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  • Workers Make Smartphones. They Design Them, Assemble them and Sell them. Capitalism stole the credit and makes them worse

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  • My partner's iPhone is six years old. We're going to replace it soon because it stopped receiving security updates. She'd keep using it until it completely bricked otherwise.

    I appreciate they're some of the best around for longevity but I wish they'd push further. I have a Fairphone and their firmware support is the same so it's frustrating that there's not really an alternative here.

    I wish more devices would move in the Framework laptop direction, where hardware can be upgraded and old hardware can be repurposed.

  • China's EVs are fueling a big oil demand slowdown

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  • China's energy grid is about 80% fossil fuels. Assuming their energy mixture remains unchanged (a bad assumption as their coal usage is on the decline) it would take about 65,000 miles for an EV's carbon output to break even with an equivalent ICE vehicle.

    The waste and suffering involved in carbon intensive fuels is ongoing instead of being single event. One benefit of renewable tech is the recyclability of it's components. Once we're made the battery it can be recycled and died not require ongoing extractive mining forever.

    EVs have a place in a just future and can do some good at this time. Alternatives to cars are still a far more important and uncomplicated solution to our climate problems

  • TIL In the 1800s, individuals secured government jobs through connections to presidents, not by merit. This practice ended after a disgruntled job-seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield,

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  • Direct action gets the goods

  • totally equal

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  • Basically.

    For example, tens of thousands of people die every year in the US because of inadequate access to health care. Universal payer would be cheaper and result in fewer preventable deaths. Centrists do not support the policy and thus are willing to let people die in order to support the parasitic insurance industry.

    The genocide in Gaza, homelessness, prison industrial complex, climate change, etc. all get people killed in preventable ways. But we have to protect the owner class so we're not going to do any of the clear solutions. Letting people die needlessly is an acceptable result.

  • Best Accessories (or Mods) for Meshtastic Nodes

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  • Explain Like I'm Five

  • Gifts for my best friend who broke both of his arms?

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  • Car Privacy is Shit

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  • Bike poggies are worth looking into to keep your hands warm. Studded tires can help with slipping too

  • Senators unveil bipartisan deal on stock trading ban

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  • Most taxes on asset sale is based on profit, subtracting the bought price from the sold price. Given the wording the tax would be on the sale price, not the profit.

  • US Crime Rate Drops to ‘Historic’ Lows With Murders, Rapes, and Robbery Plunging, New Statistics Show

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  • I'm a lot less likely to report a crime after the George Floyd murder. Granted violent crime, like murder, tends to get reported regardless of a person's personal feelings about police, and reported murders are down

  • New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals"

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  • I like eco-dent I have some jagged spots on my teeth that most floss snags on. This stuff doesn't snag and it uses wax instead of forever chemical

  • the debt

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  • That sort of thing can happen in extreme situations. Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany are the most prominent examples. Both examples involved not having enough stuff. When there aren't enough necessary goods to buy and people have plenty of money you're going to get inflation. Using the right combo of subsidies, government run production, purchase quantity limits, reserves, vouchers, and price fixing you can ensure the supply is stable and eliminate inflation even if there's lots of money.

    That's true. That happens because people are stuck in the narrative of the government needing a balanced budget, just like a household. It also happens because the owners and the corpos use all their money and power to ensure workers pay taxes and thus decrease worker money and power.

    Yeah, if the population was educated on MMT the ability to bring corpos to heel would be significantly increased. People arguing for it are fundamentally arguing for a change in how we think about money.

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    Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government

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  • The nice thing about trials of corporations is discovery. We have evidence of Google intentionally making search worse, increasing the time spent looking for results, and this improving ad sales. All that came out in discovery.

  • ‘This doesn’t make sense. How much shopping can you really carry on a bicycle?’

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  • I hope rentable cargo bikes show up in my city soon. I can't justify spending the money on a bike I'll only occasionally use. Currently I'll rent a car instead but there are plenty of times when a cargo bike would work fine

  • De-Googled Android operating system /e/OS V2 brings Android Auto support, UI and privacy enhancements - Liliputing

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  • Yeah, I had to install a different launcher Bliss is not my style. I've been enjoying lawnchair tho

  • How long is your commute to work?

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  • If I carpool, 25 minutes. If I take public transit 1.5 hours. If I ride a bike 1 hour. I usually carpool there and leave at 3 to take transit back. I tend to work on the bus.

  • What it's like to be a developer in 2024

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  • Agreed, I switched to their unlimited tier pretty quickly

  • What it's like to be a developer in 2024

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  • I've been using it for a few months. It's good. I get the official docs for my first result using OP's query. 300 queries, their starting tier was not enough for my use. I was using DDG before and like it well enough. I'm not sure if it's worth it but I like the idea of paying for services I use. I stopped using Google years ago because of all the captchas I had to fill due to my VPN

  • Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs

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  • Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

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  • Dams are scary too, I just hope people are able to decommission them slowly when the time comes. Otherwise the deluge is going to suck.

  • Anarchism @lemmy.ml
    pearable @lemmy.ml

    I'm almost finished reading Blackshirts and Reds. Do y'all have any recommendations of books or essays that respond?