For context, I don’t actually think that the sugar tariff wound up getting dropped, in fact, at least not fully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinley_Tariff

The Act removed tariffs on sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, and hides but authorized the President to reinstate the tariffs if the items were exported from countries that treated U.S. exports in a “reciprocally unequal and unreasonable” fashion. The idea was “to secure reciprocal trade” by allowing the executive branch to use the threat of reimposing tariffs as a means to get other countries to lower their tariffs on U.S. exports.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c13856/c13856.pdf

Table 6.4. The fate of reciprocity treaties, 1840–1911

1901, Russia, Senate rejects

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/candy-coated-cartel-time-kill-us-sugar-program#an-overview-of-u-s-sugar-policy

An Overview of U.S. Sugar Policy

Barriers to imports of sugar have been employed nearly since the republic’s founding; a tariff on the product was first passed in 1789. Duties remained in place almost continuously save for a four-year period from 1890 to 1894, but modern-day sugar protectionism can be traced back to the 1934 passage of the Jones-Costigan Amendment. This legislation, passed as an emergency measure to provide assistance to sugar farmers and later incorporated into the Sugar Act of 1937, had as its key provisions domestic production quotas, subsidies, tariffs, and import quotas, all designed to restrict sugar supplies and boost prices.

After posting an old Puck political cartoon in another comment, I thought I’d go take a look at the archive at the Library of Congress. They have high-resolution TIFF scans of a ton of them, so I thought I’d have fun skimming through them, maybe compress a couple of them as webp, and throw 'em up here.

Given that we’re arguing about the merits of tariffs today, just like back when McKinley was in office and doing his tariff thing, seemed germane.

Puck is an American humor magazine that ran until 1918; I’ve enjoyed some of its political cartoons before.

Through his online pseudonym, “White Tiger,” the suspect preyed on desperate children in online forums, including those discussing suicide, dpa reported. Investigators believe he exploited their vulnerabilities, forcing them to create pornographic and violent recordings where they injured themselves to the point of bleeding during live chats.

The man made recordings of the acts to keep as trophies, investigators said, and used them as leverage against the victims by threatening to publish them unless the children committed even more self-harm on camera.

The man is suspected of committing 120 crimes against eight victims, ages 11 to 15, who were from Germany, England, Canada and the U.S. Another of the victims, a 14-year-old Canadian girl, attempted to take her own life.

I don’t want to make any definitive statements until all the facts are in, but White Tiger seems like a bit of a dick.

If it’s a removable back cover, I wonder how hard it would be to have a third-party back cover…with a larger battery?

I’m skeptical about the Chinese state having anything to do with the Baltic cuts.

I could believe Russian intelligence maybe paying off some captain or other crewmember of a Chinese-flagged ship to drag an anchor.

But there’s no need for the Chinese state to be involved for that, any more than various European states were involved when Russian intelligence was paying people there to perform acts of arson. Like, China isn’t a hive mind.

And in the South China Sea, China doesn’t need any Russian involvement if it wants to cut cables. It’s not like there’s some special expertise that Russia has in severing cables.

Finally, while even actually accidental, as well as the risk of “accidental” cuts are a real problem, we still haven’t seen solid proof that any cut has been part of an intentional sabotage project. Speculation, yes, and a motive, yes, and some were very suspicious, but proof, not that I’m aware of. I realize that it’s hard to prove intent, but also important to keep perspective. The methods for countering accidental cuts, “accidental” cuts, and wartime cuts are probably going to be different, so assessing their relative risk accurately is gonna be important.

“HS2 has made Britain a laughing stock in terms of its ability to deliver big infrastructure projects, and it has to end. This will set out the way we will do that,” a source told the PA news agency.

Ten years back:

https://www.raconteur.net/project-management-2015/britains-most-successful-megaprojects

Infrastructure is not “the new rock ‘n’ roll”. However, if it were, then with a seminal project management playlist ranging from Heathrow Terminal 5, via the Olympic Park and Crossrail, on perhaps towards Thames Tideway Tunnel and the HS2 high-speed rail link, the best of British is fast becoming a greatest hits for the 21st century.

Recent project history has placed Britain in a unique position of global influence, according to Professor Andrew Davies at University College London’s Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. “Over the past decade or so, the UK has transformed the way megaprojects are delivered, moving away from a world of fixed-price contracts, risk transfer, lowest-cost tendering and adversarial relationships,” he says.

For Professor Davies, who specialises in the management of projects, the market has witnessed the emergence of a “flexible megaproject delivery model”, initiated by Heathrow’s T5.

“The UK has created an institutional environment for delivering megaprojects in a radically new way. The United States and many European countries are watching and learning,” he says.

I’m not entirely convinced that either the “everyone is sitting in awe at the feet of the master” or the “we’re a global laughingstock” statements about HS2 are quite true.

The advert shows a man with flowing hair involved in a car chase and crash that results in his and an identical, caramel-coloured car sandwiched on top of each other, like a Twix.

Five complaints issued against the advert said it encouraged dangerous driving and was irresponsible.

Now I know where those “This stunt is performed by a trained professional. Please do not try this at home” disclaimers come from.

Almost everyone in the US had an ancestor that immigrated not that long ago, and if people didn’t do it within at most a couple generations, you wouldn’t see anti-immigrant sentiment.

Puck political cartoon, January 11, 1893, “Looking Backward”:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3968c98b-d1ce-411d-9c96-7e8d9d81263f.jpeg

Caption:

They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.

c/amish on Lemmy.

You want !community@instance and it’ll make an appropriate link.

!amish@lemmy.world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Brands

In 2008, Robert Wang, Yi Qin, and one other friend, all former employees of Nortel in Ottawa, Canada, started working on designs for the Instant Pot.[4] Wang is credited as the inventor of the Instant Pot.

Apparently, the Instant Pot is out of Canada, interestingly enough.

The title is a bit click-baity.

Steam had a setting where it would only run Proton on games on which it had been verified to work. Some people would inadvertently flip this setting off. Now the setting is gone, so they can’t accidentally do this.

If your phone is Android, NewPipe is an open-source, third-party client that permits setting quality. It’s on F-Droid (the big open-source app repository) if you use that, and probably on Google Store as well.

Thanks.

EDIT: There isn’t an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.

I’m not really following video DRM, but my understanding is that Widevine won’t run in a VM with a virtualized video card like that.

It really depends on how one is applyng mods. Bethesda does have their own mod site and in-game support for modding, and that’s pretty straightforward (and the only option on consoles). That will limit what mods are available.

I do kind of wish that there were one cross-platform open-source universal “game mod” program that could support multiple online services. Would like to have Wabbajack-like functionality (apply a whole set of curated, tested-together mods) as a base too, as that’d lower the bar.

If you use Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video-quality/

We were also running transponders on tankers even when they were refueling aircraft around Ukraine (albeit in friendly airspace).

The refuelled aircraft (at least some of which were F-35s, if not all, as someone geolocated a picture during the conflict) were not running transponders, though (and in the case of the picture of the F-35, had the radar reflectors removed).

A few other stills that might help folks here, pulled down with yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC-2g7kIRWQ, and then frame-by-frame stills with mpv --start=1:20 --end=1:40 -vo image -ao null "Back to the DDR ｜ Browser Ballett [cC-2g7kIRWQ].mkv" .

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f697f543-0cd8-401c-a85a-3fda684b470f.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/88a2acc3-1e17-4c92-83b4-b452485a7a44.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/bde8302f-cba1-44dd-8f46-85f680f3e9b2.jpeg

Fair enough.

I mean, you don’t need anything; it’ll work with no flags. I have these:

$ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
--embed-subs
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--embed-thumbnail
--sponsorblock-mark=all
$

That’ll just embed some useful metadata in the file.