RIP Navalny.

I remember him flying back from Germany to Russia after the poisoning. Watching Ricky & Morty with his wife.

Very brave, but incomprehensibly stupid.

If ever there was a person who had a justified claim to political asylum, it was him.

PSA: The old Opera guys have a new browser, Vivaldi.

It's quite nice and I use it daily.

If there is no easy way to own what you buy, then piracy becomes a moral obligation to preserve culture for future generations.

This right here.

The TV comes with the cheapest removable feet, because VESA mounts exist.

It's a joke.

UTF-16 already exists, which doesn't favor Roman characters as much, but UTF-8 is more popular because it is backword compatible with the legacy ASCII.

UTF-32 also exists which has exactly equal length representation for every character.

But the thing that equalizes languages is compression.

Yes, a text written in Cyrillic with UTF-8 will take more space than a Roman language, easily double. However this extra space is much more easily compressed by an algorithm like GZIP.

So after compression, the two compressed texts will then be similarly sized and much smaller than UTF-16 or UTF-32.

Is she still living rent free in their heads?

It's the same across the world.

The problem is that real estate has become an asset, a form of capital.

The only way out of this mess is to shift taxation away from labor and onto capital.

Higher property taxes (1-2%), that can be subtracted from income tax for working people are the answer.

Let's say Joe the Plumber and Elon the Muskrat both have an income of $100K and pay an income tax of $25K.

Joe owns one property worth $1M that he lives in and pays 2% tax on it, $20K. Which gets subtracted from the $25K income tax, meaning he effectively pays $5K income tax + $20K property tax = $25K combined property and income tax. Pretty sweet deal.

Elon owns 20 properties valued $500M collectively, which means $10M in property taxes. He officially resides in the most expensive $100M property and gets a $50K credit for that. The $50K is larger than the $25K, so he pays zero income tax.

Total tax is $10M.

This (or something like it) is the system the whole world must move towards if we want to simultaneously (a) lower taxes on working people (b) increase taxes on property and (C) not let working people lose economic power relative to the capitalists over the longterm.

The middle class has to outsmart the owning class if we want our children to remain middle class.

Luckily the SCOTUS justices have no ties to the wealthy and are such excellent, impartial arbiters of blind justice.

I'm sure we all have full faith in them.

/s

The IPCC calculations were always criticized for being overly optimistic. Anyone following this debate knew that we would hit 1.5 C sooner rather than later.

We are definitely going to hit 3 degrees in our lifetime, once the melting tundras release their methane store.

A megagram is 1000 kg, by definition. It's symbol is Mg.

In metric countries, we just use the word "ton" as shorthand/slang for it, since it is an easier term and was well known.

The only reason the US calls it a metric ton, is because they have archaic units (long and short tons).

Metric countries don't call it a metric ton.

One thing about the greatest generation (my grandparents).

They saw some serious shit and were just legitimately happy we don't have to see that same shit.

Funny how the coddled Boomer generation is often much more critical of the young, when they had the easiest ride ever.

Or, perhaps this article is just trying to sow discord between workers.

One of the old tricks in the books to make people despise unions is to take the very best union deals and sensationalize them, so that others hate the union out of jealousy.

Make it appear like the UPS driver is getting paid $170K for 32 hours of work, in a fully A/C'd vehicle on a short, easy route, starting pay, right out of college without a degree, four weeks of vacation yada yada.

When in reality, the $170K probably only kicks in if you take the absolute worst routes, worst shifts (weekend/night) with max overtime and even then, a third of it is retirement, insurance and health care contributions. And you only get the max after 10 or 20 years of service, if they didn't fire you as you increased.