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“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountain.

"And the smell of rot fills the country.“ (Chapter 35)

This passage had a profound impact on me when I first read it in high school. Only later did I discover that such atrocities still happen regularly today.

Or HCL? Or LAB? Any of these are more intuitive than RGB.

This could be useful for writing report card comments! Source: I'm a teacher. It's report card season. :)

My hot take: if a founder can't spin up a simple, self-hosted webform of some sort, I'm already wary of their technical skills.

Great? Maybe! But this doesn't say, "We are removing Copilot from apps."

What contemporary films, TV, it books scratch the same itch as "Hackers." Folks are mentioning Mr. Robot. What else?

You're employing some polarizing language yourself. Calling people "illegals" because of their immigration status demeans them. Beyond that, this language is often used to justify illegal restrictions of their civil rights. Immigrants, regardless of their legal status, have civil rights and human rights.

I noticed exactly the same thing. I don't recall which day it started (probably this past Sunday), but it was as if a switch flipped. My For You Page no longer has anything to do with my preferences. I'm familiar with Tiktok nudging me in different directions in the past, but I was always able to steer it back to videos I was interested in within 10-15 minutes. Three days later, and it's as if Tiktok not only has forgotten everything about my watch history, it also hasn't learned. That said, it doesn't seem to be entirely about politics. I had a mix of political/protest related content, native plant content, and woodworking videos on my For You Page. None of those are showing up for me.

Apart from the alarming privacy implications of these proposed rules, I wonder how FIFA might feel about this, ahead of the World Cup. Maybe they could award Trump a privacy prize if his administration backs down from this.

We should create a committee to see if this actually has an effect. A minimum of 24 members should be sufficient. After we have a quorum, we can independently test your hypothesis and report back to the committee. Once we reach consensus, let's report back to this thread.

Dendrochronology-based age verification is coming soon

Learn it in a game, then use it on a website. It's a UI convention, not merely a quirk to a multi-select list.

In that vein: Spotify

That's not just a Gmail feature. It's part of RFC 5233. See "Subaddressing."

I suggest reading The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. They argue that there's not a true dichotomy between agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies. In fact, many societies practice(d) both.

Thank you for reminding me of the IG firings!

I assume your reply is sarcastic, but just in case, I'll say it directly: this administration does not care whether there is blatant corruption at the top levels, or any other levels for that matter. I'm fact, insofar as it antagonizes liberals, they'll encourage it.

I don't believe participation in democratic society requires borders or citizenship.

I believe that's truly beside the point. The marketing is based on the name and tastes (gold, nationalistic imagery) of the current president.

This is bad. Borders should be open.

This is new. The president's face is on it. That alone should scream, "Something's very much not right!"

I agree with this assessment, and Mamdani's popularity in NYC provides some credence to this. Voters have wanted the Dems to move left since at least 2016, but the Democratic establishment routinely punishes those who aren't moving rightward.

I found this post useful in understanding this phenomenon: https://www.offmessage.net/p/how-liberalism-sabotages-itself

The basic gist is that the left is too generous in its understanding of others' intentions, assuming good intentions from all actors long past the point where that's rational.

I would love to see how this overlaps with folks' preferred languages, frameworks, and tools.

I think your thinking also aligns with the ideas outlined in The Future is Degrowth (https://www.versobooks.com/products/2620-the-future-is-degro...). I found it to be a very approachable book, if you haven't read it yet.

We've got a family of nuthatches that set up an extensive neighborhood mesh network. Quite impressive!

I wonder how this intersects with their interest in "unbiased" models. Scare quotes because their concept of unbiased is scary.

I think taxes are simply one way for us all to collectively pay for important things like basic research, education, healthcare, and transportation.

No need to scrounge! What if just a tiny bit of our taxes went to this?

I think immibis's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44639370) has a couple great examples of what I'm talking about. To add on, the Court has also allowed the executive branch to essentially shutter federal departments that were created by Congress, such as the Department of Education. They also ruled that lower federal courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions to stop executive action, thereby ending a check on presidential power that has vexed both parties when in office.