(Noe Valley Books, formerly Folio) reopens with $150K from the crowd
Seven months after the demise of Folio Books, former employees crowdfunded the new Noe Valley Books in its place.
...abolishing the DOE will reduce the tax burden on citizens living in blue states...
There's no such thing as a "federal education funding tax" applied to each state to collectively fund education across the whole country.
The IRS will collect the same federal tax that it always has, but Republicans will funnel the former federal public education money to their pet projects: "crisis pregnancy centers," the military, more tax cuts for billionaires, vouchers for discriminatory private schools, etc.
Therefore the Blue states will get even less federal funding in return for the federal taxes that their economies generate, but by no means will their federal tax burden go down.
On the plus side, his roommate will get all A's this quarter.
- Mastodon's recommendation algorithm isn't sufficiently addicting
- Mastodon lacks venture capital to fund an army of PR flacks to plant stories in EVERY FUCKING NEWS WEBSITE IN THE UNIVERSE.
Inflation takes its toll.
Homes were only 5 minas a square cubit back then.
Looking forward to headlines like "Trump Administration Emails Hacked by (insert foreign adversary)"
I hope they don't steal all of our national secrets about drinking raw milk, and how to seduce 8 year olds by grabbing them by the pussy.
I believe that eD2K was the next P2P to gain wide popularity after those went down.
It's de-centralized, so unlike Napster/Kazaa, the feds can't take it down by seizing only one server, which they have tried.
Consider non-torrent P2P platforms like eMule/eD2K. If you know what the name of you're looking for, there's a fair amount of obscure material to be downloaded that can be difficult to find otherwise.
eD2K is slow, but effective.
https://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php is my go-to for documentary torrents.
That is historically true, unfortunately the conservative artificial supermajority Supreme Court doesn't respect its own precedents and historical facts.
Don't forget they're also criminal murderer drug dealers. They take all the jobs, and steal everything, sell everyone drugs, then kill them all, but they're lazy about it. /s
Instead of cut and pasting heads and bodies, they can use AI to generate any kind of photorealistic images.
Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.
Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.
And with commercialization, or in Xitter's case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.
Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn't make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won't take the commercialization route.
The world's leading producer of solar equipment, China, loves this, and will happily sell more "dual use" weapon components to Russia, so they can sell replacement solar equipment to Ukraine.
Oakland released hundreds of documents related to the FBI’s probe. Here’s what they say (SF Chronicle gift link)
Bottom line is, it's hard to get anything of significance done in Oakland, even with the backing of the Mayor.
The history of humanity hasn't experienced tyranny, injustice, and oppression like HOA edicts.
/jk I love my HOA. looks around
Dishes and pans with dried on crud are the pits.
I always try to soak everything before throwing them in the dishwasher, and even then it takes a pre-scrub to make sure they come out clean.
Huh, whaddya mean? Pans go in the dishwasher just fine. Even nonstick stuff, these days.
edit: Unless you mean cast iron or carbon steel can't go in the dishwasher, yeah I get that!
Sounds like a gadget inventing opportunity!
What's your enshittification timeline? (Order is approximate)
Mine: Broadcast TV > Arcade Games > Usenet > Yahoo > Saturday Morning Cartoons > Email (spam) > Yahoo Groups > AAA games > Cable TV > Game Consoles > Talk Radio > Graphics Cards > Google Search > Twitch > YouTube > Reddit > Pinball > America
What is your least favorite household chore, and to what lengths will you go to avoid doing it?
Mine is washing dishes.
If left to my own devices, I will let dishes collect for a week in my kitchen sink.
Fortunately, I have a dishwasher. And a wife, but she doesn't enjoy doing dishes either, but at least it's a shared misery.
It gets worse:
Exactly the type of humans you need to rebuild a population.
Hmm, what could the IDF's objective be...
It's nice to see all that "devouring each other" that the Blue Lock-ers went through all that stress to learn over 2 seasons resulting in an effective attack that actually works.
See, Isagi likes it!
I am surprised at how well they're doing on defense, even though it's not really a part of their training.
Even "parking the bus" in your own half takes training and coordination.
But ask any forward in a top flight league, and they'll tell you how important "defending from the front" is in the modern game, even though that's not what Blue Lock are doing in the latter part of this episode.
The battle of final magic suffered from a common problem in many magic battles in that as it drags on, it all just winds up sounding like bullshit.
I call it "Dr. Strange syndrome".
Nobody really understands magic, and the writers just have to make up shit to fill up the pages at the expense of a logical conclusion as to exactly why one side won and the other side lost.
At the end of the day, it's pretty much who fails to pull something out of their ass that's more impressive than whatever was last pulled out of the winner's ass.
Anyway, nice little end credit montage of the surviving characters enjoying daily life after the episode, and the Hero Gram and sword lady sales droid using public transit.
SFMTA board scraps controversial Valencia Street bicycle lane (SF Chronicle gift link)
My question is: Why even encourage bicycles on a street with busy traffic and dense commercial activity?
Shouldn't bicycles be diverted to a quieter and safer street instead?
URGENT APPEAL!!! HELP FOR ONE OF (RAWK's) OWN KOOLKAMAL Back Surgery
Hello I am hoping to raise funds on behalf of a friend of mine … Sayidur Rahman needs your support for Life changing spinal surgery for cerebral palsy
How do I put this?
KoolKamal is an OG Liverpool FC activist, who was monumental in the Save Liverpool FC movement in ousting Hicks and Gillett, arranging for protest banners to be displayed at the World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
He has cerebral palsy, and needs neuro spinal surgery to treat his spasmic muscles, and resulting pain that is only getting worse.
The surgery alone costs USD$50,000, and months of rehab USD$85,000
From RedAndWhiteKop, an OG LFC fans' forum. https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=356305.0
In Kamal's words:
My name is Kamal Jasmath. I am now 44 Years Old and from South Africa, and I have Spastic Cerebral Palsy. Basically, the damaged part of the brain causes the muscles throughout my body to basically remain in a permanently tense state, which limits my movement considerably. It can be such a deceptive condition too because on the face of it, when you’re standing or sitting you may appear to be fine. It only becomes noticeable when you have to move that people start wondering what’s wrong with this person.
What are some of the possible consequences of spasticity?
- Early aging (including early onset arthritis; a significant proportion of people with spastic CP develop arthritis even in their 20s and 30s)
- Contractures/permanent cellular changes in muscles and tendons
- Bone deformities
- Inability to fully strengthen and stretch muscles.
- Chronic pain and discomfort
- Negative changes alignment and posture
- People with Cerebral Palsy use up to 5 times more energy than regular people.
In addition, spasticity often negatively affects concentration and sleep—and it can cause anxiety as well. Studies have shown that tension in the body often translates to tension in the mind, and vice versa.
I was misdiagnosed as a child where I was told that the issues with my physicality can be fixed with just exercise. Unfortunately that wasn't the case and even though I struggled with most things that involved activity I didn't really let it stop me from trying to play sports with regular kids. I never tried to let my physical limitations hold me back.
As I got into my 30's I started noticing that my physicality was getting worse no matter what I did, nothing really helped improve it. At the same time, I noticed that my dad (who was a freedom fighter in South Africa and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in helping free South Africans from the oppressive apartheid regime), as he got older as well he started experiencing some sort of delayed PTSD and he'd wake up in the middle of the night screaming, possibly remembering all the physical and mental torture he had to endure. I then at the beginning of 2016 (with the support of friends) I made the decision to go to the east and spend a year focusing on only therapy and training to do whatever I can to improve my physicality, not just for myself but also so that I could be better able to look after my dad.
I was scared of leaving him alone for a year but I figured in the long term it would be best because then I could take care of him but 3 months into my training, my worst fear literally came true and I received the news that my dad had died. I immediately flew back to South Africa for the funeral. I was back in South Africa for about 8 months. I lost everything, no family left and nowhere to live so I decided since I had nothing and no one here I would go back to the east to continue my training in the hope that it would benefit me. I endured some of the toughest most torturous training imaginable.
The training helped a bit but only because I was training 6 hours a day and it was only in 2018 in India after speaking to my aunt (who I had met for the first time) who's is a physiotherapist, she recommended me to a specialist whom along with an orthopedic surgeon correctly diagnosed me. Most of my life I was told that it was just a physical limitation instead of it being an incurable brain issue that is affecting my physicality. It has been quite a challenging thing to accept, especially when living your entire life believing that your condition can be fixed. What's crazy is that every doctor/physio I see now can immediately recognise that I have cerebral palsy and they can't understand how I was misdiagnosed since it's so obvious.
Over the last several years, I can feel my condition worsening . Movement is tougher, risk of injuries is higher. I’m in a lot more pain, every day it’s something or the other, muscle spasms, joint pain, nerve pain, sometimes major discomfort, and more frustrations. Through an incredible amount of research I learned about a surgery called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) which is a spinal-cord surgery in which the surgeon divides the spinal cords sensory nerves into their smaller branches, called rootlets, and then cuts the rootlets that are most overactive, thereby getting rid of spasticity in the lower body. Currently, SDR is the only treatment that can eliminate or permanently reduce spasticity. Usually this surgery is performed mainly on children but there only a handful of Neurosurgeons in the world who can perform this surgery on adults. I have spoken to the Neurologist who diagnosed me, as well as few other Neurologists and another Neurosurgeon, and they all feel that SDR could benefit me hugely. I have also spoken directly to about 20 other adults who have had the surgery done and every single one said that it has changed their lives considerably for the better. It is the best thing they have done. Obviously, the surgery does come with risks as it is a very intricate, delicate surgery.
Due to the complex nature of it, just the surgery alone costs $50 000 (US). I would need to remain in hospital for about 3 weeks to be assessed and I would be in a wheelchair as I wouldn’t be able to walk initially (it may take a few weeks to be able to have limited movement or walking capabilities), thereafter I need at least 1-2 years of intensive rehab as I would need to re-learn how to walk, how to move, how to strengthen muscles that had false strength because of the spasticity. Total cost of surgery, other medical expenses and rehab would be at least $85 000 (US).
I am all alone. I have no support structure to help me. If I injure myself (which I have often – falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, concussion, ligament damage, etc. I have to find a way to deal with it myself)
I am just so tired of all the muscles spasming, joint pain, nerve pain, back pain, muscle tightness, falling, and all the injuries, etc. While there is no cure for cerebral palsy, this surgery would literally change my life and is the only option and my last resort to at least be able to live a slightly healthier life. The surgery cannot be performed once you reach a certain age.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I am and would be eternally grateful for any support I can get.
Take Care.
I ask my fellow LFC lemmings to donate https://www.gofundme.com/f/surgery-and-rehab-to-improve-mobility-and-life
LeVar Burton was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his impact as an actor and literacy advocate.
Star Trek star LeVar Burton just received a pretty big government honor. The beloved Reading Rainbow host was one of the 2023 National Humanities Medalists. For his impact as an actor and literacy advocate, Burton joined an elite group of people who have received the National Humanities Medal. He ho...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45628392
S.F. Chronicle poll: Lurie surges in mayor’s race, positioned to edge out Breed
Breed leads in the first few rounds of ranked choice voting elimination, but falls behind Laurie after Farrell is eliminated.
Netflix Reaps Rewards of Booming Anime Industry
Me in the future: "Nobody watches anime anymore. It's too popular"
> Ampere Analysis sees that anime has become a mainstream culture in the U.S. and Europe with significant potential for expansion from $31.2 billion in 2023 to $60.1 billion by 2030.
> Spotify (SPOT) also reported an increase of 395% in anime music streams since 2021.
Trolley at Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA
More photos and videos: https://www.daytodayla.com/2019/09/13/trolley-at-the-americana-glendale/
https://www.instagram.com/americanabrand/reel/CzZnfXdRJuW/
Manufacturer's website: https://www.gomacotrolley.com/Resources/pages/glendale_trolleys.html
>Two open-style trolley cars, #1717 and GiGi, are in Glendale, California. They were completed and delivered in 2008, and are being used at a shopping and residential center.
> They are a similar style to the J.G. Brill open-style cars currently in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Tampa, Florida. The first car, #1717, is 33 feet long and battery-powered, and the unpowered second car, GiGi, is 22 feet long and pulled behind the first car. The grand opening for the "Americana At Brand" project was May 1-2, 2008.
Construction photos: https://www.gomacotrolley.com/Resources/pages/construction_glendale.html
(Judy-Lynn Del Rey) revolutionized the fantasy (and science fiction) genre is finally getting her due
A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’
She's the namesake of the Del Rey Books publishing imprint.
The article links to a PBS documentary, Judy-Lynn Del Rey: Galaxy Gal from a series "Renegades" which "highlights little-known historical figures with disabilities"
S.F. may build a gondola (to Laguna Honda Hospital)
Because of the steep walkway and staircase to Laguna Honda, the SF County Transportation Authority (SFCTA), consisting of the Board Of Supervisors, is looking into constructing a gondola system, presumably from Forest Hill station, to improve accesss.
The City is also looking at the LHH site, which is mostly woods, as a site for affordable housing, including 250 units for seniors.
It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
Reddit is requiring manual admin approval to make /r’s private, eliminating the main mechanism for the last sitewide protest agains changes to the API.
Eastern city had resisted repeated attacks but Russian troops are close to ‘encircling’ it in Donetsk advance
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30196137
> Ukraine has said that its forces have withdrawn from the eastern city of Vuhledar, a defensive bastion that had resisted repeated Russian attacks since Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion. > > The military command in Kyiv said its troops left late on Tuesday. They had retreated in order to preserve personnel and combat equipment, it said, adding that Russian combat units had attacked from three directions and were close to “encircling” the city. > > The fall of Vuhledar is a boost for the Kremlin and comes as Russian troops advance across the eastern Donetsk oblast. In February they captured the city of Avdiivka, outside the regional capital of Donetsk, occupied in 2014. > > MBFC > Archive
Two men stood in front of the autonomous vehicle, operated by ride-hailing company Waymo, and literally tipped a fedora at her while she told them to move out of the way.
Asshole douchebags.
I hope they get doxxed.
Around 350 San Francisco Unified School District teachers have been found to lack an active teaching credential, according to a Friday press release from the district.
Out of 2316 in SFUSD total...
Another day, another mayoral debate (Mission Local coverage of Unity Council debate at the Gray Area)
Four of the five major mayoral candidates came out to the Mission on Saturday, talking policing, housing, billionaires, and more.
Mark Farrell didn't show up.