I’ve said for years that we need teams of notable voices speaking out with well crafted statements (not just knee-jerk, liberal cause-humping).
De Niro proved celebrities can break through our media blockade of important stories. Imagine teams of the biggest names in entertainment holding joint pressers to discuss emergent fascism. Some of you with connections can make that happen.
"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division."
Photo taken on this date in 2016 - that time I was in an underground cafe in Lviv, Ukraine, and the waiter caramelised stuff with a blowtorch. Perfectly normal occ health and safety. #Ukraine#Coffee
I imagine that with the tail end of the post WW2 generation retiring, the leading edge of the baby boom will be selling housing. Because of demographics we should have excess housing in just a few years. Right? Prices drop, people move up, entry housing appears again, and new housing is built on existing lots with older homes. Hoping we won’t have to pay people to take them as Italy is doing. https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/112510400384472436
@stevenray@cynblogger From my brief views of EU/UK housing situation, it’s not better there, and the crunch started earlier, because of the urge to not sprawl or build modern apts in many places. The Germans I know, for example either lived with their parents until marriage or moved into warehouses. The Netherlands has multiyear waitlists for apartments and has for decades, I believe.
High property taxes support schools. Lotteries support schools. Federal gov supports school food. And yet we have “lunch debts” for poor families and expect the child labor and lemonade stands market to pay them off. SMH.
@zdl@dansup@dansup I am using Firefox. I see ALT text, but only if I hover the mouse over the dots under the images. Here, my mouse is over the 3rd dot (which is not the photo shown).
Jason Fried from 37Signals announces a “web-based books” product, which I must admit does sound intriguing, even though I already made my own custom book serialization site with Eleventy + Buttondown. Sounds like business books is their main use case, but still, good idea. -> “Workbook […] They have covers, they can have title pages, they can have picture pages, and they can have text pages. Each book gets its own URL, and navigating and keeping track of your progress is all built right in.”
@GossiTheDog@evacide This sounds like employer surveillance ware that can also be abused by any family admin. I can’t think of any reason I would want such a thing, as a user.
Also, if browser password managers are insecure, we should be shouting that from the rooftops.
@ottaross Fun toy! Now I want one too. What’s it called?
Thermal images used to fade pretty quickly. Not sure how modern ones last. I think I would try to scan mine right away if the scanning wasn’t destructive.