Mayor Eric Adams told at least one member of the City Council he would restore cuts to their favorite programs if they agreed to vote against a police transparency bill the mayor and NYPD officials vigorously opposed, according to four people familiar with conversations in the Council....
The other major candidates all wanted to reform NYC’s hideous police force. Obviously Adams ran on ‘but the crimes’ and as usual in our idiocracy the people of NYC fell for it again.
Which is basically an accounting issue. We could produce all the stuff we need with a smaller workforce, but that would squeeze a lot of profit out of the production system. Simply put billionaires would suffer. Without an ever increasing consumer population there is the horror of degrowth.
I run HA as a container in a vm. I back HA data up nightly and the compose script for running HA is archived on github. If the vm dies there is another vm that can bring it back up. If the host dies (I have a pool of xenserver (xcp-ng) hosts, so it would be a major domestic disaster if they all croaked) I have a fallback to run HA on docker on wsl. If the house burns down all the scripts are on GitHub and the backups get sent to Azure monthly. I think I’m covered.
Chapelle and Gervais seem stuck on hitting people who really can’t hit back. Fucking Chapelle brags about it, Gervais is now pretending its all an act. Fuck both of them.
Along with the massive recent manufacturing investments in electric vehicle (EV) technology and talks of a greener, decarbonized future, there are some not-so-green problems....
As the battery components are valuable the recycling is pretty effective. The problem with household recycling is that there is no economic value for most of our waste.
So we are heading toward three streaming channels, basically cbs, nbc, abc, but instead of OTA and free with ads, it will be 20/month each with ads. All the utter crap on cable nobody wanted to watch, (100 channels with nothing on) will instead be ready to stream on demand. Well done shitty end stage capitalism, well done.
The PRC has always maintained that Taiwan is part of China and will be eventually incorporated back into PRC. (The ROC had the same position, but with respect to the mainland until 1991.) Taiwan was in fact part of China from 1683 until the Japanese started their imperial colonization of China and Korea, taking Taiwan in 1895. It would be news and a really big deal if the PRC stopped making that claim.
A degrowth society has to be an equitable society. Otherwise your criticism is entirely valid.
We are going to have a degrowth system regardless of any policy decisions, as the current growth system is burning through critical resources and destroying the environment. We can either plan for this, or we can have an unplanned existential civilizational crisis.
Why? Because of increased demand for goods and services? That might cause a minor blip while production adjusts. Oh you mean that the government would run a deficit? We’ve been running massive deficits for decades, basically since WW2 started. Inflation is demonstrably independent of those deficits.
Bill Maher Goes on Anti-Vax Tirade During Heated Covid-19 Debate With 'Family Guy' Creator Seth MacFarlane (okmagazine.com)
Sorry, can’t find any better sources for this....
NYC councilmember says Mayor Adams tried to stop police transparency bill by trading budget cuts (gothamist.com)
Mayor Eric Adams told at least one member of the City Council he would restore cuts to their favorite programs if they agreed to vote against a police transparency bill the mayor and NYPD officials vigorously opposed, according to four people familiar with conversations in the Council....
I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video (lemdro.id)
I’d seen rumours online but got the email this morning....
Dave Chappelle’s Obsession With Mocking Trans People Continues in New Netflix Special ‘The Dreamer’: ‘I Love Punching Down’ (variety.com)
Sony fined €13.5m by French antitrust regulator – Autorité de la Concurrence accused platform holder of restricting third-party PS4 controllers (www.gamesindustry.biz)
China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No. (www.wsj.com)
Chinese women have had it. Their response to Beijing’s demands for more children? No....
HA redundancy options
I’m currently running HA on a Pi3… it works fine, but it’s now a single point of failure....
Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people (www.independent.co.uk)
Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people....
Alcohol overuse causes 140,000 American deaths annually. Why is it so undertreated? (www.vox.com)
Medications can help the 1 in 12 people who suffer from alcohol use disorder. But most will never be treated....
The environmental costs of EV batteries that politicians don't tend to talk about (www.cbc.ca)
Along with the massive recent manufacturing investments in electric vehicle (EV) technology and talks of a greener, decarbonized future, there are some not-so-green problems....
Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?
If I’m talking to an English speaker from outside of the US, is there any confusion if I say “soccer”?...
‘Warnamount’ Merger Talk Confounds Investors And Industry: “Why Would Any Company Try To Catch A Falling Knife?” (deadline.com)
Xi told Biden at summit that China will reunify with Taiwan (abcnews.go.com)
To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth (www.nature.com)
$750 a month was given to homeless people in California. What they spent it on is more evidence that universal basic income works. (www.businessinsider.com)