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- Comment on A good tool? 15 hours ago:
Hmmm… wait a minute I have nightmares about this one - JDE
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 week ago:
A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 weeks ago:
B. oleracea gets all the fame.
B. rapa never gets the respect it should.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_rapa
Bok Choi
Bomdong
Choy sum
Komatsuna
Mizuna
Napa Cabbage
Rapini
Tatsoi
Turnip
Yellow Sarson
Oil seed Mustard
- Comment on U.S. Wine Exports to Canada Have Plummeted 97% 2 weeks ago:
It has been declining rapidly for the last year. I know some vineyards that are not planning on harvesting this fall as there is no place to put this years production.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 2 weeks ago:
Some?
Never met one I would consider intelligent. They tend to excel at being related to people who own the company or kissing ass. Neither of of which takes that much brains.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
Leave a USB drive in a drawer for a couple of years and you can prove this one at home.
That’s why my backup drive is an old spinny hard drive.
- Comment on What can be wrong with our Monstera? 2 weeks ago:
You are watering it way too much. Monsteras need to need be soaked then allowed to completely dry out between waterings.
A larger pot allows for less frequent waterings. I only water mine monthly in the summer. Every 2-3 months in the winter.
They need fertilizer especially when putting out leaves. Yours is showing nitrogen deficiency. It’s a bit of a weird expression but monsteras are unique.
Light levels - they do best with 3-4 hours of direct sunlight every day. Generally it’s best to have those hours in the morning or evening.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 2 weeks ago:
Heres the whole picture that I took with my cheap point and shoot camera I carried around.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 2 weeks ago:
The watermelon picture. It’s crunchy red.
- Comment on ‘Not what our roads are built for’: Trump’s hope to see more US cars in Tokyo, London is a hard sell 2 weeks ago:
They don’t fit on U.S. streets either. The crew cab, extra long bed vehicles are over 22’ long and over 8’ wide with mirrors.
They can’t park in a regular parking spot of 9’ x 18’. They don’t fit in an minimum parking space size of 8’x16’
Their turning radius with a wheelbase of over 14’ puts them on par with small box trucks. They are difficult to drive, heavy and rarely used for the purposes they are designed for.
I drive one for work but it’s the smallest vehicle I could find that would fit my needs. I am one of the very small minority that actually use it for what it’s designed for, towing, off-road, hauling stuff in the back etc… Then I get home, park it and drive my wife’s small SUV around. It’s so much easier and nicer to drive.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 2 weeks ago:
It’s always fun when that one pops up.
Seedless watermelon against catholics -
I took that picture.
- Comment on Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows 3 weeks ago:
The bug riddled bullshit they lauch with is never worth what they expect people to pay. I don’t even buy games anymore until they are 3-5 years old. By then it’s usually getting close to an acceptable finished product.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
That’s why I have it uploaded to a cloud service but I have the entire collection backed up on my phone, 3 computers and a few miscellaneous SD cards.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
Having a collection of music in files that I own has been my go-to for years. Currently VLC says I have 701 hours of music in files on my phone. That’s only 29.2 days worth.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 3 weeks ago:
By default I always turn off the location setting on the camera. I disabled it as soon as they introduced it as a “feature”. I thought it was creepy as fuck and dangerous. Without the location most of the rest of the information is pretty benign.
For example her is the full metadata from a picture I took yesterday.
Aperture: 182/100 Date: 2025-07-30 15:40:26 Date digitized: 2025-07-30 15:40:26 Original date: 2025-07-30 15:40:26 Digital zoom: 1.0 Exposure bias: 0/6 Exposure mode: Auto Exposure program: Normal Exposure time: 4.7824007651841227E-4 sec. Flash: Off Focal length: 5590/1000 35mm focal length: 24 F-number: 1.8 Image width: 2304 Image length: 4096 Lens model: OnePlus 13R back camera >5.59mm f/1.9 Light source: D65 Camera make: OnePlus Camera model: OnePlus 13R Camera maker note: {“PiFlag”:“0”,“nightFlag”:“4”,“nightMode”: “-1”,“asdOut”: [“0”],“apsAsdOut”: [“1”],“apsAsdClsOut”: [“1”, “0”],“iso”: “286”,“expTime”: “0”,“fType”:“50”,“bkMode”:“0”,“aideblur”:“0”,“aisState”:“8”,“algo”: [“65,72,16,19”],“filter”: “:-1”} Lens max aperture: 182/100 Metering mode: Center weight average Orientation: Normal Photographic sensitivity: 80 X dimension: 2304 Y dimension: 4096 Scene capture type: Standard Scene type: Directly photographed User comment: oplus_2097184 White balance: Auto
The only thing they would get is the model of phone I use. Which is essentially public information for every app maker I have installed on my phone anyways.
- Comment on parking 1 month ago:
It’s a storm runoff ditch. They are about 20-30cm wide and 0.5-1m deep.
Gotta pay attention when walking around them.
- Comment on M'ananas 1 month ago:
- Comment on parking 1 month ago:
It is an old Soviet design. Many countries in the old Soviet block states have this. I just about did a one legger down them a couple times in Uzbekistan.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 1 month ago:
No that never happens /S
I used to work with a supplier that hired a former Monsanto executive as their CEO. When his first agenda came out I told their sales team them they were idiots to have fun looking for a new job a few months.
The CEO bailed after 2 years to start his own “consulting business.”
1 year later the company lost 75% of their market share and was laying off people left and right. They are still afloat barely.
After a couple years “consulting”, the CEO went to another company in 2023. He didn’t bounce fast enough and got caught on this one. He was fired 2 weeks ago and the company shut their doors except for a handful of staff to facilitate the firesale of the companies assets.
- Comment on Hey.. 1 month ago:
For me, stopping, getting out, and getting some coffee wakes me up for 2-3 hours. I also listen to audiobooks as I drive to keep my brain working. A good engaging story is better than a nap for me.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 1 month ago:
The court’s decision also introduced the concept of systemic failure, which holds providers liable when they fail to adopt preventive measures or remove illegal content. Now, platforms will be expected to establish self-regulation policies, ensure transparency in their procedures, and adopt standardized practices.
Pretty sure this would cover Lemmy and most traditional forums as long as they have a written policy and standards that are consistently enforced.
- Comment on The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 2 months ago:
In 2025 it would be anything above 3.6 million. It’s a ton of money but here’s a list of a few people that hit it.
aflcio.org/paywatch/highest-paid-ceos
Now if they added in a progressive tax rate for corporate taxes as well… Say anything over 500 million in net profit is taxed at a 90+% rate. That would solve all sorts of issues. Suddenly investors of all these mega corps would be pushing hard to divide up the companies into smaller entities.
Wealth tax in the modern age could be an inheritance tax. Anything over the median life earnings of individuals could be taxed at 100%. So median earnings in my area is $65K * 45 years (20-65k) = $2.93 million.
- Comment on The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 2 months ago:
Taxes can go either way. It depends on how they were written.
The tax code after the Great Depression allowed for massive expansion of public projects in the U.S. It was 63% for the top earners. During WW2 the top tax bracket was at 94%.
When the boomers were all born the tax bracket was above 70% for the top earners. This high tax bracket is what fueled the creation of a large middle class, public infrastructure, schools, research, space exploration, and the massive military buildup and wars. It also acted as an effective anti-minopoly/oligarchy system because the tax system discouraged it.
Then in the 80’s Reagan slashed the taxes for the top earners down to 28%. its never gotten above 40% since then. Most high earning companies have so many exeptions today that the real tax rate is often 0%.
Because of it the infrastructure built during the 50’s-70’s is degrading and falling apart. Public services are declining and the middle class is shrinking as people become more impoverished.
- Comment on Frigging peas 🫛 2 months ago:
sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esw058
He did a little massaging of the data.
- Comment on The history of societal collapses are all just examples of Universe 25 2 months ago:
Now I want to see human population density compared to birthrate 25 years later for regions with a current sub-replacement birthrate.
“Losing the social skills required to mate” sounds like many people I know.
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 2 months ago:
Barrels were reused until they could no longer be repaired or salvaged. Cooper’s had steady guaranteed work for their skills.
Consumption was mostly at the public houses/taverns for the lower/middle classes.
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 2 months ago:
Well your going to wish you weren’t so curious with this one. Source of this information: several museum visits around 30 years ago after a pint or three, so the info might be warped.
Gin is a double-distilled 40% or higher spirit flavored with juniper + other flavors.
The source of the alcohol was any carbohydrate or starch source. Whatever was cheapest. It was mostly wheat and barley at the time but just about anything else cheap could be used like rye, turnips, etc. For the cheapest rotgut the ingredients was stuff considered unfit for animal feed (rodent feces, insect damage, molds, water damage, etc).
Since their ingredients were highly questionable, their input cost was minimal. Heating was from coal. They also started making larger batches which further reduced down the cost.
Logistics - Canals at this time period was the most important logistic. One donkey pulling a barge could move as much as 50 wagons. Tons of goods were transported cheaply and efficiently on the barges. The gin was shipped in casks/barrels like beer/ale. Bottles were very expensive and reserved for the elite.
Public sanitation consisted of a gutter on the side of the road. The entire city smelled like the open sewer it was.
The gin was not served in bottles. It was served like beer or ale into cups/mugs/communal tankards etc … mostly earthenware, leather or wood.
- Comment on My little guy I have had for 3 decades now. 3 months ago:
Naw I have to keep him small to fit in the space. Eventually I want a house where I can let my poor little guy to grow up big.
- Comment on My little guy I have had for 3 decades now. 3 months ago:
Water + evaporation + water collection tray = salt buildup. Depending on the water source it can take decades or a few months. It’s one of the top reasons not to use softened water on houseplants. The addition of sodium can mess them up quickly.
It’s pretty easy to remove however. I haul the plant outside and run around 50 gallons through the pot in a day or so. You can do the same thing in a bathtub for smaller plants. After leaching the pot always fertilize the plant.
- Comment on My little guy I have had for 3 decades now. 3 months ago:
They just need something to lean against. It’s leaning against the window. Since I never rotate it, it does just fine.
