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BREAKING: Household spending per person in Canada is falling at a pace only previously seen during recessions. After adjusting for inflation, the measure fell 1.3% in the second quarter from the year before.

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in reply to unusual_whales

Since the 1960s, spending has declined faster just four times, bottoming out in 1982, 1991, 2009 and 2020. Those years were all marked by deep economic downturns.

Read more: t.co/FVSyUu64tH

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Ars Mechanica - The Complete Collector Adventure

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Publisher: PlanarInk EditionsWelcome to Ars Mechanica Collector's Edition, the definitive way of playing all six adventures in the Ars Mechanica Universe. From the busy streets of Astrohagen to the untamed Balmire Wilds, this adventure book will allow you…



Curriculum Vitae: A Guide to Obscure Disciplines (Final Death Ashcan Edition)

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Publisher: White WolfLife is power in a dying world. The City withers. We grow stronger. We wield our stolen might in myriad and brutal ways. For the Kindred, all starts and ends in a pool of blood. Disciplines are a seductive gift: often a swift solution…






Ah, looks like we now have details about the autumn #covid19 booster campaign in the UK.

Available on the NHS only for those 65 and over, care home residents, those with specific health conditions, and front line health and social care staff.

Everyone else will have to pay. Looks like it costs about £100.

Which sucks.

It beggars belief that some amazing science gave us the tools to mitigate the threat of covid, and we choose not to use them.

#CovidIsNotOver

bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639

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Mike Taylor 🦕

@CppGuy "In this fantasy land, all that matters is whether the #NHS gets overwhelmed this coming winter."

Ah yes, of course — It hadn't occurred to me, but now you say it of course that's it.

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Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦

@CppGuy @mike "Fantasy land" is an excellent description of their cost effectiveness analysis.

If they didn't want to think about a cost, such as long covid or sick leave from work, then they just pretended that cost was zero.




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"[Musl] was developed by Rich Felker to write a clean, efficient, and standards-conformant libc implementation."

*ports systemd*




So apparently one of my servers with Ubuntu installed got the Gnome desktop environment on it somehow??? It at least hadn't been enabled for months and suddenly enabled itself when I restarted it earlier today.

I couldn't figure out why its CPU usage was suddenly way higher (like 40+% on every core) and why my ssh sessions kept getting frozen (it was going to sleep after the default amount of time because no one logged into the desktop environment).

Absolutely *no clue* why this happened, but luckily it's easy to disable again.

#linux #ubuntu #homelab



The first rule of naming something, never ask the British public

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Should your car warn you that you’re speeding? California lawmakers vote yes


California could become the first state to require technology in cars that warns drivers when they're going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. But critics say lawmakers are moving too fast.

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The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change – Quanta Magazine


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#IsraelWarCrimes

A video depicting Albania's chief rabbi, Yoel Kaplan, celebrating the destruction in Gaza and leading Israeli troops in prayer has prompted an angry backlash in the country.

The video featuring Kaplan in Gaza was posted by a Jewish community website on Monday, but it is not exactly clear when it was taken.

Kaplan was appointed chief rabbi by the Albanian government in 2010, against the wishes of the countrys Jewish community.

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The mocking and shaming responses to Tim Walz’s son’s emotions at the DNC shows that society has a long way to go in understanding neurodivergent behaviors.

Research suggests that 15% to 20% of the U.S. population is neurodivergent, and this is likely an undercount. That’s 1 in 5 people.

Here’s a quick explainer on neurodivergence (you don’t have to be a doctor to understand it):
theconversation.com/gus-walzs-…
#health #neuroscience #autism #USpolitics #science

in reply to Amoshias

@Amoshias A fair point. But I think the fact that it was unexpected behavior by a neurodivergent person fueled much of the mockery, FWIW.
in reply to The Conversation U.S.

@Amoshias It's the psychos who mock him who are more neurodivergent, if anything. Having the idea that someone showing feelings for something like this is to be mocked...


Media demand policy. She delivers policy. But they report on political strategy, not impact. Also: "soak-the-rich populism"? The #BrokenTimes sounds like the #MurdochJournal....
Tax Policy Becomes a Fault Line for Harris nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/poli…
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

US rich pay soooo little tax especially compared to literally everywhere else that isn't a tiny corrupt island. it's just insane.
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

The New York Times is losing so much credibility with their coverage of Trump and Gaza. I cancelled my subscription long ago and I hope more people do, there are many other independent sources of news which are not as tarnished and compromised.


How to Stop a Puppy from Nipping or Biting During Playtime