Overzeetop @ overzeetop @lemmy.world

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a country that is not your own

Well, the already own the US (or at least most of the congress); why not try and expand?

millenial.com is just a whatsapp call away!

Like most scientific and technical advances, it could be an amazing tool for personal use. It won’t, of course. It will be used to make someone rich even richer, and to control or oppress people. Gotta love humanity.

I suppose the best option would be to decide to expand the fan, condemn the land, and take it over using eminent domain for assessed value on the tax records.

Everything should be based on gross revenue - especially taxes. You shouldn’t get to not pay for all the infrastructure your country provides just because you spent too much on the business. The electric Co, water, suppliers, and contractor services get paid whether you make money or not. Government should be the same.

There’s still a core of easily offended people who ended up here on Lemmy. Kinda sad, but that’s humanity.

Which is basically google maps with a couple extra features. In my utterly unscientific, purely anecdotal study I’ve found the traffic and routing data to be better at avoiding traffic and providing more accurate arrival times. This data was collected over a long diving vacation where my wife and I both had maps up (me:waze, her:Amaps) and about two thirds of the way through in asked her why her Waze was giving her different (and substantially shittier) directions than on my phone (both are iPhones). When I looked at her phone it clearly wasn’t using Waze. She didn’t realize she had defaulted back to Apple Maps.

I don’t mind Apple Maps, generally, and the watch integration, like everything else, is excellent. But I mostly hate how ugly my Apple Watch is and rarely wear it anymore.

I have a hpwh and , when the coils aren’t leaking coolant (repaired twice under warranty) it works well. I keep it in a room that has the washer/dryer, spare fridge, icemaker, and my espresso machine - all devices which would work against my A/C in the summer. It keeps that area nice and cool. In the winter I shut off the hp and run it in resistance mode or it really cools the basement excessively (which I’d also where my home office is).

The only other drawback is that the heat pump is very noisy compared to, say, a refrigerator or a good mini split heat pump - the little fans they use on the exchanger just whine.

Aside from the easy part, and a game selection that’s clearly less than pancake, wireless with the Q2 is cheap, wireless (even for PCVR), and stupid fun. Setup is still a bit onerous as nobody in the money chain has a reason to make it easy. OTOH, a $40 router, $10 for virtual desktop, and a balling game PC is all you really need.

I rarely have more than an hour or two for gaming at a times. So the weight of the headset and any battery life issues are moot.

Corporations are people too...

https://apnews.com/article/local-elections-voting-corporate-entities-c9d0e49f5e475b45cb957fbec110d3e7

5 years

50 years, and the enslavement of their children and grandchildren - that's my minimum for an experiential evaluation.

They were just unpaid interns receiving exposure and experience.

Not only that, but all their children would be guaranteed employment, housing, and care. What's not to love (aside from the hard work, beatings, rapes, and total lack of freedom)?

actual fascists

You misspelled libertarians, friend.

The man was literally arrested and appeared in court already.

Multiple times. And yet he walks free, passport in hand, foreign governments lavishing money on his closer family members (who are also his business partners), supporters lavishing money on him to aid his lifestyle defense fund campaign.

Additionally, and more deleterious, if a company knows you're looking to take a vacation, or to buy new shoes, they can increase the price that is served to you across all of your internet searches. This is the counter to the privacy argument which separates automated/computer knowledge vs personal knowledge. It's one thing for someone to be reading all of my Gmail, which is creepy and invasive, vs Alphabet scanning my email and building a consumer profile on me so that all of my searches are tagged and referenced to extract maximum value from my online purchases, which isn't creepy or invasive (imho) but may materially affect my quality of live which is bad in a totally different way.

Biden? You mean the Biden that forced the Rail Owners into giving mandory sick leave? This Biden, who is touted as

We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

by the IBEW?

For:
Use Firefox in private mode only with VPN, Firefox Focus on mobile for non-routine browsing
Mobile device apps, outside of the big three noted above, have no non-connectivity related permissions outside of their sandbox
Use a password manager for all logins which generates a new, random 20 character mixed password for every site

Against:
Have Google Apps for most services, browse on Chrome
Have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and several other social media accounts
Almost never change my passwords
Carry around a device which transmits my exact location to no less than three major US corporations
Let people know what my privacy protection schemes are on a public internet forum

And to think, Clarence Thomas' wife was taking bribes on his behalf before it was cool.

I'm architecture-adjacent, so I'm working with clients across a bunch of different market sectors, many are business owners, but my avocations are heavily into performing arts so many people I know in that group are a pretty substantial cross section of low to moderate wage, often entry level workers. I also own my business so I've been in the hiring and training side of things.

It does appear to. I can find myself by searching on my username in either the old. or current web versions, but it's all people just referring to me - none of my posts show up. The author:overzeetop search returns no hits in both the old and new search engines.