Notices by Robert J. Berger (rberger@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte @tezoatlipoca Surprising amount of bad food considering the wealth and diversity here. Sure there are some good ones here and there, but not as many as there use to be (a long time ago) or as many as you would expect from the level of wealth.

I never had bad Thai Food until I moved here. And its surprising how much mediocre Chinese and Indian food is around.

I presume its because the "rent is too damn high" here for anyone creative and not in tech to survive and have a good food ecosystem...

Also Palo Alto was really nice in the 1970's and early 80's... More hippy tech than tech bros back then.

@inthehands @JoshuaHolland We need to do everything so that they not only face elections but face the equivilent of Nuremberg Trials

@skinnylatte @xgebi @spaf Humans should have as much or more rights to travel than capital and live where they want. We're all Earthlings.

Also being able to attract and absorb people from around the world is the USA's superpower. Its how we can out compete China.

@skinnylatte I loved living around the tenderloin in 2008. Lots of great restaurants and I never felt unsafe.

GOP Presidents

@kims Cryptocurrency: Grift on top of scam on top of Ponzi scheme

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@aral Us privileged only THINK we can opt out. It’s a mater of survival for everyone now. Climate change at a minimum, but short term fascism is at our door. No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition or being shipped off to camps.

“I'm selling my stupid Tesla Cybertruck as prices are crashing, but Carmax refused to make an offer?”

Day 1 buyer is rushing to sell his Cybertruck before the re-sale value crashing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsU0vNHXun0

Louisiana now mandates that a poster-size display of the Ten Commandments in "large, easily readable font," be required in all public classrooms. Here you go.

The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD

Let's take a sec here and notice something genuinely great happening in the US government: the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's stunning, unbroken streak of major, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption, with the backing of the Supreme Court (yes, that Supreme Court), and which is only speeding up! - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism

The entire top management of Boeing needs to removed and proscecuted for endangering the lives of millions while destroying a key industrial capacity of the USA. They should be replaced by people with engineering and safety mentalities.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/01/boeing-safety-crisis-response-union-busting?CMP=share_btn_url

@ja2ke That was fascinating. I had no idea about the Mary Poppins technique. I wonder if you can make single frequency LEDs instead of Sodium lamps? Seems like that should be easy. I thought that they effectively are and they use phosphors or quantum dots to make them broader spectrum.

Of course the majority on the Supreme Court are going to stand with the insurrectionists. One of the justices wife is one of them!

The Supreme Court is no longer supreme or or just. They have a corrupt majority of political operatives in collusion with billionaires and Trump to destroy Democracy in the USA. (3/3)

The Supreme Court has a history of its own obstruction of justice and process.

They put their finger on the scale for Bush in 2000 setting in motion the Republican takeover of Democracy.

Upheld "Citizens" United that gave corporations and billionaires infinite power.

The majority perjured themselves in Senate hearings declaring Roe vs. Wade settled law then going against the law and the will of the people to strike it down. (1/3)

Of course they are going to stand with the insurrectionists. One of the justices wife is one of them!

Well, the Supreme Court has a history of its own obstruction of justice and process.

They put their finger on the scale for Bush in 2000. Upheld "Citizens" United that gave corporations and billionaires infinite power.

The majority perjured themselves in Senate hearings declaring Roe vs. Wade settled law an then going against the law and the will of the people to strike it down. (2/3)

@liztai Kangung Belacan is one of my favorites! Hard to get it around here since a favorite Malaysian restaurant closed.

@liztai Is it easy to grow Kangkung?

@pluralistic coined yet another great new word describing the dystopian era we are living in:

The Enshittocene

Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain

"A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.”
#Enshittocene #enshitification
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

“Look, I know that Eisenhower didn't trade cow-lips for alien technology - but our political and commercial elites really *did* trade national resiliency away for IP laws, and it's a bargain that screwed everyone, except the one percenters whose power and wealth have metastasized into a deadly cancer that threatens the country and the planet.” - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/07/farewell-mr-chips/