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Thu, 19/09/2024 - 03:00

Dear [CHILD NAME],

I’m sorry. I really am. I have a job. And I raise you. And neither of those two things is as time-consuming or difficult as creating space on my iPhone.

I have iCloud Sync, but somehow, that’s designed so that if I delete a photo or video from my phone, it deletes from the cloud. It’s less of a digital storage solution and more of a digital data prison.

I have Google Photos, but my Google Drive is out of stock. I don’t know why. And I can’t bear to figure it out. (I deleted a ton of old emails last year. It took forever to do and accomplished nothing.)

I have Dropbox. I think that’s just file storage. I don’t think I can sync my photos and videos automatically. My god, I can’t try to figure that out right now.

This is what I’m up against.

Created
Thu, 19/09/2024 - 01:45

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

The post The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk appeared first on The Intercept.

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Thu, 19/09/2024 - 01:45

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.

The post The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk appeared first on The Intercept.

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Thu, 19/09/2024 - 00:57

A MintPress investigation reveals that the Atlantic Council’s call for NATO nuclear deployments is directly tied to millions in donations from weapons manufacturers who profit from war escalation.

The post Selling War: How Raytheon and Boeing Fund the Push for NATO’s Nuclear Expansion appeared first on MintPress News.

Created
Thu, 19/09/2024 - 00:14
. Arrow’s impossibility theorem is correct given its ‘rationality assumptions.’ To ‘escape’ this, we must therefore abandon some of these assumptions. The non-dictatorship, independence, and Pareto conditions remain quite unassailable. Arrow himself believed that the independence of irrelevant alternatives condition was the most likely to be modified. One way to do this, without compromising the […]
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Wed, 18/09/2024 - 22:53
A class of a practical sequel (or, if you prefer, sequela) to my previous post on this topic. The great modern advocate of applied (as opposed to theoretical) Straussianism, is Tyler Cowen [update: Tyler Cowen says in email that he has a very different perspective on Straussianism – see here]. Plausibly, Straussianism provides a skeleton […]
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Wed, 18/09/2024 - 22:49

When Keir Starmer scrapped the Tories’ disastrous Rwanda deportations deal within days of assuming office, there was a sigh of relief. Many welcomed what seemed a decisive shift away from the previous government’s strategy of using relentless cruelty toward people migrating to distract from their failures to govern. Some even hoped that Labour’s campaign — […]

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Wed, 18/09/2024 - 22:12

We are in the middle of September and that means it’s time for our regular update on what’s going on with the Drupal CMS. Let’s check out what’s new!

Documentation

The Drupal Association is on a mission to bring world-class documentation and maintenance software for Drupal CMS launch and beyond. In order to achieve that, we teamed up with Drupalize.me. Our common goal is to make sure that by the time when Drupal CMS hits the market we have an easy to follow user guide suitable for our target audience. Also we prepared an announcement that will be revealed at DrupalCon Barcelona. Stay tuned for the details!

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Created
Wed, 18/09/2024 - 22:00

Dear Patient,

In our continual efforts to provide you with the confusing level of treatment you’ve come to expect, we’d like to introduce you to HellthChase, our new cumbersome and contactless check-in solution.

HellthChase invites and obligates you to engage in the unpaid data entry of your health information. Once you’re set up, you can complete a variety of other activities online without having to interact with a human regarding important medical care.

What kinds of activities can I complete on HellthChase?
You can attempt such tedious tasks as: