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KazuyaDarklight ,
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Just put it in orbit! Let's commit and put a ring on this planet!

KazuyaDarklight , (edited )
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At scale the US system has too many layers of abstraction. We are not a direct democracy once you pass the small scale elections you mentioned. Those abstractions combined with first around the goalpost winning makes it so statistically the chance of third party success rounds to 0. So if you vote 3rd party in a major election when you otherwise would have voted Biden then you helped Trump because that 3rd party vote's only impact on the election was to reduce Biden's total by 1.

The only chance 3rd party has of gaining ground is if we switched to ranked choice voting as this would allow people to realistically gauge and react to support for 3rd parties without aiding the major party they dislike in the meantime.

Also need to ditch the Electoral College as it is the worst of our voting abstractions that is only amplified by gerrymandering.

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Painfully believable.

How do you connect with people and make friends without social media?

I'm struggling to figure out how to make friends without having Instagram or any other social media. I have discord but don't use it much. I see all my acquaintances in discord channels and sharing Instagram posts and stuff. It's already hard for me to make friends, but I feel like not having any of the traditional social media...

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Meetup.com, search some interests, find some groups, go to some events, talk to people and slowly build those connections with those that you click with. Or all that via more general web searching, meetup is just a convenient hub.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Don't forget your training wrench! 🔧

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Just give them a bit, they're lagging on the whole AI thing right now but they'll catch up.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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But it kind of sucks compared to the competition, thus they are lagging.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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The heart of what you're saying is right, but it isn't 1.99, it's 1.99x whatever their expected ussage/power/maintenance metrics are.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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It's going to sound like I'm defending them in some way, which I'm really not because the whole thing is stupid, but they're not charging for the drinking fountain they're charging for the cold filtered water, which is going to incur some kind of power and maintenance cost that's while negligible at scale is beyond the norm. Room temperature tap water is still free here.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Refrigerant and filter systems need to be powered, replaced and maintained, that DOES cost money. What math, if any of substance, was applied on top of that cost to reach the subscription price is debatable. Though perhaps ironically, if they didn't expect many people to actually bite, then the cost per user would end up being abnormally high.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Obviously it isn't, if it was there wouldn't be a user facing cost. The fact this is a private venture basically proves that wherever this is, the municipality or building owner is only committed to providing tap water (which we see here is "free") the cost is for the extra, private, infrastructure that has been added in order to provide cold filtered water. If you aren't US, I'll note that municipal water treatment and filtering vs the more "Britta" level implied here are entirely different and very much a thing for some people.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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PRTG maybe? It's free for 100 sensors.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Sorry didn't realize you were trying to connect the systems you mentioned, I thought this was a unified approach instead of them.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Like the title says, it's meant to be a Tumblr-esque experience.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Yeah, maybe I'm the one getting wooshed here, but that seems like the perfect picture for this article. Seems intentional and entirely appropriate.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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I went to a well air conditioned one of these and surprisingly I don't remember it being a big deal. Looking how people are dressed here though.... probably rough.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Same

KazuyaDarklight ,
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I mean, if the ones out to get them are sneaky or fast enough, the cop doesn't have the chance to fire their gun. ;P

KazuyaDarklight ,
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They're rampant! But we live in silent fear since no one can see them. 😔

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Don't forget Libro.fm for audiobooks, maybe I'm misinformed, but I thought they were one of the stronger competitors at least in terms of completeness of selection.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Depending on the size, I've absolutely gotten small versions of these bits in IT/Electronics repair kits.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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I keep seeing Pop!_OS brought up for gaming.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Had a comp sci teacher do a decent job making an argument for the 3-in-1 as our limited three-dimensional interpretation of a multi-dimensional (4+) being. A multi-dimensional existence is going to interact with our three-dimensional world in ways that are impossible to interpret holistically since it extends into and is connected through dimensions that don't exist for us. Like a tesseract, we have visual representations of tesseracts but they aren't what a tesseract would actually look like if one appeared in front of you one day.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Why would you put red text on a red background like this?

KazuyaDarklight ,
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It's a cost but if you wanted to have a pond without making things worse for yourself these may help https://www.lowes.com/pd/Mosquito-Dunks-6-Count-Natural-Mosquito-Killer-6-Pack/3047384

It releases a bacteria toxic to early stage mosquito larve but doesn't effect larger life.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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I'm CIS white dude who is rapidly approaching 40, I really enjoyed it overall.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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But that would be creationism? Pastafarian Creationism.

Do I need a new phone for 2FA? (Tad Long)

So recently my work, a mid sized engineering firm, decided to start upgrading their IT security. The rumor is that we have potential DOD work coming our way. Over the past few months there has been multiple company decided changes to our 2 factor authentication mobile app. I willingly installed the app on my phone over a year...

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That might just be the default though, they had sms until this change, so TOTP may still be on the table.

Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? ( carlnewton.github.io )

Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you...

KazuyaDarklight , (edited )
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So basically "NextDoor: Fediverse Edition".

I'm not against but I think uptake will be difficult because, depending on your starting region you may be competing with an established product and because there is a heavy venn overlap between people who care about decentralization and those who care about privacy and wouldn't want an app tracking and to some degree giving away their location.

(Clarity Edit: I have a cold, my ending was guessable , but technically gibberish.)

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Ok, but the space agency in charge is...still NASA. These aren't American astronauts doing a ride-along on a Japanese mission, it's literally the opposite.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Primary "workspace", comms, docs/reading/reference data.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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"Or life skills", says the people who actively avoided Home Ec.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Oh you mean that other completely artificial limitation that Apple insists on having in their os?

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Good to hear for the authors and they deserve more pay, but somewhat to that end I will nitpick that the average cost of credits, or income that Amazon is getting for them, has increased a little over the last couple years in that they have reduced the discounting applied to the bigger yearly credit packs.

So someone on the 24 credit/year plan is paying closer to the monthly price per credit than they used to, meaning Amazon is receiving more money on average than they used to.

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Libro also let's you attribute some fraction of your purchase/sub to a local bookstore.

KazuyaDarklight ,
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Mazel Tough!

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To combat chatGPT generated books on the kindle store, Amazon only allows users to publish 3 books ~ per day.

What the fuck kind of human author is publishing 3 BOOKS A DAY.

The image shows a Kindle e-reader displaying a page of text, likely from a book, with a portion of the text visible in a non-English language. Overlaid on the image are two text boxes with stylized red backgrounds and white lettering. The top text box says, "To combat chatGPT generated books on the kindle store, Amazon only allows users to publish 3 books ~per day." The second text box sarcastically says, "You know, a totally normal human output," accompanied by a rolling eyes emoji. There is also a graphic of a skeletal hand with a pink hue pointing towards the text boxes, adding emphasis to the message being conveyed about the volume of publication and questioning its normalcy.
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    • KazuyaDarklight ,
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    Fair-ish, but at the same time I'm hard pressed to imagine how the still insane but also still more reasonable 1 a day would meaningfully put someone in a bind. It's going to take me a whole month to publish these 30 books I've been sitting on, my career as an author is ruined.

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    Please seek psychiatric assistance immediately.

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    Irony, lol.

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    At least the NASA hires were all "former" nazis, rather than actively practicing. (At least on paper, I'm not actively aware of anyone continuing to be terrible after jumping to the US.)

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    Every barrier that slows down attacks a little is worth it when you are trying to buy time so people can apply emergency updates. It's not about stopping them from ever figuring it out.

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    But do the costs really matter if you never pay your bills?

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    "Man, shells sure are easier to find these days, I'm a lucky crab to live in this age of plenty."

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    Remember the rule, if the article title is a question, the answer is most likely "No".

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    No one's doing this kind of work on their android phone, so you're argument is pedantic at best in this context.

    Moms for Liberty school board member busted for shoplifting from Target ( www.rawstory.com )

    A right-wing Tennessee school board member backed by the Moms for Liberty group has been arrested on shoplifting charges.Keri Blair, who was elected in November 2022 following a campaign against tolerant "social agendas," is accused of stealing items from Target seven times between Nov. 25 and Dec. ...

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    This is one of the spots where I wonder if the whole "If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't." thing breaks down a bit.

    KazuyaDarklight ,
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    The rest of your reply chain, and seeing past iterations of such conversations, is exactly why I didn't specify. You'll find some versions of this conversation can go pretty far down the path of "you don't know other people's struggles" and "poor women deserve to feel like they look nice sometimes".

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    While I'm told such places exist, I have yet to knowingly interact with a business officially doing this for employee computers.

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