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tal, 13 days ago

I’m kinda surprised that they didn’t name him, as it seems like he kinda went above-and-beyond and they did name everyone else, but maybe he asked to not be.

tal, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I’m pretty sure that there are some active gopher servers, and I assume that something is indexing them.

googles

Yeah, still there. Here’s a Web gateway if you don’t have a gopher client.

gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

It looks like they have “Veronica-2” running.

gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=gopher.floodgap.co…

It seems to still be indexing and returning search results for gopherspace. Here’s a search for “linux”:

gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?ss=gopher%3A%2F%2Fg…

EDIT: It looks like SDF is running one of said active gopher servers. I’ve noticed them also running one of the lemmy instances.

EDIT2: I just fired up cool-retro-term and a gopher client. Brings back VT220 memories:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f2176e91-065e-493e-9011-5129ccd74832.png

lemmy.today/…/f2176e91-065e-493e-9011-5129ccd7483…

EDIT2: Heh, I suppose it looks a little goofy in 16:9 aspect ratio rather than 4:3.

tal, 15 days ago

James Carlson

googles

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/…/ar-AA1o8IrP

One of the most violent leaders of the Columbia University riots is allegedly a professional agitator and limousine liberal — the scion of millionaire ad execs who owns in a $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone, has a model babymama and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp.

James Carlson, aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, is “a longtime anarchist,” a high-ranking police source said.

He bought his 2,893-square-foot, three-story brownstone with four wood-burning fireplaces and a carriage house in Park Slope in 2019 for $2.3 million, according to property records and online listings.

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The provocateur, who has arrests dating back to 2005, is one of three children of prominent advertising execs Richard “Dick” Tarlow and his wife, Sandy Carlson Tarlow.

Dick Tarlow, died in 2022 at age 81 with an estate worth at least $20 million, court papers show.

Welp, I suppose that he can afford to pay for stuff that he broke at the university.

tal, 8 days ago

I’m pretty sure that the commenter isn’t American, as he’s using spaces as a numeric group separator.

tal, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I’d say the other way around. The store brand version has nearly always been fine, in my experience. I’d instead use the store brand and make a list of cases where the store brand isn’t okay. At least in my experience, it’s pretty limited. What I can recall having bad experiences with, off-the-cuff:

• Soup. I have had some pretty disappointing store brand canned soups.
• Things with motors, like small kitchen appliances, blenders and the like. I’ve had a bunch of generic ones of those fail before.
• Sodas. These aren’t exactly the same. Some people particularly prefer the taste of one root beer or whatever, and it might be that they prefer a name brand. That being said, there are also people who prefer store brands, so…shrugs

There are also a few cases where I’ve run into a particular brand that doesn’t have a store clone, and where I really like the name-brand product.

• Pretzels. I particularly like Dot’s. I haven’t seen a store brand clone of Dot’s.
• Sardines. Bit of a niche, but I once went on some website with some guy that was absolutely rabid about sardines, reviewed them, wrote huge amounts about them. My dad always liked eating canned sardines on crackers. Tried a couple different brands, and yeah, there is a difference, but the big one is that stores in the US don’t normally have heavily-smoked sardines (well, okay, sprats) in oil. I started eating Latvian “Riga Gold” sprats in oil, and they’re just amazing. I don’t like a lot of foods I’ve tried from Eastern Europe, but man, they hit it out of the ballpark on that. I don’t think that we have a US-based comparable manufacturer.
• Red Windsor cheese. It’s not all that fancy, just cheddar with some port wine marbled in, but I really like the taste. Same thing on this – I don’t think that there are any companies in the US that make the stuff, so it’s name brand or nothing.

If someone did clone any of the last three, though, I’d give 'em a try.

tal, 2 months ago

The report offers two main solutions to the retirement crisis: expanding and strengthening Social Security—“the most successful government program in our nation’s history”

Social Security has each generation depend on the next generation paying for its retirement. That’s kind of what happened historically, when kids took care of aging parents. Problem is that everyone else’s kids pay for your retirement, which means that your incentive to do the work of raising kids goes away; Social Security puts the load on people who have kids to turn them into the next generation of productive workers. It’s great if you never raise kids, but it’s a pretty raw deal if you do raise kids.

It also deals poorly with scenarios where the population pyramid inverts – like, birth rates fall off and such. Then suddenly instead of lots of kids supporting a few older people’s retirement, you have a lot of retirees expecting a few younger people to pay for their retirement.

I’d kinda favor 401(k)s or something more like that; that has each generation fund its own retirement, rather than relying on the next. That way, the payments in are proportional to the size of the population cohort, rather than proportional to the size of some other population cohort (like, the next generation).