I dunno—on the one hand, I can see where data consent that’s folded into a long user agreement might get overlooked and approved without thinking, and a second verification would be helpful; but on the other hand, the more times users are asked for consent, the more likely they are to agree reflexively to everything.
It seems like a user-configurable setting would be the best solution.
It was a ritual of social inversion (a fool was crowned king, the ruling class was mocked and identities were concealed, religious and social rules were relaxed, etc.)
There are differing views, but one theory is that it served as a reminder to both lords and commoners that the social order could be overthrown if the lords became too oppressive.
Orbán also revealed before Thursday’s EU summit that Putin had warned the Hungarian leader that Moscow would take countermeasures if the EU tapped Russian assets to help Ukraine. […] “So we Hungarians have protected ourselves,” Orbán said.
Submitting to extortion is a dubious policy; advertising your susceptibility to extortion is practically an invitation.
Carnival.
For a second I was hoping they’d bioengineered stromatolite.
“Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of First Archaeologists”
Stupid fat hobbit!
I think it’s more like a police sketch: it might help you clarify an image you have in your head and communicate it to others, but there’s generally more to art than that (just like conveying an idea through a pastiche of song lyrics isn’t poetry).
From the wiki article on Public.Resource.Org:
Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.
New Year’s is celebrated by everyone
More so than Christmas, perhaps—but you still have people with different calendars (Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).
For anyone else trying to follow this research, the article is describing the paper by Moody et al. from a year and a half ago.
strung together two comments Trump made more than 54 minutes apart
Isn’t that about the normal interval it takes for him to progress from one coherent thought to the next?
Water Chestnuts are a fantastic substitute if you like the crunch.
Your opinion of celery vs water chestnuts is apparently the exact reverse of mine.
My personal policy is to upvote posts or comments that should get more visibility relative to other posts/comments in the same community/thread. So I might not upvote a post if there are currently other more important posts in the same community, but I might upvote comments on that post if I think they’re the most important comments on that post.
I guess Billy Joel’s song needs an update.
@remindme@mstdn.social 14,000,000,000 years
Do you get bigger by absorbing air (thereby increasing your buoyancy) or by absorbing water (with the opposite effect)?
Who picked the name “Vultr” for a hosting provider?
Capitalism rewards risk-taking, which can be productive when there are potential opportunities that are otherwise too risky to explore.
But after they’re exploited the highest risk/reward opportunities, capitalists increasingly rely on amplifying risks, to the detriment of everyone.