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- Comment on The use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight. 1 week ago:
The day actual doesn’t start at midnight. Officially the astronomical day starts at noon, when the sun is highest in the sky. This is exactly at opposite side, of the earth, of Meridian 0^ in Greenwich. So it is 12 midnight in Greenwich, and exactly 12 noon on the other side of the world. Midnight is the start of our what we consider a ‘day’, and high noon is what is traditional considered the start of the astronomical day.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 1 month ago:
Look at who they asked to return, such as air-traffic-controllers. Some fights they are losing.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 1 month ago:
Any important department will them to fuck off with the A.I., but Medicare patients will be stuck with it. It’s a slow moving disaster that any average person sees coming.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Roads that are too big, house that are too spread out.
Police because stores refuse to hire their own security and offload it to onto your property tax.
Sewers because dumb people are too stupid to compost properly, and now we need chemicals on farm fields since the traditional method of composting is dead.
Garbage trucks and landfills because companies sell you wrappers and containers that outlive the products and are made from toxic waste.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
You have to think more like Trump, LOL. The rich don’t pay any taxes through the use of loopholes. Why should you. Slum lords should be forced to pay taxes, not working class schmo that needs a roof over their heads. Tax the slum lords.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Top down education doesn’t work, that’s how we get stuck with schools that have massive IT budgets with little to show for them. Most teachers don’t use anything beyond spreadsheets and Youtube.
I don’t think that there is an easy fix.
I’d like to think local autonomy would help, so small communities could design their own curriculum, but I’m too much of a pessimist and see such experiments failing quickly because of corruption and incompetence. - Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 month ago:
The other issue is, nobody is trying to take on Facebook. Not really anything in the FLOSS community like it.