Because there was a black millionaire in the early 1900s, it was easier to be poor and black before/during the civil rights movement than it is in modern day?

I dont feel like we are having a coherent converation and these replies are purely reactive?

So, we have been progessing over time, until recently, correct?

Now lets bring being poor as a different demographic than white male in history as well.

But would you consider that poor then? Maybe money was easier to obtain, but starvation/malnutrition rates have constantly been on a steady decline until the last few years. Not often you see people using a burlap sack to cloth their families, child labor, things like that. And we do have a lot of social programs like SNAP that didnt exist pre-1970s.1980s had the Homeless act. The world has changed drastically in the last 50-100 years.

But I guess you could make solid arguments that the economy is generally harder now, so its worse for the majority, incuding the poor.

Fuck billionaires and all, but I think two things are wrong with this.

First, comparing hollywood to real life. They were making super yachts in the 1800s. El Mahrousa was built in 1865 and still in the top 10 in size.

But those megayachts sre super unnecessary and terrible for enviroment.

Secondly, times just generally changed. Poor people shifted a lot too. 1970s poor was a lot more poor than modern poor generally.

But we should still fix the system that fucks over thr majority.

Wait, so you are saying you have either lived continuously on a 29ft boat for 5 years, or only have visited land by dinghy or something while its anchored?

Wild. That’s got to be a nasty looking hull though.

If you consider that healthcare for everyone, then America as a whole bears and shares the cost of healthcare for everyone because of Obamacare?

But this is also an article about Massachusetts…

Idk why you are talking about scraping when I said API?

And is all that information in the training contract?

Its just an API, right?

60 million a year for access to the relatively public data… That seems pretty good to me tbh.

Idk, I’d imagine they’d get a cell phone for wifi reasons over loitering coverage, even though that could be an additional benefit

Tbh I feel like this is a silly request.

Bitlocker or Filevault for the pin/password to get onto your computer? I don’t think that’ll be a common scenario. I also imagine they bypass the whole password thing, rather than cracking the actual password.

It’s plausible that some of the websites you like run faster because ISPs aren’t throttling them, while throttling the competition.

That second paragraph doesn’t make sense to me. You are saying that “ordinary people” will notice that they benefit from the cost/return ratio compared to “rich people”, so they’ll get greedier?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for medicaid for all… but I don’t follow that logic at all

I hate to say it, but even if somehow the top 1% or .1% disappeared, we’d probably stay on the same trajectory.

I’m not sure I understand what you are saying. Isn’t this an article on the Japanese government “doing something about it”?

Seems like I hear about Russia/Ukraine about the same…sounds like those ATACMS missiles(idk what they are though) were pretty effective and important. It’s on most front pages.

And in cases like these, I don’t think public opinion is that important? Imagine Japan being like, “yeah, China is doing stuff we disagree with in disputed territory, but people are really focused on Israel/Palestine and Russia/Ukraine… let’s just leave China alone out there, public’s not paying attention anyway.”

I hear that theory a lot(for different situations), but I imagine most governments can multitask.

I would probably try to find an exit to the conversation if you hit me with either of the rock/tree or Israel/Palestine conversation if I’m being honest.