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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This hidden electricity drain can have a massive impact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Charron recommends starting with small steps like unplugging chargers for phones and other devices

  This is completely useless advice leftover from two decades ago. All of these chargers have been active power supplies for a long time, and use almost no power when not in use

  Meanwhile my coffee maker’s power button is on a touch screen? Who the eff designed that? How about yelling at corps to stop doing shit like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  if they could find you, they’d just come and get you

  I’m skeptical. I always believed they just have no incentive to try when it’s something’s small. And their supervisor has no incentive to spend anyone’s time for something’s small So they just file it away and they’ll grab you the next time you’re pulled over.

  Given laziness and capitalism, it’s plausible they don’t try

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they have more than one and you can’t avoid them all …. The press release says they will be able to trace your route on the property

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading the ring press release, I have to admit the features look useful. I wouldn’t mind a better way to know whether it’s someone I care about before I go check.

  They’re also coming out in December and there is not yet a way to disable that feature for privacy.

  For those who care about their own privacy walking down the street …. Unless houses are very tight to the street, you should be more concerned with the higher resolution models also being released. We did have an incident where police asked me if I would check the camera and not only could I not identify the person, it was hard to tell they were a person (the idiots said “oh that was us, based on jacket color”) but my point is that with the limited resolution of current cameras, no one is identifying you unless you get pretty close. And it’s much worse at night. The new high resolution models may change that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also quantity. Eating an orange is healthy. Drinking a glass of orange juice is like eating six oranges after removing the fiber

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Little Free Library is a group that promotes local access to books on a more micro level, to build a stronger community of readers across the world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the map, I see the one in my immediate neighborhood is not listed but there are two others within an easy walk!

  I’ll have to let them know

  I did always wonder what the goals and protocols were. Can I donate to one or respect their choices of content? Am I acting suspicious if I stand there to “browse the stacks” and see if there is anything that interests me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Little Free Library is a group that promotes local access to books on a more micro level, to build a stronger community of readers across the world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this once or twice but barring knowing the goal of the owner wasn’t sure if it’s appropriate to help restock.

  As a big example I believe many of these are lgbtq or diversity friendly but that can be controversial. It’s not my business to make a statement in your library: should I donate an lgbtq book? a western? Romantic? I have them all and support your goal, just need to know what it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone fact check this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Owls are librulz, they only want to escape the us, not return

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone fact check this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, which mountains are between the us and Europe again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the problem is some debt is necessary for large or expensive projects. Think of it as similar to your home mortgage: most of us could not buy a home without it. Similarly governments have large or multi year projects that can be difficult to pay as you go and make sense to take out debt.

  But everyone likes being Santa Clause , everyone likes bringing home the pork, and it’s a simple matter of writing a little more debt. No big deal.

  A traditional Republican position is that thinking is insane, it’s not fiscally responsible. We can’t afford that. It makes a lot of sense until you see what republicans actually tend to do. In today’s world I imagine some republicans still have some twisted concept of fiscal responsibility for kicking millions off healthcare, but it boggles the mind to use that plus take on additional debt to give tax cuts to the wealthy. That is very much NOT fiscally responsible. If there is anyone out there who still believes in traditional Republican positions, they should be ashamed of what it’s become

  A traditional Democrat position is we have human services and infrastructure that are important enough to write more debt. That sounds expensive, but again, think of it like that home mortgage: some things are important enough.

  Realistically, the cost of debt rises and falls with a country’s economy, so you can have unexpected results where additional debt causes business to increase, making debt cheaper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically there’s no ceiling and as the reserve currency the us used to have special place, but there are consequences, there is “too high”, there can be a spectacular crash when other countries and currency traders get worried about whether you can pay it back. It’s just not clear where that will be.

  US debt is now at proportions that has caused economic crashes in other countries. More importantly, payments toward that debt are now one of the biggest parts of the annual budget, making it tougher to afford other things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we have a static vintage web?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in my day, we created more complex html forms using bash on the server. None of this fancy pants modern stuff like Perl and fast-cgi. What’s js?

  Now get off my lawn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything reality is better off: many people do know various ways to keep their phones quiet but more importantly we use phones for much more than talking. Every time someone texts, so there is no ring, that might have been a call back then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hosting email just saved the day! My ex got locked out of her email account and password resets were blocked. However she still had one “home” email configured as a recovery address, so we were able to redirect it somewhere accessible and unlock her email account!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really not that bad a compromise, as far as bribes go. Some cheap gaudy bauble as payment for not interfering with billions of dollars in business?

  It’s still a bribe and it’s still encouraging mango mussolini, but very efficient tradeoff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe he’s a demented old racist bully who parrots back whatever his advisors say. Maybe he’s just a meat puppet that lets them run amuck.

  If that’s true and he were diagnosed, they would no longer have the figurehead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hydrogen's Big Year Continues With New California H2 Transit Project⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dont most people know that? I thought the promise is that you could establish a hydrogen infrastructure and it would get greener over time - similar to EV’s which get greener over time as power generation includes more renewables.

  Not that I’m that naive but I thought that was the claim. Realistically it looks like corporate welfare to let fossil fuel companies keep a stranglehold on energy. One of the most satisfying parts of owning an EV is thinking about all that industry that no longer needs to exist. It’s not just the drilling and refining and shipping and military support for oppressive regimes worldwide, but also huge amounts of polluting and profiteering infrastructure to store and distribute gasoline to every street corner. It can all go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There always places. I’m skeptical about saving significant money but what about graphical or story elements? I’m not too familiar with how games are built but ai can generate arbitrary “artwork” and even music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you’re right. I assume whatever is online is generally what you’d see in the store if you went there.

  However since pandemic I mostly stopped going to physical stores, except the grocery, so I guess I wouldn’t know. At the time it was the smart option but now it’s the convenient option…… while we all hate on Amazon, you can’t beat that same day delivery! Sometimes it can be faster to order online than to drive to a store

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was probably where he wielded a dangerous hammer sandwich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to know this too. We all know the issues with the current regime. It’s clearly the worst in our lifetime.

  But about if these issues may not have been apparent before the internet. There may be different corruption, different rubber stamps and hiding of corruption and crime

  As far as I can tell the current administration has cemented their place in history, with the sheer maliciousness and negative impact on the country and even the world. A Term which will live in infamy. Standing far below every other administration

  …. But will history agree?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is pathetic that you go to a place like target and there are 18 different keurigs, 1 Mr. Coffee, and that’s it. At least the Mr coffee isn’t wasteful. But I digress. It wouldn’t kill them to stock a French press or something though.

  Wait, the Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor. I know you’re on a roll here but searching target.com for French press returned 11 pages of results and at least the first page was like 18 different French presses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For example I’m all of the above

  • to keep things simple I use pods
  • when I want something nice I have a grinder at home
  • I do know at least a bit what makes good coffee the way I like it

  But also a grinder at the store may have unknown cleanliness as well as a mix of different styles and flavors and ages. If you care about good coffee, that’s not it.

  But yeah, that means there is so much I’ll never try because trying doesn’t justify buying a full bag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly that’s one of the biggest reasons I have a watch - my phone has been on vibrate for years but I don’t always notice it, however I always notice the watch vibrate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought this was an argument for properly racking everything. If it takes more effort, more time to remove, maybe they won’t bother.

  My understanding is that for most individuals, theft is mainly

  1. Targets of opportunity. Lock your door and make sure nothing expensive is visible
  2. Smash and Grab. The goal is to act fast and not care about what you break, so anything harder to smash (without tools) or that causes delay is good.

  I do have outside cameras but they’re not as useful as you’d think. Maybe they have some deterrent value but they’re not going to alert anyone fast enough unless they’re already in the house and you’re not going to identify anyone even if you catch a good shot of their face. If the do catch someone, perhaps the video is enough to say, yep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the best thing on the internet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Burritoius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for interrupting our discussion of zebras where everything is striped black or white, by reminding us they’re striped light gray and dark gray

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats something I wasn’t aware of, but clearly there are medical needs. I’m still confident that’s a small minority.

  You’re right that we need to stop trying to make things binary, like a blanket prohibition. But we should be able to just say no to casual use of single use plastic straws and the remaining exceptions are probably no big deal. It’s not the hundreds of thousands of medically useful single use plastic straws every day that are the problem. But the hundreds of millions of casual use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where you’re going? Out of the billions of straws used every day, you’re concerned about the edge case where it’s medically useful? By all means go for the plastic single use. Medicine is a huge user of that and there’s no realistic alternative. Hospitals and nursing homes get universal exemptions. It’s also a tiny fraction of single use plastic straw waste.