What are you trying to accomplish here? Is your message to any Americans of conscience “no, you can’t beat fascists”? Don’t be a dick and don’t be defeatist

I didn’t do shit because I wasn’t alive then. And clearly they’re not gone, because here they are. But you may note that slavery is illegal now. Not enough but not nothing. If you want to doom keep it to yourself.

Better if it shows a Confederate soldier?

We will beat them again. It’s just a question of how much suffering until then, and how much we actually root out the ideology.

It’s a good one

For what it’s worth, the office of the sheriff in Philadelphia is only responsible for courts, transporting prisoners and things like that. Bilal is not in charge of cops on the street.

Here’s an article from Committee of Seventy, which is a good government organization I trust, primarily about the history of problems with the sheriff’s office in Philadelphia, but also mentioning the role of the sheriff. https://seventy.org/sheriffsoffice

Ah the classic headbutt fight

Yeah, fuck Facebook. But also lets not share misleading images alongside what is a true and horrible injustice.

If it’s really easy then why isn’t it the case?

To be clear these photos are from a dramatization of the execution. Here’s a Facebook post saying so, I’m sure a more in depth search would turn up a better source

I can relate to being intimidated by any instructions that mention the terminal. When I first started with Linux I would prefer doing stuff using a GUI over command line.

I started getting into hobbyist coding stuff, and fifteen years later I’m much more comfortable with the terminal.

Even so, I think trying to make Linux more palatable for the average person is going to be tough. It’s very difficult to make something that’s powerful and extensible while also being easy to use.

I wanted to see the actual text from the report…

Because we live in a complicated system. If it was one guy inside a compound with more food than he could ever eat and there’s one person outside who’s starving, then yes, that’s immoral.

But there’s a ton of different participants and different incentives. For example, if a farmer stopped getting paid to grow food, they’d probably stop growing. (At least more than they need) Or if a store owner loses enough product to theft that they’re losing money, they’d probably close.

On the other hand if one person steals bread that’s not going to close a store or bankrupt a farmer. But as that number increases there’s some threshold where it becomes a problem, or if people stealing are all concentrated on one area.

I think we should guarantee that all people have enough to eat, a place to live, healthcare and education. I’m not entirely sure how to implement that even if I’m king of the world.

For food I think it could look like some sort of universal “food tax” based on income, then every person gets a food stipend. It could be rolled into a universal basic income. Some rich people pay much more than they’d ever eat, some poor people pay nothing. Food still gets paid for so food producers have an incentive to do what they’re doing, and we continue to have variety and innovation.

Yeah. Adults are held to a higher standard than children. But in practice many adults aren’t that much different from children.

People are so weird.

When I was at a religious summer camp (sleep over) one of the kids who had attended multiple years in a row told everyone his mom had cancer and didn’t have much time left. Everyone was understandably sympathetic and people were referencing her specifically in group prayers and things like that. The camp director reached out to the family and they were like “what? No, she’s fine.”

I work in the hospitality industry, and the overwhelming majority of people who do so are supportive of diversity. Makes sense because the whole thing doesn’t work if you’re not welcoming.

That said, any large hierarchical organization seems incapable of standing up to the administration, so I’m not surprised Hilton corporate is distancing itself.

Nice

Cool. Reminds me a little bit of literary interpretation. There’s no such thing as “just reading what’s there”, everyone interprets.

Didn’t Frank Lloyd Wright use the term “Usonian”?

“Most music is terrible” so I’m not particularly drawn to having this vast archive. I want to listen to the things I really like.

It’s also not lossless, so from an archive standpoint that seems to diminish its value.

That said, I do think the insights they post on their blog about statistics and distribution are interesting. And just because that music is currently available via paid services doesn’t mean it will always be as accessible in one place. There would be a lot of manual collection and labeling you’d have to do to get something like this otherwise. And you wouldn’t have nearly as much confidence about how comprehensive such a database was if you did it yourself.

This is interesting, thanks!

Don’t know that I would be active enough for what.cd, but I am drawn to archiving, lossless files and comprehensive metadata.

I ripped my hundreds of CDs to FLAC and spent a good while organizing before Spotify came along with its temptations. Have started buying again on Bandcamp lately and been thinking about spinning up jellyfin.