Shower thought: The political philosophy of ‘progressivism’ (i.e. the political held by people who describe themselves as ‘progressives’) implicitly relies on a Whig view of history, according to which history is a linear march toward greater liberty, enlightenment, and improvement, often culminating in the present as the best possible outcome, but ordered teleologically
#Florida#GovernorRonDeSantis#ClimateCrisis
"Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by DeSantis."
🙈🙉🙊🙄🤦♂️
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill that strikes climate change from state law
Clearly those kids were super secret mossad midget agents who have a direct line to Bibi's office, don't you know. They can stop the war right now, obviously, all by themselves. Because of course nobody attacking kids playing on a playground is antisemitic. They're just anti-zionist, of course, since we know beating up kids in New York is all about a government halfway around the globe.
Markets - Where did all the stocks go?
Public Companies In Decline
The number of public companies has fallen fast by Matt Phillips, David Crowther 4/28/24
"...After analyzing the effects of mergers, private-equity investment, and regulatory costs, the paper suggests that M&A is the main culprit. (Though they do theorize that higher costs associated with regulation could be a less important contributing factor.)
“Mergers seem to be the biggest driver of this trend,” Ali Sanati told Sherwood. Sanati is a finance professor at the American University in Washington, DC, and a coauthor of the 2023 paper.
The authors categorized mergers according to various financial metrics, noting that mergers motivated around financing and innovation “are the ones that effectively reduce the number of U.S. listings.”
The ugly truth is that western culture will give up excessively complicated and needlessly resource wasteful tech only when it's pried out of their cold dead bank accounts.
Would it be weird to write an essay/blog post covering the reading and studying I’ve done trying to understand the sheer madness of what antisemitism is and its presence among the hard left? It would bring together a number of scholars, most of whom Jewish, who I’ve found really insightful, because I don't think it’s actually immediately ‘obvious’ how or why antisemitism has such a grip on so much of the world, and always has.
Seeking eggplant recipe ideas, as I have one limp eggplant in the fridge and 8 eggplants growing in hydroponics (which may produce a massive amount of eggplant).
So far my repertoire includes 2 dishes:
Eggplant Parmesan (Italian)
Eggplant in Garlic Sauce (Chinese)
(the family hates eggplant, except me, so we never eat it 🤔 )
I do a lazy version of this. I dice up the eggplant and sprinkle it with garlic, onion powder, paprika, and parsley flakes first, then roast in the oven about half an hour. They're not so soggy that way.
We need Mastodon and Mastodon clients to be able to remove the tracking tags from links. All this utm_*, fbclid, si and t really have nothing to look for here.
It's not that hard. Post a screenshot instead of their link thumbnail, and cut and paste the link without the tracking. I do it all the time, almost everything I post. Just takes a minute. I rarely just post someone else's link.
As Trump’s classified docs prosecution goes forward, now w no pretense of trial before the election, Judge #Cannon appears poised to permit him to use pub hearings in the case to sound his campaign themes. 1/… #legal
If he wins there will not be either of those things. He will shut down the whole thing, defund the whole department, write executive orders prohibiting prosecution of a current or former president for anything at all, and order prison and executions of anyone who objects too loudly.
Do you not understand that? If he wins the constitution is over and his right wing backers will install an authoritarian theocracy.