When I was actively working to emmigrate to Canada, my mind was blown that the Hudson's Bay Company I'd learned about in American History from the 1600s still existed in 2008.
Doesn't look like it'll be for much longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfDgp7cYwpc
I was there in the early days. It's nothing like it used to be.
I didn't expect "using a Torrenting client to seed US government scientific datasets because the policy settings are erasing years of research" on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.
You wouldn't download America's scientific research output would you?
EDIT: Several people have contacted me for the link.
(Better link)
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The fascist tech bro takeover is here
The future of the United States is no longer decided in Washington. That ship has sailed. It's now dictated in the bunkers, private jets, and compounds of an ideological Silicon Valley, by billionaires and wealth extremists intent on treating democracy as a nuisance that must be swatted away. These men - raised on a rabid press that mythologized their existen
https://www.osnews.com/story/141900/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here/
i just learned this yesterday but: if you're trans and you were born in the state of New Jersey, there's a fastpass discounted system in place to ammend your birth documents.
https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/correcting-vital/sexdesignation/
it costs 6$ if you're just doing gender marker, 8$ if you're doing name as well, 10$ total for an extra (second) copy of the new birth cert. they obliterate the old record through all state systems & replace it with the corrected one. this takes 8-10 weeks. and they have a badass name: Record Modification Unit.
it includes nb options
it includes options for parents w trans kids
someone in 2018 understood the need for this and absolutely nailed their assignment perfectly.
i think every state should model on this tbh
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