I’m curious about the Proud Boy who lived in New Orleans. I know fascists aren’t logical people but if you’re racist, hate LGBT+ people, etc., why would you live in a majority black, LGBT+ friendly city?
It’s like someone hating lobstermen and living in coastal Maine. Just move, dog. You won’t see a single lobsterman in Ohio.
I had to turn off content blockers on iOS. Then it worked fine.
The open source project is fine. It’s in no way perfect but it powers a shocking percentage of the world’s web sites. It’s showing its age, is bloated, and has constant security issues but if you know how to use it, it gets the job done.
Lately, the CEO of Wordpress.com — who also heads the Wordpress.org foundation for the open source project — went after a popular hosting service claiming they were basically making billions and contributing nothing to the open source project. But from the outside, he went about it in a very aggressive and seemingly irrational way.
Unfortunately, I don’t see it making Israeli civilians safer in the medium term due to the brutality of the wars. Israel can kill every Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi leader but if the civilian deaths are disproportionate, new groups will form. Individuals will seek their own revenge. Israel is arguably as isolated diplomatically as it’s ever been.
It seems like a very short term victory that will undermine any chance for lasting peace.
MBFC: Biased but not in a consistent way - Credibility: Low - Factual Reporting: They rate business news channels with stock tickers at the bottom and fawning interviews with CEOs as “center left” sometimes and I don’t know what the fuck they even think left and right mean.
It’s going to be really challenging for Democrats to win the Senate this year. The map is just really challenging and they’re defending a lot more seats. Anything is possible but it’ll take some upsets. https://www.270towin.com/2024-senate-election-predictions/
President and House are toss-ups. But if Kamala wins, 2026’s Senate elections look to strongly favor Democrats.
Have you seen the Internet? Al Gore should be ashamed of himself for enabling this shit. If we’d stopped at Minitel, we’d still get important info like weather and then gone back to reading books.
In my head, a red rubber ball the size of a baseball rolls off a square wooden table and falls on the floor. A guy pushed it.
Edit: I knew ahead of time. I added more detail once I saw the quiz but I can imagine pretty vivid images.
It’s just complete arrogance to think you can run a social media company or GOTV campaign when your actual area of expertise is having a permanent midlife crisis.
What does Jerry Seinfeld know about being funny anyway? Wasn’t that Larry David’s job?
I like that they used “dating site” as the euphemism for AdultFriendFinder instead of “escort service” or “one night stand site” or whatever it actually is.
And, yet, in that time, consumers paid more for telecommunication services and basically the main innovations they got were touchtone phones replacing rotary ones and higher bills. Bell Labs being a success story doesn’t mean Ma Bell shouldn’t have been broken up.
If consumers are paying extra to a monopoly anyway, just fund university labs and non-university research agencies (which we do). We have dozens of equivalents to Bell Labs. There’s no reason to rely on monopolists for innovation.