Third Foundation

"But they were all of them deceived, for another Foundation was created"; fan of "star (trek|gate|wars)", he/him, married

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2025-12-27 19:22:34 UTC

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I heard the phrase "rice gluten" yesterday, and I think/hope it's not the same protein as wheat gluten.

2025-09-05 02:36:14 UTC

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my reading fell off when I started needing bifocals, and then picked up when I got new glasses.

2025-03-01 19:56:06 UTC

"However, I stumbled upon LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox that caught my attention. LibreWolf is described as "A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom" which resonates with me.
"Installing LibreWolf on my Debian was surprisingly simple, and migrating my profile was as easy as copying the contents of my ~/.mozilla/firefox preferences into the active profile of ~/.librewolf. It felt like home, as it's essentially Firefox.
"However, I encountered an issue while configuring it to my liking, and after struggling for more than 1 hour, I was on the verge of giving up. Fortunately, I found a solution to my DRM issue thanks to the help of Cherryband in the Pepper&Carrot chat room.
"One thing to keep in mind if you're considering trying LibreWolf is that it has all security and privacy options enabled by default, which may not be the most user-friendly experience. …"
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1065/how-my-firefox-became-a-librewolf

2025-02-05 18:29:35 UTC

"This course explores languages that have been deliberately constructed, including Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien’s Elvish. Students construct their own languages while considering the basic linguistic characteristics of various languages of the world. Through regular assignments, students describe the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and writing system of their constructed language. The final assignment is a grammatical description of the new language"
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-917-conlangs-how-to-construct-a-language-fall-2018/

2024-09-13 18:16:14 UTC

As they often do, Trump and Republicans who follow him are persecuting a group of people who are powerless and can't fight back. Trying to score points with their followers, they are putting Ohio's legal Haitian immigrants lives at risk. Trump and Vance know their more demented followers will harass, threaten, and possibly assault those people. It's called stochastic terrorism now, but politicians have been doing this for centuries.
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/131/609/818/606/034/original/35968200e75214c5.png

2024-08-31 18:46:10 UTC

"Dear MAGA Americans,
"I was a devoted member of MAGA nation for seven years; it made me feel I was part of something important: a movement that was trying to save American democracy.
"But starting in 2021, I realized I had been mistaken. It took me a full year to finally break away. During that time, I came to understand that MAGA is sustained by a series of myths that are intended to create perpetual feelings of desperation and panic.…"
https://leavingmaga.org/

2024-08-30 04:10:27 UTC

"Calls to tax the world’s richest people are now focusing on another target: the world’s wealthiest private equity firms.
The largest PE firms in the world have avoided paying income taxes on more than $1 trillion of incentive fees since 2000 alone, according to new research from Oxford University, by making payments in a structure that subjects them to a much lower tax.
Private equity firms now control one-fifth of the U.S market, and can be an important source of foreign capital, but are now the target of politicians calling for crackdowns as governments in need of more revenue are looking for sources to pull from."
https://fortune.com/2024/06/13/private-equity-firms-tax-loophole-carried-interest/

2024-08-28 18:17:49 UTC

A top Kroger executive admitted under questioning from a Federal Trade Commission attorney on Tuesday that the grocery chain raised its egg and milk prices above the rate of inflation, a concession that came as no surprise to economists who have been highlighting corporate price gouging across the U.S. economy in recent years.
Andy Groff, Kroger's senior director for pricing, said during a court hearing on the FTC's legal challenge to the company's proposed acquisition of Albertsons—its primary competitor—that Kroger's objective is to "pass through our inflation to consumers."
Groff's comment came in response to questioning about an internal email he sent to other Kroger executives in March. In that note, Groff observed that "on milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than cost inflation."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/kroger-egg-prices

2024-08-28 18:10:31 UTC

#oregon #washington
"Whooping cough has hit Clark County hard this summer. There have been 229 cases identified in the county so far this year – “that’s more than the total number of cases over the last five years combined,” county officials said. 183 of those cases have been this summer."
"Whooping-cough cases also have been rising in Oregon. The Oregon Health Authority said there were 178 cases reported in the state between January 1 and the end of May. Only 20 cases were reported in the same time period the previous year."
https://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/2024/08/whooping-cough-on-the-rise-in-clark-county-with-more-than-200-cases-so-far-in-2024.html