Some choice excerpts:

Problems arose immediately for the A-TEAM nationwide. In California’s Salinas Valley, 200 teenagers from New Mexico, Kansas and Wyoming quit after just two weeks on the job. “We worked three days and all of us are broke,” the Associated Press quoted one teen as saying. Students elsewhere staged strikes. At the end, the A-TEAM was considered a giant failure and was never tried again.

“These [high school students] had the words and whiteness to say what they were feeling and could act out in a way that Mexican-Americans who had been living this way for decades simply didn’t have the power or space for the American public to listen to them,” [Stony Brook University history professor Lori A. Flores] says. “The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren’t able to mask that up.”

She says the A-TEAM “reveals a very important reality: It’s not about work ethic [for undocumented workers]. It’s about [the fact] that this labor is not meant to be done under such bad conditions and bad wages.”

And what one dude who went through the program as a 17 year old has to say about it now:

But he says the experience also taught them empathy toward immigrant workers that Carter says the rest of the country should learn, especially during these times.

“There’s nothing you can say to us that [migrant laborers] are rapists or they’re lazy,” he says. "We know the work they do. And they do it all their lives, not just one summer for a couple of months. And they raise their families on it. Anyone ever talks bad on them, I always think, ‘Keep talking, buddy, because I know what the real deal is.’ "

My reading is that it failed because there was no political will to actually provide for local-born farmers any more than immigrants. And as such, it was doomed to fail from the start.

Call me naive, but it seems to me that if everyone was pitching in for a season of farm work, less people overall would be doing 8/15/etc consecutive years and getting their bodies destroyed.

…is that a Code Lyoko reference?!

the police say they are targeting the criminals responsible but cannot “arrest their way out of the problem”. They also say manufacturers and tech firms have a bigger role to play.

Even though I fully expect the police here aren’t doing as much as they could (I mean come on, are they expecting phones to come with wiimote hand straps?) , I’m at least glad their public rhetoric is that they can’t “arrest their way out of the problem”.

I imagine that’s poor compensation when you’ve just had your phone snatched, however.

As we have seen in months past when Linux takes a sizable dip, it’s correlated to a rise in the Simplified Chinese use. In August the Simplified Chinese use further grew and helping out Windows at the cost to the Linux percentage.

So, the solution is clear: get all Simplified Chinese users to switch from Windows to Linux :D

delightfully on-the-nose

We also added the ability to pin the resource patch, and the count of remaining ore will update as the patch is mined. You can use this to keep an eye on how things are going, and be aware when a patch is running dry.

Yet another great mod transcending its mod status to be assimilated into the base game!

There’s a sentence about halfway through the article that specifies what they mean by “half-forgotten”:

He added the significance of Kepler’s solar drawings was overlooked, over the eras: “It has only been discussed in the context of the history of science and had not been used for quantitative analyses for the solar cycles.”

Imo it’s not-so-crappy journalist speak (for once).

The second season of Iron Blooded Orphans is a good follow-up to the first, and certainly contains the themes you’re looking for.

Sympa, mais ça passe un peu vite sur pourquoi les gens sont généralement “de gauche” sur masto. L’article prétend que c’est surtout par anti capitalism, alors que pour moi c’est surtout que les instances qui ne sont pas de gauche se font défédérer car elles se savent pas “se tenir” (au sens ne pas être horrible envers les gens).

Do you perchance know if a similar manoeuver can be attempted to fix a mouse wheel click issue?

making sure everyone is okay.

Given the current state of the world, that would be progress.

J’espère que ca fera au moins pencher certain-e-s pour du local et/ou libre pour leur prochains choix d’infrastructure numérique.

Mais bon, j’ai du mal a en avoir l’espoir.

Get off of .world if you want to see a difference.

The size of that instance almost guarantees these kinds of dynamics will emerge, especially on a website run by volunteers and paid for by donations.

Stop complaining to other users; go be the change you wish to see.

Silence is nice.

It also allows e2e encryption with other Silence users by exchanging keys via SMS.

J’ai bossé sur un Lenovo Thinkpad T480 14 pouces pendant environ 4 ans. Les Thinkpad c’est une question de goût, mais aujourd’hui encore je trouve que ses 14 pouces étaient un équilibre presque-parfait entre la compacité d’un 13" et la « surface de travail » d’un 15".

J’ajouterai que l’expérience avec Linux dessus était vraiment top, 100% du matériel était reconnu et fonctionnait etc.

J’avais pu opter à l’achat pour une batterie amovible surdimensionnée (72Ah) qui, couplée à la batterie intérieure fixe (~24Ah) me donnait presque 2 journées de 8h d’autonomie.

When you use Git locally and want to push to GitHub you need an access token.

I don’t understand; I can push to GitHub using https creds or an ssh key without creating access tokens.

Love the monochrome palette on this one

This is why I’m very pleased by how small in scope the upcoming Factorio expansion is compared to some of the mods that inspired/preceded it (notably Space Exploration).

Part real Greens, part Greenpeace, part Green-washing.