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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't all the "illegals" or just some put a tracker on them that goes back to their spouse or something? That way we can go to whereever the place their held at a protest the shit out of it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your endgame here? That 1) some guy will be able to get a sizeable crowd of strangers to show up on their behalf AND 2) it will be enough that ICE will release that one person?

  There have been individuals drawing protestors already. Hasn’t done shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Candles are the percent gift. Of the receiver doesn't like them they can set them on fire and remove the problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I don’t like them it’s probably because it’s scented and makes my allergies go nuts 😟

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wordle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m missing half the point of the Fediverse, but we have !wordle@lemmy.world already. What do we need this new one for? Especially when this is in .world’s new communities community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe user replaceable phone batteries are making a comeback, but with the way my phone is pretty much sealed up I wouldn’t trust myself to not break it. I’d also be leery of a third-party replacement lithium battery of unknown quality (let’s be honest, that’s what you’ll probably end up with) charging right next to my head while I sleep. Saying that as someone whose friend had a lithium battery fire with her laptop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The elders of the Internet know who I am?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep my car charged to 80% to help with battery degradation, and here’s why:

  • Most days, I don’t use more than 30% of my battery capacity (roughly 75 miles/120km). Even that’s high. I don’t care if that means I go from 100%->70% or 80%-50% when I’ll charge back up again overnight

  • It’s not a permanent setting! If I do go on a longer trip, I’ll bring it back up to 100% and not sweat it!

  From what I’ve heard, charging beyond 80% increases the degradation rate, meaning time spent at that level is an important part of the equation. If I keep my phone plugged in overnight and at my desk, I have a lot of time at full charge that I’m not really using, but if I know I’m flying that day or running errands all day I can pop it up to 100% and it will be a non-degraded 100%

  I’ve had my S20 far longer than my car and never did limit its charge. It’s fine for me, but the battery is sure showing its age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when technology was fun and exciting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And honestly, some of them do just translate (more or less). Like España vs Spain, pretty much any Spanish word that starts with es(consonant) drops the leading e when translated to English (estado, estudiante escuela for state, student, and school). We also don’t have the same o/a suffices. So that leaves spañ, except I don’t think any Spanish word ends with ñ (it makes a “ny” sound to bridge with the next letter, for those who don’t know) and Spain comes pretty darn close.

  Not too mention that pronunciations and even alphabets are bound to change. Just how much do you want to stay authentic? Because if I start talking about عُمان (Google says that means Oman in Arabic, and looks about right from what I remember seeing on license plates there) I’m going to lose a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only see this comment since the parent was deleted, but… OP did write “interpretters” in the title, which is incorrect, which is kind of ironic in the context of the post’s topic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunlight special⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also not British… Boiled egg? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 21-23-year-old dating or sleeping with an older person doesn't automatically make the 21-23-year-old a "victim".⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So why are you putting in so much effort into multiple posts about people in their early 20s having sex?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly when I wrote that I had moments like “cellulose is in fruit, right? And that’s fiber?” and when I googled with neutral terms I mostly trusted Google’s AI slop 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought about that as I wrote it! I stand by what I said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is sugar, absolutely. And that’s probably where most of the calories come from. But there is also water, cellulose (fiber), and vitamins/minerals - doesn’t have much non-sugar caloric value to change that balance, but it’s still important. And nobody serious is suggesting you eat only fruit, so you can get non-sugar calories from other sources and it can be balanced in the big picture.

  It’s kind of like an appropriate amount of dressing on a salad, the good outweighs the bad and makes you more likely to actually eat that nutrition-positive food.

  Source: I’m some guy on the Internet. You can trust me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Allowed to? Sure, you’re well into adulthood and that’s not something you want to legally regulate between consenting adults.

  But from a societal norms perspective, the minimum age of “half your age plus seven” holds up pretty well. 34 year old dating a 24 year old? Sure! 44 year old dating a 24 year old? That gives me the ick, but I don’t think that should make it illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Christians see Jesus as kind of an honorary Christian, I suppose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have lots of questions about this, but I think I can answer them all with this one: how high are you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to use words like “unalive” and it’s still popular?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the best use of such a wide assortment of beans in one package?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I installed dimmable under cabinet lights during a remodel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it does look nice, but to be honest I think you could’ve gotten Ikea’s lights with the ZigBee-enabled controller (plus a dongle for your Home Assistant hardware if you don’t already have one) and used that. I did that, used a Home Assistant automation to match the brightness with another dimmable wall-controlled accent light in the kitchen (both of which I usually prefer full brightness on anyway) and it’s worked great so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially when you consider that big rewards are not offered when detectives can figure things out pretty easily. The ante goes up with severity and difficulty. I’m sure there was a reward for Osama bin Laden, but I wasn’t not turning him in because the reward was too small or I didn’t believe I’d get paid. I just didn’t know where the dude was, let alone how I could get him turned in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was kind of a meme that 2016 sucked. Then Trump got elected at the end and everything magically got better for everyone and we all lived happily ever after.

  (Do I really need to include the /s here?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  • they are cable-less, thus need to be charged separately

  I’ll give you that, but my bone conduction headset lasts a few days with the amount I use

  • they are cable-less, thus it is easier to lose them

  Meh. I’ve put corded earbuds in my pocket and probably worn them out faster that way. Bluetooth headsets I tend to leave on (much to my wife’s annoyance) and that makes them last longer in my experience.

  • bluetooth implementation is a potential security vulnerability

  Aha, that van outside must be tapping into me listening to The Dandy Warhols! I knew it! (In all seriousness, if security is that critical you probably shouldn’t be doing whatever it is over WiFi, which is pretty much unavoidable with a phone)

  • transmission by radio will always be less energy efficient than transmission by wire

  Are we really talking about saving energy here? That’s like… Moisture in the bucket levels. Not even a drop in the bucket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Choose a house with 1 extra room, courtesy of your WFH savings.

  You’re not totally off-base there

  An itemized cost paid straight by your employer will have the effect of encouraging them to waste less of your time with a commute.

  When WFH is an option. Where it isn’t (eg, the sandwich dude)…

  They might try to hire locally, might pay for moving expenses, might keep you out of rush hour traffic, might be worried about keeping you late such that now you’re driving on overtime, might actually align their concerns with the planet’s by reducing all the oil going literally up in flames to transport people around to do knowledge work in a cubicle.

  I have a really hard time seeing this actually happening in practice, especially on low-level jobs. Or people who live with their family (of whom others work elsewhere). Or when you say “hire locally” I say “can’t get a damn job in my field because I don’t live nearby and moving would take my wife away from her job”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, any law is only as good as people following it (and enforcement for violations)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jail rosters are generally public information. I live in a fairly blue state with a lot of prisons (Colorado) and can look up any prisoner in the state system online.

  Part of the thinking is that if it were secretive, the government could just disappear people (rightfully a concern with ICE right now) without anyone knowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From a financial perspective, and IF one does make significantly more, I guess maybe.

  From a relationship perspective, using my 2x 30 minute commutes for workplaces an hour apart example, if I had to take two additional hours out of my day away from home every work day, while my partner had to take 2 minutes… Woof. Even if there’s a perfectly logical financial reason that’s hard not to feel resentment over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re talking about giant differences in location (cross-country) which, of course, would need some hard decisions to be made. I’m talking about realistic compromises that may have to be made between a couple with very different work locations in the same general area. When I talked about Lincoln vs Omaha, NE, those two cities are an hour apart. But could be a 30-minute commute in opposite directions for each. Maybe one person works in downtown Chicago, while the other works in the O’Hare airport. Maybe people work in two different boroughs of NYC. If the employer incentived an employee to live nearby, what about their family who works across town? Things crumble apart with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming in hot with my personal financial situation, eh? Nice. For what it’s worth a major reason I was able to buy the home I have is because we’ve been here over a decade - bought just as the crash started to recover. The last thing I want to do is take a “fuck you, I’ve got mine” attitude but that doesn’t mean I can’t point out giant issues with ideas people are coming up with. You’re welcome to pick apart those arguments, but if you feel the need to go after me personally instead, maybe you should think about why that is.

  Like when you bring up taking location into account for an office location. I live on one side of the metro area, many of my coworkers live elsewhere. Take a company with enough people working somewhere, and their “average” location will probably end up near the middle of the city - more than likely a downtown area. Which brings us right back to where we started.

  What’s more, everything you say may theoretically work for one person going to one workplace from one home. What about a married couple who work in entirely different places? If one person has a job in (for example) Omaha, NE and the other in Lincoln, that couple could conceivably live in between those two cities and each have a sorta long but doable commute. If a company were to “provide a benefit like a subsidized loan for property closer to the work” (you mean like a mortgage?) that would not only be insane for that random shop with 3 employees (not all business owners are automatically in the <1%) but it would put that employee’s partner at a disadvantage by making them have a longer commute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I’m talking about different things: paying for commute times for jobs that could be done at home, and paying for commute times in general.