It’s literally how he started the conversation. It’s what he asked to talk about. smh

Could be subsidies in your country. Could be geography of Thailand. When I was there it didn’t strike as the kind of land with expansive dairy ranches. As an example, New Zealand produces almost 20x as much dairy as Thailand.

Worse than Sky!?

I can only guess that Comcast run their own tracking across all of their properties. That might be true of a the rest of them as well. It’s hard to tell from this who’s worse.

The only real solution is to just block all trackers and third-party cookies.

Guaranteed they will claim victory no matter how much they lose. If they roll back tariffs after agreeing to exactly the same terms as before, they will still claim victory.

First things first, it’s a moderated mailing list with some ads

This is what neighborhoods in my area do but without the ads. Around here there are distinct neighborhoods that have their own names but no official designation. People have, since before social media, set up mailing lists for each neighborhood moderated by one of the residents.

There’s occasional drama but mostly it’s people asking for tradespeople recommendations, curb alerts for furniture or photos of loose pets.

NextDoor-type services have tried to establish a presence but have mostly been ignored.

Maybe it’s the geography or the early adoption of e-mail lists but mailing lists work great around here.

CEO came out in support of Trump and criticized Democrats.

If a business chooses to take a political position that isn’t strictly policy related they should expect blowback.

Because people already know the chant and it’s dead easy to follow along and learn.

It’s not the words themselves that are effective. It’s the number of people saying them together. Chanting and singing in unison has a very powerful effect on human psychology for both the chanters and people hearing it.

Walk into almost a church to witness this effect, watch soldiers doing drills, listen to cheers at a sporting event. People are stronger together, we feel that at a fundamental level. Hearing people making the same sounds communicates unanimous intent. That can be inspiring or intimidating, it doesn’t matter much what words they say.

And they’ll do so under the pretense of “will nobody think of the children” while prominent Brits have gotten away with raping kids practically in the open. They didn’t even need encryption, they had people willingly turning a blind eye.

Access can do (some) SQL! 😱

I’ve worked for US federal government, access to Access* was the only way I could do some things that wasn’t torture… severe torture.

*keep in mind that SQL is a query language. It can be implemented in different ways and not necessarily within an RDMS.

It would be one of the areas that would save the government a bunch of money. But, Ellison is in the Trump camp so it’s not going to happen.

When Elon was in his early teens, that word was a common pejorative.

If you look at Elon and interpret his behavior as if he was 13, it all makes a lot more sense.

Elon and DOGE should really look into all of those Oracle contracts the Fed pays for. Must be all inefficiency and fraud.

To nitpick, Census data is heavily queried. They use Oracle now, I believe.

Sure but they’re not going to fire all of them. They’re going to fire 90% then make 10% put out the fires and patch the leaks while working twice as many hours for less pay.

The company will gradually get worse and worse until bankrupt or sold and the c-suite bails with their golden parachutes.

Is there someone—a friend, family, colleague—you can reach out to?

At least, try calling 988. Please. There are ways through what you’re feeling they’re just hard to find on your own. There are people who want to help. Give it a chance , there’s nothing to lose by trying.

Which applies to 99% of people making Delta Chat not a viable alternative to WhatsApp.

The Fediverse has the same problem that Linux, and Open Source in general, struggles with. The barriers to entry and network effects work against widespread adoption.

Until technology is packaged in a way that makes it dead simple and/or unavoidable, people won’t make the effort to move en masse.

With that hair he could pass for a hobbit.

Dildo Baggins, CEO of Meta

Husband relocated our family

Did you have no say in the decision?

Funny enough, it’s all content moderators and fact checkers.

Cool. But, where the tinsel?