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ReluctantMuskrat

@ ReluctantMuskrat @lemmy.world

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  • In several states the coroner is also the only authority that can arrest the governor as well. Very strange system.

  • Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand

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  • If you did the same to a police officer you can be sure they'd charge you with assault, after taking you to the ground and pummeling you no doubt.

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    Federal judge blocks Biden administration rule requiring dealers at gun shows to run background checks

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  • I believe you're misstating one thing if I remember the law last time I read it: It is a felony to knowingly sell a firearm to prohibited persons.

    If you aren't bound to the FFL requirements you are not obligated to ask if the person is in anyway prohibited from buying a firearm, and what you don't know or ask keeps you free from jeopardy.

  • Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion.

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  • I hope its a little better than remote access to disable. Internet access can be knocked out and cell signals jammed. Hopefully they've gorba deadman switch and disable things immediately in the event of an invasion.

  • Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war'

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  • Oil and gas collapsed because of reduced demand from the pandemic and Putin refusing to cut production so he could tank US oil. Oil isnt likely to collapse again anytime soon.

  • What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & more

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  • With the primaries over you have two choices and they're not even close to being equal.

    Throwing your vote away does nothing to advance the causes you're most concerned about but stands a strong chance of allowing a fascist to be elected, one who will try to dismantle the democracy that permits your voice at all.

  • What's the most expensive thing you broke as a kid and what's the story behind it?

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  • I suspect i might be the winner here. My friend had an alley behind his house along with a nice strip of open land near a busy road. Eventually a strip mall was built and then another large commercial building started to go up. Being basically behind my friends house we walked over to this new building on weekend to check out the construction site.

    The building was being built with cement block and had lots of scaffolding and yet-unused block scattered around. I found a pipe-bender - a very heavy tool made out of high quality steel - and found you could just tap on of these cement blocks and it would shatter to pieces. I was fascinated, as were my friends. I have no idea how many cement blocks we destroyed over the next couple of days, but it was a huge number. Then we decided to see if we could go through a wall with the pipe bender... we could indeed, making a hole in the side of the building we could walk through. Looking around we eventually realized what we'd done was awful.... we had decimated this construction site. We finally slinked away and come Monday when the crew returned, police were called and neighbors interrogated but thankfully with privacy fences all around, none of the neighbors saw anything. 11 and 12 yr olds are stupid.

  • It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this

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  • That's all good info and explains some of the problems that could be resolved for us programmers if we were on UTC, but for the most part these are programmer problems and the computer handles it for everyone else. Additionally, it makes a few issues clear that won't be resolved with a UTC switch.

    First, as mentioned countries all over the world decide for themselves what timezone they're going to follow. Even if countries were to switch to UTC, we know they all won't do it nor at the same time, so programmers will have to deal with that added complexity too having some on UTC, some off, some switching on this date or that... if the movement got serious we'd have another Y2K frenzy, but not one that ended on a specific date.. it'd linger for years as various countries came on-board. Additionally, we'd still have to deal with all the historical calendar, timezone and DST switches he mentioned. Those wouldn't go away... in fact we'd be introducing a bunch of new ones.

    Fact is timezones are understandable and work pretty good for normal people and their day-to-day tasks. Normal people aren't going to want to understand UTC and then have to translate their normal day times to and from others around the world. No matter where you are I understand what you mean when you say your morning started at 6am or you eat at noon or you go to bed at 11pm or 23:00 for that matter. With UTC I don't know what 23:00 means in Australia, Germany or India relative to your day... not only programmers but even normal people would have to know how to translate that to a time they can relate too, so you'd have to know timezones anyway. So while I'd know 23:00 was exactly the same point in time for each of us, I wouldn't know how it relates to your day the way it relates to mine... is it morning, night, mid-day? It would actually make today's programmers problems - which isn't too common for most of us - a problem for everyone.

  • It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this

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  • Why switch? It's not too complicated a concept for the average person to understand and deal with. In fact, it's intuitive. Sure in software the logic has a few nuances that are a bit complex when needing to deal with local time and timezones, but that's why we make the computers do the tricky work.

  • Want to lose weight? Poverty can help!

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  • I takes abject poverty to lose weight though. Carbs are cheap and highly addicting. Poverty often brings a high bmi but poor nutrition.

  • Daylight saving creator left the chat....

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  • My understanding is DST did still save appreciable energy until we replaced incandescent lights with fluorescent and leds. Longer daylight in the evening when people are awake and less in the early morning when people are asleep means lights aren't being used as much. The average light bulb used to consume 60 watts or more and also let off significant undesirable heat, so with a house full of lights DST really did cut back energy usage. Now though with led lights low consumption and virtually no heat, it's not nearly as significant.

  • Unsmart a smart TV

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  • My Vizio smart TV's smart features won't work if you don't accept the terms of use. HDMI inputs worked though, and probably TV tuner... didnt try it. I eventually accepted of course, but that might be an option for you.

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    "Tony Delivers" - just order your food and send him a screenshot

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  • He's undoubtedly counting on tips.

  • Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

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  • I mean if you really care about security you're not using wifi... you're going hard wired. Wifi can be messed up by your neighbors unintentionally and then there goes your tampering alarm. Tampering alarms are good when the system isn't fragile.

    No security installer is going to suggest wifi if someone's genuinely concerned about security.

  • TIL the middle finger was used offensively from 423 BC

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  • To add to this I read years ago how the English phase "fuck you" got associated with the gesture. It comes The Hundred Years War between Britian and France and was originally "Pluck You!" but changed over time.

    This was the first search result and shares the story well: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=PLUCK%20YOU

  • Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic

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  • I've re-enabled notifications now and was receiving them fine with location setting of "only when app in use". Then this morning I disabled location permissions entirely for the app and I continue to receive the notifications.

  • Sauna dress-code across Europe

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  • Interesting. So would wearing underwear be fine then?

  • Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic

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  • I don't think so. I've had the notifications off though so I'm not 100%. I turned them back on so I'll know soon enough.

  • Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic

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  • Just looked at the app's permission settings on my phone... set to only allow location while being used.

    Like you I don't see much use for the app, though the notifications can be handy if you want to know when a load us finished and you can't hear it's beeps. I work out of my basement with my washer upstairs so that can be the case with me. But still rare that I ever use it.