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grue ,

Like in a housing shortage you’re hoarding property and profiting off it.

Housing shortages are caused by bad government policy: namely, low-density zoning. Direct your anger towards the entity that deserves it, and make them fix their fuck-up.

(Note: I’m not making some kind of Libertarian “all government is bad” argument here. I’m saying that in this specific case, the laws need to be changed.)

grue ,

US, mid thirties, and I not only drive a manual transmission, I go out of my way to insist upon it. For example, I own a truck and an SUV made in the '90s because it’s difficult to find newer ones without an automatic.

grue ,

…says the guy who clearly doesn’t understand the geologic water cycle.

grue ,

It does not really generate toxic waste like coal fired power plants

It generates all the waste associated with the electricity it uses, which is often from coal fired power plants…

grue ,

By the same argument, replacing the coal fired power plant with wind and solar wouldn’t pose a challenge either.

The point is, you’ve got to compare apples to apples: either coal power vs. desalinization powered by coal, or renewables vs. desalinization powered by renewables. In every case, the pollution produced by the desalinization process (i.e., the brine etc.) is simply added to the pollution produced by whatever means was used to generate the power for it, which means @soEZ’s attempt to compare desalinization to power generation doesn’t make much sense.

grue ,

Huh, that’s the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.

grue ,

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grue ,

I agree with you even though I’m only guessing at the episode you’re talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.

(It’s the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)

grue , (edited )

According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as “open source”), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.

grue ,

While DRM is the bane of everybody there are cases where trust and integrity is important and it’s an intriguing look into how hard it is to manage.

Nah, when the user wants to ensure trust and integrity in his own system, it works just fine. The problem comes when the user who needs to be able to access the data is simultaneously the adversary who needs to be stopped from accessing the data.

In other words, it’s one of those situations where the fact that it’s hard to manage is a gigantic clue that it’s wrongheaded to try to do so in the first place.

grue ,

he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds

Enough to get an entire ship named after him!

grue ,

I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.

^ This guy Articles of Confederation.

(Seriously, the European Union basically has the same kind of structure now as the United States did between 1776 and 1789.)

grue ,

People in North America identified with their colony/state first, and the United States second back in the 1700s. Give it time…

grue ,

The European Union is a confederation, just like the United States under the Articles of Confederation was.

grue ,

They were both apparently being broadcast by ABC at the time, too.

grue ,

Less than a week until Dragon*Con!

grue ,

Nah, exactly 50% “of the world” is closer to Georgia than Georgia because the dividing line forms two perfect hemispheres. It just doesn’t seem like it because more of the world’s land area is closer to Georgia.

The fact that the map fails to color in the oceans doesn’t help, of course.

grue ,

The name of that island is “South Georgia,” not just “Georgia.”

grue ,

I’m just as annoyed by the overuse of the Mercator projection as the next guy, but no, I don’t think we can blame it in this particular instance. Consider the similar case of a day/night map, which pretty clearly reads as 50/50 even when it’s Mercator:

day/night map using Mercator projection

(Upon further scrutiny comparing these two maps, I think the missing Antarctica might be a factor too.)

Also, relevant XKCD.

grue ,

Well played.

grue ,

My argument applies to any cylindrical projection.

grue ,

I have a similar issue (also Firefox on [K]ubuntu 22.04) every time I open a link on a logged-in site in a new tab, but in my case merely refreshing the page is enough to get me logged back in.

I assume is most likely the fault of the fairly aggressive mix of extensions I’m running rather than Firefox itself, but I haven’t actually tried to troubleshoot it yet.

grue ,

Pro tip: the arguments to main() don’t have to be named argc and argv.

Also, you forgot to an alias for atoi, and number, n, and i could’ve been named something more on fleek.

grue ,

Yes, as are n and i. Do they not deserve ‘fleekness?’

grue ,

duckduckgo.com/?q=abuse+of+the+c+preprocessor

grue ,

Edit: wait… return ! 0 ; wtf

I mean, returning non-zero exit status on error is just good practice. It even managed to evaluate to the same numerical value as EXIT_FAILURE when I tested it on my machine (gcc 11.4.0 linux x86-64), although I’m not sure if that’s always the case or if it’s undefined behavior.

This cursed code is quite well-written.

grue ,

Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I’m sure.

grue ,

Your kids’ school is a “public charter school,” not a “semi private school.”

The purpose of those vouchers is to undermine schools like the one your kids are attending.

grue ,

“Reduce, reuse, recycle” is listed in order from best option to worst. Bandit has improved the outcome by reusing instead of allowing you to recycle.

grue ,

Guliani turned into Ghouliani only because of greed and dementia.

This incorrectly implies he wasn’t already a ghoul even back when he had all his faculties.

grue ,

Look up “Topsy the elephant” (among other things).

grue ,

That’s the thing that annoys me most about Duolingo: if they’re going to show you ads, the least they could do is show you ones in the language you’re trying to learn instead of your native one.

grue ,

“Ghettos” aren’t just apartments; they’re specifically segregated (and not by the minority’s choice) and often substandard/impoverished/oppressed.

Trying to equate ghettos with mere high density is nothing but racist NIMBY bullshit.

grue ,

Considering that this is new capacity, not total capacity, it’s a fucking absurd outrage that it’s anything less than 100.0%.

Every percentage point less than that represents us continuing to make the problem even worse even though we goddamn well know better!

grue ,

I don’t care what the excuses are; they aren’t valid.

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The folks responsible for the sexy costumes, Roddenberry and Theiss, died in 1991 and 1992, respectively.

See also: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/TheissTitillationTheory

The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.

This basic theory underwrites Stripperiffic clothing, Impossibly Cool Clothes, and pretty much anything else you stick characters into: what makes clothing sexy is the potential for a catastrophic Wardrobe Malfunction. The Trope Namer is William Ware Theiss, costume designer on Star Trek: The Original Series, who first codified the concept.

…

Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being “improved” by Gene Roddenberry.

grue ,

Wanting shit to be properly categorized isn’t oppression. Your take is flat-out idiotic.

grue ,

“what is the difference between these two pieces of material” (one was aluminum, the other stainless)

Did they expect you to identify which metals they were, or just that they were different metals?

Female soldiers in Army special operations face rampant sexism and harassment, military report says (apnews.com)

U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units. The comments, it said, are “not outliers” but represent a common sentiment that women don’t belong on special operations...

grue ,

There are lots of countries that have compulsory military service with alternatives for conscientious objectors (which is basically what you’re describing).

I agree that it’s a good idea. Moreover, it comes closer to the original meaning of that whole “well-regulated militia” thing. We should consider doing like the Swiss do: give (roughly) everybody mandatory firearms training, send them all home with an infantry standard-issue assault rifle, and then severely restrict access to ammunition except for legitimate purposes like practice at the firing range.

grue ,

It keeps track of which files you’ve played (e.g. to automatically pick the next episode in a series), it automatically downloads metadata and cover art so you have a nice browsing interface, it manages multiple profiles so that e.g. you can limit your kids’ access to only G and TV-Y or filter out genres a user doesn’t like, it lets you set parental controls to limit the amount of time watched in a day (or disable it at certain times of day), etc.

grue ,

Jellyfin is to Plex as Lemmy is to Reddit.

grue ,

The “Christmas Season” is Fall, not Winter*. The only reason the holiday isn’t literally over when the Winter season starts is that the Christians got their calendar screwed up and hold the holiday on a fixed date instead of on the solstice where it belongs.

(*Or “Spring, not Summer” for upside-down people, I suppose.)

grue ,

ITT: folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever, but are perfectly willing to jump through endless hoops to work around some of Windows’ deliberate hostility.

The Stockholm syndrome is real.

grue ,

Whoops! no, I meant xkcd.com/37/

grue ,

I meant to reference https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hyphen.jpg

grue ,

Now that I think about it, I don’t think acetaminophen has been effective in ever curing my headaches even back when I was prescribed liver damage amounts.

Sleep apparently > painkillers

I wouldn’t necessarily generalize; even if acetaminophen doesn’t work, other painkillers like aspirin or naproxen sodium might. (Personally, I take naproxen sodium and only naproxen sodium when I have a headache.)

You should learn how to properly write accessible image captions as the fediverse has a large amount of blind and visually impaired users who rely on screen readers (mashable.com)

Right now there is a bit left to be desired when it comes to lemmys accessibility features, but it’s a good idea to be mindful of the fact the fediverse and its platforms tends to have pretty universal accessibility features that will likely come to lemmy sooner rather than later

grue ,

Link to the knowyourmeme.com page, maybe?

Alternatively, for a lot of meme formats it would be appropriate to use the text embedded in the image as the alt text.

grue , (edited )

For an image embedded in a comment:

![alt text goes here](image URL goes here)

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