I was thinking the tsetse fly should be another top candidate, in the past they made it almost impossible to keep animals for livestock or transportation in large swathes of Africa, and the control efforts that continue to this day are massively destructive including wantonly burning natural foliage and killing wild animals they could feed on!

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From Albino Blacksheep.

"They sometimes accidentally kill"

"The sometimes hack and slash and maim"

"Sometimes they slash human flesh"

And lets not forget the nursery-school-destruction scene in the middle.

Professor Hathaway, in the flesh, or not.

A generation or two ago, it was "Welcome to campus, here's your legal copy of Microsoft Office" for free or for a token price, all to get young adults hooked on the product.

It was the same with credit cards and other things too.

I assume college students got market-droid-driven freebies long before I went to school and I assume it's still that way today.

There's a lot of people in and more importantly (and numerically significant) around health care whose job is to figure out who gets health care, what bucket the money is coming from... If you get rid of their jobs at the same time as we get rid of all these other jobs you're really going to wish you had UBI running.

In states which chose to fully implement all of the allowable provisions of the ACA, including Medicaid expansion, it is fairly well-broken. In my area most of the health care providers accept Medicaid, we have a servicer who handles billing so they don't have to do it themselves. If you don't qualify for Medicaid you can still get APTC, and most people who are just a bit over the income limit for Medicaid get their premiums covered 100%. (Of course I would like to do away with the insurance companies in this equation, but that's another discussion.) It's also much easier for people to get coverage for their children than for themselves, and adults get linkage to share of cost programs when they are caring for dependents for catastrophic coverage.

Only ten states didn't expand Medicaid to cover adults 18-65. They are pretty much the states you would expect. Kansas state gov. Laura Kelley has full expansion in her proposed 2026 budget. Most of the others are planning some kind of partial expansion (usually up to 100% of the Federal Poverty Level instead of 138%, and often with additional caveats and/or work requirements) which does not qualify for matching funds. It's still weird to me every time that states would leave money on the table, especially since these states already generally depend on other states' money to function.

Shitty terms for welfare are a bipartisan effort. Maybe it would have been futile to veto it and try to get it changed up, maybe it was intentional, it doesn't matter; the welfare reform act of 1996 signed by Clinton created the 60 month limit for welfare as well as the work requirement (ABAWD) for SNAP that the GOP now wants to bring to Medicaid. ABAWD is stupid when SNAP is barely adequate in most markets (as the food at the supermarkets gets more expensive much faster than the SNAP benefit amount is increased) and there is already a "work registration" requirement which prohibits quitting a steady, 30 hour/week job without a good reason.

We can hold Democrat politicians accountable without false equivocation, I think we should give it a try.

Yes, but there's lots and lots of counterexamples, especially there are a lot of conservative brown people. Mexicans (and many other Latin Americans) have historically tended to vote conservative because so many of them are Catholic. There's also no guarantee that they are not racist against other brown people. Just this morning I was looking at a post on feceboot about cleaning up a BLM street mural in Santa Cruz which someone did a burnout on. Around a third of the haha reaccs were from people with hispanic surnames and, upon inspection of their profiles, light beige to I'd say medium brown skin.

I thought we had all seen the "I thought they were only going to deport the lawbreaking immigrants" posts? Truth is, though, most of even the alleged leftists are still refusing to call it fascism. The supposedly left-wing news is talking about the rise of "authoritarianism"! I cannot express enough what fucking clowns these people are if they don't think this nation full of jackbooted SWAT teams that can be summoned to attack real or supposed enemies by any asshole with a phone is already authoritarian. Nobody seems to want to call anything what it is, so anyone who wants to can pretend it's not happening.

Microsoft had one called Access ;)

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Its largest shareholder is South African media company Naspers, which owns roughly a quarter of the company through its affiliate Prosus. Other significant shareholders include China Asset Management, Fidelity Management, and Ramirez Asset Management. Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma), the co-founder and CEO, holds a significant stake, according to business news sources.

So it does name Ma and not Bekker, but it does say a South African company is the largest shareholder. Rating partially true

What does the current US president have to do with the UK postal scandal?
Was he a post master in Llanelli? I don't remember that from his many rantings.

What did HyperCard even do?

It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.

But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.

Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.

In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!

A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).

You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.

Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.

Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.

Whether you learn to type in one of the approved ways, or any other way that allows you to type without looking at the keyboard, being able to do so is a critical skill for any kind of typing. The less time you spend thinking about how to type, and the less time you spend correcting edits, the more you can allow your thoughts to turn into text. I can do a certain amount of punctuation without looking (All the usuals... and of course including parentheses and brackets) and that's handy even while just scripting — or trying to quit vi.

Climate change, of course.

Ha ha, only serious: Ukraine has a number of resources which are important to Russia, including cropland. Russia invaded Ukraine historically for the same reason. Ukraine also used to be an important manufacturing center for Russia. Notably, they produced cast tank turrets. You may have noticed that Putin is experiencing an armor shortage.