sensiblepuffin @ sensiblepuffin @lemmy.world

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To be fair, it's been ignored for so long it might as well be a secret weapon.

Agreed on the first part, but I'm not sure I agree on the second - the FOP is the best union in the country in terms of protecting its members.

Interesting. Well, I'm glad you don't have anti-vaxxers, because they are alive and well here, even in a pretty progressive city like mine.

The elderly have almost certainly gotten every booster available to them, understandably, and I'm not so sure about the young. A confounding factor is that most of my friends work at least somewhat remotely, and so only the people who have to see other people in person are masked up.

I have heard the same about the new strains (i.e. more contagious but less serious), but the two people I know who have contracted it this year have both been on their ass for at least a day or two. Add on top of that that we still don't fully understand Long Covid...

In terms of voting population? I imagine 50 is the split point.

From what I understand (person living in the US in their 30s), pretty much everyone I know has gotten the vaccine and 2 boosters. But (allegedly) because insurance companies are no longer footing the bill, pharmacies are stonewalling people asking for the next booster. I know three people who have separately been in contact or contracted the new Covid strain, all of whom couldn't get the latest booster.

Also, I'm pretty sure it's not possible to install any other browser on iPhones unless you get root.

Edit: It looks like you can with iOS 15.0

Misanthrope?

Turns out the people who write the laws have an interest in making sure that the maximums for these crimes are low.

Republicans will guzzle from the spigot of federal highway funding no problem. It's just when there's funds available to actually have a positive effect on their communities that they decide they're fiscally conservative.

I am, thank you! It's pretty common in my city, the police took one look at the surveillance footage and shrugged it off. I hope the thief got a decent amount for it.

The new ebike was my first big purchase after getting the new job, and it's a ton of fun. :)

My first ebike was stolen, about a week after I'd put it together. I was looking forward to zipping around my city with it. What really sucked is that I had bought it before getting laid off, and was looking forward to zipping around the city for fun while I looked for a new job. Luckily, I did find something new after 6 months and could eventually buy a new one.

You're just proving my point... MBFC marks Reuters as very slightly left of center in terms of bias. If you think that Reuters is actually center-right, then you agree with me. You're clearly either not reading what I'm saying, or trying to push a point, either way I'm done here.

What does it being world news have to do with it? My comment was that if MBFC marks the Associated Press, one of the most neutral news sources in the world alongside perhaps Reuters, as center-left, then naturally you should adjust all their judgments slightly to the right.

Judging by their faceroll username, they're not.

Again, the only non-rambling concern I've seen about MBFC is that they are staunchly pro-Israel. What evidence do you have that they're "far-right"? Calling AP center-left is a slight bias shift, but certainly not enough for me to call them far-right.

If that's really your complaint, then if it's not about Israel or Hamas, then I don't see why we can't use it.

You kinda have to shift everything they put slightly to the right - if AP is center-left, then I don't know what to say anymore.

The usual complaint that I see people bring up is that the people behind it have a pro-Israel bias. But for a quick glance, it's fine. The issue is that on Reddit, you'd have like 5 bot replies for 1000 human replies, and on Lemmy you'll have 3 for 15 of the same, so they stand out more. In my opinion, anyway.

Deep-fried LLMs.

Brother printers are easily within 100-200.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1802557-REG/brother_hl_l2400d_compact_monochrme_laser.html, for example.

Are you even looking at them?