Ugh. That old, awful meme. All these years, I never quite understood what about it makes me cringe and wrench my gut so much... But maybe now I have the words: anyone who knowingly exploits the suffering of others ultimately has evil intent.

Sure. But for once, just this once, can we celebrate a win?

Swamps and wetlands are very ecologically productive places.

They've drained the swamp an replaced it with a Superfund site.

Trains in North America.

We had them at one point, built the nation with them, then so summarily decided that the automobile was better, that we built all of our infrastructure assuming that nobody would ever not want a car to go everywhere, making it doubly hard to convince people that public transit doesn't have to suck.

I understand the sentiment and don't generally disagree... But in most places around the world, Western honeybees (apis mellifera) are an introduced, agricultural livestock, like cattle, and don't really belong in the natural ecosystem. This is akin to farmers providing grain feed to their cows; they don't have to exclusively rely on pasture grass which didn't evolve to withstand hundreds of hungry herbivores mowing them to the ground every day. Also, honeybees are mediocre pollinators for most native plants. If native bees don't have to compete for resources with honeybees, that's a good thing for both the native bees and the plants that coevolved with them.

Are we sure he wasn't just rigging the coin-toss in the most obvious way possible?

It's also gonna confuse people worried about AI slop...

It's also what happens when the entire world outsources manufacturing to one county: that country gets really really good at making stuff better than anybody else in the world.

Maybe build infrastructure that gets people off the road so you can get to work on time.

Last I checked a bike takes up less space than a car.

The / character isn't a part of the base64 encoding. In fact, only one part of the URL looks like base64. No plain base64 tool (whether via CLI, self-hosted, or otherwise) will be able to decode an entire URL like that. You'll first need to parse the URL to isolate the base64 part. This is literally solved with a single line of bash:

echo "https://link.sfchronicle.com/external/41488169.38548/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG90ZG9nYmlsbHMuY29tL2hhbWJ1cmdlci1tb2xkcy9idXJnZXItZG9nLW1vbGQ_c2lkPTY4MTNkMTljYzM0ZWJjZTE4NDA1ZGVjYSZzcz1QJnN0X3JpZD1udWxsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV90ZXJtPWJyaWVmaW5nJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZmNfYml0ZWN1cmlvdXM/6813d19cc34ebce18405decaB7ef84e41" | cut -d/ -f6 | base64 -d

See TIO for example.

edit: add TIO link

Let's just admit the answer to the question "does he associate with people who can do math?" is a resounding "no."

We'll need ranked choice (or some other voting scheme other than First Past The Post). Otherwise it'll just end up the same as it always has.