Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America | Joan Donovan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/police-brutality-university-protest?CMP=share_btn_url

I just tried to order a pizza and it wanted my credit card expiration date, so I entered "05/28" (example date only)

it then came back with a "your card is expired" error. Uh, no it isn't? that date is still several years in the future.

did... did this site just take my date and assume I mean May of the year AD 28? That is indeed very expired! that's what I get for trying to use Jesus's card.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

@futurebird One weekend economics broke through the wall into anthropology's room and threw all of anthropology's toys into the trash. She filled anthropology's toy box with the toys that she stole earlier from statistics, after first smashing them with a hammer.

It took anthropology a while to notice (she was taking a long walk and arguing with herself at the time, as she did most weekends). When she found out she tried to throw things at economics, who scurried away into the walls.

Thinking about how Arch [or Arch derivatives like Manjaro] really do seem to have their shit together but I'd be worried about my system suddenly sliding from a good state to a bad state after one upgrade.

Is there like… a way to run Arch with checkpoints you can wind back?

Or is that just NixOS? Like is the thing I just described NixOS

(Note: Yes, this is the kind of post it's appropriate to reply to recommending Linux distributions, in this case I asked for it)

@ParadeGrotesque @jvagle

Please don’t perpetuate this stereotype. It lets straight homophobes off the hook and puts the responsibility on the LGBTQ+ community.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5082/the-dangerous-stereotype-of-the-self-hating-homophobe

In addition to being an election denier, the new House Speaker has written in favor of criminalizing gay sex.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html

@apLundell@octodon.social the future is here. It's terrible. Waiting for a hero.

@apLundell@octodon.social 2023 the

Cargo ships are finding that using sails allows them to reduce fuel usage by *one third*. Only 30 of the world's 60,000 cargo ships are wind-assisted right now, but it appears that the entire industry has just figured out that it would be foolish *not* to put sails on their ships. The potential reduction in emissions—CO2 and otherwise—would serve as a significant reduction in the rate of climate change. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/climate/wind-powered-ships-climate.html

@intengineering LOL. In 50y, fossil fuel will only be used in petrochemicals. 200 y supply from known reserves?

PC World - January 2000
Net Appliances
https://archive.org/details/pcworld181unse/page/64/mode/2up

Please spread the word widely - we're hiring five religion & world affairs interns at Pew Research Center.

Interns can work in our DC office or remotely from a few states. Details here:
https://pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CenterExternal/job/Washington-DC-Pew-Research-Center/Intern--Content-Analysis---Religion-and-World-Affairs--Fall-2023_R002294

Many Pew Research careers began with this internship.

Linus changed the kernel's contribution documentation to allow people to use a known identity instead of their legal name 🥰

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330

Good news. Looking forward to being able to read and vote on the proposed deal. Hope that they now can close an acceptable deal with SAG-AFTRA.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/24/business/hollywood-writers-strike-news?unlocked_article_code=LgL_T0mRX5_jVSu6uOLO4wC8wpQEwAnET8k6CKDfTjgSDB4CSgJqLO8M-N6zP6LGTVHIcSF7k1NbuyyuIqJMUHKbiJcV6l57YWJAeqNKSywmlCTjDMJZ70HP7NK1YHdJ8EAztPK-2d-o8uhvRbUHgjuUxfLltDXRbCRTbMpqVwmDCzSrGmd1yQYZqxq9qS6OecJDDtISvTrWgTBQui-Lr-0qAbi25t-8FrNghQzm2b4bp6ObhsHdFo0Zuwz_SayVvAoZ1LXKqE2YGPpgcaARANhat_nNLmC0tl2gBLMX7TO3xUq3irDRM3YFPWP4iLCJObCIUOPurhaibWyop9oXeeZ9BzSI9ybP6icDrlK-mqrnlA&smid=url-share

Did you hear about the Prismatic Man?

He was kind of a polarizing figure.

#BlindPeopleUnite

I know many #blind people who use GMail's HTML view. Not only will they be confused but will be unhappy.

"You can display Gmail on your browser in Basic HTML view until January 2024. After this date, Gmail will automatically switch to Standard view".

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en

Bookmark this URL to go to basic HTML view.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

It should still work but doing so will not provide the option to set the mode as the default anymore.

#accessibility

Following the effective strike by #firearms officers in the Metropolitan #Police over one of their colleagues being chased with the murder of #ChrisKaba, we have a situation where the #army is 'supporting' the police in the counter-terrorism activities.

So, the firearms officers think they are above the law, the #Tories seeming interest in service level requirements doesn't seem to apply to armed officers, and we now have the army on the streets.

And this would by the #lawandorder party????