The elderly are maybe a better untapped labor source than children. Can you imagine they were getting checks for just sitting around being retired!? /s

Have seen a definite uptick in Bamboo ads since they made their anti-consumer changes. Great printers. Sucks they’re starting the slide to corporate assholes.

It can be both.

Fair, apparently at some point I conflated GNSS and Galileo.

5-10h battery life. Their goal list includes 20h idle time and recording video. It seems to be using some nonstandard SIM and only has GNSS, not GPS. Which is probably fine functionally but apparently they weren’t able to source a GPS chip to use the US system that met whatever their standards are? Large list of negatives for something the price of a shiny new foldable, or several non-foldable smartphones.

They also seem to be doing the usual dance of “Made in USA!!!*”

* what you think of when you think “electronic components” sourced from Asian countries, mostly we’re talking about assembly and that this is where it’s put in the consumer packaging.

To detrumpify / reiterate, because reading what Trump says always feels like a stroke even if you’re not experiencing one:

How “Germany” treated Jews, showing signs of love like:

• Gave them ‘help’
• Liked them
• Winking
• Gave extra bread sometimes
• Gave extra meals sometimes

How Hamas treated hostages:

• Not as well as Nazis

Good lord. Apparently Auschwitz was a hot bed of *checks notes* undesired winking? /s

That’s fair. I generally don’t care for the “newbie D20” seasons either. I think that they’re at least partially a mechanism drawing in a wider audience and giving them an on-ramp to the seasons that assume more base knowledge of the game. If anything I kind of wish they’d try for a few more shorter seasons like Mentopolis/Burrow’s End. Parts of the Fantasy High seasons can get sloggy IMO.

Overall a lot of their catalog is kind of hit or miss but I appreciate the variety. Sometimes it’s just a mood thing.

I wonder if it’s something about it being more directly a sketch show instead of at least nominally a competition?

This is the problem with the whole modern day fascism apologist movement.

“They haven’t completed the checklist, so they don’t count yet.”

Here you go. https://lemmy.world/post/27631215

They’re also demonizing and deporting immigrants without due process, attacking LGBT+ groups, stripping government programs, trying for aggressive short-term financial gains, and many other things that happened during the downfall of the Wiemar Republic.

Lets not be hyperbolic.

Anti-Christ, not Satan.

I honestly don’t remember a family or church event that didn’t use the plastic ones unless we were doing egg art as kids.

Candy beats a room temp egg that’s been sitting in a random spot for hours hands down.

* not counting inflation.

I’m not saying it doesn’t suck but SNES games were over $100 adjusted. It’s kind of crazy game prices have been inflation proof for ~2 decades.

Yes actually.

(They fold like a Navy carrier plane so they will fit at existing airport gates.)

Fluoridation is most effective at ages where it’s hard for kids to physically hold a toothbrush, much less develop good or effective habits. Especially if they’re in a family that is struggling to regularly provide food, much less worry about long term healthcare. Berating children for not knowing things or having self control is a ridiculous position to take.

The entire point of public fluoridation is that it requires no effort or cost by the people it is most effective for. It’s why some places take excessive natural fluoride out of the water and some places put more in because there isn’t any. It’s how we discovered fluoride was effective in the first place.

Aspirin is poison, Vitamin C is poison, water is poison. “Poison is in the dosage” isn’t a glib statement, it’s how biology works. Putting an amount of fluoride in the water that is still non-toxic if you severely over-hydrate yourself or regularly swallow a tube toothpaste, is not toxic. And it still has massive lifelong positive health benefits that reduce lifetime medical needs.

Because a lot of those people are children.

Fluoridating water is cheap. If someone is uneducated enough to not know or care about how their dental health affects their overall health, and the same for their child, it matters significantly less because they get a baseline level of care from the public water system. It means they use less medicare/medicaid funds in the years and decades to follow.

The single study cited in a lot of anti-fluoride laws/debates is talking about possible single digit IQ differences from possible overdoses on the scale of countries. That’s smaller than the effect of the same person taking the same test on different days. It’s a textbook example of finding noise in the data, pointing to it, and saying this proves exactly what I want it to. And it’s being used to remove one of the best documented, lowest cost, most effective large scale public health measures of the 20th century. Because it will not impact people with parents who can afford dental care and/or have the education to value it.

Are they ICE agents?

There’s a reason we, in the past, set up things like badges and uniforms to identify agents of the civil authority. It’s so we know there is at least the pretense that the rights of the person being arrested will be respected and that they will go to a location where they can be checked on and communicate with friends/family and receive legal assistance for the charges brought against them.

Masked men with guns shouting “I’m definitely police” and bagging a woman is not that.

Their bosses pretending this is good enough is, at the very very very least, endangering federal agents unnecessarily. To say nothing of the rights of the people they’re disappearing without the pretense of arresting them.

Yea some kind of fork of the torrent protocol where you can advertise “I have X amount of space to donate” and there’s a mechanism to give you the most endangered bytes on the network maybe. Would need to be a lot more granular than torrents to account for the vast majority of nodes not wanting or being capable of getting to “100%”.

I don’t think the technical aspects are insurmountable, and there’s at least some measure of a builtin audience in that a lot of people run archiveteam warrior containers/VMs. But storage is just so many orders of magnitude more expensive than letting a little cpu/bandwidth limited process run in the background. I don’t know that enough people would be willing/able to donate enough to make it viable?

~70 000 data hoarders volunteering 1TB each to be a 1-1 backup of the current archive.org isn’t a small number of people, and that’s only to get a single parity copy. But it also isn’t an outrageously large number of people.

It would be interesting to have encrypted blobs scattered around volunteer computers/servers, like a storage version of BOINC / @HOME.

People tend to have dramatically less spare storage space than space compute time though and it would need to be very redundant to be guaranteed not to lose data.

It’s worse because as described in the largest comment in the thread the Federal Reserve is not the US government’s wallet. And there is no mechanism for them to “just sell gold”.

It’s yet another thing that sounds vaguely feasible only if you know absolutely nothing about any of the systems in place.