Yep, each area needs two dots, one red, one blue, sized proportional to their votes.

Florida will get quite a bit bluer, but California and the northeast will get much redder.

Socialist cities make the same demands on rural areas that capitalist cities do. It’s primarily a function of population density, not economic model.

At best, a square mile of farmland can feed about 6000 people. That’s under ideal conditions and assuming vegetarians. Want a little meat in your diet, and 2500 is a more realistic number.

A square mile of Chicago contains about 12,000 people. That’s 2 to 4.8 square miles of farmland for every square mile of city. Chicago is about 230 square miles.

A square mile of New York contains about 30,000 people. That’s 5 to 12 sq miles of farmland for every square mile of city. New York is about 300 square miles.

A square mile of Paris contains about 53,000 people. 8.8 to 21.2 sq miles of farmland for every square mile of city. Paris is about 40 square miles.

When you understand that reason, you’ll understand why it doesn’t need to be so.

Rural areas provide food and raw materials for the cities. That’s their entire purpose.

If all people lived in a city as dense as Paris, they would all starve: Paris does not have a single farm producing food.

If all people lived in a city as dense as Paris, every manufacturer would be out of business due to lack of raw materials: Paris does not have a single mine.

If rural areas are destroying the planet, it is because the cities are demanding from those areas more than the planet can provide.

Why is “a job” considered so essential to life?

You literally cannot grow sufficient food to feed the population of the city within the city. Every city requires massive rural areas for sustenance.

Rural areas have sufficient abundance to both sustain themselves and the cities.

Need to combine the bedroom and kitchen.

Bitchen.

The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

So, you’re saying we need another bot to copy the comments too?

It’s the way our tax system works. Employers have to pay taxes on payroll; they don’t pay taxes on tips. By having customers pay servers directly, they reduce their tax burden.

Believe me, we don’t like it either, but we are familiar with it, so there is little incentive to change.

Tipped employees are primarily paid directly by the people they serve. If you are not tipping a tipped server, you are declaring their work is worth less than minimum wage.

It is lawful to do that, but it is a real dick move.

Doordash driver: The federal government values mileage at $0.63/mile for tax purposes. They would value the vehicle expenses of a 6-mile delivery at $3.78.

Minimum wage in my state is $10.10 per hour. A 6-mile delivery takes 20 minutes, or $3.03. Anything less than $6.81 for this delivery, and the driver is earning less than minimum wage.

DD typically pays the driver $2.

A tip less than $4.81 means you expect the driver to earn less than minimum wage.

There’s another problem: Doordash’s primary rating system for it’s drivers is “acceptance rate”. The higher your acceptance rate, the higher you are prioritized for offers. The lowest tier of drivers has to wait for everyone in the area above him to be unavailable or to reject an order before he gets to work.

When a customer makes a low-tip or no-tip order, they expect a driver to pay for the privilege of delivering the order, and they are willing to ding the acceptance rating of every single driver in the area who refuses to work at a loss.

I can host an email server. You can host an email server. Even if the big players choose not to accept mail from us, we can accept mail from each other.

I use sendmail notifications on every VM I host, and I use one of the “large operators” for my own email inboxes; I never have trouble getting messages from my VMs. The big players aren’t blocking my little servers. Even if they did, they can only block the mailbox that they host. They don’t host my VMs, and I am perfectly free to spin up my own mailbox to completely bypass their imposed limitations.

Contrast with a reddit, facebook, or twitter inboxes, which are entirely under the control of spez, zuck, and musk: they host (and thus control) both the sender and the receiver, as well as the path between them. Messages sent on their platforms are entirely at their whim.

Email is certainly an open protocol, and ActivityPub functions very similarly.

You can’t patent things that aren’t a process or a product, so no you can’t patent genes.

Genes can be sliced and spliced with methods such as CRISPR. The genetic code that has been artificially transformed by such methods qualifies as a “product”. Yes, genes can be patented.

The entire concept of “moderation” doesn’t make a lot of sense in a federated environment. Anyone can start an instance, and post anything they want to that instance. Moderators can block local content from being posted to the general public, and they can block local users from viewing remote content.

But they can’t block the general public from accessing remote content.

Moderation is no longer the gatekeeping of content. It is now about limiting consumption.

Enlistment. Reporting to basic training, my day started at 3:30 AM. Didn’t get to the barracks until 4am the following day. By the time we had our gear stowed, it was time to start the next day.

On day two, 4 guys in their last week of training were supposed to be showing us the ropes our first week. Instead, they hazed us all night long on the second night, and it wasn’t until the night of day three that we were finally allowed to sleep. About 65 hours.

Agreed.

Old.reddit is OK on desktop. But on a mobile browser, it is constantly harassing you to the official app, which is absolutely terrible.

When Relay stops working, I don’t see myself going back to reddit much at all.