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That's an augmented reality sandbox! You can make one yourself: https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/

sometimes i’d just go to blockbuster and laugh at the garbage premises that made it to the shelves and the terrible box art

to be fair a lot of the “making fun” was self-inflicted

these devices are nearly 10 years old

Oh right, business never causes problems… thanks for clearing that up, silly me. Cool that social media companies invented CPUs, I had no idea.

We should probably start to consider that business might be the problem.

and of course conservatives ignore this entirely and blame these cities for creating homeless problems… quite a scheme

I’m convinced that it’s intentional to push sign up and reduce anonymous bandwidth

this also happens in other major cities like NYC, Boston, etc… most of the local homeless are from small cities and towns and go to the city because they hear it’s better… and it is, because many small cities have next to no services for them

if you spread out the homeless proportionately to the population of the country it becomes a much more manageable problem

I would be happy to pay more taxes. I’d pay more on taxes than I currently do in insurance premiums to get everyone healthcare (though it seems likely I’d end up paying less).

I used to work for someone who owns hundreds of rental properties in my city (slumlord is apt)… he had trees cut down as he acquired properties to reduce financial risk. He once confided his thoughts on the matter to me: “I hate fuckin trees”

that’s 3-5 years of some people not getting absolutely crushed by medical bills… which is still a huge win. Why is the “it will change in 4 years“ argument so popular these days?

with cloud services:

!supported = doesn’t work

I’ve had my IP cameras installed for 8 years already, they still work fine

Here's one example: I've called my congressman to complain about his support for the Taxpayer First Act (which enables Intuit), his campaign received $16k from Intuit and H&R block. They spent a combined $6 million or so on lobbying to get it passed.

The act, among other things, removed the requirement for the IRS to report on their development of return-free tax filing.

Direct PAC donations are allowed up to $5k. Super PACs are meant to be independent, can't work directly with politicians or campaigns... and therefore have to such limits. They're very often used for "indirect" lobbying.

It's a scam and everyone knows it. The people empowered by the scam are the only ones who can change it.

i reckon people hate filling out tax forms by hand more than turbotax… and within good reason, even if you’re educated it can be frustrating to simply read tax regulations (which turbotax translates to simple english), and there’s a lot of anxiety around messing it up

unfortunately turbotax is also one of the major players trying to prevent tax simplification… so they’ve got a great scheme going

anyway there are more and more free options every year so let’s hope that can start hurting them… I’ve used creditkarma for a couple simple years and it’s great

Even if you aren’t interested in the product, if you have a passing interest in product design and manufacturing check out their other blog posts. This is by far the best kickstarter I’ve ever backed in terms of update details.

Ok but why not sell it at cost and really shake things up and save lives?

Choosing to profit off of it is choosing to let some people die if they can’t afford it. Doesn’t seem like a clearly good thing to me.

most people couldn’t name a web browser

I felt the same for a while too, but then I met someone that happened to work for child services. These are some caring and empathetic people working for peanuts and they aren’t really treated well by anyone, management and clients alike. This person in particular hated the work but didn’t want to quit for fear of letting their clients (children) down.

People blame bureaucracy, and maybe there’s some truth there, but if these people were treated half as well as many tech workers are then maybe we could actually start making progress against the stereotype of miserable experiences.

The content is pretty much the same if you log in. Google doesn’t seem to care in instances like this, I’ve worked on multiple very large sites that do the exact same thing (further in so e instances: present a JS app to users and a faster JS—less experience to google). Many news sites do it too, for example.

Many people simply don’t know about them! I grew up poor and the amount of work that goes into finding and using some services is ridiculous. We bought a house using some assistance programs and at a couple points were speeding across the city to get paperwork in by sone deadline no one told us about (luckily we had a car!).

Not to mention that services like foodstamps can be unreliable… I’ve probably spent hours of my life holding up checkout lines because my card didn’t process…

not having money is one thing, but being poor also obliterates your time if you use various services…which in my experience is worse… you’re always tired and agitated. Someone is always messing up your paperwork, because of course civil servants are often underpaid and overworked themselves.

Fast pages are good for the web generally, but Google treats the entire internet like pages of search results and this can punish some people who aren’t building search results. There are lots and lots of good experiences on the web that are optimized for multiple page views because they’re communities, educational, or some other kind of application - they’re designed for people who stick around.

I worry that if core vitals becomes too strong of a signal it will over homogenize things to the point that we’re further ostracizing parts of the web that aren’t built like fast results pages to get an answer and bounce off of. We need more differing alternatives to Google.

I could be wrong but isn’t this prioritizing content that cites sources? that seems like it could be valuable, we’re being crushed under waves of information that is utterly unreliable (which is a method of disinfo, intentional or not) and there are too many people that believe the first thing they read.

If bitcoin is primarily mined with hydroelectric power in china… isn’t that increasing the demand for power? wouldn’t that energy end up used or sold elsewhere if not consumed by bitcoin?

Sure, but this isn't an article about the mental health issues faced by trans people, it's an article about mental illness' role on the internet that uses DID, BPD, and trans people as the primary example of mental illness.

I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be discussed, but the author was so conscious of the correlations made in the article that they felt the need to literally write that they're not trying to make those correlations.

There's no shortage of people linking transgendered people and mental illness, just as there's no shortage of people linking homosexuality to mental illness. If you're not trying to strengthen those assumptions, then use different examples... it seems lazy to just try to hand-wave it away in a sentence rather than using a different example.

>About 70% of DID patients are also diagnosed with BPD, and the two conditions are often considered part of the same spectrum.

>I’m certainly not saying that all trans people have personality disorders or that being trans is a mental illness.

A little bit of whiplash on this one. Despite the sentence or two claiming what the author is purportedly not doing, the rest of the article seems to indicate otherwise. If you don't want an article that makes you look like you're conflating trans people and mental illness... don't use a trans person as a springboard to talk about mental illness.

Running a music venue isn't a violent crime either, but if I'm failing to moderate and protect the space my business and its customers operate in... I won't have a business for long.

My point is that their excuse of "there's too much volume for us to manage" is complete bologna. Any physical business with a similar issue would be forced to reduce volume to a rate that's manageable. If Facebook can't moderate their content effectively, then they need to either scale their moderation or reduce their content. I'm tired of this "well, it's a hard problem what are you going to do" nonsense.