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Nothing screams modern America like the uber-wealthy underpaying the people who maintain their mansions and estates so much that they have to live in tent cities hidden out of view in nearby woods.

Tax. The. Rich. Out. Of. Existence.

nytimes.com/2024/04/07/nyregio

Dear Lazyfedi,

I'd kinda like a good 2in1/convertable laptop/tablet. 13"ish, lightweight, probably Intel (since the Linux driver situation with AMD laptops still seems to be quite variable), doesn't need to be massively high performance

Somewhat ambivalent between detachable and fold back keyboard

Do any of you have a device you like?

Remember Ecosia, that search engine that was claiming to be environmentally friendly by planting trees?

Yeah, guess who just started doing OpenAI/LLM shit...

Like, they were never very credible on the "environmentally friendly" to begin with, but this is an absolute moral bankrupcy

Am building a plant table from salvaged boards from an old shelving unit. Unfortunately had to buy new wood for the beams, because the few beams that I still had laying around were of highly questionable structural integrity (which is not great for a support frame).

we now only have 3 days until nintendo network (and spotpass with it) shuts down, right now only 8% of all wii u spotpass data has been preserved

if you have a wii u system, please see the links above in the thread and help archive this data; once spotpass shuts down, all data that has not been archived will disappear

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@GerdjanKipping Sowieso moeten een hoop mensen eens leren begrijpen dat iemand dit soort racistische dingen niet "per ongeluk" doet.

Iemand die niet racistisch is (al dan niet bewust) zal uberhaupt nooit op zo'n gedachtengang terechtkomen, ook niet "per ongeluk". Dus zodra iemand dit soort dingen doet, is het simpelweg niet meer relevant of het de 'bedoeling' was.

@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net This passage from the Mozilla article caught my attention:

"A recurring complaint we heard from our readers was that MDN is excellent when you know what to look for. If you don’t, it’s not easy to discover the information you need…"

Which is indeed something people have complained about for years. For most of those years, it was widely denied as an existent problem.

And shining in its absence is any attempt to fix this through, you know... better writing... the very specific solution people have been asking for for years too.

Unbelievable that they would use this as a justification.

@njion @tfunken@lyratris.com Also: there are a lot of places that have icky wording like this. Whenever you call it out, the response is always "oh that's not how we intended it, they're supposed to be separate points, this was just easier to understand".

And yet. They get globbed together constantly, specifically these things. One wonders how truthful organizations are when they claim it was unintentional.

I fucking hate this implication that #SexWork is not genuine or positive. The companies ruling over our lives keep getting more and more prude and the oppression of sex workers continues as usual..

And their lack of understanding of power is motivated by a strong desire to justify their own power/privilege.

Back when I was a libertarian, I figured out that there were people who were motivated by racism, but I called this "libertarian for the wrong reasons". I eventually figured out that there was no such thing as a right reason to be a libertarian. There's a reason "left libertarianism" AKA "bleeding heart libertarianism" is still mostly white men.

There's quite some work to do to get these boards into a usable condition, unfortunately...

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Am building a plant table from salvaged boards from an old shelving unit. Unfortunately had to buy new wood for the beams, because the few beams that I still had laying around were of highly questionable structural integrity (which is not great for a support frame).

"Gender is one of the oldest and most established systems for controlling people. And if you think the youth fucking with it is annoying that's probably because it's messing with a power structure that benefits you"


👆 this.

(source doesn't want to be mentioned)

#Gender

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, I don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

(Credit: source unknown)

I hate when I play the dinosaur game, make good progress and suddenly have internet again

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