vorpalhex

One of the classic roles of the government is to prevent certain unfair business setups. For instance, providers of a service aren't supposed to have agreements to not compete and carve off markets from each other. Likewise price fixing is prohibited.

Apple already lost here when it attempted to prevent people from even linking to other payment platforms. That was "their platform" until it wasn't, thanks to a court.

Giving them exclusive control to police speech - legal speech - without an opt out that doesn't involve thousands of dollars of loss is also "part of their platform" today.

I actually disagree with the ICEBlock app.. but that's for the courts to decide if it's legal, not a private company.

Or just.. make it easier to not be constrained to app stores. I realize losing that sweet, sweet 30% fee on every transaction hurts their wallet but I think my $1000 phone should be mine to freely install things on.

Texas is either desert or desert adjacent. We have always gotten our water by having torrential rains inconsistently.

This doesn't mean don't conserve, be intelligent, etc.

But this does mean that your water won't "balance out" year to year, you need to look at big 25-30 year intervals.

Right now the single biggest waste of water in Austin is leaky pipes. Like infrastructure pipes owned by the city. Meanwhile our water conservation budget is going to billboards telling people to rush in the shower. The entire population could stop bathing and not reduce enough to make up for the leaks happening in the crumbling water infra.

What the Trump administration canceled didn't right that wrong. What the Trump administration canceled was an agreement for the local county to stop issuing fines, which had already been in effect for over two years. And within those two years, the local county built zero sewers, zero hookups. They literally built nothing in two years.

The original agreement under the Biden admin, which to be clear, the President doesn't personally oversee these kinds of agreements, this is sort of all within the DOJ, but the original agreement doesn't even require them to build the sewers. It literally just requires them to run a public health campaign and not issue fines.

I think the "my computer is too complicated" is mostly a Windows issue. I don't think I can pair a bluetooth headset on Windows 10!

Folks don't seem to have these problems on macs or their phones.

We had a G5 in 2024 and I believe the only possibly related issue was some cellular infrastructure in Europe (local impact only).

Modern technology is significantly more hardened than telegraphs in the 1800s.

I switched my gaming pc to Linux both for reliability and because of about 7-9% improvement in raw frame rates.

This depends on the game too obviously.

Though having a computer that actually.. just works can't be overstated.

Ableton seems to run under Proton (a compatability layer intended for games) with reasonable-but-slightly-higher-latency of 16-20ms per user reports.

This should generally work for games of various origins as well.

Extra mouse buttons should generally map correctly. For me, my Logitech MX Master 3 works under Arch. You may need to add udev rules if your mouse generally works but additional buttons don't seem bindable.

Try an Arch linux based distro, Omarchy or Manjaro. Most of these tweaky things will generally work better since you will be on the latest versions of software.

Venezuela has been a top 5 drug seizure country for many, many years.

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

Nundinae was only for the ruling class to go shopping

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

So sorry, you still get to bake bread all day.

And Greek festival days involved.. lots of food, baths had to be hot, etc. So someone has to run the event. It wasn't the common people getting a day off.

So we should bully people for tax revenue?

And when some of those people say no? That seems like either a short lived con or very quickly we are bombing people.

Why not just literally put a gun to someones head and rob them then? Skip the middlemen. Bombs are expensive as is jet fuel.

That's trivially false. Ancient people were always working, and we can see this in people who maintain primative lifestyles.

Take bread.

You start the oven at 4am. By 5am it is hot enough for your meats. By 7am extinguish, by 8am start your bread and go until 6-7pm. Now you get to start your dough for tomorrow, typically working until 11pm.

Historically bakers were known to sleep in flour hoppers as they were spared some of the heat of the ovens.

Ancient people _always_ worked. There was no leisure weekends, no afternoons off.

Bombing people for more tax revenue seems like the wrong thing.

So the wealthy will do what you and I do: shop for the best rate.

That rate will not be where you and I live. It will be some tiny foreign government.

Most income for high earning tech workers is in stocks and share value.

Or building companies that employ tens or hundreds of thousands.

If you can't take time to screen me, I can't take time to be bothered with your company.

Hiring is the most important part of your job.

But sue-ing means your problem goes to legal and not tier 1 customer support.

So Mary from legal walks over to Manager whoever and says "Hey why the fuck did you terminate this guys account? Now I have to go to court."

Account reinstated. You drop the case.

This produces stupidly improved results.

If me saying I don't want people to enter my country illegally (especially with criminal records), that sex trafficking is bad, or that confronting the police with force instead of courts is bad makes me a Nazi in your eyes, then you are so far from normal human behavior you might as well be from Pluto.

The Nazi's killed, through bulk extermination, 13,000,000 people. Literally bulk gas chamber stuff.

That enforcing a land border is equivalent to you is insane.

Your [1] is from 2016. Seems like your timeline is off.

Wow I'm really glad they got the 15,000 illegal immigrants who had criminal charges. I'm also fine that the 16,000 people here illegally have to go back home.

Why were 30ish kids naked in an apartment building illegally? That sure sounds a whole lot like human trafficking, especially if the men arrested all had criminal records and gang affiliation.

Wow intentionally blocking a federal vehicle transporting a prisoner sure shoulds like interfering with law enforcement.

And in getting 30,000+ illegal immigrants into ICE custody, they've only detained 170 people? 130 of those were with criminal charges? That seems like a very low number.

This sounds exactly like immigration enforcement. Who are the politicians being rounded up? Who are the "political opponents" here? Not the 30,000 illegal immigrants who can't vote. Not the 130 citizens who committed a felony against agents.

Do we, a democratic society, have a right to pick your breakfast?

Can we force you into a career?

Can we force you to right a book?

What if you work with a few people? Can we compel you to right a book then?

What if you work with a lot of people, a few thousand? Can we make you write a book in that case?

Hundreds of missiles get colaunched making up multi-thousand missile waves. A 200 drone wave is "small".

And any offsite that is "Israel's gov offsite" is an easy target even if in Cyprus or NYC.

Comingling with a bunch of bulk commercial hosts is very safe from a threat modeling perspective (in this case).

I imagine the concern becomes survivability. Israeli's really like their multiple levels of backups, and having a data copy out of the reach of enemy arms seems high priority.

Iran attacking US-East-1 would certainly be unusual.

Canva bought Affinity

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-canvas-affinity-takeover...

Living in a society with other people who you interact with is about compromise and that means behaving in a way that aligns with social and cultural norms - which change from place to place.

I interviewed for a major company and was rejected for being "too combative" after I corrected an interviewer on what unit tests are supposed to cover. I got hired somewhere else and my boss mentioned he had also been rejected by the same company, so I mentioned that they rejected me over being combative. My boss laughed, like rolling on the floor laughing about it - because our company culture was so different that he considered me a peace seeking negotiator between teams.

Culture fit is real.

It depends on your authentic self.

I've known people who were just deeply genuinely nice people. Yeah they can go totally authentic and are entirely welcome. Hell they can invite themselves over for dinner to my house and I'll be happy about it.

My authentic self is sharply sarcastic, critical and at times brutal. My coworkers don't want to deal with that - that's a very chaffing personality especially towards the end of a stressful week and it can very genuinely hurt morale. I very much tone myself down, avoid sarcasm as much as I can, carefully massage critical and direct messaging as best I can and generally try to be aware that the people around me have different communication needs.

And I think people do get a taste of the real person under the facade. I know I get that from my coworkers - I have coworkers who are great coworkers but whose friend I have no interest in being because same thing, their "out of work" authentic self I find off-putting even though they are amazing coworkers.

Conflation is very easy to do here. If you are very sick, you probably aren't drinking coffee (it's a mild stomach irritant).

So there is a correlation between coffee and being healthy, but causation is very messy.

Well backed RCTs have generally shown >95% of sleep issues are solvable, with sleep hygiene (this means using your bed only for sleep and sex, keeping your room dark and quiet eg no blinking leds, and getting up and getting light exposure if you don't fall asleep in 20 mins) resolving ~70% of cases. Anxiety treatments resolved most of the rest.

You could be in that last 5%! But that is extremely unlikely.

Cut caffeine and alcohol entirely, turn off lamps and hide your phone two hours before bed, read a paper book or write in a paper journal.

A good chunk are going to substack. Some are going to other platforms. A few folks are posting on BlueSky/X but really running their own platforms (eg Michael Koffman).

So far x/bsky seem to at least be the consistent discovery platforms for finding these folks who have split off.