willis936 @ willis936 @lemmy.world

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Biden's party is more progressive, but Biden is not. Note how he is on par with popularity polls with the guy who attempted to lynch our political representation. Obama was easily more progressive.

Edit: migrating my response to a deleted comment so others can read it. The deleted comment below accused me of not reading the article. This was my response.

Sure did. It’s an embarrassing op-ed. Short and flimsy arguments. Every link is either something that someone else did (mostly state legislators) or about lip service rather than action. About the only thing Biden can claim credit for is related to the economy, where his policy has helped transfer wealth upward. If “progressive” means “keeping things perfectly as they are” then you can go ahead and be a progressive.

If Biden doesn't at least say he wants to do something about housing affordability then I won't be voting. I've voted blue my entire life.

What change do you propose? Being born ultra rich?

If you work hard and become a professional you can make 100-120k in your 30s. Maybe as much as 150 if you get lucky. Those jobs exist in places where rent is 50% take home and ownership is completely off the table.

Do you suggest working a Denny's in a rural area? Fuck that and fuck you.

It isn't in Charles Village by any chance is it? I've got some war stories with Ben.

If Jesus got the wheel I don't think he'd want to come back to life.

It depends what you mean by support. They made the Steam Link for 3 years and have not made it for 5 years.

see headline

"Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?"

reads first line of article

"Oh it's for AI. Gross."

The economics aren't there. A cellular chip and a subscription will not pay for the private conversations of a random house.

You can't take credit for things that haven't happened.

That's 50x smaller than an EV battery. Being able to drive once every two months doesn't seem practical.

No. There's a clear line that someone crosses when they're hoarding. The physical space is unsafe and the people typically have some deep trauma they are not working through well. GP used the term "hoarding" to describe "dangerous weapons collectors" in a slurry way.

There is 1.4E21 kg of water on Earth. 0.03% of hydrogen is deuterium, a suitable fusion fuel. H2O has an atomic mass of 18 and O has an atomic mass of 16, so Earth has 4.7E16 kg of deuterium readily centrifuged out of ocean water.

D-D fusion converts about 0.1% of mass to energy (4 MeV / c^{2 / 4 Daltons). E=mc}2. So we have 4.2E30 (420E28) Joules of fusion fuel ready for us on Earth. We used 2400 TWh of energy last year. If we used this amount indefinitely then we would have 485 billion years of fuel.

Bonus: deuterium depletion would have virtually no environmental effect.

The Forbes article seems to be citing numbers that are now a few weeks out of date. They cite that Tesla drivers have 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers and Ram has 22.76. If you go to their source link you'll see that the more recent numbers are Tesla: 31.13 and Ram: 32.90.

https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

Ram in MA is 64.44 and I want these fucking things outlawed.

Rolling to 75 is more relevant in MA where onramps to highways are 50 feet long, but 0 to 60 is correlated.

Cool. Now lower interest rates so I can at least dream about the prospect of owning a house again.

Jeez and I feel like I'm tempting fate just by using a custom domain.

TrueNAS Scale has a built-in cloud backup tool that supports the common sites and protocols. Most all NAS solutions have something similar. It's really just an rsync wrapper with authentication and storage protocol support.

NAS + cloud backup is the way to go. Any NAS software worth its salt can do E2EE backup with any old cloud backup solution.

Definitely not for the faint of heart though. If you don't actively enjoy fiddling then there aren't many good options. Maybe icloud if you trust Apple to not de-platform you.

I had good luck with B2 backblaze but recently switched to storj for E2EE backups without having encrypted filenames in the browser. Overall these solutions are slower and more expensive than typical cloud backups, but it's well worth it to stick it to the man.

Edit: more expensive, not cheaper.

Gunbuster

I can't believe no one else has said this already. smdh my damn head