@werefreeatlast
ahem, it is claimed that the product will ship from China in Sept
:)

@stabby_cicada

I distrust toots that assert something without providing a link
I was lucky and found a link to the 31K figure; sounds partially like it does NOT apply to all homeless people, just some small percentage, so probably a bullshit number

https://homelessvoice.org/the-cost-to-criminalize-homelessness/

@benfulton @bloomington_in

If YIMBYs are in favor of turning parks into asphalt, then YIMBYs are bad

but terms and conditions apply; what I said is certainly true for NYC or Chicago, maybe not Bloomington

but in general the willingness of YIMBYs to pave over grass is IMO really bad IMO

@PanArab always good to be corrected !

@PanArab

I once read an explanation for why the Bedouin wear black robes:

the black gets hot, which causes a air current to rise between the outer and inner robes; this air current is cooling

@[email protected] @[email protected]

I clicked on the kde.org link and

I have no idea what plasma is

total fail when a website doesn't hit you in the head with a 2x4 telling you what it is about

typical

see the this great website, dead for many years but still relevant
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/does-my-web-site-suck/does-my-web-site-suck-checklist-part-one.html

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

this bloomberg piece talks about the hype that surrounded Musk

I wonder how much of that hype came fro slavish pieces written by bloomberg

that would be typical: first the media create a problem (hyping musk) then pretend they had nothing to do with the problem

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@Deceptichum

https://jabberwocking.com/israel-says-hamas-center-was-hidden-directly-below-unrwa-headquarters/

@Deceptichum are these the strikes where hostages were rescued ?

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Benjamin Franklin:

Freedom of the press belongs only to those who have one

@CoffeeAddict

yeah, I agree VOTE and also, we need candidates contesting all seats, but really shouldn't pour money into things that look like loosers

I guess that is a self fufilling prophecy ? and also it is hard to tell in advance who will win and loose ?

but in 2018/2020 we wasted several hundred million dollars on senate races (in addittion to Beto/AM, Maine, SC and some others) so .

I dunno what to do

@CoffeeAddict

Ok, now what do we do ?

I would think:

- contact your state and local elected official to try to make sure that protections for women are as strong as possible

- if your state is having an referendum on the 2024 ballot, well, you should be helping, right ?

- if you can, send money to elect and re elect dem, from Biden/Congress down to local level (sheriffs - huge !!)

while somehow, dunno how, avoiding money pits like Beto and Amy McGrath

@NoneOfUrBusiness @jimmydoreisalefty

yeah, but if the American people currently support biden, then if he shifts enough to get Muslim support he looses way more votes

and again, that the muslims think Trump is better
that is almost literally insane

@NoneOfUrBusiness @jimmydoreisalefty

The American people, according to the polling I have seen are pretty solidly behind Biden

Now this may seem strange here on mastodon, but that is reality

@jimmydoreisalefty

hard to understand how they think this helps

do they really think any Republican is gonna be better ?

@forrestguid @[email protected] ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ @[email protected]

????

@forrestguid @[email protected] @[email protected]

that might be interesting . .

I assume you can divide ~ 1e9 Win10 machines/6e6 appleII machines . .

@holycrap

It is quite possible that my memory is from the slashdot era of comments like

"I put Linux on my laptop and then the wireless didn't work and it took me 3 hours on the help forum . ."

@[email protected] @[email protected] so my boss, not a programmer but he can run up a python script, goes to a DNA sequencing software conference

and those guys are hardcore, and they run Linux, cause that is where all the cutting edge software is

and my boss asks them: Linux on the desktop for everyday use

and all the hardcore guys go: NO, it is way to much trouble