The Life of a Completely Blind Iranian Programmer
Source: How I got through Docker’s censorship – Parham Doustdar’s Blog
The most interesting part is being blocked by both the country government and the companies based in other countries. You not only have to develop ways to make packet traffic flow from outside the country into your own, but also to make funds available to you locally.
Not an easy feat.
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Some think that being poor is simple. You don’t have enough money to buy a lot of stuff, so you’re forced to buy less stuff. But that’s not really how it works. When you’re broke, you can’t do all the little things that will improve your budget over the long run. It actually costs more to be poor.
Source: Being Poor Is Too Expensive
It’s been a long, long time for me to dig out of the hole I was in. While it was never that deep, you’re always uncomfortably aware how much you can fall in a really short amount of time.
Raising the minimum wage won’t solve this, no matter how much politicians assure everyone it is the magic silver bullet needed.
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In essence, we see that nearly everyone is doing the best they can to avoiding addressing anything, immediately becoming defensive.
Source: ProSystemdAntiSystemd
Things got complicated quickly, to be sure Read More »
A longform article in The Atlantic.
In Douglass’s time, to stand up for black rights was to condone black criminality. The same was true in King’s time. The same is true today. Appearing on Meet the Press to discuss the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani—in the fashion of many others—responded to black critics of law enforcement exactly as his forebears would have: “How about you reduce crime? … The white police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other 70 to 75 percent of the time.”
The whole article is a very illustrating read on why things need to change.
American democracy was too robust to let that happen. He was too dangerous to win, and to win would be too dangerous. It couldn’t happen because it couldn’t happen.
Source: President Donald John Trump – The Atlantic
This whole thing is pure genius.
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via Mississippi anti-gay segregation: Discrimination bill got unanimous bipartisan support..
Either legislators were shockingly negligent in the performance of their basic duty—reading the bills they vote on—or they were cruel enough to vote for a terrible bill and now too cowardly to stand by it.
Either option is giving congresscritters in this state too much credit.
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But you can eat sustainably every day of your life and give to charity every year, and it all gets wiped out with one line of coke. Who cares if you were a nice guy if in your spare time you burned witches?
via Cocaine trafficking horrors: Users are complicit in the atrocities of the drug trade..
I know many, many people who think “what’s the harm in a little fun”, preferring marijuana, cocaine, or meth to alcohol or cigarrettes.
The difference lies not in the legality of any of the drugs. It lies in the suffering. People making alcohol usually love their jobs, lovingly making a product that people can rave about.
The others get made by poor people suffering under the yoke of violence and poverty, with the exception being the legal trade in recreational marijuana in some states.
Do coke? You’re a little nazi sympathizer Read More »
11 Nations, all under one name.
This would explain a whole lot of things. Read More »
10 puntos de la Reforma Hacendaria explicados por jóvenes para jóvenes | Mexicanos Activos.
Luego se preguntan por que no se quiere uno regresar.
Impuestos hasta el orto Read More »
PN is now considered one of the most important accomplishments in modern medicine—which makes it all the more distressing that unnecessary shortages are reducing its efficacy. “It breaks my heart,” says Dudrick, now a professor emeritus at Yale. “This is because big pharma isn’t making enough money on these components. It’s tragic. I just don’t know how they sleep at night.”
via “Children Are Dying” | People & Politics | Washingtonian.
The IMSS has it bad, but this is worse. This is trickle-down economics for you.
This is what the powers that be in Mexico want.
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Why I’m voting for fluoridation in Portland today. |.
As incredible as it might sound for most people outside of the US, there is a sizeable contingent of people in this country who believe this sort of thing is bad for one’s health.
BAN THOSE SCARY CHEMICALS Read More »
Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason – Slashdot.
The political dreams of one man were more important than fucking over two countries, killing a few hundred thousand people, destabilizing the power balance between world powers and bringing the planet to the edge of nuclear Armageddon.
The whole thing was repeated with Iraq, and now hawks are trying to do the same to Iran.
This sounds strangely familiar, 45 years later. Read More »
US regulator: Bitcoin exchanges must comply with money-laundering laws | Ars Technica.
Lest the small guy challenge the laundering might of industry behemoths like HSBC, the US is on the case.