People love to applaud civil rights, anti-war, and anti-apartheid protests of the past, and say that they can't believe that people opposed them back then. Yet at the same time they see no problem attacking people protesting for human rights and social justice today.
Wow! Make it so much easier when laws are passed requiring government IDs to access social media and ultimately other sites. Sure, make cross-platform tracking of your every move EVEN EASIER! Jeez.
Gimme a break, this is for designed-to-be-public identities like yours and mine. Shocking news: I have other identities on various social networks that I take great care to keep insulated from timbray@anywhere-else. This idea wouldn’t get in the way of that at all.
"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist." —Winona Laduke, #Ojibwe economist & environmentalist
took your meme to add it #AltText (am i doing this right?!?!)
Frontier Group intern Jonah Vu, who grew up next to Interstate 405 in Orange County, California, argues that highway widening does not justify eminent domain takings.
"We should not have to give up more space – or more homes, backyards or beloved old trees – for highway construction. Instead we must shift our focus towards sustainable and efficient transportation solutions that benefit both communities and the environment."
“Longstanding Supreme Court precedent protects Americans’ First Amendment right to access information, ideas, and media from abroad,” said Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. “By banning TikTok, the bill would infringe on this right, and with no real pay-off. China and other foreign adversaries could still purchase Americans’ sensitive data from data brokers on the open market.”
Hey #BikeTooter, this is a pretty geeky place, does anyone know how to get #Garmin_Connect back to some sort of semi useful set of settings (or how to get some message to #garmin about how it could be better)?
The beta programme a while ago and realised that it did nothng for me (and they'd put no effort in to improving the course planning too) so I removed it and sent feedback about how little it worked for me, they've now forced the change and connect is even less useful than it ever was!
I drove to work for essentially the second time since taking on this job (about a year and a quarter), and it was the worst thing ever.
*Due to traffic, I did not save any time over taking the SkyTrain. The trip might even have taken longer by car.
*Drivers are the worst.
*Parking is insane -- I had to work late and there was no street parking open near my downtown office, so I had to pay event parking due to the hockey playoffs: $36
Saw he went to the doctors several times and thought not possible as a homeless person- then realized it was not in the US.
Homeless in the US you go to the emergency room and they have to stabilize you but nobody would be able to get chronic fatigue and joint issues looked at.
SCOTUS today is hearing a case that will decide if we open the door to losing univsersal access to ER care. Today, if you show up to my work, I will see you without any discussion of your ability to pay, or consideration of whether your visit is the “right kind” of emergency. If Idaho officials have their way at SCOTUS, that will all change. Once the door is open, EMTALA will fall, and uninsured people will lose access.
> "Public transportation will bring the poors and undesirables to my front door!" > Car prowlers are in reality far more common and can do much more "damage".
We really need "right to repair" laws in Canada and the USA.
And I fully blame Apple and their long pattern of "planned obsolescence" they've been on ever since they removed the ability to change batteries in their devices. That was a huge part.
Also, appliances in general have become extremely difficult and expensive to repair out of warranty. By design. This has to end. Companies won't do it, so governments have to. For everything: the environment, your wallet, and peace of mind.
But the Canadian government doesn't have the balls to do it. And the US government is bought and paid for, and will never do it. At least Europe is taking the lead here.
The EU Parliament approved rules that would give require manufacturers to make spare parts and tools available for a “reasonable cost”, and gave consumers new rights over the repair of their products.
I don’t completely agree with the “planned obsolescence” comment. Apple offers official repair solutions for products that are “vintage”but not obsolete.
So it’s possible to get a new battery for products from 2015. That’s a nine year old laptop! 😱
Costs vary from $160-250 including tax.
The question then becomes whether it’s worth replacing the battery in a laptop that’s more than five years old.
Estimates from the link below. There are, of course, other avenues for repair outside of Apple, but no other manufacturer makes it so convenient to get new batteries or even a new screen, and the shipping fees are ridiculously reasonable.
Screen repairs and enclosure damage can be as low as $100 with AppleCare. No other brand offers that kind of service for nine year old products.
@ZeKik Out of warranty (or no $110 a year AppleCare+ fee paid for years) repair to a water damaged Macbook Air M1 screen: $650. I know, I asked for a quote.
That, when you could buy a new (apple refurbished) Macbook Air M1 for $899.
@ZeKik When Apple goes from click-out batteries, to "open the case for advanced surgery" batteries, to "soldered to the board" batteries, that is planned obsolescence, IMO.
Ditto for soldered on memory and SSDs. They can easily design MBAs, MBPs with removable and upgradable SSD and memory chips, but choose not to, so you either a) spend their ridiculous upgrade prices at time of purchase ($250Cdn for 8gb memory is near criminal, ditto for and extra 256gb of SSD), or b) just grin and bear it with the amount you got when you bought the device.
Consider the impact of the environment when you can’t repair an appliance because it’s cheaper to buy a new one. All climate activists must support #RightToRepair
OTD forty years ago, the Apple III computer was discontinued.
fully 20% of machines in their three year run were recalled -- the entire first year (product was $16,000 to $29000 in today's dollars) #HeatIsYourEnemy
"#Email gave us private messaging technology that isn’t owned by a single company.
#ActivityPub is doing the same for social technology. It’s a protocol that allows people across different platforms to follow, like and reply to one another. No algorithms. No lock-in. No bullshit.
The #openweb is coming back, and with it returns diversity. You can both publish independently and grow faster than ever before with followers from all over the world & the web."
This isn't good, folks. I'm not worried about H5N1 transmission to humans (yet) but the USDA pathetic lack of transparency, how long it took for the genomes to be released, lack of testing asymptomatic cattle...... All detracts from "confidence"
But why! You could literally just switch the sidewalk and traffic barrier and it would still not be safe (due to how traffic barriers work), but way safer. Are the people really driving so bad, while there is no money for repairs and almost no sidewalk usage that this is the better option?
How do you get lead poisoning? What contaminated applesauce and Lunchables reveal about how lead exposure happens, where it’s found, and how it spreads across borders.
Amazon will shut down its Prime Air drone delivery service in Lockeford, California, which it opened in 2022. A new location is coming in Arizona for Phoenix metro residents.
Pithy Tax The meaning of the word “pithy” evolved over time: In the 14th century: "full of sap or juice" In the 16th century: "full of substance or significance" In the 17th century: "having a strong central core" In the 19th century: "terse and to t…
Gee... Let's let anyone anywhere post 140 characters saying anything they want anytime they want... What could go wrong? I mean, I like Jack but come on. You didn't realize that you spend the rest of the time trying to police the thing and keep the idiots (the majority of you) from trying to cause mayhem?
Then the idiot marketing people toss cash at it while the rest of us work to completely block and ignore their shit. Oh, that works.
Dr. Vivek Murthy talks to us about the American epidemic of loneliness, social media's threat to kids, and why we need to find the sense of community we've lost
@DEDGirl Whether we like it or not, there are links between anomie, loneliness, and isolation and the rise of authoritarian fascist movements with an interest in public violence that have made their way into the “mainstream” 🤷🏻♂️
and. Men are far from the only lonely people. Why does everyone else have to accomodate them while they continue to isolate others? It’s stupid. So we should coddle bigots because there are links just the same?
What a load of crap. Poor men, might have to pick up their own socks, change a diaper, told rape is bad, poor wittle things. Telling them they are owed things is the problem.
As for SM isolating people, it also brings them together. I know an old man whose doctor prescribed him FB, because he's very social, was sidelined by a medical issue, and suddenly, he has lots to talk to again.
@CStamp As someone who lived thru 9/11 in a Southern, country club Republican fraternity house, I think being dismissive of this phenomenon is a corrosive #AntiPattern.
I have no time for whiny men feeling entitled to things because they have a penis. It is infuriating that others are expected to be subservient to make them feel "manly." It actually infantiles them.
This stuff always make me angry because If someone's identity requires others to give up theirs, it is very, very flawed to begin with. And if it's American identity, Hollywood has done a big disservice.
@CStamp well, the masculinity being discussed isn't of the toxic variety. Lumping all masculinity together as toxic is partly the issue.
At no point did he detract from women.
And by the way, that was from the Surgeon General. The author simply explored the topic, and as a man I think the topic is worth exploring specifically because men have issues that need to be worked through, like everyone else.
Can we not discuss that publicly, or should we hide somewhere? 🙂
@knowprose Well, you guys can sort that out yourselves. Most men couldn't last a day as a woman, so hearing men continuing to whine is just something I'm done with. I have lived through way too many experiences with men "being men" and you guys need to start calling each other out and holding each other accountable.
Pedro, Luis, Raúl and Santi are four friends who feel a bit lost in the new world of empowered women, each trying to adjust in their own haphazard way.
Seattle Children’s won’t turn over gender-affirming care records to Texas
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for Seattle Children's hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment. #press
Journalism needs to focus on what's new, what's surprising and what's uncertain.
That's why the news can give you such a false picture of reality - because lots of important things are not uncertain. And they're not that new; but we just don't talk about them in the media because they are no longer 'surprising'.
As Hans Rosling said, you can't get an accurate picture of the world from the media, you need actual education for that.
But this actual education, to be meaningful, has to be something that is part of everyday life just like the news media is. Otherwise your picture of the world will be frozen in the last moments of your schooling or your studying.
This is why things like podcasts make me happy. Because they are a way for people to educate and be educated, as part of everyday life. A lot of podcasts are of university lecture standard, and they're usually free.
To illustrate my first point. We get lots of election analysis, will Trump take this or that state, etc. It's all presented as fast-moving and uncertain.
But something that is *already certain* is that most white Americans vote for the far-right. This means that far-right politics is a viable route to local power in many US states, cities and towns. We already know this, and we can plan accordingly.
Likewise we get news stories about how catastrophic climate change 'might' happen. The development is presented as new, uncertain and possibly surprising.
In reality catastrophic climate change is already, certain all that is uncertain is where gets hit next, and how bad the catastrophes get.
Likewise: since we already know this, we should plan accordingly instead of living in a fake sense of uncertainty.
Just had a #Darktable epiphany: when the color balance RGB module's saturation results in far too much tint, it means that it's blowing up the color of an incorrectly chosen illuminant. 0_0 #photography #photog
The car makes them slowly useless as hunters… In the end, they are so stuck that they can't even take care of themselves because of their car addiction.
Ebastine here! Went to the pharmacy today and got this year's first pill. Should have gotten it a week ago. Having oxygen back in my brain sure feels nice!
Listening to the Death Guild livestream from @dnalounge@sfba.social ... here's a photo from last month when we were here in person for the DG anniversary.
might want to check with your prospective defence counsel if it's a good idea to announce your strategy to thwart prosecution before committing ... sorry, *allegedly* committing a crime.
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
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