I wish most/all laws worked this way. We should be aiming for incremental changes over time instead of big bang ones that get undone after the next election.
Hell, for minimum wage though, it should always change based on cost of living as it continues to increase over time.
One person can do something, but one person can’t do everything. If you are already running a farm co-op, leading a union, or so on, you simply don’t have the time to address the hundred other things you can see in the news in a single day. The point still stands, you can’t control everything, so even if you are making change on one or two points, you have to avoid being angry about the hundred other things you cannot.
In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.
My sister is a civil engineer in PA and is familiar with this situation. She told me that basically these municipalities did not take care of their pipes, refused to raise any money for them, then, when they got old enough that the situation became critical, sold it off. Now this company comes along, has to make required fixes to the pipes, and has to raise the money to do so. The private company gets to be the bad guy, while the local governments, who neglected the pipes for a decade or more, don’t get heat.
All this said, if they weren’t allowed to sell it to a private company, there would be no “get out of jail free” card and maybe they would have pushed harder to take care of them damn pipes.
Point is, I don’t think it’s quite as simple as it looks on the surface.
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
I really think the vast majority of Duo Lingo users, even the ones who use it every day, never progress past an introductory “101” level in the language. I know people who use it every day for years and know some vocab but can’t hold even a basic conversation.
If you actually want to learn the language you have to… Believe it or not… Interact with people who are fluent in the language.
I highly recommend the book Pandora’s Star by Peter Hamilton. They explore using tiny wormholes. They move them, poke a powerful sensor suite though, scan, retract, and close, gradually moving in on prospective planets. They have powerful forcefield to protect against anything coming in the other way. Makes sense to me.
They aren’t the only one, but they are the largest one. They didn’t make the system the way it is, but they benefit massively from it staying this way.
For me. I don’t care about resolution after I’ve downloaded it. Heck, I don’t need to know the resolution before downloading, I can tell by the file size.
Hundreds of unsheltered people living in tent encampments in the blocks surrounding the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco have been forced to leave by city outreach workers and police as part of an attempted “clean up the house” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s annual free trade...
Nah, it’s based on the appraised value, which for taxes is always only a fraction of the market value and doesn’t change unless the city does a new appraisal. For instance my house is worth over $200k and the appraised value is something like $70k I’m not an outlier, everyone’s house is appraised like this.
I really roll my eyes about the “dismantle the capitalist system because food costs money” memes. Like dude, dismantle it to what? Do you think no one starves when there’s no capitalism?
Some day Cloudflare will enter their enshittifcation phase and a lot of small websites will die off rather than move off it. It’s best for sites to not all be behind the same few companies.
Biden administration cancels student loans of more than 150,000 borrowers under new plan (www.nbcnews.com)
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Sovereign citizen has a totally sane question. (lemmy.world)
There is no such thing as too many fans... (sh.itjust.works)
Minimum wage hikes will take effect in 2024 for 25 U.S. states. Here's who is getting a raise. (www.cbsnews.com)
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)
Official history of the world (web.archive.org)
After Water System Privatization, Consumers Get Hosed (substack.perfectunion.us)
In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.
Had this conversation with someone who chose to no longer be at my table after meeting a blind NPC (files.catbox.moe)
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
my Duolingo recap (i.imgur.com)
Feel free to send yours in the comments...
Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies (fortune.com)
Broadcom is laying off 1,267 Palo Alto-based VMware workers following its acquisition of the company...
Starfleet may have a security problem (startrek.website)
I have a time-travel joke, but you didn't like it. (lemmy.ml)
I have a software joke, but I’m not ready to release it yet (i.imgur.com)
Tax time (startrek.website)
Naming Torrents (files.catbox.moe)
San Francisco homeless sweep was cheered on by the right. It was also illegal (www.vice.com)
Hundreds of unsheltered people living in tent encampments in the blocks surrounding the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco have been forced to leave by city outreach workers and police as part of an attempted “clean up the house” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s annual free trade...
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A box of DevOps (sh.itjust.works)
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I can't help myself... (lemmy.world)
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