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  1. Comment on Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ in ~society

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    [CITATION NEEDED] You're immediately jumping to the worst possible conclusion of "omg they'll destroy all the private grocery stores run by immigrants!!!" scenario because it's the best basis for...
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    They will not be supplementing them; they will be competing with them, and it will be unfair competition. Given that grocery stores usually operate with very small profit margins, the city-run (=subsidized) stores will push many of them out of the market and crush the livelihoods of locals who own the independent grocery stores

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    You're immediately jumping to the worst possible conclusion of "omg they'll destroy all the private grocery stores run by immigrants!!!" scenario because it's the best basis for your argument, but it's a completely hypothetical scenario and a disingenuous starting point.

    Mamdani wants to open "five municipally owned stores, one in each New York City borough", specifically targeting food deserts and "areas with limited access to full-service supermarkets".

    You are assuming that these city-run grocery stores would compete with private stores. However, there are significant areas of New York City that are currently under-served by private grocery stores. It isn't clear at all whether the city-run stores Mamdani wants to build would meaningfully compete with the private stores that exist elsewhere.

    City-run grocery stores would not be some radical new frontier for New York City either:

    So city-run grocery stores are really just the next logical step to improve food-access in the city.

    I want to circle back to this "unfair competition" idea though.

    Even if the city didn't already provide a variety of food-related services without harming private food-related businesses...

    Even if the city didn't already subsidize most of its private grocery stores...

    Even if the private grocery stores weren't under-serving areas of the city...

    Is it really "unfair competition" if the city-run grocery stores can provide goods and services better than the private grocery stores? Why is that competition unfair?

    And even if that is "unfair competition", is that automatically a bad thing?

    Because my opinion is that, especially for goods and services that are necessities:

    If the government (local, state, etc) can out-compete a private enterprise on the market, then that private enterprise does not deserve to exist.

    To say "the government should not run their own grocery stores because they would unfairly compete with private grocery stores" makes about as much sense as saying "the government should not provide free and universal healthcare because that would unfairly compete with private health insurance".

    19 votes

  2. Comment on Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race, capping a stunning ascent in ~society

  3. Comment on A Nazi tattoo exposes US Democrats’ greatest weakness in ~society

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    It took me way too long to find an actual image of the tattoo. Apparently it was spotted in a frame from a video where Platner dances in his underwear at his brother's wedding:...

    It took me way too long to find an actual image of the tattoo. Apparently it was spotted in a frame from a video where Platner dances in his underwear at his brother's wedding:

    https://i.horizon.pics/7cSXoq6doJ.jpg

    4 votes

  4. Comment on What's your video game comfort food? in ~games

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    If you like Endless Sky then Starsector might also scratch that itch. You can download the game for free from their website (it isn't on Steam) and get a CD key from the end of Sseth's Starsector...

    If you like Endless Sky then Starsector might also scratch that itch. You can download the game for free from their website (it isn't on Steam) and get a CD key from the end of Sseth's Starsector review video.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    Lmao want you to know you're not the only one who feels this way

    After I was apprehended by the fun police

    Lmao want you to know you're not the only one who feels this way

    10 votes

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  7. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    Sure, but there's nothing automatically wrong with wanting to sound fancy. In some contexts, utilizing "utilize" might have a more appropriate effect on the text than using "use". In technical...

    Sure, but there's nothing automatically wrong with wanting to sound fancy. In some contexts, utilizing "utilize" might have a more appropriate effect on the text than using "use".

    In technical documentation, for example, "utilize" might be used to describe something the software makes use of, while "use" might be used to describe something the user makes use of.

    "The software utilizes this function...".

    "The user uses this button...".

    I like that we can have multiple words that mostly mean the same thing and can mostly be used interchangeably for different effects, or to give reference to different things.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Financial collapse? in ~finance

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    Depends on what you hunt, where you live, and who you know. I don't know about other states, but Texas at least has few restrictions on who can hunt exotics, or how many they can bag. There are...

    Depends on what you hunt, where you live, and who you know. I don't know about other states, but Texas at least has few restrictions on who can hunt exotics, or how many they can bag. There are parts of Texas that are practically overrun with exotics, and it's quite possible to hunt your way to a year's supply of meat for little more than the price of bullets and a hunting license.

    The most difficult part is just finding a place you can hunt for free.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Glide is a keyboard-focused Firefox fork that is infinitely extensible with TypeScript in ~comp

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    So yesterday I finally got Glide installed successfully on NixOS using a few fancy tricks. In my flake.nix I added this input: nixpkgs-glide.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs?ref=pull/447604/merge";...

    So yesterday I finally got Glide installed successfully on NixOS using a few fancy tricks. In my flake.nix I added this input:

    nixpkgs-glide.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs?ref=pull/447604/merge";

    That takes nixpkgs, patches it with the open pull request to add Glide as a package to nixpkgs, and assigns the new, patched version of nixpkgs as a unique input (named nixpkgs-glide).

    Then, using an overlay in configuration.nix, I can bring the glide-browser package from the nixpkgs-glide input into the actual/real nixpkgs input:

    nixpkgs.overlays = [
    (self: super: (let
      nixpkgs-glide = import inputs.nixpkgs-glide {
        inherit (self) system;
      };
    in {
      glide-browser = nixpkgs-glide.glide-browser;
    }))
  ];

    Finally, I can just add glide-browser to my system packages list in configuration.nix and Glide will build and install the next time I rebuild my system.

    Unfortunately, building Glide requires building Firefox. That takes over thirty minutes on my system (Ryzen 5800X). However, the maintainer of Glide did say he's going to write a flake for it, so there might be cached builds available in the future.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What's a product or service that you use but don't want to pay for and why? in ~life

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    Roads. Being in Harris County, I'm not super jazzed about paying taxes to fund the endless highway expansions and "asphaltization" of the area. I'd rather they use that money to build a half...

    Roads. Being in Harris County, I'm not super jazzed about paying taxes to fund the endless highway expansions and "asphaltization" of the area. I'd rather they use that money to build a half decent city with half decent public transit. I'm not just talking about Houston itself, but the entire county. In a civilized country, I'd be able to take a train from Mont Belvieu to Katy (and then promptly evacuate).

    RSS reader. This is a service I could self-host, I just... haven't yet. Instead, I've paid for Inoreader and then BazQux for the past few years because "I'll get around to it one day".

    I actually miss the semi-social popularity scoring of Inoreader. It would show, for each feed item, how many other people read that feed item. The read count would also be colored gray, yellow, or red, depending on how popular that feed item was relative to other items from the same feed. It was a useful way of identifying popular items in each feed, such as actually important news stories or great blog posts.

    I've always thought it would be neat to build a minimally federated RSS reader that replicates that social feature of showing "how many people have read this, how popular is it compared to other items in this feed". Almost like the Pinboard of feed readers, but self-hosted and open-source.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on Travel essentials: eight items to pack for your next trip – and what to leave at home in ~travel

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  14. Comment on DIY haptic input knob: BLDC motor + round LCD in ~tech

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    While we're at it, there's also this video that showcases a similar DIY project with some home automation features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZa-Vqu-_fU Ploopy, maker of DIY and open-source...

    While we're at it, there's also this video that showcases a similar DIY project with some home automation features:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZa-Vqu-_fU

    Ploopy, maker of DIY and open-source hardware trackballs (and mice, and trackpads, and headphones apparently) also started selling a knob at some point. Ploopy currently isn't shipping to the US thanks to tarrifs, but it's still open hardware that you could make yourself if you wanted to:

    https://github.com/ploopyco/knob
    https://ploopy.co/shop/knob/

    I think these DIY knob thingies are really neat. I like the idea of having a knob with software defined physical properties, and I like the idea of being able to use something like that to control the environment around me.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on DIY haptic input knob: BLDC motor + round LCD in ~tech

  16. Comment on Deimos Loading Screens mod for Fallout: New Vegas in ~games

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    Bunch of neat artwork that's worth sharing

    Bunch of neat artwork that's worth sharing

    7 votes

  19. In Neovim, C-a and C-x will increment/decrement a number under the cursor in Normal mode

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    Also works in Vim. Thought this was neat. Wanted to share. Thanks @spicyq. It turns out Emacs does have this feature built-in (via Org-mode) with the commands org-increase-number-at-point and...

    Also works in Vim.

    Thought this was neat. Wanted to share.

    Thanks @spicyq. It turns out Emacs does have this feature built-in (via Org-mode) with the commands org-increase-number-at-point and org-decrease-number-at-point.

    The commands:

    • Work in any mode, not just org-mode
    • Support prefix arguments with C-u
    • Do not have a default keybind

    I bound the commands to C-z <up> and C-z <down>, since I had previously unbound suspend-frame from C-z:

    (keymap-global-unset "C-z" 'remove) ; suspend-frame

    Keep in mind you can repeat your last executed command with C-x z (and then just keep pressing z to repeat the command however many times you want).

    Of course, now that I've got this far, I'm realizing that typing out either C-u 10 C-z <up> or C-z <up> C-x z + z * 9 is probably a lot more keystrokes than just changing the number myself. (At least for a single number at a single point in the buffer.)

    I don't think there is a built-in Emacs feature that does the same thing. You can find several custom Emacs Lisp solutions by searching online though.

    21 votes