Ernest

ah okay, I think sharing that entire article is kinda endorsing all the weird stuff in it, but thanks for specifying.

I know those are large numbers, but like, Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the internet? “$97.6 million in assets” is peanuts to that (compare it to any other website in a similar range!). The fact that they don’t have that much operating costs is a good thing, right? It means they’re efficient, which is what people love to complain about with non-profits.

Anyway, it’s not like they ask for much–I think the last fundraiser I saw they were asking for $2.75 a year, if you felt like they provided you that much value over the year. I certainly do, and I donate $10/year to them. If you don’t feel like Wikipedia is worth that cost to you that’s fair–but I think telling other people that they shouldn’t donate because it objectively(?) isn’t worth it is a strange thing to do.

… idk, if Wikipedia is pissing off Deepak Chopra, I’m pretty sure that’s a good thing…

edit: I think my downvote probably warrants a less flippant explanation. In the past decade, Wikipedia has started explicitly labeling pseudoscience and “alternative medicine” as such, as opposed to their original policy of being so “neutral” they would say things like “some people think this is bogus, but some people think not”. This has, understandably, pissed those people off, and I suppose in some sense they are right? But in this era of widespread and accelerated sanewashing, I think saying these (true!) things does matter, and the people getting pissed off are really just telling on themselves. I would invite you to read the Wikipedia articles on the quoted public figures for yourself, and verify that they really were slandered the way they describe.

tangentially-related Hank Green video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0ogvPfCA

NOAA is run by the US government, yes.

I’m preaching to the choir here, but Philip Labes has some very poignant protest songs. This recent one is about this headline: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xj0A2PTolCc

(six, the other three are doing God’s work. giving district judges terms like “Calvinball” they can cite)

I get that the reference wouldn’t have parsed without saying “the nine” though, haha

404 media, Taylor Lorenz

that’s what I thought

is there anything preventing the usual cracking/packing tactics from being used? Create enormous completely red districts consisting of large swaths of rural areas, and then split the urban areas amongst their surrounding rural areas just enough to have a relatively safe win. Yes, the districts would be ugly as hell (and vary hugely in size), but assuming we’re okay with gerrymandering that was probably to be expected already

I think your starting point (allowing bot user agents to crawl the web has overlooked benefits) is a good one, but things aren’t black and white–there are clear drawbacks, too. Bots obviously have an orders of magnitude higher potential for abuse; to the point where bot traffic–as it currently stands in the real world–is qualitatively different from human traffic.

we should expand these protections from intentional/unintentional ddos irrelevant of user agent.

Sure, but targeted regulation based on heuristics (in this case, user agent) is also a widely accepted practice. DUI laws exist, even though the goals (fewer murders and safer roads) are already separately regulated.

Would it be nice if we didn’t have to do this? Or there were some other solution? Sure, but I have no idea where to even start, unfortunately.

but that sounds like “sewer”

(you’re probably looking for “plaintiff”)

iirc, gitea was forked from gogs, and forgejo is forked from gitea

well, adding lenses kinda requires motorizing the panels to track the sun, right? otherwise the “hot spot” is going to move around across the day/year

is there a way to shape the lens to mitigate this?

Square cube law? What’s that?

maybe his body is mostly air sacs

and like, one of the options would be for live service games to say “we are planning to operate for {number} of years” and people would know to spend their money accordingly

it would be transparent and informative and people would be empowered to make their own decisions

My read on this is that he’s an idiot who wanted to air a contrarian opinion ('cause that’s how tech CEOs be), and focused in on a very literal/pedantic view of the issue without taking into account the context (which is that the Trump regime is facist and also just… lies, like, all the time).

Whether or not being a pedantic idiot is better or worse than being a Trumpist (or if it’s even a meaningful difference) is up to you, of course.

it’s a shame commonmark stalled and then markdown variants proliferated again because of that :/

Alternative link corroborating the original article: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h175

I’m not sure what’s going on with the first link, but that website is impossible to navigate for me.

Not sure what’s going on with that website–maybe it going down earlier messed things up? Here’s another (much easier to read) source which corroborates the original article: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h175

no, the vote was whether to ignore the impeachment, so “no” is the correct vote here