John Snow, Barry Marshall, Semmelweis, Borglum, Galileo. Imagine if we judged people by the content of their character. Prefer facts over “someone’s truth.”
@beerundbacon@cspan IF. If he’s arrested and his company destroyed. So far, TACO wrt any consequences for the _employers_ of illegals, no matter their stated politics, even.
@Gormogons@ScottWalker Best we can do is unlimited ballot harvesting, completely unsecured networked electronic voting machines, and skid row pay-for-votes.
Why is it so cheap to go out to eat in Japan and so expensive in much of the US?
One word.
Regulations
It costs next to nothing to set up a restaurant in an unused part of your house in Japan and there are no zoning laws. So anyone with free time can turn their living room into a 10-seater at close to no cost.
If I recall a liquor license is a one time fee of about $100.
To set that up, even in a rented space and run it for a year including selling alcohol, would take a couple months and about $100,000.
The same thing in San Francisco would take a year and closer to $400,000.
And then it's just a supply and demand curve
If you think “memory shortages” persisting is a natural market phenomenon, I have some oceanfront property to sell you in Nebraska for a really sweet price.
open source hardware is going to become very important as every dominant software platform in the world tries to clip your wings to prevent you from using agents to escape their anti-customer practices. google ruining ad blocking in chrome and apple forcing you to use their app store was just the start.
google, apple, meta, microsoft all want to trap you in a cage rather than let you take the power to choose back into your own hands and they will fight like demons to do so.
@esrtweet This was true. Now that women are “equalizing” engineering, this will be lost forever, like tears in rain (that collapses structures once built to withstand superquakes.) The few actually worthwhile female engineers will be mean-girled out into the cold, their warnings ignored.
@mattbramanti@SusieBdds It’s a really gay jacket. Good on him for not letting the jacket take control, though, ig. His mother is probably looking on from her memorial tablet through the burning hell money going “but still no grandkid from the spy concubine?” 🤷🏻♂️
@mattbramanti@MikeAnissimov2 My ideal bedroom (which ours is close to) is far more austere than a hotel. Nightstands, really nice bed and mattress, and nothing else but the ceiling fan. Its sleeping utility is only marred by imperfect sunlight-blocking.
@nealasher The most fantastical element of this is that the halal-lambeast at the end shows any sign of confusion or reconsideration of her bloodlust against civilization, let alone understanding of what her “faith” is still currently the largest sponsor of (slavery.)
Kal Shi is either a snack cake with high lead content from Hohhot or one of the leaders of the Dothraki that got ganked prior to ASoIaF. Either way, avoid.
@Gormogons@hecate40 He must feel like a Manichaean priest felt like when Islam AND Nestorian Christianity came and swept away his entire phenomenon from Eurasia.
The older I get, the more I understand the guys that land in one place and start building a building without any training or budget, almost animalistically architecting something. Nothing else lasts, even children usually betray you or erase you.