" local citizens came together to take the necessary steps to protect their homes." - the steps they took were obviously not the necessary steps, instead they were unnecessary and in fact idiotic.
The Town of Salisbury did not ‘grapple with sea rise’. An ad hoc association, Salisbury Beach Citizens for Change, basically the owners of multi-million dollar absurdly situated beach front homes, blew 500,000 dollars on one wall of a giant sand castle.
For good reasons. Besides being a huge ongoing expense, they frequently end up amplifying the erosion, and would almost certainly degrade the public beaches adjacent to these houses.
I started out in the computer industry working for a company that reverse engineered and built IBM compatible terminal systems, This was more than 40 years ago, when that was its own large and profitable sector of the computer hardware market. It was absolutely legal to build ‘plug compatible’ reverse engineered third party systems. DRM is almost entirely horseshit that has helped turn the entire tech industry into silo’d enshittified monopolies.
Critical that it is tied to inflation. Otherwise the system will just rebalance via price to protect profits. That has to be stopped. They have to give all of us a larger share.
Alabama suffers crime because of drugs, it punishes people because of drugs, it builds billion dollar prisons and signs billion dollar prison healthcare deals because its justice system is overrun by the consequences of drugs. It forces people to spend lifetimes in prison because of drugs, it uses the presence of drugs as an...
I don’t disagree, it ‘ought to’, but my point is simply that even if it doesn’t the benefits of legalization to both the addicted community and society in general are more than enough to justify legalization.
Capitalism and neoliberal globalization is great as long as your capitalist organizations are dominating the system. But that inevitably results in the emergence of other competitive capitalist organizations. Then it’s back to trade barriers, and when that fails, military conflict.
Police forces are the the primary Ideological State Apparatus of Repression. They do not exist to protect the public from crime, they exist to protect the property rights of the owners of the means of production. Keeping the proles in a state of fear is them just doing their job.
Cops have always had a habit of killing the homeless. Also they have a habit of killing the homed. Thanks to qualified immunity in the USA, a cop just has to feel threatened, not actually be threatened, to justify the use of deadly force.
Yeah when I saw the pictures with all the white 3s, I guessed they were hertz rentals used by ride share drivers (because hertz is renting them at really low rates) who either don’t know much about their cars or deliberately run them down to near zero to max their fares.
Yeah, which made them just fabulous for our favorite use for them at the time: driving around drinking. Pack that bug full of teen agers smoking and drinking and freezing and basically getting CO poisoning until somebody got sick and we all had to do an emergency exit drill.
I mainly want to get a coffee grinder because beans have a longer shelf life and are cheaper. If I also get better coffee, that’s a bonus! (Basically, I’m not looking for a premium option)...
You can list all the current loaded drivers. You can examine the system event log for service start operations. You can run with a kernel debugger attached and examine any loaded driver. The driver itself is likely correctly signed and will not require additional user acknowledgement beyond what was given when the game was installed.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced proposals this month that transgender advocates say could block access to gender-affirming care provided by independent clinics and general practitioners, leaving thousands of adults scrambling for treatment and facing health risks....
Ah the enshittification proceeds. Content is not king. Revenue is king. Those railing against it will be swept away as the shit tsunami envelopes everything.
Tesla recalls Cybertrucks over accelerator crash risk (www.bbc.com)
Tesla, the electric car company owned by Elon Musk, has recalled thousands of its new Cybertrucks over safety concerns....
Massachusetts town grapples with sea rise after sand barrier fails (www.theguardian.com)
A $500,000 sand dune collapsed in days after being erected, and residents are looking for help to protect their homes...
Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". (www.theverge.com)
This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code....
TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
I always assumed credit scores were an integral and historic part of the American financial system....
California Dem Barbara Lee defends call for $50 federal minimum wage: 'Just barely enough' (wgme.com)
Alabama says it’s tough on drug crime. It just perpetuates it. (www.al.com)
Alabama suffers crime because of drugs, it punishes people because of drugs, it builds billion dollar prisons and signs billion dollar prison healthcare deals because its justice system is overrun by the consequences of drugs. It forces people to spend lifetimes in prison because of drugs, it uses the presence of drugs as an...
How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists (theregister.com)
A 100km-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere (www.theguardian.com)
The world experienced first 12-month period of more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial reference period, the Copernicus Climate Change Service says (climate.copernicus.eu)
January 2024 is also the eighth month in a row that is the warmest on record for the respective month of the year, according to Copernicus....
Theodore Luhaka: Aspiring footballer left with 'serious anal injuries' - French police officers given suspended sentences (news.sky.com)
Kentucky GOP’s New Bill Decriminalizes Use of Deadly Force Against the Unhoused (truthout.org)
“I’m just ashamed that this bill even came into fruition,” a Lexington council member said.
Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek (electrek.co)
Looking for advice buying a coffee grinder
I mainly want to get a coffee grinder because beans have a longer shelf life and are cheaper. If I also get better coffee, that’s a bonus! (Basically, I’m not looking for a premium option)...
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
Vanguard, the controversial anti-cheat software initially attached to Valorant, is now also coming to League of Legends....
Ohio is poised to become the 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults (apnews.com)
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced proposals this month that transgender advocates say could block access to gender-affirming care provided by independent clinics and general practitioners, leaving thousands of adults scrambling for treatment and facing health risks....
Adding services to an existing Docker nginx container
Hi, I’m just getting started with Docker, so apologies in advance if this seems silly....
Palestinian shop-owner used as human shield by Israeli forces (www.aljazeera.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions (www.pcgamesn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10828130...
Newsmax Interview Gets Weird As Some Guy In His Underwear Wanders In (www.huffpost.com)
Right-wing pundit Dick Morris was speaking from what appeared to be a living room as the man strolled through.