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She does at least have the first one right. Israel's just going to keep bombing the shit out of Gaza as much they please, looks like.

My guess on what she was referring to is that there are active diplomatic efforts that aren't just a bunch of hot air. Not that they will necessarily produce results, but they'll produce more results than the UN popping out a resolution.

I'm not defending the practice by any means, but there are exceptions when an employer can make an argument that the employee's disability affects their ability to work. The argument of course being that at a certain level of disability, even employing them at minimum wage is uneconomical so it's better to not require a minimum wage. More here.

This looks exactly like what some urbanists have complained about, a lack of "missing middle" housing between apartments and large single family dwellings. Sounds good with me.

Damn, that kept getting sadder and sadder.

I don't know, sounds like someone who does porn.

Yeah, this. Practically speaking the only country that could nationalize Twitter is the US. It's already a pain in the ass doing moderation without getting the US Constitution in there. It wouldn't just be the 1st amendment, you might also get lawsuits based on other constitutional protections. I 100% guarantee, the US government does not want to get involved.

I used to contribute more when I was at a job where I was unsatisfied. Python was my first language that I really enjoyed writing, regardless of the occasional warts. There are other many other languages I enjoy. Instead, the job had me writing shitty Ant code when I could write code. So I would contribute to OSS projects in my spare time. Now that I'm at a job where my creative juices get flowing on a regular basis, I contribute less. Most of my contributions have been related to a work project that needs this or that fixed upstream. That would have been impossible previously, since we had a big steaming pile of shitty Ant code that had been written from scratch. No upstreaming fixes for that because it had very minimal dependencies.

Groceries, (crappy) park, pharmacy, 2 bus stops, light rail stop serving three lines, at least 15 restaurants/food carts, a bank, a gas station (and a standalone convenience store), a hospital, a barber shop, and a few bars.

For the missing, good transit access fills in the gaps mostly:

• Day care: I don't have kids, so I don't know this one. There probably is day care in the area.
• Post office: I'm in kind of an awkward area for some amenities, and that includes post offices. Post drop boxes are plentiful, but an actual office takes some travel.
• Shopping mall: I don't frequent shopping malls, but there the light rail links up with some. Most are dying, but one is doing well. This is a shrug.
• Movie theater: A few minutes on the light rail, no problem.
• University: Portland State University is an urban university that I work at. I can access it by bus or light rail.
• Sports arena: There are at least two sizeable sports arenas, the Moda Center and Providence Park, on the MAX light rail. The light rail gets heavy use from Portlanders who don't want to deal with parking.

There are two exceptions:

• Good parks: The area actually has a lot of great parks, but there is a freeway blocking the nearest one. I can take transit, bike, or walk a while. That's doable, but it adds a lot of time if I just want to go lounge around in the outdoors.
• Elementary Schools: If I had kids, the area would be not great. It's a 25 minute walk, which is a bit much. That said, one of the "bike bus" programs would be perfect since the route isn't that long.

Hmmm, how so? My impression is that it is so that they can write it off on their taxes, but still how control over how the money is spent.

One of the use cases I would like to have used Flatpak for is Visual Studio Code. Unfortunately, I found the isolation to be too onerous for developer needs. Take the Rust compiler toolchain. There's no way to access that from VSCode. There are ways to add on tools to the VSCode environment, but that feels like a kludge when I already have everything installed and set up. And if the toolchain isn't available for Flatpak, tough luck. Other features just simply don't work. I eventually switched to using the Ubuntu builds from the VSCode developers.

Edit: The Rust compiler toolchain can be added onto Flatpak because there is a packaged version of the toolchain, but it's not the host environment's version. Other tools like the fish shell might be entirely unavailable.

Estate taxes are the way to deal with that. Otherwise you potentially get massive distortionary effects from people trying to dump all their ownership into liquid assets right before they die, assuming that's what you meant by wealth. It also gets odder when you no longer have a single owner. Jeff Bezos is fabulously wealthy and holds lots of stock in Amazon, but he does not own Amazon outright. You could say that when he dies, his stock goes to the workers. Okay, what about stock held by funds like Vanguard or pension funds? What does death even mean then? It's a whole mess, or you could go with the simpler estate tax.

...into a big stupid ditch!

That's too bad. I had moved away from Milwaukie by then so it wasn't really practical for me to make my way down there. I still eat a lot of their grains and other products, though.

I just never would recommend mixing Gnome's Terminal and Konsole. Gnome and KDE never seem to play nice with each other. Besides that, go wild.

Attribute Based Access Control

It's not quite ACAB, but it is close enough that I do a double take every time I see it.

This is also why I'm so critical of efforts to discourage voting in some illusory mission to pursue some fake chaste purity. In terms of domestic politics, Biden clearly has defenders of Palestinian rights in his coalition on his mind. At the same time, there are supporters of Israel in his coalition and people who want a balance. Trump just doesn't have these sorts of people in his coalition. There are a hell of a lot of people in Trump's coalition who just hate Muslims and would love to see all Muslims and Arabs ethnically cleansed from Israel-Palestine.

I agree. John Oliver once referred to billionaires as something like a bug in the structure of the system, and I wholeheartedly agree with that analysis. Unfortunately, they're a bug that's not so easily dislodged. Until then, designing systems that are able to deal with their existence is the best way to deal with them.

Don't vote, then politicians will ignore you as a non-factor and you will deserve it.

Vote for an irrelevant third party, then politicians that matter will ignore you as a non-factor and you will deserve it.

Vote for politician that has a chance of winning, do it consistently, then politicians will pay attention to you and you will deserve it.

Don't just vote, but show up at town halls and contact your politicians, politicians will pay more attention to you and you will deserve it.

This is how old conservative people have been controlling this country far past their welcome. They show up. It's no secret. Gen Z has been pretty good about turnout compared to previous young generations, so that's encouraging.

Not just a complete nut job. Biden's coalition includes many people sympathetic to Palestinians. That's why we're seeing at least some actions trying to pressure Israel into not being total shits towards Palestinians. As imperfect as Biden is, I've never seen Trump so much as utter a word in their defense. Reelecting Biden means having someone where there are levers to get them to do the right thing. Electing Trump means leaving Palestine to the mercy of Israel.

This is true, but you could still have a progressive fine. Very good point with the billionaire, though. They live in a completely different world, in terms of how their wealth flow works. Still, it seems like an alternative fine system could be worked out that would hit them hard.