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  • This kills my only hope …… a couple weeks ago I was trying to be positive on environmental news and made a big deal to my kids that during their lifetime they’ll be able to eat unlimited tuna.

    The general recommendation for tuna has always been to limit it to once a week, to moderate mercury poisoning. The mercury is generally from coal emissions. However globally we appear to be at peak coal and likely to drop quickly, given china’s rapid buildout of renewables both there and in developing countries, and given US coal use has been declining for years. In only a couple decades we’ll have greatly reduced mercury contaminating the ocean food chain, a few more years for it to drop out of the food chain, then MTGA, Make Tuna Great Again!

    It seems inevitable but this one deranged individual can noticeably slow the process. Can I still hope my kids will see it?

  • It’s just scut work, and needs direction from humans

    Software engineering has already gone through a similar transformation where we expect all the builds, scans, tests to be automated, the scut work done by “robots”. That resulted in new job types, DevOps engineers, and the software field has continued to grow. While it remains to be seen how ai will affect the field, automating the scut work allowed the humans to be more productive, the field to continue growing, software to be better quality

  • Admittedly I did similar. At one point I had a non-working detector and noticed it was long expired when I tried to replace the battery. I realized I had been in my house more than ten years and the detectors had been installed by a previous owner, probably in the early 2000’s. Those did NOT beep when they expired

    When I replaced those, the new ones were all configured to beep when expired and they were starting to push the sealed detectors with ten year non-replaceable battery. Sure enough, ten years later they all started beeping that they were expired.

    I guess I assumed that it’s been 20 years and most people will have replaced detectors at least once. In my state, there’s a required inspection that all detectors are up to date before a house can be sold

    (Which is really annoying because mine are all battery but the current standard is they must interconnect so I’ll need some electrical work if I want to sell my house)

  • Could easily be better weatherproofing

    One of the reasons I never worried about radon is I live in an older house that leaks lots of air.

  • Don’t they all do that now? Tell you when they’ve expired?

  • You keep it until the next hazardous waste collection day, then put it in your car to bring there. Spend half an hour waiting in a big line of cars, get up to where they take it and get yelled at for wasting their time on such a small amount of hazardous waste

  • Yep, this is how we keep shifting right. I don’t care how much it smells, when it comes down to the actual election, hold your nose and vote to shift left.

  • Yeah but you can’t start shifting things left again unless you get elected. We like to think it’s just reality that shifted right, not the voters, but maybe they are.

    Each side has mostly dedicated voters who will always vote for them, and a relatively small population who can go either way. They’re the ones who decide the election: who are they?

  • Can you point to any sources about Buttigieg? I have to admit to not paying attention to him until very recently, when he’s been a voice of reason. I don’t know his history

  • Huh, I wish my town would do those corner protectors. There’s one corner especially, a block from my house, and on a major walking route to our neighborhood elementary school. After it snows, I frequently see tire tracks across the sidewalk from people who cut the corner badly. One of these days, they’re going to run over a kid on the sidewalk on their way to school.

  • Car wash? I’ve never heard of that and there’s never even an option to tip. You pay list price ahead of time, then when they’re done you drive away.

    It’s probably different if you get your car detailed, but that’s already not something I’m willing to pay for

  • In this sense, yes to Reddit and YouTube. YouTube may not be very social but it clearly has an algorithm that pushes toxic content/stereotypes.

    And im going to say no on Lemmy. Lemmy may be social but there’s no algorithm pushing toxic content. Maybe I’m missing it but there’s seems to be very little toxic content.

  • Signup bonus is different from retention/quota bonus. Signup bonus is all him

    But the big one, the retention bonus can probably be pushed off long enough to blame democrats and/or not paid because they’re not making their quotas

  • My understanding is the not paying people is “legit” in that the remedy is the courts but his lawyers are good at making it too costly to pursue. If they believe they weren’t paid, they should sue: notice there are few judgements against him like that.

    It’s just like all his shell companies. During the first reign of terror, there were articles that they found over 500 companies with payments going back and forth so the web was impossible to decipher and there were always Trump owned companies with huge losses/writeoffs. I don’t remember them actually finding anything illegal but it sure smells like it. He even bragged it was so complex that the irs didn’t have enough auditors to dig through that for tax fraud. It was almost a dare. What happened to that?

  • Good news? Good political news? In this reality?

  • I mean, he only needs to target a couple states. Isn’t this already happening in Georgia?

  • It’s a nice ideal. Insurance can in theory help smooth out whatever life throws at you. But in the modern world, their incentives are to not

  • This is not as big a deal as the headline shows. No one would pay that much.

    The unfortunate reality is American healthcare is geared to generate humongous bills but that’s just the starting point. Normally your insurance company will then negotiate it down. If you don’t have insurance, you can usually get them to write off huge amounts.

    One of the underlying problems is not everyone has insurance but everyone will get at least emergency care. Hospitals know there will be a lot of bills that can never be paid, so their initial bill to everyone needs yo account for that loss.

    That and the general extractive nature of the us health care system, the massive number of layers and middlemen that all need to show a profit

    But clearly the problem here is the non-us insurance company not dealing with it until forced to nine months later

    Worst case scenario- go home and never come bs k. That bill is not following you to another country

  • I’ve also met entirely unskilled projects management but the organizational and people skills needed to do well absolutely are skills

    I can complete the tasks for a project manager. But have neither the organizational skills nor people skills to do it well

    Coming up on annual review time at work, one of my successes this year was to persuade a project manager to take up my initiative- while the work needed is easy for me, now I have someone applying it across 50 teams and I can’t compete with that

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world

    Looking for garage heater, US, 240v, 5000w

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Euro-Lemmings: do you see common charger rules beyond computer devices?

  • Apple @lemmy.world

    Delayed

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world

    The 8 U.S States With the Highest Car Accident Fatality Rates in 2025

    nchstats.com /highest-car-accident-fatality-rates/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    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

    Crispy salmon in Avocado sauce

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    Do dams pregame?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world

    How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

  • aww @lemmy.world

    Someone got some new sweatshirts

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world

    Thread for Inovelli Blue?

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world

    Unfortunate ad placement

  • Cooking @lemmy.world

    What to look for in an Olive Oil?

  • iPhone @lemmy.world

    Is it worthwhile capturing personal photos as spatial?