Linux dominates web, iot, mobile, supercomputers, financial, cloud and development devices… Targets that are way more valuable than desktops which is probably what you’re thinking of.

what’re they going to do, fine them for 3% of the money they made?

I mean people had ways of getting things before amazon.com.

Here is a thread of people nostalgiating about fabric stores: https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1/good-old-days-remembering-old-fabric-shops-t133050.html I certainly bought fabric from brick n mortar locations and it is still the preferred method in a lot of situations.

A fabric store, especially one in a textile/garment district, would have been able to do special orders of cloth or dye. They would have had networks of suppliers large and small to call upon. It somewhat strains belief particularly that gays would have been unable to obtain any given solid color of fabric given their longstanding ties to fashion industry. Another group, maybe. But come on.

Unless there is something specific about this color, at this moment in history, to explain it. I looked up briefly the history of pink dye and all I found was what I already understood to be the case: pink is a particularly easy color to obtain.

Both Paramount and Baker struggled to obtain the hot pink fabric and so began manufacturing a 7-stripe version.

Can someone who knows about the history of chemical dyes comment on this?

It sounds implausible that the world (or even regional) supply of hot pink fabric was decimated by a few gay flag sewers. And why not just use regular pink which is not hard at all?

Is there something about how hot pink is created that provides credibility to this?

First thing we do is set the nerds to work repurposing all fare collection tech to something useful.

While that’s a WIP all drivers get to put some little joke poster up in front of them so everyone knows there is no need to bother.

the posted link has a lot of “live updates”. if you want to see the verdict on each per the title, this is the pdf link: read-verdict-sheet-in-trumps-hush-money-trial.pdf. and for the lazy, screencaps of that pdf:

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg … noted that both the trial and verdict were arrived at “in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors … by following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor.”

getting high on his own supply

good luck i hope you win

I will bet you $2 that if he goes to jail he will not die there. And a further $2 that if he dies he will not go rotten.

unfortunately studies show it takes more than 18 months to rot in jail so your entire family is incorrect

i’m not going to fix it

Estes Carter Thompson III

it’s because we’re training so many Ph.D.’s and convincing them all that the only way to remain a scientist is to stay in academia. It’s not, and that hasn’t been true for a long time.

What’s the alternative? Go work for the military? A corporation?

If I was a scientist I’d sure as fuck want to work in academia.

My usual coping mechanism for unpleasant things is to imagine an alternate/future way. So I feel less fatalistic. Laundry is just the most intractable problem. Every 1-4 weeks for years n years I am contemplating it. All it’s gotten me is a better understanding of the problems.

The closest to a workaround I’ve found so far is having the largest supply of underwear and socks you can afford/store as they are otherwise the limiting factor in how far you can go between trips. A union organizer taught me that. But it doesn’t address any of the actual problems.

There are no public trashcans in Tokyo and mostly throughout Japan as well. This is a result of the Tokyo bombings in the mid-90s, which resulted in a ban on public trash bins. This obviously forces you to have to carry your trash with you to the next available trash bin, which you likely will find at your destination, be it work or a store.

Places in the UK got rid of garbage cans because of IRA bombings or whatever. So it became normalized to just drop the trash everywhere. In the nice places they have people constantly walking around picking it up. And in other places, they don’t.

What I really want to know the revolutionary solution to is laundry. We can’t all have our own washing machine but communal facilities are soooooo annoying. I tried handwashing by some methods I found online but they did not work at all.

seem like an over reaction.

This article about stealing organs for transplant concludes by introducing an insinuation of grave robbing or desecration

On 18 January, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli army confirmed reports that its soldiers dug up graves in a Gaza cemetery, claiming its soldiers were trying to “confirm that the bodies of hostages were not buried there.”

Do Israeli soldiers want organs that have been moldering in the ground? For what? Or they just love destroying the bodies of Palestinians? Digging up a grave doesn’t sound like my idea of recreation tbh. But If so it sort of disputes the prior paragraphs where bodies were missing organs and they were presumed to be taken for transplant. Maybe they were just doing it for fun. … ?

It seems weird to introduce a completely new topic, one with such emotional salience, right at the end. I’m not familiar with this website or any of the sources it cites other than Times of Israel, and not very. Is it believable?

at the very start of covid when things were extremely uncertain, mass death was kicking off, and people were scared, i saw this crazy video of anderson cooper interviewing someone from the federal reserve. the fed guy was promising that no matter what horrors were about to come with the pandemic, they would definitely play with the spreadsheet to keep things normal.

anderson cooper was literally crying tears of joy when he heard this. his face and eyes were all puffy and red. he was so relieved.

did anyone else see that interview? it’s the only anderson cooper i’ve ever seen. not sure if it’s his normal MO. more of like a jordan peterson thing.

i guess anderson cooper is an MMT guy lol

so while i’ve never dived into it, the superficial explanations of mmt are superficially compelling.

i do not understand what relationship if any it has with prior left/communist ideas. and mmt seems not to be interested in such relationships.

is this in the dunk tank because mmt? or because capitalist trying to explain why mmt is wrong?

this is the vilest image ive ever seen