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[–] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Sure, you can earn your right to vote, just fill out this basic literacy test real quick:


Now, you might complain that some of those questions are ambiguous. Don't worry, it's intended to be like that. It's real simple: if you're white, the test-giver will interpret it to agree with the answer you gave and you'll get to vote. If you're black, the test-giver will interpret it against you and you'll be disenfranchised. Totally fair!


And yes, this was a real test, used in Louisiana in 1964. People were getting disenfranchised using this as an excuse within living memory.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I don't want to agree because I like biking, but damn if "literally speed run" isn't clever.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

To be fair, it's not as if it supports languages other than fucking Javascript anyway, so it mostly doesn't matter.

Edit: I don't want to split hairs about modules or json or whatever; I just want to be salty about how we could've had Scheme or Python in the browser.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 34 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

even though the implementation was questionable

The implementation was not questionable. The implementation was blatantly nefarious and he fucking knew it, because why else would he have tried to hide it?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

That's roughly what I remember: the threats were against "zionists" or "genociders" or similar, not any particular user by name, but this guy basically told on himself by interpreting it personally anyway.

(It's possible I'm unaware of other, more egregious, behavior as the situation escalated, but I think this was at least the thing that started the pearl-clutching initially.)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Nah. The best an adult could do would be to pull out of the region, but even if the US did that, there is no way Iran willingly goes back to the previous status quo. Iran controls the strait and the oil flow now, and it knows it. It has absolutely no reason not to fuck with the world's oil supply at whim, whenever anybody does something it or its allies don't like.

This is just one of the many ways Trump has done permanent damage to the world that can't be undone even after he's out of office/imprisoned/dead.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

That's what Incognito Mode is for.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah.

I mean, yes, in the TNG era it was Rick Berman's fault. But it goes all the way back to TOS and Gene Roddenberry himself. And also costume designer William Ware Theiss, for that matter.

From https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory :

Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being "improved" by Gene Roddenberry. According to the "Art of Star Trek" book, Theiss preferred to design costumes that only appeared to be in danger of slipping or coming off, through the use of strategically-placed sheer or skin tone fabric. He was further able to enhance the effect by the censorship rules of the time regarding what parts of the body could or could not be shown (the navel being the most well-known restriction). He found he could get surprising amounts of appeal from the carefully-arranged display of skin not generally considered erogenous.

 

Youtuber "Brad is Brad" creates a custom controller for Subnautica using an exercise bike and an Arduino so that he has to pedal the bike in order to swim in the game.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

First, get a condenser microphone with an XLR plug and one of those adjustable arm stands:

Second, get an XLR->USB audio interface (or just a converter cable) to go with it.


I own the gear pictured, but I can't recommend those specific things because I bought them 8 years ago and they've been discontinued since. I started out with the box-shaped interface, but eventually realized I didn't need its features and swapped it for the XLR->USB cable to save space/complexity. If I were using wired headphones (studio monitors) instead of speakers I might have kept using the box.

Also (and perhaps most importantly): the mic itself is analog and the USB converter is just doing generic analog->digital conversion. There is zero reason for it to need any software other than the kernel's built-in USB audio driver.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Fines are just the cost of doing business.

Wake me up when corporate charters are dissolved and executives are put in prison.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The kind of homes that would be a starter home for a working class family back in the 1950s just don’t exist anymore.

First of all, yes they do. They're just mostly condos instead of single-family detached houses.

Second, even houses literally built in the '50s that still exist are expensive these days.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

(That's why arrest data is required to be public, despite the damage it does to the arrestee's reputation, BTW.)

 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/46852721

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead.

So, what exactly is a “DEI bike lane?”

The Daily Wire pointed to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claim that a series of 2021 grants funding bike lanes would serve to “improve infrastructure, strengthen supply chains, make us safer, advance equity, and combat climate change.”

Upon hearing “equity,” President Donald Trump’s goons can’t help but get triggered into attacking any federal spending that won’t benefit them directly. In reality, those Biden-era grants directed funds to build a new transit center in North Carolina, replace bridges in New Mexico, extend streets in New Hampshire, install traffic lights and crosswalks in Missouri, and install bike lanes in Seattle, among other projects. Now the financial status of these projects is unclear.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/61209

A new big-data analysis of the U.S. pinpoints how urban design aids the health of city residents—especially when cities provide walking opportunities, greenery and mixed-use streets with a blend of commercial and residential activity.


From Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change via This RSS Feed.

 

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/10923091

From the Atlanta Community Press Collective

Cop City-related charges become the second case brought that explicitly mentions the controversial Trump administration initiative, NSPM-7, targeting left-leaning movements. You can support stories like these at https://atlpresscollective.com/support-us.

#Atlanta #AtlantaPressCollective

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/50143863

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46763057

Hopefully my neighbors will rejoice as I no longer have to cut and drill steel.

My next goal is to find another junk trailer so I can get the wheels more centered and have better handling and keep the rear of the trailer from scraping when going up and down driveways.

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