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psivchaz

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  • SUVs made up 20% of global emissions growth and 55% of car sales globally in 2023

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  • This is such a difficult thing to do. Replaced baggies with reusable silicone. Use only glass or ceramic dishes. Use reusable bags at the grocery store. Got little reusable fruit and vegetable bags so I'm not using the disposable bags at the grocery.

    But at the end of the day, goddamn every food or product I buy comes wrapped in plastic one way or the other, and there's little I can do about that.

  • The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Is Constitutional, After All

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  • I spotted the problem. It talks about "education" which is really just code for "communist indoctrination" obviously.

  • Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

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  • I think the problem is that search does not make money. Ads make money, and subscriptions make money. Convincing people to switch from Google ads to New Google ads would involve dumping tons of money into becoming popular enough to attract advertisers. Convincing people to pay for search, like Kagi is doing, is probably even harder.

  • Bill that would fine parents for kids’ crimes passes Tennessee legislature [Ashley Paul and David Royer | 04/25/24 | TheHill]

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  • Here's the thing. You're sometimes right. There's definitely negligent parenting that leads to juvenile crime. There's also circumstances outside of the parent's control.... The community, the schools, the other children they interact with outside of the home, any mental illness or problems the child might have.

    The common theory here is that the parent should be more involved. But two things:

    • Children NEED some level of freedom. I'm so fucking sick and tired of the people who believe children should be monitored at all times. When you see it in practice, you immediately recognize it as a problem. Those children are stunted socially, emotionally, and in terms of their abilities. A parent who can 100% ensure their child does no wrong is 100% ensuring their child becomes a neurotic or entitled mess.
    • Available time and resources are not split evenly. Before someone says, "but someone who can't raise a child shouldn't have had a child" please keep in mind that peoples circumstances change. Ignoring the whole abortion debate, access to birth control, etc, a person who has a child with a loving partner with plenty of money can end up destitute and alone and still have that child. A person who has a support network of siblings and parents can lose them. A person with a reasonable amount of money for having kids can be financially overwhelmed caring for a child that has unexpected difficulties in life.

    Yeah, there's shit parents in the world. But the law is a hammer that lacks the ability to discern a terrible parent from one who is just unlucky. It's not the right tool for this job.

  • welp ...

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  • SyncThing has been great for me. I tried NextCloud and OwnCloud first, granted years ago, and they were not great. So I've been using SyncThing at least 5 years now.

  • Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

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  • I just want one of the "You can't vote for Biden!" people to outline what I should do instead. What's the play here? Dismantle the government? Sure, outline your plan and let's see if it has any merit. Protest? Great, tell me when and where but it doesn't preclude the need to vote.

    They talk big, but if their entire plan begins with "don't vote" and ends with "bitch about it online" then it's not a great plan.

  • Should we reconsider having children due to fears about the climate crisis?

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  • Alas, my state does not allow 48th trimester abortions.

  • US Homes Face Costly Retrofits for Induction Stoves, EV Chargers | New homes in the US may not be “electrical ready” after an international standards agency excluded building electrification measures

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  • Induction suffers a lot from a "people are really silly" problem. Every time I talk about how great it is, how much I love my induction stove, the person I'm talking to goes "BUT YOU HAVE TO BUY SPECIFIC POTS THO." As if it uses some rare special pot and you have to go out of your way for it, when the reality is that everything I owned and probably everything they owned works just fine.

  • Has this ever happened to you?

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  • I have a similar one! I did house calls. I got called out on a warranty call, someone said a coworker of mine didn't fix the problem. I look in the notes and the coworker says he did a standard virus removal, suggested virus protection but was turned down.

    I get there and sure enough it's riddled with viruses again. Coworker was legit, notes all in order, I tell the client that this isn't a warranty issue, the work was done, and it has now been reinfected and will need another removal. He seems fine with this, but his wife flips out and demands I prove it got reinfected.

    I suggest that we can check the web history. Since it was popping up ads, we'd see when the pop-ups started, and more importantly we'd see if they had stopped after coworker left. Guy says that's unnecessary, it definitely got reinfected, and this time he'll buy an antivirus. Wife is having none of it, says go ahead and check and I'll see the problem was never fixed. I ask if they're sure, guy kind of resignedly says to do it.

    I'm not one to kink shame, but when all the trans porn site titles came up, the dude was clearly mortified. I didn't get very far into trying to figure out if I can prove it's related before the wife says "just fix the damn thing" and stormed out. I hope it wasn't too bad for him, she seemed a bit difficult to deal with.

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    Ferrari's first electric car will literally roar, CEO promises

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  • I don't need it or support it personally, especially the really loud noises. But I don't think it's as simple as you say.

    A car without noise is like the acceleration version of a touchscreen. Perfectly fine and serviceable and probably works for most people. But I'm not going to automatically look down on people who prefer buttons. Having that extra feedback to tell you you've pushed the button, or how hard you've hit the accelerator, can be useful.

    That said, I'd much prefer they stick to internal speakers for such feedback. It can be useful letting others know that you're about to haul ass, but the people who do it outside my neighborhood at 1 AM in the most obnoxious way possible can right to hell.

  • What if the problem with cars was not their method of propulsion? Epthinktank | European Parliament

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  • Is it easier or is it just shifting the cost? We're talking thousands of cars needing electrification in any given city, at let's say they get it to an average of $35k each.

    Picking a random city, let's say Cincinnati. They already have some infrastructure but it's largely car dependent. They have 148k households, of which 44.1% have one car, 25.2% have two, 6.8% have three, and 2.4% have four. So roughly 65k + 75k + 30k + 14k = 184k cars * 35k each or minimum 6.4 billion to electrify them all.

    I don't know how much good public transit costs, but I have to imagine $6.4b can buy a fair amount of it.

  • Partitioning Your Linux Drives: Does It Provide Any Benefits?

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  • I'm trying out something mildly nutty by putting .steam in /home/steam, then making user-neon, and symlinking so that I can try kde without reinstalling steam games. If I succeed I might try it with other files.

  • My Git Knowledge

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  • All these comments and no one is going to point out that this is invalid?

    The git stage and git commit don't have any terminator, so it's all one "command" and will fail. Then there's a single & between git commit and git push, so it would run in parallel, so it would also fail.

    Also, don't git stage . people. Or at least do a git status before to make sure you didn't stage file-with-all-the-production-secrets

  • Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI | Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

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  • I think the difference is that generative AI is allowing the spammy bullshit to outpace the anti-bullshit measures faster than before. I don't think it's demonization to point out that it's a problem.

  • I remember the most random things...

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  • I got diagnosed young and didn't get a lot of the support you're talking about. It was more like they threw ritalin at me and expected me to be normal now. Also, Ritalin was terrible.

    I think it has less to do with the early diagnosis and more with the public perception when the diagnosis was made. There's more understanding now than before.

  • Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US

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  • I feel like we always do things exactly the opposite of whatever rational would be.

    "These people aren't using the land to it's full potential so we're justified in murdering them and taking the land." - About the people living half naked off the land.

    "You can't just make people move, even if you compensate them and are doing it for the greater good." - About the people who drive a pickup truck to Walmart.

    I know there's more nuance, it's just funny to me.

  • Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

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  • I tried it, then uninstalled pretty quickly. If I say, "Play music" then 10% of the time it would play music, and the other 90% it would tell me it can't. Same with many other assistant commands like controlling lights.

    What even is the option here? When Google got rid of adding things to lists, I started my official transition away from them by moving to Proton, self hosting more stuff, etc. But for a voice assistant it seems like open source just isn't there yet, it doesn't have the hardware, and my only remaining option is to switch to Amazon (no.) Or Apple.

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    The fact that this double standard exists (I did this search today to confirm)

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  • I'm not sure what you're talking about. One result affirms that you should feel safe and provides a hotline, the other starts with outright victim-blaming. The second result under "Maybe it's your fault for not listening?" is not a hotline, at least for me.

    My point is that if they just made the result the same then it would not detract from women, nor would it hurt the men who don't need the advice. You're going out of your way to defend an unnecessary bias by claiming it's more relevant, but that's not the point. They could choose to just not have the bias, and it would be a win while hurting no one.

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    The fact that this double standard exists (I did this search today to confirm)

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  • The true mildly infuriating is the comments. Whether this is rage bait or not, we should all be about to agree on some basic things:

    • Domestic violence sucks regardless of who the victim is and who the perpetrator is.
    • Helping one group of victims, like males, does not have to and should not take away from helping another group.
    • The number of victims should not be the deciding factor on whether victims deserve empathy and support.

    People in here are going out of their way to defend what is clearly a biased oversight, treating women like an automatic victim and treating men like an automatic perpetrator. Why? Just acknowledge that it's dumb, shows bias, and move on.