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Those of us who work in tech operate with a lot of privileges compared to many many other workers. All of these options technically exist, but make a lot of assumptions that aren't…

It's good to see this is still around, I was using it in the early 2010s while working in a county health department.

I really appreciate Wittgenstein's idea of family resemblance concepts, that things we group together may not be in fact grouped by a shared trait, but instead my consist of a bunc…

One of the ways racial hierarchies persist in the US in the culture are taught they are normal, natural, deserved when they are instead being perpetuated by culture and institution…

Yeah, my understanding was that apple cracking down was merely the excuse Verizon, which owned tumblr at the time, used to justify banning porn, but it was about ad revenue. Twitte…

Yes, sorry for the lack of clarity. Users shouldn't blame the machine when they control every aspect of it and how it's used. It's on you as a user to understand your tools and dat…

the AI is just a product of it's inputs, how it's used, and whether it violates discrimination laws, are totally up to the users.

With a warrant, probably? That's not why the postal service is federal though. Establishing a postal system is a power given to congress in the U.S. Constitution. "To establish Pos…

I think I'd rather some people be vaccinated without their consent with a safe vaccine than have some people be infected without their consent with a deadly illness. We know mask m…

It's about secure messaging

With no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.

So if someone created a document consisting of just these search terms (and nothing else) in the search order, that's always going to be the highest ranked item, right, despite a l…

Wheat and corn and a number of other plants are wind pollinated, so we won't lose everything. And we'll probably keep some plants that need bees alive in conservatories through man…

The loss of pollinators is scary. blueberries, cherries, every brassica (broccoli, cabbage etc), carrots, squash, melons, and many more are insect polliated. A few other plants can…

A large number of homeless in San Francisco were previous SF residents. When folks live paycheck to paycheck almost anything can lead to them becoming homeless. That said, there ar…

Also studies of universal pre K suggests it more than pays for itself. https://nieer.org/2019/01/31/research-shows-high-quality-pre...

Wonderful. One of the things I'm most concerned about is how credit card payment processors and banks basically define what you can easily buy online. Something can be perfectly le…

Yes, tech companies always fire people for the publicly stated reasons.

Don't worry, they thought of that. https://archive.thinkprogress.org/after-alabama-enforces-vot...

As bad as that is, some folks never got a birth certificate https://sclegal.org/living-without-a-birth-certificate/

Yeah individual voter fraud, per all the vote security experts, basically isn't a thing, IE the rare instances never change election outcomes. Voting ID laws are at best security t…

I'm not sure I'd call it a loophole, it's still illegal to hurt people or damage property, but certainly there is evidence to suggest bugaloo boys and white nationalists are doing …

all 50 states prohibit private militia groups. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/30/907720068/are-citizen-militia... "...But one thing is consistent - all 50 states have some provision i…

I mean there is and has been wide diversity in thought within the hacker community, so there's certainly people who view things only through asthetics. But I don't think that erase…

Just a note, most but not all bumblebees are eusocial or social, but a majority of bee species aren't. That makes finding nests way more difficult, for those species.