Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Is The GOP Becoming More Supportive of Direct Cash Payments? https://basicincometoday.com/is-the-gop-becoming-more-supportive-of-direct-cash-payments/

The GOP will embrace welfare as long as they can use it to control people more tightly. You can be sure a GOP populist trend won't include enabling unionization or extending protest rights; in fact, GOP support for direct payments will surely come with receipt conditions. Of course, neoliberal Dems will be in agreement.

‘It’s a historic moment’ — Pete Buttigieg on EV chargers, lead pipes, and the promise of infrastructure https://grist.org/politics/its-a-historic-moment-pete-buttigieg-on-ev-chargers-lead-pipes-and-the-promise-of-infrastructure/

Good answers by Buttigieg to questions about what the term, infrastructure, entails. GOP trying to limit the term to fossil fuel supports (roads, pipelines, ...).

The Delaware River Basin paradox: Why fracking is so hard to quit https://grist.org/politics/the-delaware-river-basin-paradox-why-fracking-is-so-hard-to-quit/

That is a really bad title for the article, which basically describes a win against fracking in the Delaware River basin, but a potentially larger loss for the same region due to a new fossil fuel shipping port.

Biden Looks to Extend Trump’s Bolstered Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing https://theintercept.com/2021/04/12/fentanyl-drug-sentencing-biden/

#nosurprise

Sen. Mark Kelly Is Emerging as an Obstacle to the PRO Act https://theintercept.com/2021/04/12/pro-act-mark-kelly-angus-king-dsa/

Shontel Brown Approved Major Contract, Then Contractor Backed Her Campaign https://theintercept.com/2021/04/14/cleveland-cuyahoga-shontel-brown-contracts-nina-turner/

Indoor Dust Contains PFAS and Other Toxic Chemicals https://theintercept.com/2021/04/14/pfas-toxic-chemicals-indoor-dust/

Married to the job: how a long-hours working culture keeps people single and lonely https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/15/married-job-long-hours-working-culture-single-lonely-love

#WorkWontLoveYouBack

Berlin’s rent cap is illegal, Germany’s highest court rules https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/germany-highest-court-rules-berlin-rent-cap-illegal

I never really understood the obsession with living in big cities, but its an inevitable byproduct of overpopulation.

Welcome to the new colonialism: rich countries sitting on surplus vaccines https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/14/rich-countries-surplus-covid-vaccines

#disastercapitalism

US company illegally peddling ‘miracle cure’ bleach for new Covid variants https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/15/us-company-florida-oclo-bleach-covid-variants

Scrums full of unnecessary demos. :-(

I may have listed cmus in error. From the man page, it appears that it shuffles the whole library and queues it. Maybe I've added music and just happened to hit the same songs in the new queue. Still should look over the shuffle algorithm. I think new song priority would be an interesting concept to explore.

Why do music players have such bad shuffle algorithms? I always hear repeated repeats on shuffle mode. cmus is the latest to manifest this. I'll have to dig into how it's implementing shuffle. I would want a shuffle of my whole music library stored and played with a localized reshuffle when music is added to give the new music priority play.

I've also wonder if song play order determined by sorted hashes would give a shuffle effect. (Repeating over whole library, but ...)

@hjertnes Are you saying that, @fribbledom , is an agent of skynet? :-)

The next 40% might have only gotten 1-3% raises, but probably didn't get a raise in one of the last two years. This means most of the per capita income increase can be attributed to the top 10%. Considering the stock market gains, the whole per capita income increase likely means the 1% did very well and the rest of us lost money. #eattherich

Yesterday's paper was crowing about a 1.3% increase in per capita income; today's paper cited a 2.6% inflation rate for last year. Even ignoring the fact that government inflation numbers are much lower than actual cost of living increases, we can pretty much assume that the bottom 50% of earners got no raises last year. ...