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I've been using Firefox Preview for a while and I like it, especially the bottom navigation bar, but one thing that I hope survives from the old app is the tab queue, which sends l…

More often than never!

"From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-Germanic -iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European -iskos." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ish…

Considering it's a national park, hunting antelope is probably also considered poaching.

DO's cofounder seems to have intervened. https://twitter.com/moiseyuretsky/status/1134547532149854208

"Those connected to and victims of criminal acts" are supposed to be excluded, so Ted Bundy should probably be removed from Burlington and Salt Lake City. edit: and while I'm looki…

And people complain that ranked-choice voting is too complicated for the average voter...

She was still parking illegally, the court just threw out the method they used to catch her.

I recently made a similar upgrade (old ones from 2010-ish) and I was also impressed by how much better the new ones were. The old pair's performance may have degraded over time, bu…

Agreed on both counts. Wearing hearing aids for essentially my whole life I've been made fun of for it maybe once or twice, and that did suck, but there's so much more stigma in an…

And yet I've barely heard a peep about Alex Jones since he was deplatformed. It seems to have worked pretty well there.

Definitely, I'm not normally one to criticize headlines but this one is missing some pretty important context.

I thought "transit planner" would be a hint that I was referring to the first part of the parent's comment, that "somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard".

Here's transit planner Jarrett Walker making the exact opposite argument: https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html

So "abolish the NLRB" then.

In European countries where this is the model there are often several competing unions with different political affiliations.

Inherited wealth, disparities in access to education, racism, and a weak labor movement are a few of the many forces that impede upward social mobility.

They're probably mostly referring to Bernie Sanders, who ran a campaign very focused on wealth inequality. The union link is that when people become more aware of inequality and by…

At least you have a vote in the union, unlike when your employer decides to use the products of your labor to lobby for policies or support parties you find abhorrent.

Try changing your terminal's width and running it again ;)

A lot of the issues mentioned there stem from platform differences though. The packaging hurdles and out-of-place UI style wouldn't be an issue on a convergent platform, though the…

One of the "nice" things about being hard of hearing is that I can't hear any difference between flac and mp3s down to around 96 or lower for most music, so hypothetically I don't …

Well surely she didn't get any higher than that at least, right? /s