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  • This person lost their internship afterwards

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  • I don't doubt you saw something that scared you, but rockets and missiles are literally the same thing barring payload and trajectory and nobody is using bespoke software to puzzle out aerodynamics in 20xx, that's table at the back of the college textbook stuff these days.

    NASA didn't even exist until after ICBMs were invented in both the US and the Soviet Union, so idk what y'all are on about. NASA used old ICBM tech to make rockets that weren't for military use. Atlas, an ICBM, is what launched the first US astronauts to space during the Mercury program.

    Also Von Braun was a Nazi

  • I have A Super Sweet, Sick & Passive Aggressive Cat Who Causes Problems in Using The Cat Boxes, Drinking Dogs’ Water-Putting Blood in Their Water & Eating…

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  • A: Its hard to get a cat that doesn't want to eat, to eat, especially when a different cat in the room is ready to dive in. If its possible, separating them while they are eating might help, and cleaning up the food after a certain period of time so they know they can't come back to it later can help, but it doesn't could like this little guy is very food motivated right now, so it may not help and you don't want to deprive him of food

    B: Cats will drink water out of whatever you don't want them to it seems, maybe try filling a coffee/tea mug with water and leaving it in a favorite cat location? We have a special coffee cup that migrates around the house, one of our cats used to drink out of it every morning sitting across from me while I had breakfast. I bet your cat will still drink out of the dog bowl though, its special water!

    C: As with A, perhaps separating them during feeding might help, at least until you can get them eating well. Even opposite sides of a door can be effective, they'll look at you like you're crazy when you wander away from them with their food to the bathroom door, but they'll get the hang of it. Maybe save some of the hungry cat's food as a treat they can eat together if they both like that arrangement.

    D: Cats pee outside of their boxes for so many reasons, its very hard to know. For example, our cat started peeing outside the box after our other cat passed away and I cleaned the boxes for the first time. Turns out he wanted the little door flaps removed and he stopped right away. Other times they do it because they are scared or upset about something. It could be that a recent move or change has him on edge, or the other cat stresses him out, or his stomach hurts and he wants you to know about it, or he doesn't like the box or litter. It's a tough thing to figure out, but if you can learn the cause, you can help address it and the habit might go away. It might also be a habit, and in that case I don't have much advice beyond the positive reinforcement someone else suggested.

  • US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country

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  • I do not doubt that some are celebrating, and for good reason, but what comes next doesn't seem likely to be better for the people who live there.

    History shows these moments lead to more oppression and suffering while out of country execs and wealthy individuals grab as much loot as they can before the inevitable popular uprising.

    Said popular uprising is immediately sanctioned and hamstrung by the US/world bank and economically held liable for the debts the occupiers ran up. Then they collapse into either authoritarianism or "infighting" with rebel groups funded by the US.

    This looks like a continuation of the same old IMF, Chicago boys, school of Americas playbook to me, but way less covert.

  • Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings

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  • Not having a right to privacy doesn't mean we should record everyone's every move if they aren't locked in their windowless basement. Which they would have to be since its legally OK to have cameras pointing at your neighbors bedroom window or backyard, or to fly a recording drone over their house.

    Additionally I think we should have a right to privacy in public. Why does your right to have your own surveillance fiefdom in your building extend to the street where I'm just trying to go for a jog? It interferes with my peace of mind, and it makes neighbors appear more like police than people I should be able to rely on.

    I'm also exceptionally skeptical cameras have any impact on crime. I know police rarely investigate or solve property crime, and unless they prevent the crime from happening outright (doubt), or the camera owner has a full time live human monitoring to respond to an immediate action (businesses), it serves no purpose but to give the owner a false sense of security and to peep on your neighbors.

    Getting broken into can be a very traumatic and violating experience, and in a better world we would try to help both the person who is driven to robbery and the person who's space was violated. In the one we live in, people slap cameras and floodlights everywhere, mental health care is nonexistent, and we punish such that the cycle of poverty and crime continues. Thus nothing is solved and the world gets worse.

    Police cameras and municipal cameras are even worse in these ways, now it isn't the guy next door, its the state and all the money and power it holds doing a peep into your bedroom and a follow down the street. They don't trust you, they don't want you here, and you had better watch yourself. That message isn't for everyone of course, but if you're already marginalized in a community, it sure reads like the message is for you.

    If we do install cameras, like red light cameras or speed cameras which have proven to do something, we need to be extraordinarily careful about where we place them and how we use them. And they should only be there until the underlying problem is solved, not placed as a solution themselves.

  • 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study

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  • I'm not sure that's how that shakes out, you can't exactly extinguish open source projects, they may go dormant but they are still there, and there would be the last open source proton build to start from too.

    It would also annoy the very people who are most likely to make their own compatibility tools and inconvenience themselves to spite bad business practice. Maybe in some future world where everyone is on Linux/proton, the people who just blindly use windows today because they always have would just keep using the now proprietary proton, but that's far from the way it is today.

    Honestly I just use what is easiest to get working, used to do every game manually, then used Lutris, now I use Steam, probably will use something else that's easier in the future, especially if/when my library disappears. Til then I'll support the company that made it much easier to leave Microsoft behind. Nice bonus: valve is one of the least bad large companies in the US at time of writing, so it feels less awful to give them money.

  • Spain restarts push to kill daylight saving time in EU

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  • Because shifting schedules by an hour randomly in the middle of the year twice is physically damaging and bad for your health, that impacts you. And maybe it's not so bad for you, you work shifting hours, no biggie. Try to imagine that you had that regular schedule and suddenly it changed, it did bother you, perhaps make decisions based on that.

    If you can't imagine anyone else having thoughts, feelings, or emotions different from yours, consider that when you're crossing the street the day after daylight savings time, you're being passed by people who didn't get enough sleep and maybe they're like you, but they might not be, and that could directly impact you too.

    It's such a simple small change to a weird tradition that has no more purpose in our modern world than the "moonlight lamps" of the US or the penny farthing. They may be historically important or interesting, but that doesn't mean you should be forced to use them. Change can be scary but it's gonna be ok, daylight savings time will inevitably end up the way of the funny big wheeled bike, it's just a matter of when and how. You can always choose to wake up early all year round.

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution

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  • I like your approach in that they don't all just flow to the same 2 distros and there are multiple options at the end of most lines. It's also quite readable. I do think there's even more room to just try stuff out though, distros are not particularly rigid, certainly not when you're first trying them out and you don't know the differences.

    I happily use MXLinux to game on new(not so new now I suppose) hardware, run a media box, and on a couple work/school laptops for example. It's just what I tried and felt cozy with after I got angry with windows and mint. I'm sure other distros are technically better for my uses but nothing I've tried has really been so much better to justify the switch.

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution

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  • The different desktop environments. Really basically described as the interface, XFCE is a very lightweight one, whereas mint is MATE, and mint cinnamon is... cinnamon which are each different from each other (I don't know I've never used them for long enough to find out)

  • How the US got left behind in the global electric car race

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  • Well we've recently entered the race to the bottom category, we'll see how that one goes

    More seriously, the US did lead the way in various ways for a while for the time. Just gotta ignore the racism and colonialism. Unfortunately many innovations turned out to be the limit of American imagination and any attempt to continue to improve and grow is now met with hostility.

    It's probably at least somewhat a product of years of corporate and conservative interests marketing a return to an imagined golden age for economic and political gain. No room for new things in the fantasy of the '50s, just easy money, grass suburbs, giant cars, and unconcerned white people as far as the eye can see.

  • Fucking why though? Are cows endangered?

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  • Yeah when I start ranting about the government's cheese caves under Missouri people think I've finally cracked, but they're real. It started as a program to help farmers during the great depression, but by now it's just socializing the dairy industry and keeping prices artificially high. I don't think they sold it to fund the program though, they distributed it through food security programs.

    There's gotta be better foods for the government to stockpile and distribute to the hungry than cheese though, it's tasty, but it's not great for you and it's not filling many nutritional gaps. Not to mention lots of people can't even eat it without getting sick

  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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  • This or sit down to read a chapter before bed, look up and it's 6 hours later and I have to pee and I haven't touched my glass of water and my alarm goes off in 4 hours

    Never in between

  • NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

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  • This man helped me kill the lawn inside myself, and now I've killed my lawn and I'm on my way to kill my parents' (lawn) too. I might have even accidentally learned some botany along the way

    A really great channel

  • NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

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  • My suggestion, since I've done something similar. (Depending on what is there now) I'd recommend killing the weeds by laying down layers of cardboard and mulch on top (after cutting them down). Some plants are too pernicious for that and require digging up taproots or targeted herbicide, but the majority of the stuff under it will die and be nutrients for what you plan on planting there. As the cardboard, mulch, and old plants rot, you'll have exceptional soil for pretty nearly free (depending on the cost of the mulch and your time). As a neat bonus you'll get all kinds of interesting fungus to look at too.

  • PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG

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  • Lots of people in a pretty small area in relatively dense cities that currently drive or fly between the cities (technically called strong city pairings). There's also a pretty enormous tourism industry in Florida that captures much of the Midwestern US/anyone not going to California or Hawaii for their beach or disney vacation. Florida is also flat which makes for very cheap high speed rail. Note how the map goes out of its way to avoid the mountains out West.

    That being said, I'm not sure this map is one of the ones made with serious city pairing calculations. I'm skeptical that Quincy, IL has a really strong draw for high speed rail, for example, and that long gap between Portland and Sacramento/San Francisco, while beautiful and filled with cool places, is way too sparsely populated to justify 6hrs on high speed rail. I think it's a sort of meme map that's been going around for years, though I wish it were real.

  • Bosch dishwasher needs app for many neccessary features

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  • The apps are bullshit but the slower cycles take less water and energy, which is definitely a positive.

    Idk why the speed is a big deal to folks, it's not like you have to sit there and babysit it, just hit play and go do something else

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • I use transit for transit (it's in the name) but it also gives fantastic bike directions and transit+bike if I'm not feeling a particularly long ride. I may have had to mess with the settings but it almost always shows biking as an option.

    Otherwise I use OsmAnd, but since I almost exclusively get around by bike and bus I am usually looking places up to manually plan routes, not using navigation.

  • 2 more Toronto speed cameras cut down, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab'

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  • Speed cameras are really good at stopping speeding in their direct area, whether or not someone speeding likes them. Their downfall is they usually are installed by private companies who manage them, and the contracts are paid for by tickets. Since the cameras do such a good job stopping the speeding, the city stops getting ticket money and starts having to pay the companies out of pocket. We've been using police to do traffic stops for longer and it hasn't really worked the same way. (And cops cost waaaaaaay more).

    One study from New York

    But a quick search found many studies from all over the world.

    I bet that person speeding through the construction zone learned a valuable lesson about risking their and other people's lives for 30 seconds faster arrival times. Also I cant imagine being so distracted while driving that I would miss a traffic camera and the signs that almost always proceed it ten times. Plus the flow of traffic would likely be slowing as more observant drivers saw the camera, which you'd have to ignore and presumably pass aggressively whilst shouting angrily about other people being bad drivers.

    Shoot, not to beat this point too much (too late), but it's also a construction zone which typically has tons of speed signs plastered everywhere.. maybe they deserved the 10 tickets in two weeks and they're just mad because if we relied on cops they would have gotten away with it.

  • Remember

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  • That very much depends on when and where you look in history. Many people didn't live that way at all and still lived in large communities and built things with the only coercion being the ties of community for hundreds to thousands of years.

    Being a serf was apparently a lot less work and less miserable than you might think from pop culture. They worked for another, yes, but they also were looked after in return, and they didn't have to work the whole year. They also could just leave if they wanted to find a new place to live, which was a lot easier then than it is now. It wasn't the false choice of today where you work or starve.

    Slavery, also, depended on the culture. In some cultures slaves were typically people who were captured or traded in compensation for a killing. But rather than be forced labor, they were treated as a sort of trial family member, and once the debt was seen as paid they would often be fully adopted as part of the community.

    I recommend a book by David Graeber and David Wengrow called The Dawn of Everything, if you're interested in this sort of thing. It challenges the foundations of what we assume history was like using historical evidence, then reimagines foggy parts and builds an at least as probable image of the past in it's place.

  • Ideas coming down the track

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  • Yes, the airlines aren't being held hostage, no one said this.

    Boeing has been subsidized for years and has generally been the only aircraft purchased by American airline companies. That was the claim and it's true.

    Sure they could buy Airbus or Embraer (and they do a lot more these days since Boeing has lost favor due to some fairly catastrophic crashes and basically stopped making the airplanes companies want), but historically they were much more expensive and "not American" (Airbus) or literally didn't really exist as a serious choice in commercial air (Embraer). Bombardier hasn't been in the commercial aircraft business at all since I think 2020, though the CRJ was a relatively common sight in the states for short flights until they stopped making it (I'm having trouble finding which airlines fly them though I didn't look that hard).

    Airbus didn't have an American factory until 2016, and American Airlines, the airline with the most Airbus aircraft today, only started ordering them in 2011. Delta didn't have any Airbus until the early 2000s when they bought out a company that did, and they still buy mostly Boeing. United has some Airbus these days too but the vast majority of their fleet and their entire historical fleet is Boeing, Lockheed (been out of commercial air for a long time), or McDonald Douglass (now Boeing).

    Those are the current major airlines in the US, and even today they fly mostly Boeing, though that is changing when looking at current orders. There are a few more larger carriers such as Southwest, Alaska, Hawaiian, or Spirit, but many of them also fly mostly Boeing and I'll let you do that research for yourself.

    No company has anyone by hostage, but Boeing clearly has had the market in the US and it has been largely due to government subsidy in the form of "job creation" initiatives, military and space contract, and lax oversight.