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We don’t blink an eye when told to not stand under something being lifted by a crane, so why balk at being told to be safe around the two ton travelling metal boxes?
Nobody is saying that you shouldn't act safely around cars. People are saying we shouldn't design transportation infrastructure that prioritizes driver convenience over pedestrian safety. Cranes are only allowed to operate in much more tightly controlled situations than drivers.
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This is the first beard I've ever seen make someone's chin look weaker.
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Edit: is it accessible without knowing much Japanese?
It is, if you look a few things up, but there's also a readily available translated "backup copy" floating around.
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Dōþ hīe spēcāþ Englisc on hwæt?
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The question I am posing is not "do modern farm workers labor harder than prehistoric hunter gathers" (they do).
Instead, the question is "should modern farm workers labor harder than prehistoric hunter gathers".
Farming is more efficient than gathering. That's why we farm. So why is it the case that modern farm workers are working harder?
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If the required labor was split up more equitably then farmers wouldn't have to work sunup to sundown.
The entire point of large scale agriculture is that it's more efficient than individual peasants working a single field or whatever.
Nobody is saying that farming isn't hard work, but modern farming should produce more food per man-hour than neolithic farming (or hunter/gathering), right? So why should it be that farm workers now have to work harder than prehistoric people?
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And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.
On my current Fedora 40 install /bin is already a symlink to /usr/bin
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Lord of the Rings will start entering the public domain in 2044, so all the rights holders are going to squeeze the IP as much as they can over the next twenty years.
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The main difference from the film being that the novel isn't a satire--Heinlein was being sincere.
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Just a guess, but probably the motherboard + one (soldered) dimm comes from the factory/supplier as a single SKU. These can be sold for a base price, or some can be upgraded with a second dimm and sold as an upgrade.
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RIP Kenny G
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That's actually kinda neat
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I don't mean to be a buzzkill, but you'll probably have more success if you grow your potatoes in a field instead of the woods.
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It's a good thing we have you around to let us know what all Palestinians think
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The Speaker of the House is basically in charge of proceedings in the House of Representatives (the "lower" house of the legislature). No business can get done in the House until one is elected by the representatives. This is the first time in history that a sitting Speaker has been removed from the position in the middle of the term. This is a particularly awkward time since the government will run out of funding in 45 days if Congress does not pass a budget.
This is a result of a growing split between the ultra-far-right and the slightly-less-far-right factions within the Republican party.
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If you own a home in the area any equity you have there has probably been made pretty worthless. It would make it pretty hard to move if you couldn't sell your home to afford another.
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This particular trial is for the federal charges in DC.
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I just wanted to address a single point from your comment:
Lemmy does not offer end-to-end encryption by default, which means that your messages could be intercepted by someone who is able to access your ISP's network
If the Lemmy server is using HTTPS, nobody at your ISP or anywhere else between you and the Lemmy server should be able to read your messages (they could see that you are exchanging data with a particular host, but not the contents).
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From the article: > NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — On the verge of tears, Nathan Nkunzimana recalled watching a video of a child being molested and another of a woman being killed. > > Eight hours a day, his job as a content moderator for a Facebook contractor required him to look at horrors so the world wouldn’t have to. Some overwhelmed colleagues would scream or cry, he said. The mental cost of this sort of large scale content moderation isn't discussed often, and it's often exported to the developing world, as highlighted by this article. Can the online commons be kept safe without causing this sort of harm? Can AI/ML help solve this problem? What about federated social networking?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1608756 > From the article: > > > The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges can't explicitly consider applicants' race in admissions, a landmark ruling that will radically transform how colleges are able to attract a diverse student body. > > There's also an [article](https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-race-f83d6318017ec9b9029b12ee2256e744) from the AP.
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From the article: > The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges can't explicitly consider applicants' race in admissions, a landmark ruling that will radically transform how colleges are able to attract a diverse student body. There's also an [article](https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-race-f83d6318017ec9b9029b12ee2256e744) from the AP.
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You can listen to the recording on the article. From the text: > The recording, which first aired on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” includes new details from the conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information, including a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1212709 >  >  > > I recently finished *Moon Witch, Spider King*, the second novel of James' fantasy trilogy after reading the first novel, *Black Leopard, Red Wolf* earlier this year. I'd love to hear if anyone else has any thoughts on these two books. > > I was drawn into Jame's world building. The epic fantasy world he creates draws primarily from African folklore and culture. From the perspective of someone used to the ideology of Western fantasy, I was engrossed in the lore. The prose can be meandering--I had to go back and re-read paragraphs regularly ("wait, what did I just miss?"), but it's masterfully written. > > The book is vulgar and incredibly violent. There are numerous scenes of graphic sexual violence, some of which was bad enough my immersion and had me questioning "does this really need to be in the book?". If you're sensitive about that, I would definitely avoid this one. I still feel uncomfortable about some of the scenes I read. > > The plot of the books is centered around the same series of events (more or less), from different characters' perspectives. The first novel is narrated by Tracker--a mercenary with a supernatural 'scent', and the second by Sogolon, a misandrist with her own mysterious abilities. Both are unreliable narrators, and sometimes recount their stories in non-chronological order. By the end of the second book I was re-evaluating what I thought had happened from reading Tracker's tale in the first. I am sure the upcoming third novel will continue that trend. > > Both books were fairly long, and dense reading, but they felt like only a short glimpse into the world of the North and South Kingdoms. I really want to learn more about that world, so I will probably pick up the third book when it arrives, even if I'm also still a little apprehensive about some of the more extreme scenes.
  I recently finished *Moon Witch, Spider King*, the second novel of James' fantasy trilogy after reading the first novel, *Black Leopard, Red Wolf* earlier this year. I'd love to hear if anyone else has any thoughts on these two books. I was drawn into Jame's world building. The epic fantasy world he creates draws primarily from African folklore and culture. From the perspective of someone used to the ideology of Western fantasy, I was engrossed in the lore. The prose can be meandering--I had to go back and re-read paragraphs regularly ("wait, what did I just miss?"), but it's masterfully written. The book is vulgar and incredibly violent. There are numerous scenes of graphic sexual violence, some of which was bad enough my immersion and had me questioning "does this really need to be in the book?". If you're sensitive about that, I would definitely avoid this one. I still feel uncomfortable about some of the scenes I read. The plot of the books is centered around the same series of events (more or less), from different characters' perspectives. The first novel is narrated by Tracker--a mercenary with a supernatural 'scent', and the second by Sogolon, a misandrist with her own mysterious abilities. Both are unreliable narrators, and sometimes recount their stories in non-chronological order. By the end of the second book I was re-evaluating what I thought had happened from reading Tracker's tale in the first. I am sure the upcoming third novel will continue that trend. Both books were fairly long, and dense reading, but they felt like only a short glimpse into the world of the North and South Kingdoms. I really want to learn more about that world, so I will probably pick up the third book when it arrives, even if I'm also still a little apprehensive about some of the more extreme scenes.
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