Seems like they may not have realized that the fact that antibiotic use was associated with hive death could be because antibiotics are likely given primarily to unhealthy hives.
Readit Newsendo_bunker commented on More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves news.uoguelph.ca/2025/07/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
If only there were some method for allocating scarce resources (such as water), by which everyone could indicate their perception of the relative value and some sort of equilibrium could be found.
endo_bunker commented on Scale Ruins Everything coldwaters.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/drc500free
Comical to suggest that AirBnB "ruined communities" or "destroyed the dream of home ownership" as if decades of federal, state, and local government policy had not already guaranteed those outcomes.
endo_bunker commented on Wealth Distribution in the United States righto.com/2024/10/wealth... · Posted by u/ssklash
The neoliberal program initiated in the 1970s is to blame, and the conditions for that program were set by the gross expenditures of the Vietnam War, whose origins date back to Truman's decision to support French recolonization of Indochina after WWII.
The fundamental goal of neoliberalism is to place all capital in private hands and eliminate any governmental control over capital - and that means eliminating the middle class and creating a two-tiered society of serfs and aristocrats, as existed in 19th century Russia, Britain and Germany.
The methodology is roughly threefold - (1) destroy domestic unions by exporting all well-paid unionized manufacturing jobs in the USA to sweatshop zones in offshore client states, and (2) import as much cheap labor as possible to fill jobs that cannot be exported (construction, services, agribusiness etc), ideally undocumented so that any unionization efforts can be resisted by deporting union leaders and organizers at will. This ensures starvation wages for the serf class. (3) Establish large homeless and prison populations as a constant threat to the serf class - no matter how bad your situation is, it could be worse!
> The fundamental goal of neoliberalism is to place all capital in private hands and eliminate any governmental control over capital
Okay
> and that means eliminating the middle class and creating a two-tiered society of serfs and aristocrats, as existed in 19th century Russia, Britain and Germany.
No, that simply does not follow.
endo_bunker commented on Wealth Distribution in the United States righto.com/2024/10/wealth... · Posted by u/ssklash
I read that you could take all the money from the billionaires in the USA and it would fund the federal government for 8 months.
Not just money, that's liquidating all of their assets at current market prices.
endo_bunker commented on Wealth Distribution in the United States righto.com/2024/10/wealth... · Posted by u/ssklash
Why? So massive differences in wealth look significantly smaller? By graphing this in log scale you are admitting there is an "exponentially growing delta between rich and poor" and log makes it easier to even visualize (which is insane to begin with).
Additional wealth has diminishing marginal returns, obviously.
endo_bunker commented on US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward reuters.com/technology/us... · Posted by u/christhecaribou
The FTC won the case against Google did they not? Which monopolies would you like to see them tackle?
They should probably just stop shaking down the American tech firms that are driving US economic growth.
At work we take a month or two in a summer to do code cleanup work, we just got up to JDK 21 and I rebuilt the build system for a Javascript project.
In terms of my side projects recent developments are:
(1) made a fork of my "second brain" (third brain?) and loaded in a friend's notes from evernotes. I started putting tags on about 400 items one at a time assuming an ontology would emerge (it has in many projects I've done) but I got stuck. I am probably going to add some reports/visualizations and a simple comment facility and move forward.
(2) I made friends with someone who designs clothing who is interested in collaborating on print-on-demand fabrics. Turns out almost all printed fabric is silkscreened which is great in some respects but doesn't let you render the full range of colors that is possible in print-on-demand which is often inkjet. PoD fabric is about twice as expensive as silkscreen printed fabric so I'm feeling the need to make designs that are unlike anyone's ever seen before: photography-based images that don't make people feel they are "wearing a photograph".
It's a crazy competitive market with many different vendors that specialize in different kinds of fabrics, I am running 8x8 sample prints, ordering sample books as well as sets of color swatches so I can get a handle on color management.
I'm probably going to produce the first fabric based on an image I already have which I took of a flower field with a very wide aperture lens but I am thinking for this purpose I don't want to have any trouble making images that tile so I'm planning on photographing 20-50 flowers and cutting them out from the background and then procedurally generating infinite flower fields with the exact properties I want. I got into flower photography last year because I found the photos did really well on social but I was kinda bored doing it last year and would feel even more bored if I kept doing what I was doing last year without adding something to my technique and this is it.
What do you use in your second brain stack?
endo_bunker commented on Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. techdirt.com/2024/05/16/r... · Posted by u/rntn
This is full of central-planning nonsense. He wants lower prices, but is also mad when the company does layoffs. US consumers probably have some of the highest if not the highest demand for mobile data in the world, and the cost of living is already higher regardless, yet he acts shocked that American consumers pay more for mobile data.
Not to mention the fact that I pay $15 for a very reasonable Mint mobile plan that would probably suffice for upwards of 80% of American consumers.