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Powderhorn , 18 hours ago

That is a uniquely awesome hed. And only strengthens my belief that 404 Media is going to make corporate journalism wish that they'd not shit the bed to the extent that viable alternative options sprang up.

Powderhorn , 2 days ago

Here's the original Rolling Stone report

I didn't hit a paywall, but here's an archive link in case that's my Firefox extensions.

Powderhorn OP , 3 days ago

Quick reminder that you are on Beehaw. There's only one rule here, and this sort of dismissive take does not adhere to it. Please find something substantive to dismiss.

Powderhorn OP , 18 hours ago

This is an underrepresented viewpoint. We are at the point of "find out," which so many tech companies thought they could stay just to the other side of the line on. Thing is, you can only move the goalposts so often before they're in someone's yard, and they didn't sign up for this shit.

It was OneDrive upgrade nagging that made me switch to Linux. Microsoft could have, you know, not done that and kept a user. They also could have not gone regressive with how the taskbar functions. Or any number of other things that were dismissive of users.

At a certain point, you're sitting in ever warmer water in the pot, and it occurs that maybe you're being turned into food. That's when the Linux pots start looking appealing. This was a completely avoidable problem brought to you by greed.

Greed! Because we don't think making a good product is what capitalism is about.

Powderhorn , 4 days ago

I have to respect the restraint the retired judge showed here. I don't find it appropriate, but it's professional, unlike Cannon.

Powderhorn , 5 days ago

And you would be ... 🤣

I do kid. I enjoy that we have the options to dive into the deep end elsewhere or just hang out in a space where bullshit is quickly quashed. I'm here for discussion and to be active in ensuring this is a place I never find myself regretting joining.

Is it what everyone wants? Of course not, but that was never the intent of Beehaw to my knowledge. I'm glad you're happy here and hope you continue to feel that way. And, you know what? Fuck anyone who tells you not to be happy with what you have. This is not Beehaw- or Lemmy-specific, this is life. Never let anyone else bring you down for what you're comfortable with.

Powderhorn , 5 days ago

I've done the same and feel the same way. I'm still active on Reddit because I want to be an active part of helping people who have questions. I don't feel the larger Lemmy community wants that so much as to complain about things. I certainly have things to complain about in life, but I don't feel it's healthy for me to engage with spaces that are going to cause more issues than they resolve.

Powderhorn , 6 days ago

Has there ever been a left-wing austerity programme? This is anti-labour bullshit every fucking time.

Powderhorn , 4 days ago

Which is particularly acute in the case of Argentina.

Powderhorn OP Mod , 6 days ago

The only anchors I've spent any time with were at WHSV, and this was 2002. Remarkably normal people, but as journalists, they knew how to party. Still not a Sinclair outlet, so I guess there's that.

Powderhorn , 9 days ago

It's an investment problem. No one is doing scalable wave power because the money is in offshore wind.

Powderhorn , 10 days ago

I wish to be very clear that fission could have solved a lot 40 years ago, but it currently does not help.

I'm working on a fusion story where all involved know we're just 30 years out. Not sure yet where that story is going, but Georgia's experience didn't help matters because people hear "nuclear," and at that point, we have Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other such nice things. Overbudget and really late doesn't help matters. (For a fun time, check out Palo Verde.) While there was more outrage in Germany over nuclear, if you grew up in Phoenix in the '80s, Palo Verde was shorthand for poor execution.

Enhanced geothermal is the answer here. I'd like to think we can figure out fusion, but it's one of those things where we're trying to harness the power of stars, and we are not Type II. Cart, horse.

Yes, fission is preferable to coal, but that's a low bar. We need renewables that can perform when it's neither sunny nor windy, and this is where EGS makes sense. I expect we will see more investment in wave power, but that's also likely decades off, with desalinization being part and parcel, and that has its own waste problems.

This revolutionizes nothing. It's old tech trying to address new problems, and short of the wheel, this generally goes poorly. I do want to say I think Gates has his heart in the right place, and, you know, malaria vaccines are totally changing the world.

One nuke plant in Wyoming will not.

If this is being done to avoid coal miners not getting uppity, I guess OK, but this is tech from nearly 80 years ago competing with PV, wind and EGS. This is backward looking.

Powderhorn , 10 days ago

This is honestly why I enjoy covering what I do. I don't see it being commercially viable in three decades, let alone more. Better tokamaks are not the answer. There's still too much input voltage where we're not getting net output.

That's the joke, though. Fusion is always 30 years out. I want to see real breakthroughs, and we aren't there yet with fusion. That said, I've not paid a power bill since September, so we have solutions; they just aren't at utility scale.

Powderhorn , 10 days ago

I don't wish to be dismissive, but, uh ... yeah. Fewer risks and baseload are kinda the holy grail.

Powderhorn Mod , 10 days ago

Tread lightly with the impact of this. Medical debt already doesn't affect credit scores.

Powderhorn , 12 days ago

There's no need of "slam" -- or "eye," "mull," "Solons," usw -- in an era where you're not writing a 1-42-4.

(1 column, 42pt, four lines)

Powderhorn , 15 days ago

I bet it isn't!

Powderhorn OP , 15 days ago

If you start from the assumption you're using Quark 3.3, it's not bad,

Powderhorn OP , 15 days ago

It's not a word I often trot out; usually, "clusterfuck" suffices. The level of malice here instead of incompetence is enough to make Hanlon grow a beard, so here we have 'ne echte Schweinerei.

Powderhorn , 15 days ago

What I'm hearing is Scribus would be suitable if I'm deliriously tired and thinking in Quark 4.x shortcuts.

Powderhorn , 15 days ago

This was very much me, and for a rather stupid reason: My resume was in InDesign.

It would have served me well to realize InDesign resumes are a bad idea to get past ATS years ago, but I eventually came around.

I can still fire up CS6 in a VM; for my needs, CC never made sense. Like, seriously, for ID, layers and transparency and trapping and anything else I might need for offset or digital is taken care of. Illustrator has a competent Live Trace feature. Photoshop has the magnetic lasso, which is about as advanced as I need to get past cropping and toning. Audition lets me make really bad mashups.

The only subscription I have that is not a utility or insurance is Mullvad. I don't want to rent anything on my computer, thank you very much. Yarr!

Powderhorn , 15 days ago

use unsuitable software for years in the hopes that volunteer devs will eventually add the features they need.

There's an opportunity here to unbundle Photoshop from itself.

Since my background is print, I can say for at least a few more weeks, there's an audience interested in reading RAW, cropping, toning for both CMYK and RGB, scratch removal on negatives and cutouts. And literally nothing else.

And so now imagine anyone else. They don't need CMYK. What the fuck is that, anyway?

That Photoshop has gained bloat is not something to emulate. FOSS shouldn't try to replicate it so long as there's a universal file format one can jump between apps to manipulate.

Powderhorn , 16 days ago

Egregious clickbait hed. I don't care the source, "than you might think" works psychologically on, well, more levels than you might think.

Throughout this election, and honestly, past it wouldn't be bad, wherever you are in the world, this phrase should be a red flag that you've run headlong into bullshit.

That aside, Nature, are you OK? Journal articles tend to have as theses shit that isn't somehow both obvious and vacuously true then not backed up by the passive voice, the gold standard for scientific literature. "The beaker was observed ..."

Powderhorn , 16 days ago

Such freedom, being able to change your mind whenever your cult leader tells you to.

Powderhorn OP , 6 days ago

A bit late to the party, but the FDA panel is a recommendation body, not the FDA itself. FDA can overrule this, but as I said, that's a fraught choice.

Powderhorn OP Mod , 17 days ago

Thanks for the catch!

Powderhorn , 17 days ago

Talk about begging the question. Block all Meta domains at the router level, and ... uh ... don't have an account.

Powderhorn , 19 days ago

Dehumanization is a central pillar of several playbooks. None ends well.

Powderhorn , 19 days ago

Bold statement of American values, Nikki. Surely, this will improve international respect for the U.S.

Powderhorn , 19 days ago

YouGov and Morning Consult's polls are outside the realm of "useful" in terms of political reporting.

Thing about court cases is it doesn't matter what the public thinks about a jury decision. That's what elections are for; here, the determinations of exactly 12 people are all that counts.

Here's the one useful graf in the entire story:

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted between Thursday and Friday found that 5 percent of Republicans and 21 percent of independents said they are much less likely to vote for Trump because of the jury's ruling. Meanwhile, 30 percent of Republicans and 13 percent of independents said the verdict made them much more likely to vote for Trump. However, the majority of Republicans (55 percent), independents (58 percent), and Democrats (58 percent) said the verdict didn't change their minds on whether or not to vote for the former president.

Given the narrow outcomes in swing states in 2020, that 5% drop in GOP support is much larger than it sounds. Like, more than 11,000 votes that will need to be "found."

That said, national polls are functionally useless for presidential elections on account of the Electoral College. All registered Republicans in California could abandon Trump without moving the needle on the election outcome; how that 5% is distributed among states and territories is the news, but with this sort of sample size, further breakdowns would have minimal or zero confidence.

Powderhorn , 19 days ago

I'm glad the feds dropped this case and New York picked it up for the simple reason that a pardon could only come from the New York governor. It's not in the president's power to pardon state convictions, which may be important going forward.

Powderhorn OP , 20 days ago

Colour me confused. I was inviting conversation about it because I found it interesting and felt conflicted about whether I agreed.

Powderhorn OP , 20 days ago

Appreciate the sourcing. As with so many things, the original is better.

Powderhorn Mod , 20 days ago

WCPP grants are doing some amazing things throughout the West; even for those who don't give a shit about wildlife, drivers are avoiding crashes.

It's truly unfortunate that the matching requirements are in place for those least available to come up with them and seemingly flies in the face of Biden's Justice40 initiative, which is supposed to ensure disadvantaged communities receive disproportionately more federal funding in situations like these.

Still, some progress is better than no progress.

Powderhorn , 21 days ago

Rules for thee but not for me.

Powderhorn OP , 19 days ago

They do give the best cuddles, though raver bois are a close second!