confirmed no one in the car was seriously hurt.

So I will say it:

The way the tire shows up again after the mega damage: just slowly rolling up into the accident; was a pretty good comic beat.

a never ending arms race

  Did you mean, "the great filter?"

I remembered the Satan-themed sneaks, and assumed that was what your link would be for 'wild shoes'. Nope. TIL they also made Strongbad cosplay boots.

Mschf and Improv Everywhere have done some endearing stunts over the years.

Facebook started off GREAT!

I'm glad early fb was a good experience for you, but studies have found that when fb was just opening to universities, lower grades and higher demand for mental health services would follow.

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...

Tomorrow's follow up: Scientists Discover New Form of Brain Freeze.

Dennis Tito might pay $20M to eat one.

They didn't even wink...

Lawrence Lessig attempted this, raising over $1M dollars with a kickstarter campaign. So successful that only polysci nerds remember.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harvard-professor-larry-less...

Legally, this has been true in the USA for more than a century. (Which I take as evidence of bad law, not acceptable practice.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Search for 'Brondell swash nonelectric', available at costco and jeffazon. I have this and the electric version, and I find the non-electric is good enough and a fraction of the price.

The food is the problem

Quality of food is certainly declining, but we are also seeing weight increases in lab rats with extremely controlled diets, so food probably isn't the entire story. There's no accepted explanation for this, but good candidates that might apply to humans are: subtle toxicity by microplastics, and changes in gut microbiomes.

Are you the original author?

This is a really fun exploration of an old premise, thanks! Great little easter eggs with color zone and the wedding.

(But I'm completely stuck in the hard rain, after 'Emergency - connect to snake', sometimes i survive the stream, sometimes i can't, i haven't figured out the state that makes the stream traversable.)

Maria Farrell explains why "plantation" is a better term.

That doesn't sound conspiratorial at all. All sorts of features drift from being 'luxury items' to 'no one will buy a car without it.' In my life time time this has happened with air conditioning, power windows, heated seats. To say nothing of mandated safety features.

I think the way auto makers have 'trained' their customers is by removing the granularity of customization. Back in the day, every possible option could be tweaked when you ordered a new car. I knew a family that ordered their van with (standard) upholstery seats in the front, but cheaper vinyl seats in the back (because small kids with drinks).

You can't cherry pick features now, you just get 3 or 4 trim packages: base / standard / luxury / luxury + sport. And base is so punishingly sparse it only exists to lower the 'starting at' price in ads.

And that level of indoctrination is nothing compared to the 60 years long campaign to keep most urban development zoned as car-centric sprawl.

I watched Goddard's lectures a few years ago, and he talked about different price points for the mill--'tiers' of processors that differed mainly, (iirc,) by the size of the belt. He made some claims about porting binaries from one tier to another without compilation from source, and it struck me as a very optimistic claim, for the reasons you hinted at.

My bread and butter work isn't very close to the metal, but you sound more experienced with this sort of thing. Are you familiar with the mill? Do you think they have a chance of avoiding the weeds that Transmeta got stuck in?

It's a shame they haven't got anything to market. It's such a clever re-think of how instructions operate. If anything, they are probably too far ahead of their time.

Reminds me a bit of Transmeta. "Code morphing" sounds very much like the instruction reordering that's standard now.

If Satoshi is cryptohacker turned drug lord Paul LeRoux, you can wait a while for that.

And build one unit of transit next to them, it doesn't matter if the road or rail is connected.

They underestimated the ability of new media to manufacture consent.

I'm in Canada--if I want to buy a pair of jeans made here, my options are boutique brands starting at $150.

Your prescription to buy domestic is a noble end goal, but it's out of reach to the working class. What do you think are the intermediate steps to get there? How do we make over-consumption stop being normal?

Lower class people are the ones being exploited for fast fashion. If you buy a $10 shein tshirt and own it till it's thread bare, it's less environmentally destructive than tossing it after 3 wears, but some desperately poor people were underpaid to sell it at that price.

Not to mention the other dangers of turning a blind eye to production--kids clothes tainted with lead? Heads should roll for that.

Gawd those haunting eyes... I wonder how many people donated just to make them stop.

Believing that the data is recoverable seems to be as optimistic as believing that bitcoin will still have value by the time it's found. Did he recruit his financial backers at a TedTalk?

In the linked article, Strong Towns doesn't say much about the nature of these deaths, but in other articles, (e.g. below) they explore how many of these killings are vehicle-on-pedestrian deaths, and how we've normalized blaming victims.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/7/14/new-report-ame...

My vague recollection of the claim was that the owner of an influential newspaper was also an owner/steakholder of a cotton processing business. Urban legend as far as I can tell.

This plausibly might not be sarcasm O_o