Yup, we need an all of the above approach. There is too much on the line to leave high tech options on the table because of phobias or low tech options because it doesn’t mesh with factory farms.

It has such potential if you take out the parking and pavement.

I would hope that people can get beyond the feeling of vigilantism being seen as a vital feature. Not that I’m opposed to them taking on bigots, but if creating Twitter drama is a deal breaker then it feels like they might have their priorities in the wrong order.

Okay, thanks! Assuming it gets added, I hope it sends a message that Fediverse developers are listening to the wishes of people in the Black Twitter diaspora, even if it goes against the traditional stance of the Fediverse developers.

Was this the feature that some people were like “Black Twitter can’t migrate to the fediverse without this”?

Gotcha, my mistake.

This might tempt me back from the land of Pop! OS. I had found it pretty painful to create packages, but this looks like it can take out a lot of the boilerplate.

Well, it depends on the scenario. Take Portland’s Sunset Transit Center Park & Ride. It has a large parking structure, connections to bus lines, and bike lockers. It provides a 22 minute journey to the heart of downtown Portland. The alternative is US-26, which is regularly choked with traffic during rush hour. There are a lot of surrounding suburbs with mediocre bus service, but once they get to that park and ride then the trip is fast and comfortable.

I don’t know about Sunset TC since I’m not usually around there, but the park and rides near where I grew up in Portland were always filled up as part of the morning commute. Of course, that has likely changed for now with COVID-19.

That said, transit oriented development is always the preferred alternative.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but they do help meet people halfway when cities are already built for carbrain. For a whole lot of those people, either it’s park and ride or they drive all the way. That can add up to serious vehicle-miles shaved off their commutes, smaller/fewer highways and parking in suburbs instead of the more valuable urban core.

I hope archive.org posts another copy on-line so that if I want to refer to this later, after lemmy and the whole cargo-cult-deadend activitypub architecture has gone the way of the dodo, I will still be able to.

To go further with this, I’m glad that I live in one of the most archive-happy time periods in history, at least when it comes to public data. Much of human history is simply lost to us. The wealthy might have distorted histories of themselves written and some records persist, but historical records are often incomplete or straight up propaganda. Only recently have we gotten to the point where just about anyone has the capability to keep a written record of their life (universal literacy).

But actually storing those for millennia is hard. Most medium degrade quite quickly, maybe even within decades. Certain texts were only preserved via regularly copying, hardly scalable. It takes something like the Internet Archive to preserve a lasting legacy that can extend past the most influential people into the experiences of commoners.

Hence why the headline is, at the very least, without evidence. Lockheed Martin has shown no signs that it’s pushing for commonly recognized Russian territory to be attacked.

Lockheed Martin is in business to make a profit. A certain amount of spending on armaments is good for business. Escalating to WW3 isn’t.

Oh look, another headline based on handwaving instead of evidence. “Well, the plane’s range includes Moscow, so there’s no other conclusion than Lockheed wants the Russo-Ukraine war to include an invasion of Russia proper.”

Good thing Crimea’s not in Russia, then.

I feel a little nausea coming on. Hello fellow kids!

Planes are necessary to some level unless human civilization is to regress. I love trains, but they can’t cross an ocean or fly to the other side of the world in a day. People won’t give up flying, so at a certain point technology needs to step in to make a fix. Technology can’t fix everything, but it can sure help.

The nice thing about hydrogen being that once you have a hydrogen powered vehicle, it doesn’t matter where the hydrogen comes from. Grey hydrogen or green hydrogen, it works the same. It’s much the same as with grid power. When you can separate pollution from the vehicle, you can later reduce that pollution at a single centralized source rather than a million smaller sources.

While this is certainly possible, I’m a little skeptical that it will be widely adopted. Giving up currency sovereignty is huge for a government. If they’re not largely on the same page, it could go bad really fast. Latin America also has some huge ideological differences that could spill over into currency management. Remember Greece’s woes? Those were partially exasperated by Germany being a stick in the mud over the European Central Bank. I would expect Latin America to experience worse.

She talks about both groups of countries in the video, but she never says that the Russia aligned countries have been approached. Just the six others that have bought arms from Russia.

RT reported that Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were among the countries that the US asked. VOA reported that the US specifically avoided those countries but talked to six others. Only one can be true. Which one is more probably lying, the one the makes no sense or the one that totally makes sense?

Come on, this is just lazy.

Wait, are they blaming heavy equipment manufacturers because they sell heavy equipment to Israel? That makes it a stretch to say that these companies demolished Palestinian homes. I could maybe see a case if that was all that excavation equipment was useful for, but it has a multitude of uses.

In this case, it’s from the Instagram account forummapping. That account chose how to draw the borders, but globalpetrolprices.com is the source for their data. However, it’s not clear how globalpetrolprices.com defines their own borders for Ukraine. So the region for the data and the displayed region could have drifted some.

For future reference: https://twitter.com/RusEmbSwe/status/1615391927242719244

This is hilarious. Unfortunately, I don’t think it signals a pending withdrawal.

I’m okay with this, but I wish everyone would stop acting like Kissinger belongs near the levers of power instead of behind bars.

This Twitter thread that starts with a Tweet from Ben Shapiro really exemplifies the ignorance about King that is so common and the much more sophisticated truth.

In a different tweet, Shapiro tries to say that MLK Jr “the symbol” and “the man” should be separated. By symbol, Shapiro means simplistic racial equity with no acknowledgement for systemic racism. A pleasantly diluted message that is comfortable to conservatives. By the man, he means the holistic approach Dr. King actually took towards racial injustice. This is nothing more than another white person attempting to appropriate the blandest version of a civil rights hero so they don’t have to examine the faults of US society and the role that white people continue to play in its shortcomings.

Again, that’s a structural problem that it shares with any Reddit-like site, at least when karma has any sort of significance. Anything with a low barrier to entry will allow bots.

Exactly, I think Twitter could have continued on indefinitely if Elon hadn’t dropped in and mucked everything up. The model worked well enough and they were finally tamping down the moderation issues more or less. There were problems with monetizing, but even that gap was being shrunk.

Oh yeah, that was really good. Weird, but good. Definitely a good one for someone who works in a service industry and is just done with shitty customers.

From what I can gather, there were repeated problems with brigading. It’s also worth noting that Lemmy uses much the same structure as Reddit, so the complaints from r/banned about “supermods” apply just as much here.

Currently, no. Digg collapsed because the format of the site was changed in extreme and unpopular ways. Elon is massively mismanaging Twitter while also learning that moderation is hard. Reddit of course has its own balancing act, but it shows no signs of complete collapse like with previous sites.

This implies…

And here’s where you’re making a mistake. You’re drawing all sorts of inferences to put words in my mouth. I don’t know if you’re just a spiteful individual, but it’s a pattern of behavior.

Evidently, he’d be perfectly fine with the system as long as the slave owners weren’t allowed to egregiously abuse their slaves.

Slavery is intrinsically abusive. I didn’t think I needed to bother saying that. Chattel slavery is intrinsically more abusive than other forms of slavery, especially as was practiced in the South.

Thus he even argues that the modern prison slavery in US is not comparable to chattel slavery.

Comparable? Hell no, in the same way that the Holocaust is not comparable with a few dozen people being murdered. Obviously both are evil, but one is terrible on a completely different scale than the other.

Exactly. Won by the labor movement after the American Civil War. Not achieved by capitalists and not involved in abolishing chattel slavery.

Things like the 8 hour work day?

Well, I made an attempt. I just ask that you consult with someone who you will actually pay attention to as to whether this comparison is an offensive one to make. As I said, when you’re starting to sound like a neo-confederate, step back and ask whether you’re saying something offensive.

• Spends money on purchasing slaves vs. Can exchange one “slave” (worker) for another: This leaves out the horrors of the slave trade, both transatlantic and domestic. Families were routinely split apart. Slave auctions were dehumanizing. Enslaved people were entirely at the mercy of their enslavers. The states would help track down escaped slaves, and the federal government attempted to force Northern states to cooperate via the Fugitive Slave Act. I won’t whitewash the poor balance in employer-employee relationships, but it’s offensive to put it in the same league. Workers can leave. They can move companies, cities, states, or countries. Workers are not forced to leave their family, at least not at a level that is utterly non-negotiable.
• Pays for the total upkeep of the slaves: Yeah, in the same way you keep up a piece of machinery. If it was no longer profitable to pay for the “upkeep” of an enslaved person because of age or disability, they were subject to being sold off for medical experiments, left in the woods to die, etc. Quality health care was not in the cards.
• If a slave gets sick it’s [the enslaver’s] problem: Only if it interfered with work. And if you’re making a comparison with modern capitalism, workplace injuries are very much the employer’s problem because of worker’s compensation. Likewise health care insurance is commonly employer provided. There are also pieces of the social safety net, with are partially paid for by businesses in various ways.
• Slaves come to work on their own: I see no downside to people having their own homes instead of whatever half-assed shack their enslaver provides.
• Only has to pay for 8 hours of their lives: That other 16 hours was a hard won victory by unions. Going over 8 means paying overtime. Slaves didn’t get overtime, but they did get over 8 hours of work.

Then all I can say is you badly need to go back to your history books on slavery (and the post-Reconstruction era for that matter) before you keep ragging on about how ignorant I am about my own country.

I’m not whitewashing the current state of things as being perfect. If that wasn’t already obvious from our numerous interactions, I don’t know what to tell you. Chattel slavery was incredibly brutal on a systemic level, far beyond anything present in the US today. Yes, you could cherrypick parallels and try to cast them as the current system being worse, like this meme does. You would just be utterly wrong to the point where most Black people in the US would find this meme incredibly offensive.