It's amazing how much good just going "if it looks/tastes like it's mostly sugar and unidentifiable calories it almost definitely is very unhealthy for you" is. My wife's a big soda drinker and my kids are starting to hit the age where many people pick up soda addictions. I push hard for them to mostly drink water and make sure to tell them how bad soft drinks are, and when they get upset about seeing the difference between what I say and what my wife does I tell them "you can make that decision for yourself when you're a grown-up"
It's a mix of things! Many racists don't think of themselves as racist and primarily worry about actions to empower minorities because of the zero sum thinking, not so much because it's helping "the wrong people"
So the researcher has posted on their blog over the past few months some rants about Microsoft "destroying their life" and vowing to continue to post zero days in retaliation, and has been posting proof of concept code for these zero days to their GitHub.
From their rants (there's a couple of fresh ones including indication that tomorrow will be "one of the hardest days of their life" and that they'll post a big zero day on July 14th) it sounds like Microsoft deleted their account, revoked their access to the responsible disclosure portal and they've had some back and forth discussions in private that they're now making more public
Normally what happens is researchers report vulnerabilities via Microsoft's purpose-built bug bounty portal, and Microsoft can patch these vulnerabilities before they can be actively exploited, and researchers can pocket enough income to make a living entirely off of bug bounties. Obviously this all broke down in the case of this particular researcher so here we are
Short answer is that a token equates to a unit of work. I strongly suspect that the definition has been becoming less and less tangible as the bubble has inflated though
As a Californian, I truly believe there is no way in hell that the country will elect a Californian.
Honestly I have to agree. California Democrats have a distinct style of politics that I don't know if it sits well in a national election. I do wonder what happens if they seriously run a Midwestern Democrat rather than a coastal one. It completely changes the vibes when they're from somewhere close to the outdoors and the farms, but without the baggage of a southerner
There's a very clear interpretation of events that the "America will never elect a woman president" completely seems to miss. Since 2008 every president that has been elected has promised significant change to help average Americans.
Obama promised hope and change as the country was in the midst of a massive recession and had just gone through a housing market crash of historic proportions.
Trump promised to drain the swamp, to self-fund his campaign and made some surprisingly progressive promises while he was campaigning (he then did absolutely none of that, jacked up the economy and grossly mishandled a global pandemic)
Biden also made some surprisingly progressive promises (and tried to pass them all in a single easy to block bill. Though in the background there were some brilliant policies which were passed)
Trump promised more change while Kamala was promising to maintain the status quo.
I think there's a sizable voting block that just wants something to happen. They want to throw the electoral equivalent of a molotov cocktail into the mix so that maybe things will get better. They're tired of nothing ever happening to help them and they want to reshuffle the deck so that maybe they can get a slightly better hand this time around. This is the nerve that trump found, he's the molotov cocktail they threw into the government in the hopes for some kind of improvement. Now that that's not working and he probably won't be able to run again, it's time to find the next candidate that will promise something other than "more of the same"
Tim Walz seems to have gotten scared off by his colleagues who were assassinated, and he's not running for reelection as governor and has largely pulled back. He appears to be prepping for retirement at this point
She’s a woman and America has made it very clear it isn’t ready for a female president
We've had 2 so far who made it to the general election:
Hilary Clinton who was the most establishment neoliberal pick imaginable who happened to run against Trump's growing cult of personality (and some segment of the Republican party was still seething that a black man was president to add fuel to that fire), and she still won the popular vote while Trump made promises to "drain the swamp" and an implied Medicare for All policie at one point (which naturally never came to pass) while Hilary basically promised to be as conservative as possible to maintain the status quo
And we had Kamala, a criminal prosecutor when George Floyd's death was still fairly fresh in everyone's memory, and a white populace that was finally waking up to the reality that black and brown Americans face in every police interaction, and Kamala was promising a continuation of Biden policy which included continuing to supply bombs used on civilians in Gaza which many Americans spent the late pandemic seeing videos of dead and dying children pulled from the rubble of. Oh and this was still while Trump's cult of personality was in full swing.
Now? Trump's alienated a large portion of his base, his approval is the lowest of any president ever, he's forced the Republican party to remake itself into his increasingly tarnished image and he just successfully primaried several prominent career Republicans out of their seats, and the cash strapped Americans who voted for some kind of change after Obama ultimately brought mostly more of the same after promising hope? They're now measurably worse off from Trump's policies and waking up to it.
This comment may or may not age like fine milk, but I'll hazard to say if there's a time for AOC to run for president, this next election is it
My thinking was they need to do a project like Wikimedia's Wiki Loves Momuments, where you put some banners up for a month out of the year, see if you can get donors to put up some money to reward people who do a good job at cleaning up some of the texts they have, and just make it an event about it to try to draw in new contributors, and of course some might end up sticking around after the event and continue contributing
Oh crap I forgot humble bundle does ebooks! I'd dismissed it as soon as I saw it was a thing as I can't stand reading ebooks on a phone or computer. So now that I have a kobo Humble Bundle is an option again!
I appreciate the heck out of the Gutenberg project but holy crap they need to invest some resources into putting 1/5 of the amount of effort Standard Ebooks puts into making every single one of their releases look and function so well in the real ebook reading scenarios of actual people
Honestly if the Gutenberg project had such a program for improving the formatting of their collection I would actually strongly consider volunteering some time towards it. Just like how I would not mind reading for Librivox
Omg chicken lady! I didn't read your username! Im still keeping school bus driving in mind as a backup career based on one of your earlier comments about it!
Maybe you could tow your kids in one of those deathtraps some people use?
I actually do do that! The kids love riding in the trailer but they're rapidly outgrowing it, plus I live somewhere super hilly and that much rolling resistance and added weight is really hard to get more than a couple of miles with, except my kids are too small for most kid bikes and I can't seem to get them to build any confidence once I do have them on bikes that they fit. They're a really tough combination of sizes, ages, confidence and motor control levels that just makes biking shockingly hard for them right now
The Internet is and has always been a lie spreading machine. Both on and off social media.
Your analogy of peeing in the pool is entirely off base. If these were false scientific papers posted to real established scientific journals that would certainly be unacceptable behavior but that's not what is being discussed here
I signed up for a bike event that really pushed my limits and the youngest person who passed me had to be about 50. Apparently it's a hobby that's very popular with middle-aged men and retirees! Granted there's a reason the MAMIL acronym exists (Middle Aged Man in Lycra)
75-300 minutes of cardio-vascular exercise is good for almost anyone, even if they need to gain weight
I appreciate this distinction! I had so much trouble gaining weight until I got into exercise. Finally broke 130lbs once I was cycling 22 miles 3x a week! Exercise was the missing ingredient to getting my metabolism balanced out
will concede that the one type of indoor training I could one day get behind would probably be virtual cycling
Apparently they make ones where it integrates with the bike so you get the full resistance of trying to climb the hills then the light resistance of going down while you watch the scenery go by on the screen! I've never seen or used one but I heard about it from a colleague who had to troubleshoot the computer in one of those
It's amazing how much good just going "if it looks/tastes like it's mostly sugar and unidentifiable calories it almost definitely is very unhealthy for you" is. My wife's a big soda drinker and my kids are starting to hit the age where many people pick up soda addictions. I push hard for them to mostly drink water and make sure to tell them how bad soft drinks are, and when they get upset about seeing the difference between what I say and what my wife does I tell them "you can make that decision for yourself when you're a grown-up"