Notices by rhua (dzaefn@mastodon.mit.edu), page 6

I'm glad the movement to boycott hotels owned by Brunei is gaining speed.

I wish people remember, though: Saudi Arabia has been executing homosexuals all this time (and this is by no means the only egregious thing about Saudi Arabia), and the United States has way more ties with Saudi Arabia. Fight those ties too!

TIL Pizza Hut once sued Papa John's for false advertising in claiming "Better Ingredients. Better Pizza."

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1193659.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/07/africa/south-africa-rhino-poacher-eaten/index.html

Elephants and lions, please continue your good work against humans that hunt endangered species.

One's religion does not entitle one to special treatment.

In a true secular state, "religious exemption" is a non-concept.

@betaveros Okay, this is definitely not useless.

Is it just me, or have YouTube comments gotten substantially less toxic recently?

(Major thanks to belzner for causing me to be aware of this.)

>RFC-69 is “Distribution List Change for M.I.T.” It is authored by Abhay Bhusan on September 22nd, 1970. The technical content

>> Please delete my name from your distribution list and add that of Mr. Albert Vezza.

>Analysis

>Recall that the RFC series is an academic mailing list, but before email existed. This is all done via the postal service. I think what we have here is literally the first instance of an internet person doing a reply-all saying “please remove me from your list”.

>Nice.

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-69

I want to see someone announce weather like a sports announcer.

> sees YouTube video titled "Living off the Grid in Paradise"
> checks date of video
> okay, greater than 4 months old

The first Super Smash Bros. had 12 playable characters, so I suppose the Democratic primary field is aiming at least for Melee-size.

Reminder: To become a billionaire by age 80, you would've needed to earn $34246 each day of your life (including as a child, and days off). So if you believe in meritocracy and you earn $342 a day, you're going to need to believe it's possible to work 100 times as hard as you do for the existence of billionaires to be justified.

Facebook has been given enough chances, and has shown that their words of apology mean nothing as they fail people time and time again.

#DeathToFacebook

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/tech/facebook-password-database/index.html

https://zyxyvy.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/automation-creating-other-jobs-rather-than-just-taking-away-jobs-is-not-a-good-argument-against-ubi/

Joe Biden supported the Iraq War.

Bernie Sanders was against it.

The US still has a college named after (a town named after) Jeffrey Amherst, the proponent of smallpox blankets against Native Americans.