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- Comment on Make America Great! 2 days ago:
Historically separation of powers worked. We’ve never had such a naked power grab by the executive branch, so many illegal orders, ignoring the courts, a sycophant congress. Agency leaders were generally competent and tried to fulfill agency missions. There’s never been such blatant bribery, spite based action, conflict of interest, profiteering off government roles, insider trading. Previous administrations mostly followed the constitution.
Sure we have our share of unethical actions by the government but they generally stayed within the legal structure of the government and were somewhat accountable.
- Comment on Make America Great! 3 days ago:
As recently as 3 years ago I was inspired by huge investments in renewable energy and climate change, starting to work on a huge backlog of infrastructure work, there was hope for high speed rail, incentives to bring manufacturing back to the us, support for unions, we had an ethical fact-based government, the rule of law and primacy of the constitution, respected all people and were working on quality of life improvements ……
Remind me again why we voted to tear all that down?
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 3 days ago:
Even if your costs only break even, you’re building equity
Often the difference in profitability is whether you pay for a property manager or do the work yourself
I know a couple people who did it and made money, fwiw. They gave up so they didn’t have to deal with people
- Comment on Odd wiring in a 2-gang 6 days ago:
That option 2 wiring would be wrong for a dumb switch, so they’re relying on some sort of smartswitch behavior. I didn’t read too far into it but
- they specify only certain models for the virtual switch. Are you using one of those?
- those switches can pair directly with smart bulbs: was the old switch using those?
- the writing diagram assumes three colored wires on the traveler (black, white, red) however older wiring commonly used only two. Can you verify you have three?
- could you have lost some configuration on the switches when the power was disconnected?
- Comment on Engineers wanted: Mexico looks to join the global semiconductor race 1 week ago:
Good for them. They capitalized on car and other manufacturing, so why not chips? Once we get past this senseless personal trade war, it could be profitable to both sides of the border. Given the long lead time for chips, the timing might work out
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
One of the many problems is at least in the US, it tends to be used for fracking …… storing it under ground to pump more oil
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/…/9542766002/
wrong. Wind turbines recoup the energy required to build them within a year of normal operation
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 week ago:
Yeah, maybe I’m fooling myself but it really seems like hanging back more makes me have to do more sudden braking. Traffic seems smoothest when I’m close enough to discourage cut-ins …. Even if that means Im more at the mercy of traffic in front flowing down a bit
- Comment on cycle 1 week ago:
I should know the ‘/s’ is mandatory online but it was obvious enough in my head at least
- Comment on cycle 1 week ago:
Of course. What if she doesn’t have a man nearby to explain how she feels? Women need this
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 weeks ago:
It’s only a dumb question if you’re looking at all the people now. Birth rates across the board are declining and most developed countries are well below replacement. We’re just not noticing yet because people live like 80 years.
Most population projections have us peaking in 25-50 years, then population declines. That’s not all bad but how steeply does population decline and when does it stop? How does it impact economies, politics, who had influence and power. It looks like it could be steep and disruptive, with no prediction on when it will level off.
However if we start mitigating that, start encouraging people to have children, provide more support for raising children, give more hope to potential parents, working together for a brighter future consistently for the next 50 years perhaps we can manage the decline for least disruption. Perhaps we can find a sustainable population to level off at which is still big enough for today’s rapid advancements
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 weeks ago:
But we’ve usually made up for it with relatively high immigration, so we’re ok for now as long as we don’t screw with that ……
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 weeks ago:
But that’s the thing - it will take 50 years …. After we start.
Continuing to make it more of a challenge to raise kids is not an auspicious start
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 weeks ago:
Children also do disgusting things but they usually grow out of it, whereas a cat can be joking up hairballs its entire lufe
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 weeks ago:
It’s always economically viable, just a matter of tracking all the expenses and adding it to the child’s debt. As soon as it’s old enough to work you can garnish it’s wages for all that unpaid debt
- Comment on Kirkland strong 2 weeks ago:
Except Kirkland peanut butter is a miss. It tastes great but is mostly oil. Something like Teddys has a higher proportion of peanut solids
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 weeks ago:
the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day
So we can solve drug abuse by being nice?
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 weeks ago:
That would exclude Mulan
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 weeks ago:
The best kind f camouflage
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
I used to read analog clocks to the nearest five minutes. It’s just a quick glance and you (used to) rarely need to be that exact.
However my kids never got used to analog clocks despite an annoying number scattered throughout our house. It takes them too long to process what I mean by “quarter of”. They’re in college this year so it’s time to surrender in that battle. Now I’m the one who spends too much time reading analog clocks, trying to read them to nearest minute.
With digital clocks everywhere, gps exact trip times, scheduled meetings, society has gotten much more exact with time anyway. Being within five minutes is no longer good enough
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Similar here but in reverse
- macOSX on my work laptop
- windows n my home laptop
- raspbian and Ubuntu on my home servers
- but realistically most of my non-work activity is on iOS
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 weeks ago:
They’re welcome to say that, as long as their ruler doesn’t enter the political or policy arena and have the moral depravity to act despite a conflict of interest. As long as corporations don’t have undue influence on politics from lobbying or donations.
We don’t have to listen.
Our representatives should be representing us. …… alright alright you can stop laughing now
- Comment on A record-breaking antenna just deployed in space. Here’s what it will see 2 weeks ago:
Yet more cool tech from NASA, a great example of international cooperation with the fast rising India space Industry, to track information action vital to modern life on earth. A real contribution to humanity
Yeah, waiting for it to be shut down as “woke”
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 2 weeks ago:
Not Taylor Swift but my older kid is really into retro music devices. He has a Walkman, a separate tape recorder, a record player and a boom box, and buys vinyl and cassettes
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I have to say, I feel some regret for doing that to my kids. I understand it’s not really my choice and height is a shallow characteristic, but I’m 6’3” and my sons ended up 5’7” and 5’9”. Sure it’s about average but the one physical plus I could have given them, and I married someone 5’2”
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 2 weeks ago:
As a jet of energy, assuming you haven’t actually crossed the event horizon
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 2 weeks ago:
There’s also the difficulty of a identifying any originator, since “mythology” usually means many versions known by many people, and is typically an oral tradition before being printed
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but now it’s tiny compared to Antarctica
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 weeks ago:
Add data from this year.
From several sources, they passed peak carbon last year, and expect coal to peak this year or next and start declining.
Also consider during the time in those charts they went from a developing country to mostly developed with much higher standard of living. They achieved a century of economic progress in a couple decades while simultaneously rolling out renewable energy faster than anyone else
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 3 weeks ago:
Right. For example my browser did a perfectly cromulent job of translating what you just wrote into a language I can read …… unless you weren’t talking about a plot to take over the world