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ReluctantMuskrat

@ ReluctantMuskrat @lemmy.world

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  • We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore, we rely on GPS to tell us where to go and Facebook reminds us of birthdays. What else will we stop remembering once AI remembers everything for us?

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  • While this is an understandable sentiment, expressing this today means different things than 10 years ago.

    Should we "remain friends" with those that support an administration that deports people to foreign countries without trial? Is it "just politics" when people are ok with a president that is attacking free speech and freedom of the press? With a president deploying the military to cities with Democrat mayors? I don't think so. We're talking about freedom and the future of our country. If you support such corruption and destruction of our democracy, we can't be friends.

  • Jimmy Kimmel to return to air as Disney announces shock reversal

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  • Kimmel returning is a joke and goes to show that he is doing this purely for the money.

    That's maybe the reason he was doing the show previously. Now he has an opportunity to prove it's for more than that. I hope when he comes back tonight he comes back harder and more offensive, doing his best to provoke the administration. Make ABC grow a pair and fight to prove their support of freedom.

  • Jimmy Kimmel to return to air as Disney announces shock reversal

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  • Thanks for sharing. Thought no way I'll watch the whole thing though. I was wrong... it's great in its entirety.

  • Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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  • Maybe today but do you think Orange Man won't weaponize the TSA given a reason or opportunity?

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • Powershell works really well on other OSs now. I use it on MacOS and Linux daily. I might loath MS but Powershell is a fantastic shell and after working with an object-oriented shell I hate going back to anything else.

  • Declawing cats causes them lifelong pain. It’s time to ban the practice

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  • Renting and pets have always been a problem, and the higher the occupancy rate the less likely landlord's allow pets. I certainly understand from a landlords perspective pets damage things and replacing all the carpet because cats pissed all over and the tenant didn't care is expensive. But as you said, with housing what it is now there are even more people restricted from pet ownership than ever.

  • Declawing cats causes them lifelong pain. It’s time to ban the practice

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  • I mean historically people didn't necessarily think of it as mutilation, even if now most people understand it to be extreme. Many cats have bad scratching habits and people don't know to train their cats not to do so. Some will definitely trash your furniture and people looked at de-clawing as a way to stop it vs giving up the cat for adoptuon. Are all cats even trainable to not scratch? I don't know personally.

    I'm kind of curious how banning declawing of cats influences rates of abandonment and euthanization. I had many cats when I was younger, some which were bad scratchers and got de-clawed and others which weren't prone to it so didn't get de-clawed. I'd like to get one now but know my wife (and I probably) won't be able to tolerate our furniture and drapes getting tore up if I can't train it not to, and I hate the idea of adopting one only to give it up later, so I'll likely not get one at all. I wonder if and how many get put down simply because fewer adopt them when de-clawing is banned.

  • ‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona

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  • Multiple units are common for a large house. Not because they want a backup but because there are limits to how many square feet a single home unit can handle. Having a 2nd story or basement can influence the decision too. It's often cheaper to put in two home units vs upgrading to a large industrial size like what a store might use.

    Obviously if you have 2 then one is a backup when you have a problem, but most people aren't going to have that.

  • Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court, dealing major blow to trade policy

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  • The tariffs are essentially an unpredictable tax on consumers and companies. Mostly it'll be the consumers but if companies are effectively bullied into eating some of the tax and reducing their profits, it's a corporate tax on them. Of course the GOP says it's completely against new taxes on anyone and especially corporate profits, but that's what the tariffs are. Being unpredictable and changing due to bullying or political influence - or lack thereof - is much worse for the markets in general.

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  • The split keyboard designs are so much better when you get used to then - which doesn't take long either - but they're so hard to find now 😥

  • US states rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel

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  • The solution you're looking for are called potholes.

  • What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?

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  • The sailors didn't just eat meat though... they were typically also eating large amounts of high carb hardtack (biscuits), beans and oats as all were cheap and traveled well. Traditional high carb diets need vitamin C sources or scurvy can occur. A very low carb diet can get by with very little vitamin C because it's not longer competing with glucose, but of course such a diet was rare in past times. The Inuits diet is one well known exception where the people might go most of a year without plant sources of vitamin C and avoiding deficiencies by eating organ meat which is rich in many vitamins and minerals.

  • 10-year-old walked less than a mile to a dollar store, prompting a passerby to call police, who arrested his mom for reckless conduct.

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  • Almost 50 years ago I started riding my bike to school, 1.4 miles away, at 7 years old. I had a cross a relatively busy road but there was a light and crosswalk. I was a little younger than probably most parents would allow that much freedom but it certainly wasn't anything people would consider criminal. The fact that the mother in this article got arrested and charged is crazy to me.

  • Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription

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  • Yeah but VW needs it's share too. Stop being so greedy!

  • Homeless people in Phoenix are passing out from dehydration and getting third-degree burns from the sidewalk

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  • I grew up there. It's definitely hot, but I can say living in a high humidity city in the south can feel much worse.

    With low humidity if you're in the shade Phx is great most of the year. You'll sit outside and eat in the 90s. Sure, above 110F is friggin' hot but 95F and 90% humidity in GA or FL or south TX is worse if you're outside, and shade doesn't protect you from humidity. 115F has its own special problems like how hot car door handles and metal seat belt buckles get, but that's better than the hot wet blanket effect you get in the south during the summer.

  • What do you do when homeless folks ask for money?

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  • Certainly there are people that do that or want to use the money for drugs, which is why I always volunteer to buy it for them vs give them money. And I don't carry cash anyway.

    If they're genuinely hustling for cash they're unlikely to walk away with you to get food, a bus ticket, whatever because they're wasting time. I've had a few take me up on the offer and then still try to talk me out of cash while walking, but most hustlers just walk away immediately when you call their bluff and offer to buy it for them.

  • What do you do when homeless folks ask for money?

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  • This is what I did when I used to work downtown and encounter them frequently. They usually tell you why they want money... usually food, but sometimes a bus ticket or gas. I always say I don't have or won't give you cash but let's go and I'll buy you what you need. More than half of them would give up and walk away when they realized you wouldn't just give them cash. Never ended buying any gas or a bus ticket, but I did buy quite a few meals and even groceries a couple times. Most were incredibly appreciative.

  • HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September

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  • Interesting... thanks for the reply!

  • HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September

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  • So did you just cancel the HBO max subscription in YouTubeTV, or did you cancel YouTubeTV altogether?