DeSantis isn't wrong, mind you.

There is no problem with debt in America. Never!

One problem with using the numbers is its all just models

The Democrats are so scared of the guy that they're destroying their party and the nation to spite him. Projection methinks.

Same lol

Just imagine, they made this good decision despite not having a CEO or a CFO!

https://wolfball.gitlab.io/blog/posts/main/

A great post from one of the guys who ran one of the freest instances on lemmy for about a year. He talks about the oppressive problems of activitypub.

He honestly makes some really good points. Everywhere you go there's an implicit and sometimes explicit threat: "you better do what we want or we're shutting the world down for you and you'll be all alone".

He makes some good points about those limitations and then talks about nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 and his view that nostr is the path for the future.

I've got nostr on my phone, I run a nostr relay, but the thing for me it isn't comfy like my soapbox/rebased instance. I'm hoping with the recent news that Alex will be doing more work with nostr (though that was such a badly written article it might even just be fake, I dunno) that he'll integrate nostr into soapbox so we'll that its just another part of the fediverse on my comfy instance rather than a whole other app I cant expect to even use from anywhere I'm not an admin user.

Doing some research, it looks like potatoes are one of the most energy dense foods you can grow at 17.8 million calories per irrigated acre. A regular human diet of about 2000 calories per day would work out to about 730,000 calories per year. This means that if you used every mm of that area to grow potatoes, you’d come up short, about 356,000 calories per year. And you’d need to find water, and so on and so forth, I think it’d be a challenge.

On the other hand, the US has about 1.6 Billion acres of land that’s presently used for grazing cattle, forests, farming and so on, so if you gave 8 billion people a fair share of each, you’d give everyone 0.2 acres about 800m3. At that point, each individual person on earth would likely have enough land to grow food, have a place to live, maybe have some light (or heavy) industry.

Incidentally, the federal government owns about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States, about 28% of the total land area of 2.27 billion acres (9.2 million km2). That could be enough to provide 0.08 acres (Approx 3000 square feet) to everyone on earth, and if you assume (incorrectly) that all that land is fertile enough to grow potatoes with irrigation, that area could likely just barely feed and house everyone and also give a bit of space for a fallow field.

"we at Amazon do not support racist doorbells"

Uh wut?

You guys ever have it where you know full well you're home and you get one of those delivery tags on your door: "Sorry, we tried to deliver the package but you just weren't home!"