Notices by Eric Lawton (ericlawton@spore.social)

@szescstopni

2 years ago, a smaller provider offered faster, unlimited wireless service, but until then, the big issue was the monthly cap.

But without ads, how do you know what to buy? 🤣

Forest is good. Mosquitoes, less so.

@kaia

@kaia

"I'm not waiting for rural download times, lol"

@szescstopni

How Florida’s home insurance market became so dysfunctional, so fast

https://theconversation.com/how-floridas-home-insurance-market-became-so-dysfunctional-so-fast-217055

> Florida home insurance premiums have shot up threefold in just five years.

Tinkering with insurance rules isn't going to change the increasing frequency and scale of fossil-fuel-driven disaster.

Wet’suwet’en Law Cannot ‘Coexist’ with BC Court Order, Judge Determines | The Tyee

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/02/21/Wetsuweten-Law-Cannot-Coexist-BC-Court-Order/

> Chief Dsta’hyl has been found guilty of criminal contempt.

So much for Truth and Reconciliation.

Indigenous people have to reconcile themselves to continued colonial violence.

@DrTCombs

When one of those is parked on either side of me, which is frequently these days, I can't see to exit safely.

My view is of the sides of a sheet metal canyon.

Is someone going to start selling periscopes for regular height vehicles?

It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/176877/trump-vermin-speech-nazi-language

> He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

Two questions, hundreds of scientists, no easy answers: how small differences in data analysis make huge differences in results

https://theconversation.com/two-questions-hundreds-of-scientists-no-easy-answers-how-small-differences-in-data-analysis-make-huge-differences-in-results-216177

> 246 scientists looked at the same data sets and drew very different conclusions.

If the USA wasn't the dominant military power on the planet, one of the dominant economies, a firm believer in the power of the gun and a leading emitter of greenhouse gases, its decline and fall would be scary locally, but as it is, it's a deadly danger to us all.

Symptom # 93,6363.

Who is Mike Johnson? Here's a telling glimpse of the new House speaker.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/mike-johnson-house-speaker/

> A solid representation of what the GOP-led House has become.

Language Acquisition

https://xkcd.com/2839/

My mum always insisted that my first words were "wanna cuppa tea".

I'm having one now and it's possible that they will also be my last words.

@JamesGleick

I wouldn't trust the USA, especially since you've already elected Trump once.

@cshlan @Br3nda

@mhalila

A point the Luddites tried to make.

Which is why they're vilified now.

Same tactics as with "woke".

@amydentata

Ontario’s solution to the health care crisis is to hire nurses through agencies — and the cost has now quadrupled

This is the inevitable cost of healthcare privatization.
#DefeatDougFord #ONPolitics #onPoli

https://www.thestar.com/business/ontario-s-solution-to-the-health-care-crisis-is-to-hire-nurses-through-agencies-and/article_314ce082-9cf7-5e99-9ebe-727a00df7129.html

>We need more than just money when it comes to our care economy, Armine Yalnizyan writes. We need a Canada-wide strategy.

@inthehands

So an alternative read of your earlier sentence: If a person lives a life of servitude, if they are enslaved, then *their enslaver* needs them to have •only• vocational education*?

A liberal arts education can illuminate their condition to the (wage-)enslaved and reveal ways to escape.

Hence the active attempts by the far-right to crush liberal education; it's not just to save money.

@Sarahp

@die_socke @Mrfunkedude

I have a WordPress site. Paid at personal level.

I can't use plugins unless I upgrade to a business plan at $25/month.

Way too much.