Amazon is responsible for the maintenance costs of the droids. Amazon is not responsible for the healthcare costs of the employees. That’s why.

The unit symbol should follow the quantity, as this is how it’s generally read and spoken. Just because it’s tradition doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.

I guess I could install Ventoy on the raspberry Pi’s SD card, but I prefer it to be bare, since the idea is to keep it simple.

So in a world where licenses become meaningless in the US, how should we proceed? I’m happy to “pirate” what used to be open since the source is available. Do we just try to anonymize developer identities and everything becomes “published in the EU” ;) , because that’s fine with me.

If a hypothesis is untestable, then it is a guess, and not scientific.

Primary every democrat.

“man” used to mean person, it was gender neutral. In fact the root “men” just meant “to think”, so a man could be any sapient being.

It was only changed several hundred years ago. “mankind” and other similar universals were meant to represent every human and became exclusionary only under patriarchal interpretation. “mankind” of course endures as universal, but we see lots of “firewoman”, “mailwoman”, etc., where the language becomes fundamentally gendered.

“the data are” also sounded odd to me when I first heard it. After practice it became fine. Now I see it as a green flag that someone may be scientifically literate.

Literally the poorest condition house would cost 100% of 8 years of take-home pay of my engineer salary where I live. That’s before accounting for loan interest on 20% down payment (I have 5%) which would push it up to 18 full years of my labor.

A single-family house is simply not worth 15+ years of my life, and I’m actively looking into cheaper options.

I saw it originally watching Simon Clark. Reviewing, it looks like the chart shown is actually a great example of a terrible graph; it uses 5 year periods then switches to 1 year periods without clear indication, making it look flatter than it would otherwise. If I adjust for this in a photo editor, emissions have barely slowed. I was misled, sorry for passing that on and thanks for questioning it.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?time=2000..latest&country=~OWID_WRL

Nazi salutes. He did it twice.

Some good news:

• emission rates have plateaued; we are still destroying the planet, but no longer accelerating the rate at which we do it
• Solar panels (unsubsidized) are the cheapest method of electricity generation as of 2022
• there is a fundamentally limited amount of fossil fuels, so as long as we don’t turn to Venus 2.0 by 2100 we will deplete most coal and oil and it will be possible for our ancestors to repair the planet over the following centuries.

Yeah I know even this “good news” is bleak, but it’s worth celebrating. There is some hope.

Reminder that Cable and Broadcast TV are the same quality now, so if you (or your parents) watch TV, you can set up a box that just connects to the HDMI port and captures everything. It even gets metadata so you can see what channel the best stuff is on, like PBS kids. Total cost is around 100-200$ and after that it’s free.

I gave a friend a raspberry pi a while ago and just this last week they asked me to come and set it up with Pihole for them. They’re very happy to not have ads on their TV anymore. The only hiccup has been that their network connected cat litterbox (lol) doesn’t tell them when the cat has pooped anymore.

Astrology daughter;

+less money lost to scams

+less likely to engage with bro culture

-more likely to engage with crystals, vibrations, homeopathy, etc…

+less cringe

An infinitely growing blockchain will inevitably fail by centralizing. Crypto-currencies as they exist today are doomed, but the protocols and tech created now may hopefully inform the design of something that is useful as a currency.

Also, high transaction fees make it useless for small (normal, everyday) amounts, so it can only be used as a store of value. It’s really more analogous to gold or a stock, with the one significant benefit that it’s harder to steal than gold and can’t be lost stolen institutionally.

horse_battery_staple has a more comprehensive comment than this one:

Yeah bitcoin is public, but anonymous (until the very first time you interact with some account in your name). Monero, in short, is like bitcoin but with washing is built into every transaction. It’s far, far from perfect (like all current crypto-currencies), but is a meaningful improvement over Bitcoin (it also supports higher transactions/second).

In my opinion, Bitcoin and Monero are the only crypto-currencies worth engaging with at this time. I haven’t looked into Etherium or Solana, mostly because the idea of ‘decentralized apps running on the chain’ seems like beyond ludicrous scope creep for the problem of ‘minimal trust currency’. The one thing they do right is the Proof of Stake transaction confirmation algorithm, which is much more energy (and CO2) efficient than Proof of Work as used by Bitcoin and Monero.

Yeah up until then I though he was a cool guy; real life iron man and whatnot. That baseless accusation was just so incredibly out of character it made me question his character, and then his later actions made me realize it was always just a character.

He’s levying tithes.

What did they do specifically? I’m trying to figure out how much longer i can still consider npr a reliable source.