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What if there was a radio station that didn't have commercials or corporate sponsorship?

What if there was a radio station that was entirely listener supported?

What if there was a radio station that let its volunteer DJs play whatever they wanted to play, and say whatever they wanted to say? Within FCC laws, of course.

WFMU is the answer. 1 terrestrial broadcast, 3 internet livestreams, 20 years of archives online and available for listening.


So Putin's failure in Ukraine is balanced by his wild success in the US. The eye-watering corruption of Trump and the Republican Party has irreversibly damaged relations with the democratic allies of the US.


Well it's surely not only his doing


The way I see it is that reactionary media ecosystem made an industry out of hating the United States (for all the ways it failed to live up to conservative values), motivated by corporate entrenched interests wanting to hamstring the government so they themselves could occupy the power vacuum. But then as more and more USD-savings accrued outside of the US, that ecosystem was bought into and augmented by foreign hostile powers whose goals mostly align with the corporations. Meanwhile the executives and managers in that media ecosystem have suffered the same bureaucratic-spreadsheet clock-punching decline as other industries, leading to a tail-wags-the-dog situation where they don't know what actually putting America first might even look like.


Back in the long-ago times, I saw ordinary people fight tooth-and-nail to keep their WordPerfect on DOS instead of switching to Windows and Word, despite it requiring those overlays kept above their keyboard function keys and being non-WYSIWYG. Ordinary people aren't neophiles, nor is Word especially intuitive. They simply want what that app to which they are familiar.


I have been looking for a simple local only wysiwyg alternative to Onenote and there just.. arent any good ones? Joplin is close but everything is now markdown and I hate it, I've gone back to phyiscally writing down notes.

I'm old, these are notes for me only, I don't care that they arent 'web publishing' ready.


WordPad was good for this on Windows - maybe too good.

AbiWord looked like it might be similar on Linux, but never kept up.

There is a very light weight, free program called "The Guide" which is also good for notes

https://portableapps.com/apps/office/the_guide_portable

https://theguide.sourceforge.net/

It hasn't been updated for about 8 years, but it doesn't require installation and we have found it very useful.


There is value in familiar tools for familiar work. Someone typing letters to send to family is not intrinsically going be interested in, or see any benefit from, some paradigm shift to hypermedia-first document creation.


If you actually read the article, it indicated epidemiological studies showing that people living or working near farmland where paraquat is used have a higher incidence of Parkinson's.

Additionally, the article cites a leading neuroscientist in Parkinson's research who says that pesticides are one of the "biggest threats" linked to Parkinson's

Lastly, I personally discount your sort of arguments because it is the same kind we've witnessed the tobacco industry, the sugar industry, and the gasoline industry use regarding the science showing harmful effects of their products.


1938 Superman didn't fly; he jumped. And he was named Kal-L. But he was also a lot more of a social justice warrior. His chest emblem was different, too. But yeah, I expect good things.


People do not yet fully appreciate what AI videogen + public domain rights mean yet.

We will see a flood of ai generated full length 1930s superman movies once we hit the 2030s


The page is more for lesser known authors, while the late Iain M Banks is certainly a master of science fiction, he is one of the best known authors.


There's a reason why Conservapedia sucks and isn't used by anybody.


Stand by for Elon and Grokipedia:

"We are building Grokipedia @xAI.

Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.

Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1972992095859433671


R&D and prototyping is an up-front expense. Amortization over many units spreads out the costs to long term profitability. Does SpaceX have that kind of time, though? A prospective global depression would dry up the capital for funding Starship development.


... From a pool of respondents who follow this internet personality. She acknowledges that only 10% of her followers identify as women and may respond differently than their cohorts.


However getting some paid responses and comparing them to the other respondents is surprisingly good methodology for a blog post. And I think it does show that while the results weren't identical they weren't wildly skewed either


That is incorrect. She got the same results from both her followers and from spending $1057 on Positly surveying people who are not her followers.

Sometimes people are right on the internet.


Yea, this is how I interpret the results.

'Men who watch porn self-identify as "knowing what women like"'. Quite a different insight.


The article compares men's predictions of women's preferences to women's stated preferences. They didn't ask men if they were good at predicting.

How could this support your interpretation?


I’m skeptical that people surveyed are being honest about their gender in the survey.

Tbf though looking closer it does appear that there’s a similar result in the paid responses as well so I might be being far too cynical.


It's the "ingenuity of Humanity" that's causing the collapse, is it not? Our intelligence, or ingenuity, has outpaced our wisdom. Surely the advent of thermonuclear weapons, biological weapons, poisoning ourselves and our ecosystem, is a hint that our little branch of the evolutionary tree is beset with peril of our clever little hands and brains.


We're pretty far from starving ourselves to death.


That's fair, we're living pretty luxuriously right now. It's worth securing the current state of luxury while we can, though.


Slow death is the worst kind. We'd have wonderful lives, our grandchildren may too, but their grandchildren is a ???

I am still amazed that modern fossil fuels only really took off in 20th century.

We found Pandora's box of cheap portable energy. That could be our slow demise.

But who cares, we'll be long dead before it becomes a problem for us.


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