willis936 @ willis936 @lemmy.world

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I am surrounded by hundreds of empty units owned by a few multinational corporations subcontracting out their properties to the same management firm. They all use the same profit maximizing algorithm with a shared database. It's very illegal. I don't think a city could win a fight against a single billionaire, let alone a legion of them. I don't see my city even trying. Right now some tenants across the country are suing, which is an even more damned approach. This needs a federal stick.

Put capital gains tax on housing investments. Divert all cash from a pie in the sky train program for housing subsidies.

I don't need a train. I need rent that isn't 60% of my take home, or, better yet, a house. What's that? NYT is saying that's never going to happen and that I should just be okay with it. Oh and the economy's doing great.

It does have a decent loop area in between the signal and return path and any flux passing through it will induce noise. This area is too small for 60 Hz, but there's a lot of microwave crap that would get picked up. If there isn't a low-pass analog filter before the next silicon junction then this RF EMI will get rectified down. If it's a sufficiently bad situation then you'll hear it. That's why you can hear garbage when you put your phone right next to crappy computer speakers.

A lot of the "scientists" that get laughed out of their field but get their Netflix "documentary" deal seem to use this neat trick.

They're particularly good at starting with a conclusion then shoehorning in a bad analysis with uncompelling evidence.

We have not spent a hundred billion dollars on fusion energy research collectively as a planet in the past 70 years of working on it. We do spent 10x that every year for the US defense budget.

we should have a treasonous rapist for president

I don't think many thinks these exact words. I think that they want someone cruel and vindictive and willing to break the rules to hurt their enemies.

Sure they can. Just give the $7500 credit to an EV worth its price.

I strongly agree on all points. In particular the inhumanity of the way animals are treated in contemporary mass ranches is troubling. DFW's "Consider the Lobster" resonates with me.

The reason I called out the above comment is because slamming to the absolutist rails is regressive. What makes a difference isn't going to the extremes but bringing people into the fold. It is particularly effective to highlight the issues you have and then say "you don't need to stop eating all meat". Most people won't. If your points are well received then a takeaway of "choose to not eat meat more often" is much more impactful rather than "oh well nothing I can do since I am going to continue eating meat".

It’s fairly apparent that the person you’re replying to is referring to modern society’s obsession with producing as much meat as we do, not the concept of eating meat as a whole.

Complete and utter bullshit. Don't move goalposts because you don't want to concede a point. They explicitly said:

I truly believe that future generations will look back on eating meat as a barbaric mistake

That doesn't even remotely imply there is a quantity of meat consumption that is morally acceptable.

Your NPC subroutine is taking a long time to load.

The prospect of one entity maybe having a backdoor is much more secure than every entity for sure having read access.

If you use RCS or SMS, yeah. iMessage is E2EE.

I'd be surprised if they don't start setting performance records soon. First plasma was a few weeks ago.

If waste heat becomes a problem then we have been wildly successful beyond our most optimistic hopes. Signs point to that future being an utter fantasy. It's squarely in the "good problems" category. I wish we could just choose between another order of magnitude increase in industrial output and increasing the temperature of the planet by a few degrees

Watch me.

Not in New England. It used to be the #6 and it's been gone since the Summer.

They dropped the two cheeseburgers meal this year. That was the most American meal they offered and they just dropped it.

30 Rock

The same GrapheneOS kicked out of AOSP Alliance for being toxic and shady?