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I closed my amazon account months ago, but I have also experienced this problem. I have a hiking staff I really like that needs to be re-oiled and waxed. I'm having the darndest time finding both things. The beeswax, and most places seem to only want to sell "boiled" (solvent treated) linseed oil so it cures faster.

Unless such anti-aging style immortality solution was widely available, you would much more likely end up with a situation similar to In Time (2011). The poor fighting for continued survival, while the wealthy live forever.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Stripe, AirBnB, Instacart, Zendesk, Kickstarter, Mastodon, and if I remember right Coinbase was originally Rails as well.

Yes

It's quite fitting as a vim using HAM (with a callsign username), that the top comment on that thread is also a HAM saying how you can also do this in emacs. The world changes all around us, and yet it's always the same.

Old style interface on a development focused lemmy instance has completely replaced reddit usage for me

This is the equivalent of /r/all across the lemmy world

https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Active&listingType=All

While I agree with most of this statement, there is one example I can think of that caused actual change. I would say Emmett Till's mother's decision to have an open casket funeral and refusal to have his remains touched up by the mortician, was the spark the Civil Rights movement needed.

I do believe you are correct and that it would end up with a humongous outcry from the public in support of the workers.

I'd like to introduce you to what has happened historically when labor was met with the national guard. Whether or not this would happen in the modern era I cannot say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

I very much enjoyed Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

Tangentially https://lite.pbs.org/ also launched this year.

I feel like I'm obligated to share this almost 20 year old Spolsky post that gave me my understanding of characters.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...

They already de-google the entire codebase. You can see which parts are removed here https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... and they keep up quite well.

It's all anecdotal, but having been full time RVing for several months now after selling our house time has slowed to a crawl. Before we sold our house the days flew past at 100mph. It's amazing how little control we can exert on our own perception of the flow of time.

Thank you for linking me to this this, it's a wonderful write up that I had not seen before!

Yes, it's incredibly frustrating to hear people assume everyone has high speed home connections. I operate entirely off cellular. 150 MB is not chump change and it certainly does not download in 2 seconds. If it's not a problem that affects the developer shipping the software it's not a problem that gets noticed or cared about, unless it ends up on a PM's radar or sentry.

It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else so I'd like to bring up that the USPS used to offer a sort of banking service before from 1911 to 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...