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There are other benefits aside from money that you enjoy when riding a train/bus compared to driving.

Buses/trains have drivers themselves, so you don't have to engage with traffic to and from work - and during rush hour when the most people are on the road during the day.

Then, when you ride a bus/train, you lower the impacts and demands on the natural world, like reducing GHG potential per capital, reducing the vehicle waste from oil leaks, tire dust, smog, etc. per capita, and reducing the fuel demand per capita needed to get you where you need to go.

Downside with public transit is that people don't like to be around other people in that kind of setting (for reasons like increased social contact for illness transmission, people might smell bad, might be loud, might pose a threat to others, etc.).

This being said, remote work is a wonderful alternative to even public transit. Agree with you there for jobs that don't need to commute. Some jobs still do, and public transit would be my next best choice. Still, some jobs need to travel more than a fixed route, so hybrids or EVs would be better than ICE cars for that. Etc etc

The house price just fluctuates continuously and when the "investor" or "scalper" purchases it, it was available at that price for everyone

The goods from manufacturers are available at that price for everyone too, right?

And then as another commenter said, sometimes down payments on housing are outside the budgets of certain groups in society - a point I suppose you can also make for the manufactured goods too.

I think the difference with the first 5 is that a manufacturer sets the price, scalpers purchase it by that price and sells it at a much higher one.

I don't see the difference here with housing. If a real estate owner buys a property then sells that property for higher than they purchased it, the market will either respond by buying or not. The same is true for manufactured goods: if the price set at MSRP doesn't not elicit a response from the market, then the manufacturer may lower their prices until a response is drawn - or hold out until the rest of the economy shifts (a gamble on the part of the manufacturer).

I don't think your reasons substantiate your claims.

What the fuck lmao

Yeah primaries are absolutely important

I've been helping my fellow zoomers by figuring out what their townships/town wards/city districts are, then what their local/state/federal legislative/executive/judicial districts are, then who's running for what position, then where to vote and (primaries and generals).

Information is power!

There's energy use, then there's water use. The water I use per dish goes down the more I load up the dishwasher. The less water I use per dish, the less wastewater I create.

I'd rather load it up fully than run it when it's convenient. At that point, I might as well just wash by hand but

Dishwashers I can see. Load it up after dinner, then have it run at some point overnight. Could just start it before you go to bed though, so it's a wash for me really

Good points. There are a variety of houses/buildings built during various periods of time according to various codes and standards, but if you're within city limits (US/Canada) then your house was probably built after the 70s/80s and has decent insulation. If there is an issue with the central heating in that kind of home, I 100% agree that there's an issue that you might want a GC to fix. If your house/building is old, or if landlords don't want to fix shit (and complaints are too much of a hassle), then I can also see that space heating can be a reasonable bandaid: at least until you get out of that situation.

Condensation is something I also forgot. That's important for you electrical system too. In my experience in electric distribution/collection, usually we'd want to keep termination points around 20/68, but thermostats could drop to as low as 10/50 before kicking in. Certainly keeping a house colder than 10/50 is a bad idea, but between that and normal 20/68 I'd think would be fine. You also have the risk though that your thermostat is a single point of measurement for the system. Other parts of a house might be cooler/warmer, so I'd agree with the advice to keeping your house warmer than 15/59, unless it supports multi-unit dwellings.

Good convo, cheers

It's not inefficient if it makes you feel warm. Often you don't really need to warm everything in a house to be comfortable. It might make sense to do so in a situation when electricity goes out/grid is unreliable and you don't have a thermal battery to ride on for a few hours, or you want to keep your water pipes warm enough so they don't freeze.

But I know a lot of people who choose to forego so much heating, keeping their space to like <15/59, and have a heated blanket or space heater/fireplace entertainment center.

Feel like this works best in a shared living situation though, like an apartment or town home. For detached situations, maybe it does make sense to keep things relatively warm in case of emergencies.

I agree with you on the technology part of it, but I'm wondering if OP meant "existing" as in how relevant of a social media platform it becomes.

Because a healthier population is a more able-working population. Great perspective

Now that you mention the apartments bombings, I do remember seeing footage of that. You guys are right

Yep. And if this app turns bad after a while for whatever reason, we can always go back to the FOSS alternatives.

Hell yeah!!!! App looks sick, this is my first interaction with a Sync product! Runs smooth and gives lots of settings that I appreciate.

Didn't the admins for Lemmy[.]world post their expenses recently-ish? I can't remember how much it would be for a single user to donate. I'd want to donate, but I'd like to know how much of my contribution would affect operation of the server.

I kind of like it tbh

With how shittily Chrome has been running for me lately, I'm feeling like making the switch to Firefox sooner and sooner.

Me when I'm balls deep in a research project. It's even worse with how some browsers allow you to group and hide tabs!!

So fucking stupid, we can't wait for corporations to fix our systems. It's one thing to allow rezoning so that such a project can be built and then offer the project/bid it out to someone like Musk to build, but it's another thing to place all expectations in a corporation on for them to completely drop the ball.

Hope this gets put on the ballet again. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, fuck me

They're animals.

Since animals cannibalize others of their own species, does that mean humans should?

Artificial insemination is no more or less rape than any other means of production.

Artificial insemination != forceful insemination (rape).

The former requires consent that removes boundaries (as a result of conscious choice made by a couple that is incapable of reproducing - or not); the latter violates consent that destroys boundaries.

We can't communicate with animals directly so there little to no way we can ever ask for consent to do these things to animals. Any animal insemination is forceful insemination.

Bulls don't exactly get consent, or give a shit if the cow is actively resisting for that matter.

Cows can communicate between each other, meaning that there is a possibility that consent is given, if said concept is even comprehensible by cows.

Consent as a concept might not even be necessary for bovines, however. I'm no ethologist, but it appears that one of the main ways cows communicate that they're in heat is by emiting pheromones that bulls then cross-confirm with other signs of estrus like mounting (see Cow Talk namely Chapter 4). Outside of matings seasons, however, the source indicates that wild cows tend to separate themselves according to sex: males with males, and female with females/young. There isn't a tendency here for wild bulls to seek out heifers unless it's the right time of year and heifers communicate that they're looking for sexual interaction. This is a form of consent since some information is communicated indicating a desired behavior from the other party.

Contrast wild cattle with domesticated cattle and it's been shown that bulls tend to be put in isolation from heifers, and that primary introduction between the sexes results in isolated bulls exhibiting "excessive mounting (buller-steer syndrome)" where "injuries to the bull being ridden, decreased weight gain and even death" happen (see Social Behavior in Farm Animals, namely Chapter 5).

If anything, domestication leads to unnatural social patterns that can allow for even more suffering than in nature. Again, I'm not an ethologist so we would need to review the literature more.