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BombOmOm , 2 months ago

I’m more surprised they weren’t already.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

It’s also easier to make than cannabis. Alcohol will ferment in nature, you literally don’t have to do anything to make (crappy) alcohol. Good luck banning that, we tried once, went even worse than the war on drugs.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

Kinda. IIRC, if it is fertilized it doesn’t really work as a drug.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

We have already seen how Ukraine broke the Russian blocade via the destruction of Russian warships and is now able to trade via the Black Sea freely. That alone is a massive strategic boon to Ukraine.

And these particular ships form a critical logistics role in keeping occupied Crimea supplied. In the event supplies to the area are strangled (ie: the Kerch Bridge getting hit again) the lack of these operational ships will make it that much harder for the Russians to maintain their presence in that occupied territory.

Furthermore, it reduces the ability of Russia to land troops in Odessa, meaning more men can be removed from there and put somewhere useful.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

Good. We keep shutting down nuclear plants and replacing them with gas. We need to stop shutting them down and go further, build more.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

If you just want the cheapest grid possible (regardless of emissions), renewables paired with gas is the cheapest. There are some exceptions to this, places like cloudy Seattle don’t make for good solar farms, which drives up the effective cost of solar significantly.

If you are shooting for a carbon-free grid, nuclear is notably cheaper than renewables paired with grid-scale storage. Notably, much of the nuclear cost is bureaucracy that keeps the plants in limbo for decades and are quite good at making this carbon-free power source unnaturally expensive. This bureaucracy can be brought to a reasonable level if there is political will.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

There are some decently priced drives available used on eBay and Mercari, but they tend to get snatched up pretty quickly. Official refurbs are probably your best bet if you don’t want new, I know B&H sells official refurbs.

The main issue is people think ‘I spent $200 on this, it still works, I’ll sell it for $150 used’ and don’t bother checking what is actually selling. Both eBay and Mercari have a sold listings filter, which is a great way for both buyers and sellers to figure out what things are actually worth.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

Why is this article on a single rape being reposted daily?

The article was written just yesterday and Lemmy shows no reposts of the article to this community.

Archive link of the article.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

They go over this in the video, but there are a few major issues with airships, notably wind and the need to maintain neutral bouyancy. Wind is particularly hard to deal with and for bouyancy they would need to pickup an equal amount of weight at the dropoff point (which likely would mean trucking in massive lumps of concrete), eject vast quantities of helium from the airship, or have large tanks in the airship to compress the helium into. None of those are great solutions and building out a better road for last-mile delivery is almost certainly cheaper/easier.

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

Glad to see the potential death toll going down. Though I doubt that will get down to zero. :(

BombOmOm , 2 months ago

Assaulting people does tend to make one less endearing.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Then as a holdover we get Starfield, which pretty much shows there isn’t any creative talent allowed to breathe over there. My hopes for a solid future entry to the TES series died.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Depends on what goes into your taxes. Turbotax forces fees on you if you need certain forms. An actual free federal tax service is something like Free Tax USA which simply has an optional state filing for $15.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

a country that pushed for independence partly on the basis of unfair taxation going on to establish a tax system that practically requires you to pay a fee to pay your tax is just chef kiss

There are many free federal filing options, such as filing directly to the IRS via the mail or by using a third party service like Free Tax USA.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Meanwhile other brands like Tesla are selling like hotcakes. Maybe Bentley should make better cars.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Making sure the chickens stay healthy is perfectly fine. Particularly if the antibiotics aren’t necessary for human medicine.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Poland needs to destroy Russian ordinance in their airspace. Russia doesn’t get to start a war and bring that war into other countries with no consequence.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Hell, Poland could even designate an air exclusion zone stretching miles away from the Polish border and destroy Russian ordinance that enters it. What is Russia going to do, bitch that they can’t freely bomb Ukraine?

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Yeah, baring people from exercising rights who have been convicted of no crime is not only going to fail constitutional challenges, but is a very poor path to go down.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

what are red flag laws

The short version is one is banned from owning or possessing guns based on accusations from others. The accusation does not necessarily need to be of a crime nor does evidence need to be provided. The accusation simply needs to be a ‘red flag’ (a term which means many different things in different areas). A common one is accusing one of being likely to commit a crime in the future.

how do they hold up against 2A

They are not likely to fail a 2A challenge as the 5A challenge will be much easier to argue for a defendant. Barring one from exercising a right who has not been convicted of a crime is basically guaranteed to fail a 5A challenge.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Yeah, $13m for an oil spill seems like a prick on the finger.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Many of the jobs (and people) have been moving to FL and TX. Both places that picked up house seats in the last census, with places like CA losing seats. The prices and tax burden is much more palatable to individuals and businesses.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

The largest decrease was in construction, with 9,600 jobs lost

Rents aren’t coming down in CA. Gotta fix shit like that first.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Lol, the US told you about this two weeks ago and you let it happen anyway. Fuck off.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Soon the poors won’t be able to play games anyway as that will be forbidden by their owners

This is the nice thing about indy devs. Many of them don’t pull this shit and it is likely a large reason indy games have increasingly grown in popularity. AAA game is basically synonymous with microtranscations at this point.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Wasn’t that the branch he was kneeling to the hardest? If even they don’t like him, I doubt he will remain speaker long.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

The US should probably pass their lethal aid package if they want a seat at the table.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

It’s a Soviet APC. The picture here is an aerial shot of a Russian soldier in battle staring at the BTR he escaped from after it was driven into a lake by accident.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Too many students take computer science instead of software or computer engineering. The ‘science’ part of the courses is almost never used by students as the vast, vast majority of employers do not need scientists, they need engineers. In my job searches, I rarely see a job for a scientist, and the few I do see are highly specialized roles that aren’t looking for green college grads.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Current clever-person play is to learn a solid manual trade

Can confirm. Finding a solid tradesman is a bitch (high demand, low supply) and they get paid well.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling Thursday ends a 12-year legal battle to overturn an Alberta Human Rights Commission (HRC) decision that resulted in a $26,000 fine against Webber Academy.

This is pretty common. They are letting the lower court ruling stand.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

A solution is to build carbon-free nuclear plants. Instead we are shutting them down and replacing them with natural gas.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Government loans would be the way to go there. And fast tracking the regulatory approvals would go a long way to reducing build costs as well, much of which is just tangling with bureaucracy.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

we admit that we have to spend many trillions of dollars to upgrade the grid

This is going to be the solution. People will not voluntarily reduce power usage, forcing power reductions by massive increases in KWh cost would stiffle everyone from manufacturing to the homeowner calculating how much they need to turn down their heat to make rent this month, and rolling blackouts are so politically unviable to be laughable. The solution is to improve the grid to meet demand.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

The proliferation of home cell internet and Starlink’s internet has had a nice downward pressure in many markets. Both are often surprisingly good, even for heavy internet users. They are something worth checking out in your area.

Edit: Note, if you look into satellite internet, Starlink is pretty much the only one that doesn’t suck. This is due to the satellites being in low earth orbit (fairly close) rather than way, way off in geostationary orbit.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

The former is more of a technical one. LEO has (some) air drag, so anything there is temporary; and you need them in LEO to not have pings measured in seconds. But, as you stated, the CEO is…fucktarded. I’ll fully agree there!

But, more importantly, that’s why I also mentioned cell networks. In the US, TMobile and Verizon home cell internet is competitive in quite a good percent of the country and worth looking into if you don’t like your current provider. TMobile’s is $50/mo, for example.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

As someone who is bad at CSS, I can confirm at least half of your statement. ;p

BombOmOm , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Sounds like environmentalists need to support nuclear, a carbon-free power source. Then complaints like yours vanish.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

safe

Hormone blockers and surgeries cause irreversible changes to people’s healthy bodies. Such life altering, irreversible, elective changes are incredibly dangerous territory for minors to wade into and is why we are seeing such irreversible, elective changes being increasingly barred from minors.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Hormone blockers are not irreversible, it’s literally in the name

The years of blocked puberty is not reversible. You don’t get that time back. Nor does the body properly deal with a stunted puberty years after it was supposed to happen.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Children are not receiving gender affirming surgery.

Then banning such elective surgeries for minors is not a problem.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

With a 1% regret rate

87.8% of children are no longer gender dysphoric after reaching adulthood. That is a major reason why irreversible, elective medical changes to a child’s healthy body is so incredibly dangerous.

study source: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/…/full

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Nobody is talking about mastectomies to remove cancer. We are talking about banning minors from elective surgeries.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

that study is about sexual identity, ie- sexual preferences, not gender identity ie who one is.

You didn’t even get past the title which clearly describes it is about gender identity disorder: “A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder”. It also has info about sexual preferences, but that portion isn’t relevant to this discussion.

At follow-up, gender identity/dysphoria was assessed via multiple methods and the participants were classified as either persisters or desisters…Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago

Again, we aren’t talking about mastectomies to remove cancer. We are talking about elective mastectomies (and other surgeries) classified as gender affirming care. Removing cancer is not gender affirming care.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

At follow-up, gender identity/dysphoria was assessed via multiple methods and the participants were classified as either persisters or desisters. Sexual orientation was ascertained for both fantasy and behavior and then dichotomized as either biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic. Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters. Data on sexual orientation in fantasy were available for 129 participants: 82 (63.6%) were classified as biphilic/androphilic, 43 (33.3%) were classified as gynephilic, and 4 (3.1%) reported no sexual fantasies. For sexual orientation in behavior, data were available for 108 participants: 51 (47.2%) were classified as biphilic/androphilic, 29 (26.9%) were classified as gynephilic, and 28 (25.9%) reported no sexual behaviors. source

• Gender identity/dysphoria had 139 participants, classified as persisters or desisters; of which 87.8% were desisters
• Sexual orientation in fantasy had 129 participants, classified as biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 63.6% biphilic/androphilic
• Sexual orientation in behavior had 108 participants, biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 47.2% biphilic/androphilic

Read your own damn study

It states the terms ‘persisters’ and ‘desisters’ are for gender identity/dysphoria; of which 87.8% were desisters.

BombOmOm , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

You’re paying taxes on those returns, and if you’re living off them, they’re considered short term investments and you pay a higher tax rate

(US tax info) Investments are taxed as long term (the lower tax rate) if you hold them for at least a year. Meaning, after the very first year, there is no reason to every pay the higher short term capital gain rates. A solid strategy is to invest in index funds and hold them for decades. If you aren’t retired, put the dividends back into more index funds. The long term trends earn you (conservatively) 8% per year average.