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- Comment on Best Accessories (or Mods) for Meshtastic Nodes 2 months ago:
Explain Like I’m Five
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
There’s another factor here. People who are vegan, sober, poly, don’t drive, and any number of choices are breaking societal norms. Most people don’t even think about these things as choices. They do the default. Realizing that there’s a choice, and that this person decided not to do the default, puts people off. It makes them uncomfortable. They begin to question things they’ve never had to evaluate.
- Comment on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android 6 months ago:
That’s why I stopped using Google a few years ago. I moved to ddg and liked it pretty well. I switched to kagi earlier this year and it’s going pretty well. I still run into some captchas that refuse to let me pass. I usually just turn around at that point
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
Dams are scary too, I just hope people are able to decommission them slowly when the time comes. Otherwise the deluge is going to suck.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 months ago:
Looks like you can do it manually. Build your own Google flavor …stackexchange.com/…/how-to-filter-out-a-long-lis…
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
One of the easiest ways to resolve this problem is artificially increasing supply. The government can subsidize the production of food, housing, medical care, and education. It doesn’t matter if people have more money if the supply of a good is always high. Having the government be a provider of these goods in monopolistic of inelastic markets would also be a good idea.
I don’t think UBI should be implemented tomorrow. Subsidizing things today would be a much better first step. Several years of increasing supply and then starting UBI is a better bet.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Yes, except a heat pump is capable of being more than 100% efficient because the using the power to move heat around is more efficient than converting power directly to heat
- Comment on How do conspiracy theorists get all of their coveted secret government information if it's meant to be hidden and the government would never hand it over? 8 months ago:
Thanks took me 3 rereads to find the typo 😅
- Comment on How do conspiracy theorists get all of their coveted secret government information if it's meant to be hidden and the government would never hand it over? 8 months ago:
One thing Alex Jones does is parrot things a caller said several episodes ago. He’ll vaguely talk about sources, shuffle some paper around for dramatic effect and claim that nobody died at Sandy Hook.
Lots of other folks do a similar thing. They will say something innocuous that some of their audience will construe to be rightwing or part of a conspiracy and praise them for it. From there they get pulled more and more into whatever ideology as their audience pills them harder and harder.
Plenty of Q anon folks claim movies and TV have secret messages in them. There are a bunch of theories about why fiction is partially true. One is, all these stories are priming the population for social control. Cultiral programming of some sort.
Another is the Bible. The flat earth conspiracy theory is based on a particularly literal reading of the Bible. The writers of the Torah probably believed in a flat earth. This isn’t surprising given their lack of sea faring history, most folks with large boats realize the earth is flat because the bottom of the boat disappears first. Plenty of flat earthers believe that society is trying to hide that fact so we don’t realize we live in a divinely created snow globe. From there they concoct theories on how such a world could exist.
- Comment on Councils call for pavement parking to be banned across England 9 months ago:
Taking space used for cars and giving it to cyclist does actually make everyone’s life better, even drivers. You get less pollution, traffic, medical cost to the NHS, pedestrian deaths, and infrastructure costs.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 9 months ago:
You can get a lot of rice and beans for 75 dollars. Definitely sounds like a rough week tho
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 9 months ago:
Mirror for folks on voyager: web.archive.org/…/commercial-real-estate-banking-…
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 9 months ago:
Freedom is a Verb by Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird is a favorite of mine
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 9 months ago:
I’ve seen the LTT video on that. Trouble is I’d need a computer to power it since my work computer struggles as it is. I work from home and the office and being able to use it in both environments would be helpful. Base stations are a pain in the ass to setup when you want to switch location a couple times a week.
One of the standalone headsets make a lot more sense for my use case. I’ve been thinking about getting a quest 3 but I need to use one to see if the fidelity is good enough. I wish there was a linux based headset I could tinker with but the VR market is still young. Hopefully Valve will pull a steam deck in VR.
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 9 months ago:
Admitably I have too much money, but I might buy one of these in a few years as a monitor replacement. Depends on how good it is and how good the alternatives are
- Comment on Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? 9 months ago:
Joke aside, looks like they’re using a higher bandwidth of light, 222nm compared to more common 254nm uv for medical uses. It doesn’t penetrate the skin or eyes sufficiently to cause damage.