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Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:27PM (#49676234)
These do not seem to be mutually exclusive. Should we not do both?
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountain.

"And the smell of rot fills the country.“ (Chapter 35)

This passage had a profound impact on me when I first read it in high school. Only later did I discover that such atrocities still happen regularly today.

Re:Splash Is a Colour Format on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:19PM (#48426427)
Or HCL? Or LAB? Any of these are more intuitive than RGB.
This could be useful for writing report card comments! Source: I'm a teacher. It's report card season. :)
My hot take: if a founder can't spin up a simple, self-hosted webform of some sort, I'm already wary of their technical skills.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality on Friday March 20, 2026 @04:04PM (#47459895)
Great? Maybe! But this doesn't say, "We are removing Copilot from apps."
Re:Hackers (1995) Animated Experience on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:33PM (#46920404)
What contemporary films, TV, it books scratch the same itch as "Hackers." Folks are mentioning Mr. Robot. What else?
You're employing some polarizing language yourself. Calling people "illegals" because of their immigration status demeans them. Beyond that, this language is often used to justify illegal restrictions of their civil rights. Immigrants, regardless of their legal status, have civil rights and human rights.
I noticed exactly the same thing. I don't recall which day it started (probably this past Sunday), but it was as if a switch flipped. My For You Page no longer has anything to do with my preferences. I'm familiar with Tiktok nudging me in different directions in the past, but I was always able to steer it back to videos I was interested in within 10-15 minutes. Three days later, and it's as if Tiktok not only has forgotten everything about my watch history, it also hasn't learned. That said, it doesn't seem to be entirely about politics. I had a mix of political/protest related content, native plant content, and woodworking videos on my For You Page. None of those are showing up for me.
Apart from the alarming privacy implications of these proposed rules, I wonder how FIFA might feel about this, ahead of the World Cup. Maybe they could award Trump a privacy prize if his administration backs down from this.
Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual [pdf] on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:37PM (#46684833)
We should create a committee to see if this actually has an effect. A minimum of 24 members should be sufficient. After we have a quorum, we can independently test your hypothesis and report back to the committee. Once we reach consensus, let's report back to this thread.
Dendrochronology-based age verification is coming soon
Re:Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:26PM (#46413676)
Learn it in a game, then use it on a website. It's a UI convention, not merely a quirk to a multi-select list.
In that vein: Spotify
That's not just a Gmail feature. It's part of RFC 5233. See "Subaddressing."
Re:The past was not that cute on Sunday December 07, 2025 @10:10AM (#46182221)
I suggest reading The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. They argue that there's not a true dichotomy between agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies. In fact, many societies practice(d) both.
Thank you for reminding me of the IG firings!
I assume your reply is sarcastic, but just in case, I'll say it directly: this administration does not care whether there is blatant corruption at the top levels, or any other levels for that matter. I'm fact, insofar as it antagonizes liberals, they'll encourage it.
Re:Trumpcard (Official US Government Website) on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:10PM (#45309503)
I don't believe participation in democratic society requires borders or citizenship.
Re:Trumpcard (Official US Government Website) on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:54PM (#45309349)
I believe that's truly beside the point. The marketing is based on the name and tastes (gold, nationalistic imagery) of the current president.
Re:Trumpcard (Official US Government Website) on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:48PM (#45309279)
This is bad. Borders should be open.
Re:Trumpcard (Official US Government Website) on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:45PM (#45309246)
This is new. The president's face is on it. That alone should scream, "Something's very much not right!"

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