Israel systematically destroyed cultural sites in Gaza as part of its campaign of ethnic cleansing/genocide. No surprise that it would do the same in Iran.

I would imagine the U.S. is like a grizzly bear: Occasionally, it mauls you, but it’s somewhat better to be an ally than to be its prey.

No problem! Here’s another good track: Technical Jelly at the Harmony Bar

I have shared in the past, but nobody ever seemed to care, so… 🤷‍♂️

They’ve been putting everything online lately, so this is just an example: Let It Out by Honor Among Thieves.

Car culture. The idea that driving is enjoyable and physical exertion is the curse of the devil, that parking should always be free, that most people have to drive because everything is far away and there’s no way it could ever be different, and that it would all work out if we just had one more lane.

By far, the band I’ve seen most often is local band that plays klezmer-inflected psychedelic blues rock, and that description I think is enough to cover the why.

Who are you to order me to stop doing what I wasn’t doing? Windows 11 is such a giant piece of shit, that this kind of article rings too true. If anything, take it as a cautionary tale and change course so that Windows 12 (or whatever it’s called) isn’t worse.

If Canada plays any role, it should be burning the White House again.

I hope that you can extend some grace to people born in different eras. When I hear something like “woman employee,” I hear my Greatest Generation grandparents, and believe me, neither “woman doctor” or “woman driver,” nor any similar construction was complimentary.

I think it was the Boomers who started to use “female” as an adjective, because it sounded clinical, descriptive, and non-judgemental. So “female employee” sounds much better to my ear. (But, FWIW, the use of “female” as a noun is total cringe.)

Yeah, inceldom has coopted the word, and now I hear that “woman doctor” is preferred, but it’s not always easy to remember that on the fly when you grew up with the opposite connotation.

IndyMedia. It was direct, citizen journalism in all the best and worst ways. It’s where I learned that the job of riot police is to attack citizens and start riots.

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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So the U.S. military is running out of munitions. Interesting, interesting.

What timing, after seeing the news about Windows 12 yesterday, this morning I was considering starting a conversation with the researchers at work about pressuring the scientific instrument companies they buy from to support Linux. The one facility in the building that has Bruker instruments runs AlmaLinux, and they’ve been spared from all the pain.

Clearly, they were Hamas.

(Am I doing this right?)

We don’t have to debate to what extent civic planners intended to divide people by color. In his book, The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein just straight-up quoted them. They weren’t shy, and they wrote it down in memos, meeting minutes, and even speeches.

That’s why I say that the suburbs are a product of racism… because the people who created them intended them that way, and said so.

For the economic analysis from the class perspective, look at why suburbs became entrenched, which has a lot to do with the auto industry.

There may be an argument about how the two are linked, but the -ism on display in the second photo is racism. The US built the suburbs quite explicitly to keep black people out by using poverty as a proxy, after the SCOTUS blocked housing segregation.

No, just less than 50% of voters. He didn’t even win a simple majority of the popular vote.

Oh, wow, good for you! I guess I’m lucky that I was born before anti-vax was even a thing. In fact, my mother was one of the “polio pioneers,” the school children who served as the nationwide randomized, controlled trial for Salk’s vaccine, and her father had nearly died from polio, so I certainly got all my vaccines as a kid.

Yes, I misrembered the year. And while Scientific American is not a journal, at least the article explained the work in some depth and provided evidence. Here, you’ve given your opinion which boils down to, “No, it doesn’t.” Totally valid, as opinions go, but not very edifying to us readers.

I assume that you mean theft of the surplus value of labor by capital owners? If so, that’s exactly what the Yard Sale Model captures: One party to every transaction ‘wins’ and one ‘loses’.

Take a factory as an example. The wealthy owners can afford to gamble on paying less than the full value of labor as wages because they’ll survive if widgets don’t get made and they can’t buy a second yacht. The workers can’t afford to gamble on holding out for better pay, because it could mean their families starving in the street. Thus, they’re forced to give up the surplus value of their labor in order to survive.

The YSM just aims to simplify complex, real-world situations like this into a clean mathematical construct that’s easy to use for computer simulations.