Americans are divided on whether society overlooks racial discrimination or sees it where it doesn’t exist
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Yeah, it wouldn't even make sense for renting to be cheaper than buying. Most renting is from for-profit landlords. Obviously they have a mortgage, too. They're obviously going to try to make a profit. Plus mortgage is only part of the cost of owning. There's also property taxes and maintenance, which renting includes in the rent price.
The problems are mostly that there's not enough supply (most commonly due to bad zoning), homeowners oppose anything that could help (cause that would reduce the value of the home they already own), and that most of these landlords are for-profit. Being for profit means they aren't just going to charge more, but they also have a vested interest in making sure it's more expensive and less tenant friendly.
Strongly agreed. Lemmy needs to grow. I badly miss many smaller communities that are only viable with Reddit's size. Making prominent instances invite only (or requiring approvals or closing sign ups entirely -- as some other instances have done) is just going to hurt Lemmy as a whole.
Treating new accounts with a lot more scrutiny makes sense to me. We could require the first few comments to have mod approval to even show them (probably more of a per community setting since it would likely have to depend on community mods), restrict images for some period, have more aggressive content filters on young accounts, etc.
Same. I'm lucky for software to be my hobby/career. It's practically free. Contrary to popular misconception, it doesn't require any kind of special or more powerful hardware (for most dev, at least). Maybe $150 for a second monitor, for sanity, but that's not actually necessary.
...I mean, I do have good hardware too, but that's for my gaming hobby, not my software hobby.
They said emissions.
Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study
As for the rest of what they said:
The entire system of food production, such as the use of farming machinery, spraying of fertilizer and transportation of products, causes 17.3bn metric tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, according to the research. This enormous release of gases that fuel the climate crisis is more than double the entire emissions of the US and represents 35% of all global emissions, researchers said.
In case you're curious about plants, they're actually only 29%:
The use of cows, pigs and other animals for food, as well as livestock feed, is responsible for 57% of all food production emissions, the research found, with 29% coming from the cultivation of plant-based foods. The rest comes from other uses of land, such as for cotton or rubber. Beef alone accounts for a quarter of emissions produced by raising and growing food.
I gotta be honest, this comes across more like excuses to not make changes or even admit your part. I'm not a vegetarian myself, but I'm under no delusions that my meal preferences aren't bad for the environment and have ethical concerns. I eat meat anyway because honestly, I just like the taste and struggle to give that up. But I fully support those who can give it up and want to see lab grown meat be a viable replacement.
Like your roommate, nobody is saying literally everyone has to stop eating meat full stop. If you have a medical need, obviously keep eating meat. Similarly, reducing how much meat you eat is still an improvement. You don't have to go 100% vegetarian.
Similarly, if indigenous folks can sustainably eat meat, cool. But most people simply aren't doing that. And are you aware of why meat is so bad for the environment? I mean this 100% seriously: cow farts. Raising livestock ethically only addresses the moral problems with animal husbandry. This thread is about environmental problems. Land intensiveness doesn't actually matter that much. The amount of land used isn't the problem.
The avocados thing isn't related to environment. Again, I gotta be honest here, this feels like an attempt at a "gotcha". I get it. I struggled with the idea that my own consumption (which again, I still do) is bad for the environment. Plus I could never kill an animal myself. I can only eat meat because I emotionally separate myself from it. It's a hard reality to face and I'm still not really comfortable with it. But we can't act like "oh, you eat a bad thing, so I'm okay to do different bad things" is a good reasoning.
Don't take things literally when someone says "we should all do X". That's not a personal attack on you if you don't. That's just how we talk. We say "everyone should watch the new Barbie movie because it's really great" but I don't actually mean literally every single human needs to watch it.
The article isn't very clear, but I think it would just remove her from her position. So it probably wouldn't ruin her career. If anything, I feel like plenty of law firms would love an experienced prosecutor who has the guts to oppose the madness that is the alt right.
Now now, it's more general than that. In between shooting black people, they also love to use their laws on other things they don't like, such as other people's abortions (not their own, mind you -- that's different), LGBT people, and immigrants (especially scary turban men).
Maybe that is a household figure or something? Or maybe it's actually the total across the entire country divided by the population, which would include many pieces of clothing companies buy, not individuals?
If it weren't for Manchin and Sinema in 2021, they could have added both DC and PR as he 51st and 52nd states
AFAIK, fillibuster applies. So you actually need 60 votes to really do anything controversial (with a handful of exceptions). So no, having those two people wouldn't have made a difference. We'd need 10 half decent republicans and those don't exist.
IMO the blame needs to be correctly focused. As awful as they are, bad things aren't happening because of 2 senators who were elected as Democrats (but don't vote like them). The bad things happen because of the many, many republican senators who almost consistently refuse to vote for morally right bills.
Like, there's no good reason for PR and DC to not be states. Except for the fact that they'd both lean Democrat, so the GOP cannot allow it. They care only about winning, not democracy.
Yeah, I find Maps the best for getting around regardless of the mode of transportation.
Only thing I really dislike about Maps is that it doesn't make it very easy to explore businesses. Like, try to look at a random strip mall and it won't show you what all the store fronts are. Some things only seem to show up if you search for them (not if you look at exactly where they are).
Also, if OP is new, they may not yet be aware of aliases and functions. Generally you'd out those in a ~/.bashrc file that gets automatically executed when a terminal starts. They'll allow you to save a more complex command as a really simple one. And particularly can be useful when things you want to run are in unusual directories. Eg, maybe you have a git repo somewhere that contains some project you spend most of your time on, so you could have an alias that just cd's you to it's directory. Git also has its own way of doing aliases and that's really nifty for the more complicated git commands (or the more commonly used, like st for status).
The right always acts like it's some big gotcha "what about Biden/Hillary/whatever". They don't realize that most of the left has little emotional attachment to "their" politicians and if anything, a lot of Democrat politicians are simply adequate. Sometimes they're straight up the lesser of two evils.
But even when politicians are beloved, I don't think the left is nearly as fanatical of unwilling to change their minds. Eg, Obama in 2008 was huge. He had a massive cult following and I remember being really hopeful for him myself. But he ended up being kinda lackluster. The ACA was an improvement over the then-status quo, but as a Canadian, I always viewed the ACA as a laughably half hearted attempt at reform. And oof, the warmongering? Nobody on the left shys away from hiding that unfortunate fact about Obama.
You know, I realize I dunno who uploads their details to these kinda sites, but I'm glad people do. I consult HLTB a lot and it's always been really useful for judging the time investment a game will take, how worthwhile DLCs will be, and for understanding what kind of game something is (longer is often better in my book, but not always, since games like AC Valhalla have actually gone too long, since I can't help myself but to play mostly completionist).
Story is really what I care about the most from RPGs, though I'm also a sucker for old school RPG battle systems. I've never heard of this or the studio, but reviews liken it to Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy, which is a very good look in my book.
It seems like an especially great year for gaming. I can't remember the last time there was so many highly rated games coming out (and there's still more to come -- I'm most excited for Starfield).
I dunno, if they were just afraid of speaking out, why even talk to the media? Though I can certainly imagine that many of the smarter people knew better than to talk, leaving only those with chronic foot-in-mouth syndrome to get interviewed.
Same. Honestly, I expected YTM to make things worse. That's usually how those kinda things go. But it actually did get better for me. I jumped to Google Play Music because it had better selection than Spotify (at least back then). YTM kept that, but fixed the issues I was having with the desktop browser player sometimes getting stuck. And the more recent support for lyrics that are synced to the music is great.
Yeah, I love streaming for music. About $10 a month and I get seemingly every song I've ever looked up. Streaming video has a lot of problems with fragmentation, but music doesn't seem to have nearly as bad of an issue. I use YTM and have never not found what I wanted to listen to. $10 is like the price of a single CD (or was -- it's been well over a decade since I've even looked at the price of CDs).
I've also listened to a lot of full albums on streaming (it's often what I do when I discover a new artist that I like) and there's never an album that I'd want to buy every song from. My music tastes are also very diverse. My liked songs are full of tons of songs that may as well be one hit wonders to me. That doesn't translate well to buying CDs.
He didn't just steal content. He then tried to blackmail the company to not release the content he stole.
Also, while you might be able to justify piracy of a released product in various ways (the common argument is that the would be pirate wouldn't have paid for the product anyway and digital goods don't have any cost to the developer from pirating them). But when the product hasn't been released yet, then it has a much bigger cost because the pirated copy is the only option available and thus it can eat into actual sales. The inability to go through with their planned launch (something big publishers will spend millions hyping) and the release of an unfinished product can absolutely have financial damages. It's hard to recover from a bad launch.
And that's without getting into the fact that hackers like this don't usually stop at just leaking video games or the likes. They'll also often steal people's personal information. It's a lot easier to see the moral issues when it's your information being stolen.
Yeah. A troll might post something like a ton of oversized images of pig buttholes. Who the fuck even has access to CSAM to post? That's something you only have on hand if you're a predator already. Nor is it something you can shrug off like "lol I was only trolling". It's a crime that will send you to jail for years. It's a major crime that gets entire police units dedicated to it. It's a huuuuge deal and I cannot even fathom what kind of person would risk years in prison to sabotage an internet forum.
We shouldn't ignore rural voters entirely (which I don't think anyone is saying). I agree that they are overrepresented and that's a major problem.
We also have places like DC and PR that basically don't get any representation. And big states often don't get nearly as much representation per population as small ones. The US is extremely undemocratic with how they chose to implement things.