But it wasn’t only venture capitalists who had started to grow sceptical of cultivated meat. The technology soon became a target of conservatives. The state governments of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska and Texas moved in quick succession to legislate against cultivated meat, passing laws that banned its sale, production, or both. The Florida governor Ron DeSantis made a media event out of signing that state’s law, posing for pictures in front of a blood-stained cutting board piled high with steaks. “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere,” he said.

It’s funny how conservatives have bad positions on everything. And even if they had a good idea, it’s probably for bad reasons.

There is a widespread feeling in the US that everything is a hoax or a Ponzi scheme

Huh. I don’t know if I’ve seen that stated so directly before.

Oh. Well. Good. Fuck the ultra rich.

You have to pay taxes on unemployment money, at least in New York.

It’s funny when people get mad at poor people for just sitting home collecting handouts, but a rich person who lives on their inherited interest and safe investments is unremarkable

For starters, does anyone even know about Dubai? Sure it’s a very beautiful-looking city in the Middle East, but the economy is very corrupt. Human trafficking, slavery and whatnot.

That’s what I think of when I hear Dubai. It’s not aspirational. It’s exploitation and ghouls who want to be the boot.

We gotta put these ICE goons on a list so they can be put on trial.

As tempting as it is to be like “what took you so long??” it is more productive to be supportive.

I run a tabletop game of Vampire, and last week the players found a NIMBY “no bike lanes” activist and ran her over with her own SUV until she was dead. Gosh was that cathartic.

I’m so tired of being helpless as fucking idiots make things worse for stupid reasons.

Maybe! I’ve been a few times and it was fine, but you don’t really get a sense of a place staying a weekend.

I think Chicago you can get by without owning a car? That’s one of my top priorities

It’s weird to me when people shit on NJ despite never going there. It’s the same energy as when people repeat stupid jokes from reddit to feel like they’re part of the group. Makes my skin crawl a little.

Also weird, but understandable I guess, is when people’s only experience with NJ is like the airport, or the Secaucus train station, and they assume the whole state is like that. Like thinking all of Nevada is Vegas’ strip. It’s not representative.

NJ is fine. I mean, I detest the suburbs so large chunks of it are not for me.

At this point I wouldn’t go back to NYC unless something pretty compelling made it worth dealing with the bullshit New York puts you through.

NYC does have a lot of stuff happening. Pretty much any band on tour will play NYC, for one thing.

Maybe we can work together with Gen z to overthrow the capitalist hell scape that has made a handful of people disgustingly rich while the world burns.

Projection is a psychological defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s undesirable traits, feelings, or impulses to other people.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychological-projection-defense-mechanism.html

Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)

TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.

This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.

That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.

I hope the ultra-rich lose everything. I hope they weep.

I thought this was the onion. This is real? What’s the opposite of eating the onion? Crying?

Anyone else read Roadside Picnic?

The title of the novel derives from an analogy that is proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman, who compares the Visitation to a picnic:

A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around… Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind… And of course, the usual mess—apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody’s handkerchief, somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.[7]

In this analogy, the nervous animals are the humans who venture forth after the Visitors have left, discovering items and anomalies that are ordinary to those who have discarded them, but incomprehensible or deadly to the earthlings. The explanation implies that the Visitors may not have paid any attention to or even noticed Earth’s inhabitants during their visit, just as many humans do not notice or pay attention to insects and wildlife during a picnic. The artifacts and phenomena that are left behind by the Visitors in the Zones were garbage, which are discarded and forgotten without any intentions to advance or damage humanity. There is little chance that the Visitors will return again because for them it was a brief stop, for reasons unknown, on the way to their actual destination.

Because I want to interact with them, but don’t want to be on Instagram.

It’s hard to get other people off the bad parts of the Internet.

It’s very hard to get businesses to stop exclusively posting stuff on Instagram.

I thought (but not very hard) that by not paying the workers taxes, they would be denied their full social security payout , or be on the hook in some other way. But you’re probably more correct than I am.