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  • 'Extraordinarily dark' town swaps out light bulbs to gain dark sky certification

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  • Personally i don’t understand how “dark sky” light fixtures are hard to find. Ideally, they all would be, as part of an efficiency rating

  • TSA worker says his family is paying the price for him working without pay

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  • Sure, the inadequate airport facilities are part of the problem. Facilities have generally been sufficient for the older approach where airlines were responsible for security and have had huge problems scaling up. I think the airport really gives space, and tsa decides how to use it, how many scanners to set up, how many people to have on duty at any time, etc. It doesn’t help that it’s one more entity to coordinate with for airports As terminals are remodeled over the years, they have been getting better. However many of us still feel like we need to get to airports two hours ahead of our flights and expect to spend most of that in the security line

    Personally I’m surprised it hasn’t caused a terrorist attack. If “terrorist” is largely about how many people you can terrorize … Instead of everyone being scattered across many gates where they can’t be reached without going through the airport and dealing with security, now you have hundreds of people clustered near the entrance, seemingly much more vulnerable, for a much larger attack. It seems like an obvious security hole and none of the security theater addresses it

  • Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it

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  • IANAL obviously, but a game beta seems like the perfect legitimate use case for an nda. It’s time limited, very specific, you have legitimately volunteered.

    NDAs are all different but ask yourself

    • is this nda limited to a specific time period or is it indefinite?
    • is it very specific to what it covers or generic enough that it say, prevents you from working? -was it a legitimate choice or mandated but an unequal power such as your employer?

    If you have any such questions, you should definitely consult a lawyer before assuming

  • Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it

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  • It’s meant to be scary. I really think a lot of ndas are abused exactly because they are scary. The problem is they are expensive and uncertain.

    Their validity is by state and enforcement is through the courts. Is a specific nda enforceable in your state? Is the other party likely to enforce it legally? Can you afford to defend yourself?

    Don’t get me wrong,there are also many legit and enforceable ndas, which makes things complicated

  • Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on commercial ships

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  • Same is true of us oil. If you want conspiracy theories, there’s a more straightforward one. Us oil tends to be expensive with the need for advanced drilling such as fracking and horizontal drilling. In order to make a profit, it has to sell at like $60/bbl or more. Raising the global price of oil helps enrich those oligarchs that funded drumps csmpaign

  • Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on commercial ships

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  • Here’s the problem with that idea…yes, global prices could go way up, BUT

    • US has lots of oil, so won’t have shortages, just make a few obscene billionaire more obscenely wealthy. We’re deluded enough that renewables and EVs still won’t be an option
    • Russia needs to sell oil to stay in the war, and they’ll be able to get more profit
    • this mainly hurts everyone else

  • Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on commercial ships

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  • Or Trump declares victory (didn’t he already do that?) and goes home. In a bit of circular reasoning, maybe he starts making waves about the Epstein files to distract people from Iran

  • 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?

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  • More like,print lots of money to give to defense companies and enrich themselves so they can gaslight the rest of us by claiming the numbers are good, the economy is great

  • 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?

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  • I still find it hard to believe it could happen, and certainly dont want to be proven wrong. Probably helps that I wouldn’t be eligible.

    So the average person is out of shape, overweight, and knows nothing about the military or how to use weapons. Army boot camp may be only 10 weeks, but you have a very unready population and war has gotten much more complicated than it used to be. I find it hard to believe even the war-mongering fools currently running the us, would get us into something big enough and long-running enough for a draft to make a worthwhile difference.

    Look at Iran. They might have started a never-ending war, but the approach is to sit back and bomb it. That won’t lead to a draft

    Stepping back a bit, what about Iraq? That’s a bigger question since I don’t think we have the readiness to do that again, and it did require a ton of people. But they never instituted a draft, and the buildup was far too quick for one to be useful. … although that was also an international presence and the current regime is making sure that will never happen again

    Then we get to Putin. Look at everything he’s gone through to avoid a draft, despite getting his country bogged down starting an absolutely brutal war resulting in hundreds of thousands of Russians killed or maimed. We all make the agent krasnov jokes, but there’s far more in common from one tyrant to another than any of us like

  • TSA worker says his family is paying the price for him working without pay

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  • It’s not just a few workers letting things goto their heads, but tsa is the embodiment of “security theater”. High visibility, truckloads of money, and sometimes it’s hard to see how they’re helping actual safety, more than just inconveniencing everyone to look like they are. Some of their choices and practices have been remarkably ineffective while also being remarkably expensive

  • TSA worker says his family is paying the price for him working without pay

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  • And don’t forget that airports were unprepared, and took years to figure out how to handle it. Arguably they still don’t, since I last year I had to wait in a security line that stretched outside the terminal, and down the sidewalk

  • TSA worker says his family is paying the price for him working without pay

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  • When tsa was new, and they first came out with tsa-compatible luggage “locks” ….

    1. I left my luggage locks on the zipper pull, not locking anything … they cut them off! And left a nasty note inside my luggage about non-standard “locks”
    2. I did try the standard “locks” once, although they seemed more useless than ordinary suitcase locks. Yep, they cut them off

  • OP hates highways

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  • I found that exits with mileage numbers pretty strange the first time I noticed it on a long road trip. On entering a new state, “wtf, why is this exit number so high?”

    But I thought they were finally renumbered for consistency. Maybe it’s just a generalization though, states I’m familiar with have been renumbered over the years

  • OP hates highways

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  • Three digits starting with even are loops, with interstates at both ends, starting with odd are spurs, with interstates at one end. Thats why I-495 can be both the capital beltway and loop around boston

    If you want a challenge, southwest of Boston there’s a short stretch of overlapping interstates where you can be headed north on I-95 while heading south on I-93

  • You there! What are your Hobbies?

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    • home automation
    • smoking (meat)
    • doom scrolling

  • [Gavin Newsom] cut healthcare for undocumented immigrants. One lawmaker wants it back

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  • This is crazy - how is immigration status relevant to healthcare. All people are people. There’s only one humane choice

  • Other people's dogs are great!

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  • I never minded any of that, but the real challenge is time. Not all dogs are ok being left alone all day and arguably a standard workday is too long anyway.

    I enjoyed having dogs when my kids were little, because someone could be home more often. But now that the kids are in college it just doesn’t work.

    I’m having that argument again today. My ex had gotten a dog over my objection that neither of us would be home. Sure enough the dog barks so can’t be left alone in her condo. I can’t say no to a dog, but I’m gone for 9 hours straight and that’s inhumane (plus as the dog gets older she’s started having accidents in that time).

  • Why China can withstand oil's surge past $100 more easily than other countries

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  • We not only don’t have time to spin up nuclear, but nuclear is not economically viable, and the hope that small modular reactors would change that doesn’t appear to have panned out.

    Nuclear power generation has some nice properties but remains by far the most expensive and time consuming option

  • Spain’s Wind-Farm Bargain | Renewable-energy projects can boost the economy of a rural town—if the community has a say in development.

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  • Someone needs to sell this to West Virginia. Instead of holding tight to the few remaining coal jobs, letting coal conglomerates ruin their health and their environment, losing their economy and their population, here’s something with a more believable promise for a better future

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Looking for garage heater, US, 240v, 5000w

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Euro-Lemmings: do you see common charger rules beyond computer devices?

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Delayed

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    The 8 U.S States With the Highest Car Accident Fatality Rates in 2025

    nchstats.com /highest-car-accident-fatality-rates/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died — The Dallas Morning News

    apple.news /Ar4R4ruBOT8KVK3Xi9bBeAw
  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    RECIPE

    Crispy salmon in Avocado sauce

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Do dams pregame?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Someone got some new sweatshirts

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Thread for Inovelli Blue?

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
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    Unfortunate ad placement

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    QUESTION

    What to look for in an Olive Oil?

  • iPhone @lemmy.world
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    Is it worthwhile capturing personal photos as spatial?