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I get my information about dangerous public spaces with my eyes, ears, and memory that it used to be safer very recently.

No, you are not reading me correctly.

Cool, enjoy your safe space, wherever it is.

I would love to live wherever you live so that I could even imagine that this was not obvious to anyone who goes out into public spaces.

I completely agree with this, but I think it's more humane to use foot traffic as a way to solidify safe places and not as a way to bring crime down.

These are all great, I love city life and would embrace every single item, but without addressing the dramatic decline in public safety in virtually all US cities, none of these will matter at all.

No, it would require removing homeless or antisocial people from public transportation.

The Californians yearn for a cult.

Helen DeWitt wrote another novel after The Last Samurai, Lightning Rods. It's a very different book, but definitely worth a try! Good luck!

Well, in many places in the US, you already have both.

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"

I think the candidate should pass on the company. It's always good to provide a cost for their mistake. There is no job worth getting jerked around before they even start paying you.

One of the biggest own-goals I've ever seen, really breathtaking how Apple botched this.

I read the title too quickly and thought this was about the indie DVD/Blu-ray/4K distributor named after the phenomenon - https://vinegarsyndrome.com/

And Emily Wilson has a translation of the Iliad releasing in the US later this year - https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001801

I just googled GitHub and the top results were ads for circleci and gitlab. Buying ads for competitors keywords is extremely normal. Gitlab would love to dissuade me from using GitHub, just as a crisis pregnancy center would love to dissuade me from getting an abortion.

Maybe they are "crying out to us for help" by being literally loud.

There’s zero chance this message was not shaped by social media companies. Any message like this, regarding any industry, would get that industry’s input.

That said, it sure seems like social media companies got this to be as neutral as they possibly could, considering the very strong evidence that social media is extremely bad for kids. We’re definitely soft rebooting the tobacco experience, this time with psychology instead of lungs.

Good thing nobody uses bluesky, this would be really awkward otherwise.

Dismissing a point due to bias is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

The bar is a lot lower when they're not obligated to pay you.

Sadly, even the Drafthouse is already well into decline, too.

“The mission for Ubuntu is both social and economic. First, we deliver the world’s free software, freely, to everybody on the same terms. Whether you are a student in India or a global bank, you can download and use Ubuntu free of charge.” - https://ubuntu.com/about

I like it, but I'm a fairly unsophisticated user of any Linux desktop.

Exactly.

OK, but my car insurance went up 40% since the last policy update, 6 months ago. That certainly was movement faster than I knew, but not in the direction that this think tank wants me to believe.

Yeah, the tech stock games around ownership vs control are real, and it's unlikely that GOOG owners can assert direct control. Still, if the company fails to listen to GOOG owners, the price will drop, almost as a matter of course.

Sure, and you get a vote. Same for me.

TCI investors, among other people, are the literal owners of Alphabet. The CEO is an employee who takes direction from the owners.

This post seems to suggest that the demand for Elon-Twitter failure continues to outstrip supply.