MisterFrog @ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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Wait, not only the POTUS can pardon people (to me, already insanity waiting for more abuse), but your state governors TOO?

Jesus Christ.

In most places (in the world other than the US), tax is included in the price. Are you not tired of seeing a price and it not being the price you actually pay?

In Australia all junk fees are expressly prohibited by Australian Consumer Law.

Help, I'm so confused.

(Not to say things are hunky-dory over here, just that their arguments, while already being ridiculous on first inspection, hold no water whatsoever because things work just fine here with hidden fees being illegal)

People's right to their own personal joys ends at everyone else's right to safety and not being killed on the road (especially as a pedestrian, like you wouldn't be able to see shit in this thing).

Drive it only on private property and transport it in suitable truck? Fine

This is why I will always argue that world-building-wise, the prequels and BBY are generally more interesting, because they create a more nuanced view of the politics of the Galactic Republic.

The actual plots of episodes 1,2&3 leave much to be desired, but to me, there's a reason why Andor is so compelling compared to the Mandalorian, it's the politics.

Anyone who thinks politics don't belong in a Star Wars movie isn't really into fantasy, which Star Wars most certainly is.

Nek Minit they'll say game of thrones, lord of the rings, the expanse, Avatar the Last Airbender etc (in my opinion some of the greatest fantasy/sci-fi of all time) shouldn't have so much politics.

Like... that's what fantasy is. Politics, human relationships and how people live and struggle against each other for their interests, in a fictional world with different rules/physics/history.

The Star Wars Sequels are trash because they neither have a good plot, nor good world building.

The Jedi were complicit in the corruption and injustice of the Galactic Republic, no doubt, and is great world-building, if you ask me.

Physiotherapists use a form of acupuncture called dry needling, which can be used to trigger muscle twitching/relaxation (I'm not really super knowledgeable on it, I've just been to the physio, who use this in combination with massage, specific exercises etc)

It's certainly not placebo

As for all the other claims made, I dunno.

Am I the only one who watched the video, and due to nostalgia upscaling my memory, could hardly tell any difference other than frame rate.

I should go look at the normal game 😅

Australia is also annual. We're taxed annually, so it makes sense to us

Is this a joke? (I know it isn't).

Why would I want to know the dimensions of the unfinished product? I'm not a construction worker, so honestly is there any reason?

Such a missed opportunity to do an upside down bee, with the stinger as the cone-shaped twisty top nozzle.

Thanks for this. Something about having to scroll, and it being zoomed in to almost everyday scale makes this hit so much harder than graphs with a tiny dot next to the wealth of the billionaires.

It's insanity.

This and the worse right-click menu make me dread the day I have to switch at work :/

(Below is my opinion, I respect you have yours, and I'm not having a go at you. I just want to take part in the discourse friendo!)

To me, if they wanted to store it in my area by encasing it now (or, any time in like the last 40 years), I wouldn't mind either.

The issue that isn't fear-mongering that people continually overlook because of all the knee-jerking people lamenting that it's "unsafe", is that we then have to maintain containment for thousands upon thousands of years.

That's the issue, permanent storage, not all the temporary storage that is happening now.

Nuclear is not a great solution to immediately reducing emissions, in my opinion. Takes way too much capital and way too much time to get operational. Don't close still operating plants, but damn, we need to be building the fastest shit possible, right now. Not something that takes a decade to build. We have solutions ready, governments just aren't getting their act together and build it. Even if the business-case doesn't make complete sense; we don't have time.

Sand batteries, liquid air energy storage, lithium ion batteries, flow batteries, (plus a bunch of other contenders) they're all immature technologies but they do work right now, anywhere, no terrain for pumped-hydro required. Sure they're not very efficient, or have crap lifespan in the case of Li-ion, but solar plants literally aren't being built in some places because prices go negative during the day, and plants are being curtailed.

We need to build storage, now, even if it's not a silver bullet. And we can't wait for expensive-as-fuck nuclear.

Someone should call me when we decide re-enriching spent nuclear fuel is fine and we can do nuclear waste recycling, actually getting our money's worth. Or when thorium gets good.

My personal opinion conclusion:

• Nuclear waste is not immediately that concerning for safety, it's the fact we're signing up to store it for longer than recorded history.
• It's expensive and takes to long to build
• The technology needed for the energy transition already exists
• Also agree, that turning off operating nuclear doesn't make sense.

Thanks for reading, looking forward to hearing people's thoughts.

I think it's naive to think that the imperial core will stop with the needless wars simply because oil is no longer the hot commodity. There's always perverse interests to use the military for power projection and resource control.

Under your current voting system, this will never change.

I for one, refuse to be shipped off in our generation's tribute to America. Our government (Australia) is still the US' vassal state.

Here's the trick (maybe): "Don't you know that WhatsApp is owned by Meta and collecting information on your chat metadata (who you chat to, when, your contacts, their contacts)."

Tell them to get Signal. If there's any country on this planet where convincing people to use Signal is easier, it must be Germany. GMaps streetview was banned there until recently, everyone uses fake names on Facebook, if they even made one in the first place.

Surely they must be amenable to Signal

Thank you. This is such a breath of fresh air. In all cases I prefer a simple answer, when organising an event with multiple people where I want to get ideas on numbers for planning.

• Yes - great! See you there

• No (with or without a reason) - fantastic! We've all got our own stuff going on or reasons why we don't want to go!

• Maybe, with a reason why, or when you would be able to give an answer - cool!

• Maybe, with no further explanation - ugh. I'll just assume you're not coming and don't care.

Maybe with no explanation is the cowards way out. Especially when "no sorry, I'm busy!" is the standard white lie.

"No because I don't want to (don't feel socially up to it)" is the hero's response and I salute you 🫡

Journalists barely cite anything. "A study from this organisation says this." Don't tell you when it was published, or link to the official website. Nada.

Journalists are pretty trash at citing their sources on average. I think it's wild most countries don't seem to regulate this. It would do wonders for archives of news content so that you can actually follow up on the story to it's source.

I just hopped to another launcher by total coincidence a couple of weeks ago. This is welcome news

TotalLauncher

Because it makes getting an intuitive sense of what solar time it is somewhere harder.

Can I call my grandma in a different country? Hmm what time is average midnight there. Okay 8 (so far, same thing as looking up a timezone), and it's 18:00 now, so 10 hours after midnight, which is like my 23:00. Needlessly complicated with extra steps for the average person.

Sure, you can say, I'll call you X and that will mean the same thing everywhere, but does not have any information about solar time. And these days, it's automatically converted if you use a calendar (which you should). This is the point of programming, to make the USERS life easier, not the dev. The end is more important than the means, I think we can agree.

Or: what time is it where my grandma is? Okay, cool, I have a sense of what that is immediately after knowing the answer.

There are reasons we do things this way. Working roughly to solar times has more benefits than being able to say a time and it mean the same moment everywhere.

I say we leave things the way they are, works okay.