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roscoe

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  • Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks

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  • What is there to breach? You're already exposing your your real identity when you post under your real name with this new requirement. As long as the methods for verifying your identity aren't something scammers can exploit there is nothing to expose. If, for example, you could use your photo ID with everything but your pic and name covered, and maybe also birth year for age checks, all it does is remove the ability for people to be cunts with impunity.

    I'd have to give it some more thought, but I'm not against this right away. The Internet has become a vile place. Maybe if you wouldn't say something in public for everyone to hear, you shouldn't post it either.

  • Ultimate toaster design tier list

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  • How the fuck am I just learning that toasters can have little racks on top for croissants?

    I assume you can't actually bake them like this. This is just for reheating them while keeping them crispy and flaky, right?

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • I'm not sure if it was intended as behavioral engineering to encourage slowing down at crosswalks, but even if it's unintentional, I consider it a feature.

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    feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • If we ban then, no one from here can see or refute their bullshit.

  • What launcher should I replace Nova with?

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  • You can turn it off. It tells you what might get funky if you do. I didn't notice any problems so I've left it and all other analytics reporting stuff off.

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  • We've all heard "it takes money to make money." But rich people know it's better to use other people's money.

  • What launcher should I replace Nova with?

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  • Try out Niagara. It only takes about 5 minutes to set up.

    If you're like me, you'll think it's too simplistic, you think you want all that nova launcher shit. But do yourself a favor and give it a try. Pick a background, pick an icon pack, select a few favorites and that's all you need to try it out.

    After that if you want to really dig in there isn't much (some of these things are pro features, I can't remember which because I decided to get it so soon after trying it out), it's like 45 minutes at the most to customize your clock, do the custom widget (multiple widgets can share space, you just swipe through), decide if you want music controls on the home screen, and set up pop-ups (like a folder but more, can be in your favorites or your app list), and hide apps from the list (either because they're in a pop-up or you just never use it). And then...that's it, there's nothing else to do.

    I tried it out a while ago when the original developer for nova quit the company that bought nova. Did a quick setup, played around for 30 minutes and bought pro right away. I was very surprised at how much I liked a simplistic launcher.

    You've got nothing to lose but 30 minutes, check it out.

    Edited for clarity about the nova developer quitting.

  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • That's not how it works. You're correct when you say that from your point of view it's Earth's clock going half speed and from Earth's point of view it's your clock going half speed while you're traveling away from Earth (or Earth is traveling away from you, both are equally valid), but that's only true as long as the distance between you and Earth continues to increase at 86% of the speed of light. As you decelerate at your destination your reference frame continuously changes until you're back in the same frame as Earth (or nearly so, we can assume the two stars aren't exactly maintaining their relative positions). While you're decelerating, from your perspective Earth's clock speeds up and goes faster than yours, how much is determined by your rate of change in relative velocity. Earth's reference frame isn't changing (ignoring movement around the sun, galactic center, the great attractor, etc.), so the Earth's perspective on your clock doesn't change, the Earth sees your clock gradually speed up as you "slow down" until it's going the same rate, but never faster. So once you're back in the Earth's reference frame both you and the Earth will agree that your clock advanced 5 years while Earth's clock (and your destination's clock, adjusted for any relative movement between it and Earth) advanced 10 years. This assumes a constant 86% light speed and ignores the time accelerating at departure and arrival so let's assume very fast acceleration so it doesn't change more than a couple days.

    Edit: this is all completely ignoring gravity based time dilation from the spaceship climbing out of Sol's well and going down the destination's well and only considers velocity based time dilation. It would be more correct if you only considered two spaceships in a void where one accelerates to relativistic speeds and then accelerates back into the reference frame of the other.

  • Elon Musk is digging a car tunnel under Nashville, Tennessee to reduce traffic jams. Local officials are worried.

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  • Let him build it.

    Let the chauffered car thing fail.

    Eminent domain the tunnel.

    Stick a fucking train in it.

  • China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes

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  • I have a question about this I haven't been able to answer.

    Is the problem the "flushness" or the lack of mechanical linkage to the door latch?

    I've been in several Teslas, every model but the Cybertruck, and you push on the fat part and the skinny part comes up, which you pull to open. But as I understand it, that just activates an electrical servo or something that unlatches and partially opens the door, and that's the problem because without power pulling the handle does nothing.

    I had a Jaguar F-Type R (I think Range Rovers have the same handles) and it had flush handles that you could set to pop open when you approached, or you could hit a little button on the forward end to pop open the rear end or, like the Tesla, you could push on the forward end to manually raise the rear end and when you pulled on the handle you were mechanically unlatching and opening the door, unlike the Tesla. You could disconnect the battery and still open the door, which as I understand it, you cannot do with a Tesla. Would this be ok?

    If it seems far fetched that every news organization keeps talking about flushness when that's not the problem, I'm willing to entertain it because that's what happens every time my area of expertise ends up in international news. Whenever my profession, or a related one, is in the news they almost always get it at least a little wrong, and sometimes ridiculously wrong. And they say the same wrong things across all news sources all over the world. I, and others in my group of professions, can see why this happens. They get some basic information but lack context so they interpret it wrong and what comes out is complete nonsense, or at least a little misleading.

  • Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now.

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  • I thought I was a "customize everything" Nova launcher kind of guy, but when I heard the original developer had quit the company that bought it I switched to Niagara. I thought I'd just try it out for a few days, immediately got hooked. Just a few things to set up then your done and getting to everything is so much faster and easier, one handed.

  • My brother grew up to become a homicidal freak. Are violent men common in the general population or was our childhood ROYALLY fucked?

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  • Not just anyone, but it's not too hard. They expect to be able to get you into shape. There are also waivers available for disabilities, if you score high in the ASVAB you're more likely to get one. OP didn't mention any disability so it shouldn't be a problem.

    And different branches have different requirements. A buddy from high school with a horrible home life and no prospects was too heavy for the Marines but the army took him. Got a specialty with transferable skills in the real world and has a great life now. In and out before 9/11 though.

  • Fatburger owner files for bankruptcy in latest casual-dining demise

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  • 20-30 years ago they were awesome. Used to be around the speed and price of five guys but way better. They've been on a steady decline for a long time now. All of them near me have been shut down for a while, I'm kind of surprised they're still around in any significant numbers.

  • My brother grew up to become a homicidal freak. Are violent men common in the general population or was our childhood ROYALLY fucked?

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  • Say you lost your driver's licence/ID and need your birth certificate and SS card to get a new one, a new passport is easy enough if you have those basic documents.

    I'm going to get burned like crazy for saying this but if leaving right this second, like NOW, really means homelessness for you; go join the air force. Sign the papers, pack up what they let you bring and forget about everything else. If your family gets wise to what is going on and tries to stop you, they will come looking for you and your family will be in deep shit. Maybe even mention to your recruiter that if you don't show up at the appointed time, you're probably being held against your will, might speed things up.

  • Payment

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  • There's another catch if you're not using a card with rewards. (As I understand it this is mostly a U.S. thing, other countries don't do this.)

    Every year when I take my big vacation my wife and I get 1-1.5 of our international business class tickets paid for by rewards on one card and about half of our hotel suites (about 10-11 nights) paid for by rewards on another card. If you're paying cash or using a card without rewards, you're paying for my vacation.

    Places with different prices for cash and cards are vanishingly rare. Mostly because card processing companies try to penalize places that do this. So everyone pays higher prices to pay for the higher processing fees for reward cards. If you aren't getting something back you're just paying for people that are.

  • PBS News Confirms Weekend Team Will Air Final Broadcast on Sunday

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  • Time to up my donation to my local affiliate.

    When you donate to your local station you get access to PBS Passport streaming. Lots of good stuff on there.

  • Low and Slow

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  • I assume gliding birds also experience ground effect like aircraft do.

    It's like a little cushion of air (not really, but that's what it feels like when you're trying to land with a little too much speed) right before you touch down making it easy to float close to the ground for a while.

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  • I just scrolled past three depressing posts because I didn't want to deal with it this early and clicked a comic instead, only to have it be this comic.

  • Age is a state of mind

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  • In episode 7 Will came out to his mom and friends. Aside from just him coming out, it was important because doing so was necessary for him to believe in himself so he could do his part or something. Apparently it's getting review bombed for that, it's currently at 5.something which is bullshit. I think the episode's quality was in line with the rest of the season, which so far is coming in around 8, maybe a little over. I agree with that. Pretty good, but not spectacular.

    Edit: it's got a long as fuck epilogue if you're into that sort of thing.