I'm guessing you are referring to this? https://stopomarchy.org/extended

Not that this is an amazing article, but the question is, how is this different than Loon and more likely to succeed? Loon LLC CEO Alastair Westgarth said the company could not find a way "to get the costs low enough to build a long-term, sustainable business"

This was the company that not only deployed high altitude stratosphere balloons, but managed to map high altitude wind currents at the point where they could navigate balloons without propulsion systems and used LTE to successfully cover various parts of the Earth.

My guess would be a Japanese government subsidy.

The order

What's funny to me is how they are in a fight for their company with the FTC, and they want to continue provoking people by increasing their revenue on the back of their users on a service they might have a technical monopoly on? Hmmmm...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former staunch ally turned Trump critic, said everyone in the Trump administration who claims to be a Christian needs to "beg forgiveness from God" and intervene in the president's "madness".

In a lengthy post on X, the former Republican congresswoman wrote: "I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I'm not defending Iran but let's be honest about all of this."

She went on: "The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they've been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon."

You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing."

You it's a Mad Easter when MGT is the voice of reason you are applauding, even if she is nucking futz.

I really appreciate the TLDR, as I like to know the point before I start reading the support of it. However "legible" is a horrible word for this as precise as it might be.

Once a threat becomes legible — primarily, by an elected authoritarian beginning to act in authoritarian ways once in office — people start prioritizing democracy in a way they didn’t beforehand.

Which I would rephrase as saying: 'When politicians act like dictators, document it, yell it out, and call them out."

And even that's to long and not direct enough.

Long read here, but the story illustrates how the city attorney was scrambling less just to convict her than preempt a lawsuit she's likely to file against the city. Doesn't directly answer your question, but the context makes this clear that there were some desperation moves here.

Measurable health effects associated with the daylight saving time shift

Adverse Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Adolescents' Sleep and Vigilance

Daylight Saving Time Transitions: Impact on Total Mortality

The impact of daylight saving time on sleep and related behaviours

Been a while, but in several US states where the free report was mandated, they also allowed a request to be mailed in, of even faxed. Old school, but I would be surprised if they don't still have some of those methods, and probably don't require web form consents to privacy invading terms.

https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/113931350598923736

This is the author's post at Oxford: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/global-poverty-trends-through-a-new-lens-olivier-sterck-article-for-voxdev

Has global poverty fallen since 1990? Depending on which poverty line you use, the answer ranges from “we’ve made huge progress” to “nothing has changed”. 

Using the World Bank’s extreme poverty line of US$2.15/day (in 2017 PPP), the share of people in poverty fell from 38% of the world’s population in 1990 (about 2 billion people) to 8.5% in 2024 (690 million people) (Figure 1). This is often cited as a historic success.

But raise the line – say to $21.5/day, as suggested by Pritchett and Viarengo (2025), or $30/day, as argued by Roser (2024) – and the picture changes entirely. The poverty rate is then extremely high, above 75%, and has barely budged since 1990. In absolute terms, the poverty headcount has even increased, from over 4 billion poor people in 1990 to over 6 billion poor people in 2024. Based on these numbers, the fight against global poverty appears to have failed.

This divergence is not just a statistical quirk. All mainstream poverty measures share the same fundamental feature: they ignore everyone above the chosen line. With the extreme poverty line of the World Bank ($2.15/day), someone earning $2.16/day is treated as equally non-poor as someone earning $10, $100, or $1,000/day. Billions of low-income people – who most would agree still live in poverty – are therefore excluded from the statistics. And because there is no consensus on where to set the line, it is tempting to pick the one that tells the story you want.

In Sterck (2026), I propose to measure income poverty without a poverty line. The idea is to measure poverty across the entire income distribution, rather than classifying people as poor or non-poor based on an arbitrary threshold.

The measure’s key intuition is simple: if person A earns half as much as person B, then A is twice as poor. Poverty is therefore simply measured as the reciprocal of income, and its unit is simply inverted. If incomes are measured in dollars per day ($/day), poverty is measured in days per dollar (days/$).

Average poverty is simply the average time it takes to earn $1 in a given population.

In 2024, that value was equivalent to:

• 1 day in DR Congo, Madagascar, South Sudan, and Mozambique
• 12 hours in Haiti
• 2 hours in China
• 85 minutes in the US
• 25 minutes in Switzerland.

Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case against "sandwich guy," the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty Thursday after several hours of deliberations.

The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches — deliberated the charges for several hours Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict.

Someone is feeling cute. And rightful so. When you lie about a sandwich exploding on you, and it can still be seen in the package after... Not to mention trying to take a hamfisted hogie slap to federal court, you deserve the pickling.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

According to Nilsson, the real inflation rate in Russia is closer to the key interest rate of 15% than to the Russian Central Bank's official estimate of 5.86%."

The Russian economy can only go on one of two scenarios: long-term recession or shock," Nilsson said. "In either case, it will continue on a downward trajectory towards financial disaster."

I'm over this technological improvement of our lives, and it's manipulate existence. My hope is that we and I can put our fucking phones down and actually connect with each other again. We aren't getting out of this economic takeover unless we actually talk to each other like the adults we are supposed to be. Be passionate, but listen. Act with compassion, but defy the fascist ideals. Realize that we are biased and make mistakes, but can learn from those mistakes... Even when as you get older.

I await the memes of this icon to be generated. Day five and still out there, well done.

Seal, YTDLnis, Newpipe, Tubular, freetube, etc... So many alternative options.

I believe it's a remote station/environment issue based on my working in Antarctic and on Research ships.

NSF finally saw the light after it was forced down their throat, and they still haven't resolved it.

https://apnews.com/article/women-working-antarctica-sexual-harassment-assault-mcmurdo-ba0e550fddf1ab0afd031ff4d25143cb

Anyone else think this needs a sub of it's own as well?