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   CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 01:35:31 JST CelloMom On Cars

   How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform #OilWell Cleanup in State After State

   "Secretive drafting processes and millions of dollars of industry lobbying serve to weaken or kill [cleanup] proposals in state after state.

   In some, including OK and UT, lawmakers propose bills only after oil trade groups approve the language. Even when given a seat at the table, like in New Mexico, the industry has turned against reform efforts."

   https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells
   #OrphanWells

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   Marie et Julien (mariejulien@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 05:48:17 JST Marie et Julien

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   @jwildeboer in the English version of point 2, it begins with a bracket and end with a parenthesis. Also, I wonder if this placeholder don't have to stay empty for writing the name of the state.

   In the point 3 in french : déplacerà -> déplacer à

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   NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 15:32:29 JST NEETzsche

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   Turns out Matz did me one better natively in the language. There’s a #bsearch aggregate function which just goes through the numbers of a Range or Array and runs a little function against it. It finds the lowest qualifying element in O(log_n) time. Useful because you don’t have to be a FP-sperg and can run the code against some external thing which has all kinds of state.

   In my use case I wanted to find text size that is as high as possible but won’t overflow outside of a pixel range, but where the user can change the font and the input text so all kinds of wackiness can go on and doing exact calculation is kind of a pain in the ass.

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   HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 04:56:48 JST HeavenlyPossum

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   Some people seem to think that anarchist critiques of the state are critiques of any human social or political organization, which is too absurd to deserve much of a response. But there are lots of people who recognize the state for what it is—an authority that uses violence to compel obedience to its rules—and believe that this violent inequality is the price we have to pay for social complexity.

   This is not true, and we know this from a growing body of archeological and historical evidence about past societies that were stateless but complex, in addition to what we know about existing, modern societies that manage complexity outside of the state.

   In those megasites of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture of Ukraine, in the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, in the towns and cities of Mesopotamia before the state, we keep finding all the signs of social complexity and urban life that we’d recognize and value today: economic specialization, writing, complex public infrastructure, long-distance trade, divers peoples living together without violence, uniform weights and measures…

   What we don’t find are the signs of states that are so tragically apparent in Uruk and Ur and Egypt and the Longshan culture in China.

   Archeologists keep looking, but the evidence just isn’t there. There are no reliefs depicting war prisoners yoked together and marched into slavery. The monumental infrastructure is open to all rather than walled off for palace elites. Writing is widespread rather than reserved for palace scribes.

   No one was ordering these people how to live and hurting them if they failed to obey, it appears.

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   https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-06-23/why-are-archaeologists-unable-to-find-evidence-for-a-ruling-class-of-the-indus-civilization/