Scammers about to try a new angle instead of the tired, old: “Hey (some random name)”

And the big fleas themselves, in turn, have bigger fleas to go on; While these again have bigger still, and bigger still, and so on.

You CANT split sport into “performance classes”, at least not in a way where it would help - men would on average still be in the higher “performance class” and nothing would change.

Don’t we already? In high school you have freshmen, jv, and varsity sports. There’s recreational, amateur, and professional leagues in about every sport. There’s weight classes in wrestling and boxing. Just to name a few examples of where we have no problem breaking sport into performance classes.

Every capitalist wants to invest as little and profit as much as possible.

• A history of the world in seven cheap things (p.21)

Substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import

The feature i didn’t know I wanted till now.

May be similar to the 3d software world where autodesk created a monopoly and could charge around 5k USD for something like Maya, and then go the adobe route and only rent once innovation dies off. Only when Blender started getting more hype and attention did autodesk start offering cheaper indie versions and licenses.

100%

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

- Marshall McLuhan, Culture is Our Business (1972)

Bill Gates the farmer?

Just trying to find a decent link led me past so many deceptive headlines like Bill Gates owns a lot of American farmland, but not the majority.

So… he’s the largest private owner of US farmland , but he doesn’t own a majority-- What a relief /s

For most of the US, true. Though I think it’s fuzzier if you work it into a commute or other errands. I’ve moved a lot and favor places that have grocery stores, libraries, parks, etc within walking distance. Get groceries and a brisk walk. Win win.

Plus delivery usually takes less than an hour when you do it yourself.

Open Prices is something that’s crossed my mind many times. Excited to see it exists and is associated with open food facts.

Well played. Glad to assist.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.

- Cunningham’s Law

Stumbled across a game that teaches the command line as you play it. Seems like a good place to share https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl

personally, writing and saving simple scripts - IE project based learning - is how i got time in the saddle.

Reminder that your local library likely has many great DVDs. Not just the classics either. I was surprised to see my library had Dune part 1&2 and many others.

“Your stroke signature does not match our records”

What nonsense? Look it up in a thesaurus.

Yes, people want skilled professionals. Who says they shouldn’t? They should also care about a system that favors a dominant class largely because of historic access to (stolen) capital. After all, that would reduce competition and competency.

What’s being implied by bringing up “merit” as antithetical to DEI is that you can’t trust people outside of the dominant class to do the work competently. If that were the case, the problem is not DEI, it’s upstream: fair access to education and opportunities, but I don’t hear DEI opponents crying about that.

Reminder that “merit” is a synonym for “supremacy”

If the regulators are made up of selfish individuals who are captured by industry (lobbyists, campaign contributions, etc) then what? Please don’t say elect new officials, unless you have a solution to misinformation and the massive financing necessary to get elected.

It seems we’re stuck and we’re all just waiting for the selfish person to do the right thing. What if the selfish person is us? Perhaps the best way to navigate an unjust system is to participate as little as possible. And with that extra time we can organize and apply political pressure.

Has everyone forgotten that Trump mainstreamed the ban-TikTok rhetoric?