[says that out loud in American English]

Yeah this all checks out

Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn’t mention the pillar tho

Also, this bit buried at the bottom of the article seems important

… the bureau adjusts its figures in relation to data from the Census Bureau on the size of the total U.S. population. This can result in sudden lurches in native-born and foreign-born job levels, making it impossible to compare them accurately over time.

“The decline in the foreign-born population is suspiciously large; the truth is probably a combination of a slowly growing or possibly slightly declining foreign-born population, combined with declining response rates for the foreign-born,” Kolko wrote in a blog post.

“But the huge jump in the native-born population is an artifact of survey sampling and weighting. It tells us nothing about the true population, employment, or labor-market experience of native-born Americans.”

Florida man is adapting with more meth.

That’s an even worse idea than it sounds like (arc)

“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” - Heather Heyer

I asked that question recently and got some helpful responses,

https://lemmy.world/post/30977919

tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I’m not a coder or an instance host, so don’t ask me what that distinction means, but I’ve anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),

PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you’re going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven’t decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)

the Fediverse really seems like it could be our response to these fuckers controlling the narrative on social media. It could be more than just an interesting decentralized social media platform. I really think this could be a key step in reclaiming our democracy.

Agreed, and I would add that finding ways to get nonprofit news organizations (e.g. ProPublica) and public media (e.g. NPR, PBS, etc.) to host and administer their own instances and to start directing their readers/listeners to those services would be a great way to advance this goal

Last May, my organization, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, published Raiding the Genome, a new report exposing the massive DNA collection program being run by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We found that over the last four years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) took DNA from over 1.5 million people. This is nearly 50 times the number of samples they collected in all preceding years combined, an increase of around 5,000 percent.

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Whoever was president during that timeframe must have been a real piece of shit to ever let this get off the ground in the first place

Yeah, say what you will about free market acolytes, they know how to jump on to a successful brand

I already dropped one wall of text on this post, but something you might find interesting - there was a history podcast called Revolutions that looked at revolutionary periods in history, when it wrapped up the host did a whole series of appendix episodes on different recurring themes he saw in the different periods he looked at, and in one of those he talked about how the word “radical” can be hard to define because throughout history there were people who had radical goals they wanted to achieve through moderate means and people who had moderate goals they wanted to achieve through radical means and the inverse of both of those

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0nukt_9HmLE&t=2m21s

So yeah, I think it’s helpful to separate out how big a transformation in society you want to see from how far you’re willing to go to get them

So, this is a very complex topic I don’t have the time to give the treatment it deserves, but to try to give a very summarized historical viewpoint on it -

Liberalism was a set of ideas that cohered around the 18th century as a reaction to monarchism that emphasized universal civil rights and free markets (there were a ton of weird things going on with noble privileges and state monopolies issued by royal administrations and mercantile economics this was a response to)

Socialism was a set of ideas that cohered around the 19th century as a reaction to liberalism (and the whole industrial revolution) that said universal civil rights didn’t go far enough and we needed to establish universal economic rights. Some socialists think the only way to achieve these things is by overthrowing or limiting the power of governments and ripping up contracts between private parties, which liberals tend not to like.

Progressivism was (sort of, I’m being very reductive here) an attempted synthesis of these traditions that cohered around the early 20th century, and (essentially) argued “ok, free markets but restricted by regulations (e.g. you can’t sell snake oil, you can’t condition the sale of property on the purchaser being a specific race), and open elections for whoever the voters want but with restrictions on the kinda of laws that can be passed” (e.g. no poll taxes).

Like I said, I’m simplifying a lot here and I’d encourage reading Wikipedia pages and other sources on all of these things (like, I’m eliding a whole very dark history progressives have where their attempts to perfect society had them advocating for eugenics and segregation early on because there was academic support for those ideas at the time, and there’s a lot more to be said on how a lot of the first anti-racist voices were socialist ones and why it took progressives and liberals time to get on the right side of that issue, and how fights for colonial independence tended to be led by socialists and against liberals), but the fact that liberals progressives and socialists are all ostensibly “on the left” is a big cause of the infighting we see.

I mean, academically speaking you’re totally right, but because Americans discuss politics in extremely simplistic terms a lot of people use the word “liberal” when they mean progressive or socialist or just anything to the left of center, so it would probably be helpful to define these terms a bit

Homeless people with French citizenship are being left alone entirely I’m sure /s

It’d be great if it was a critique of our intellectual property laws and culture of paywalls and platform-anchored content, but I doubt the NYT would publish anything like that

Oof, gotcha. I would say call blocking and getting some kind of agent/publicist/distributor with very humorless attorneys on retainer could counter all that, but I can definitely understand not wanting to deal with all those headaches.

Just saying, if you do ever make something like this I would probably buy a copy. Good human level story telling is entertaining and captures facets of our real lived histories that get lost otherwise.

I honestly could write a book about working for that guy with all the crazy stories I have.

Or make it a podcast and stylize it like an old radio drama

Man has consistently been putting out five minutes of good to pretty good content once a week for over fifteen years, it was an incredible run tbh

Well, props to Yahtz for not being a scab and quitting when Nick got fired, good solidarity there

It would be amazing if his team could somehow join the Outside Xbox, then I could get all of my British accented videogame snark in one place