The article complains that websites twist themselves out of shape to game search ranking with SEO so they can sell ads. Google doesn’t provide transparency on exactly what changes SEO because they don’t want rankings gamed.
I dunno what to say. Ads are shitty for consumers. Websites that exist solely to sell ads risk turning into content farms (e.g. bOingbOing).
I didn’t read the article as I’m far more worried about the future of Nazism / totalitarianism in the US. (Yes, I do realise you must understand the past to make sense of the future)
I’m wonder how cost-effective this is compared to, say, a regular apartmentblock with external stairs/walkways and shared ammenities? Density would go up, but that doesn’t mean much if you don’t need to build a kitchen/bathroom in every unit anyway.
Most of these houses are gardensheds, they don’t look very durable to me, and very unsuited to, say, a 2021 Texas winter.
I think the difference in building codes alone could make this much less expensive.
My understanding is these places are designed to promote the independence of residents to give them a base to build on to put their life back together. The separate space really helps drive that home in a way that an apartment can’t. In an apartment, you can often hear what’s going on in the next room, and that’s not great when you’re trying to build better habits and your neighbor isn’t.
Interesting read that helps with some context on current usage. It seems like everyone who wants to disparage their enemy applies the term now, but the historical meaning was mostly ‘Nazis, and those like them.’ Certainly contempt for democracy and the appetite to use violence to assert control appear to be common characteristics.
The listings are at times preposterously detailed, often containing additional names and numbers for people’s emergency contacts, their parents, their siblings, their friends, even their children, all alongside hundreds of car phones, yacht phones, guest houses, and private office lines. Some individuals have dozens of numbers and addresses listed, while others list just a single number and first name. Epstein collected people, and if you ever had any interaction with him or Ghislaine Maxwell, his onetime girlfriend and alleged accomplice, you more than likely ended up in this book, and then several years later you received a call from me.
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The worst call by far was with a woman who told me she’d been groped by Epstein, an incident she said she didn’t report at the time out of fear of retribution from Epstein. (I have been aggressively counseled to remind the readers of Mother Jones that an appearance in the address book is not evidence of any crime, or of complicity in any crime, or of knowledge of any crime.)
They punished a generation who wanted to have more than one kids, and now they want more just becausea. do they think women are factory line machines that you just toggle on some settings?
People start families when they feel socially and financially secure. Seems like a pretty easy solution then, if you’re not a oligarchical corporatocracy.
This stinks in general. I was a high school student 20+years ago, and I worked at a high school doing non teaching stuff (like spring break trips and after school programming) thru 2019, and the prevalency of drugs didn't change. The only conversation change was vaping. From my view point, having been a rural student, and having worked in rural schools, they're gonna experiment! Kids need safe folks to talk to. This applies to more than drugs but definitely applies to TX.
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