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partial_accumen ,

If you get a bonus, that might be taxed withheld at 50% because payroll is too lazy to figure out your taxes. You get the remainder back when you file your taxes. (Note this may mean you owe $200 at the end of the year instead of owing $1000. That still counts as you “getting” $800.)

One very slight correction in bold.

partial_accumen ,

This was bad policy by the USA. The Chinese vaccines weren’t as good (lower efficacy) than others available, but they were much better than nothing. Where there was no availability of better vaccines, this discouraged people from getting any protection. People died because of this stupid program.

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The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.

Why is there zero surprise this was done by the Trump administration and undone by Biden?

partial_accumen ,

I would have liked it to end sooner, but there was a lot to undo that first year.

partial_accumen ,

And the research team are now planning to build larger versions, including one up to 45 cubic metres (1,590 cubic feet) in size that would be able store around 10kWh of energy needed to power to power a house for a day.

Its not a replacement for lithium, but it gives some interesting information for developing future applications.

partial_accumen ,

OK then, so this is incredibly far from being near any real world application

I’d disagree with that, but we certainly need more info.

There are places on Earth where 300wh would be plenty and very far away from traditional power grids. Think like remote sensing weather stations or data collection stations. So a small solar panel could power these during the day and these supercapacitors would replace a wearable battery currently in use today.

We’d need more information how these perform under various temperature and moisture conditions.

partial_accumen ,

Power density doesn’t always matter. There are applications where space is abundant, but regular maintenance is prohibitively expensive.

In my quick example of a remote monitoring station, it may cost $10,000+ to send a helicopter out to change the 12v car battery when it dies from exposure to extreme temperatures in 5 years or less. If something like this supercapacitor can last 20+ years without every be visited, it would be more cost effective.

partial_accumen ,

You could accomplish what you’re trying by putting the GPU in a second computer. Further, most UPSes have a data interface, so that you could have the GPU computer plugged into the UPS too, but receive the signal when power is out, so it can save its work and shutdown quickly preserving power in the UPS batteries. The only concern there would be the max current output of the UPS in the event of a power outage being able to power both computers for a short time.

partial_accumen ,

There is very specific wording for what is a machine gun, and a bump stock did not meet it.

Its far from specific, which is why this went so high in the courts. The wording has ambiguity in it.

partial_accumen ,

could you fill me in on what threats Huawei poses to I, a random poor person going about my day in the US?

One example: You are likely employed by a business here in the USA. If you were to lose your job, that would be a large negative in your life. The NSA isn’t going to ruin an American business unless its the extremely small chance that there’s a national security reason. The CCP would absolutely ruin an American business if it helped a Chinese one. Unless you work for a Chinese employer, the NSA snooping on you would be more beneficial to you than the CCP.

partial_accumen ,

This isn’t a discussion on just what cell phone a person is using, but instead on network switching gear used on the backend where all the data flows through.

partial_accumen ,

Sanctions aren’t the only tool in the toolbox. In this case it was a Presidential Executive Order

partial_accumen ,

What is the espionage device in my pocket actually going to do to me on my day to day life of browsing Lemmy and playing music?

In your case its not so much the device in your pocket, but the telecom switching gear on the backend that all that corporate and government data flows though. Huawei makes lots of that gear.

In specific cases of phones, while your job may not be high value for espionage , there are lots of people that do work highly sensitive positions. If the specific handset redirects email, txt, or phone conversations then that would be a problem at the national security level.

partial_accumen ,

Go on. Complete your thought.

partial_accumen ,

This is a good example of geopolitics.

White Dad Apologized to the Black Superintendent He Pushed On Stage, But It Didn't Go As He Expected (www.theroot.com)

“The outreach was really to indicate that he, Matthew, understands his mishap in terms of what he did, what he’s caused. He’s remorseful,” Briggs continued. “I took that as some form of apology, but that’s not something I think at this time amounts to a solid apology, from my perspective....

partial_accumen ,

I agree with the therapy but see 2 even worse explanations:

  1. He has such poor forecasting skills he didn’t envision his daughter interacting with the Superintendent at graduation and such little impulse control he couldn’t stop himself.
  2. He absolutely foresaw his daughter interacting with the Superintendent and chose the moment on state for the largest audience of his bigotry.

Both are horrible.

partial_accumen ,

Their productivity is naturally increased because they aren’t force to re-authenticate on their laptops because they were inactive for 5 minute while reading a report or going to the bathroom. Or worse, if they have multiple laptops because of security or compliance reasons, and one will inevitably be inactive forcing yet another sign in.

partial_accumen ,

Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I assumed they were just like us.

partial_accumen ,

Err, I’d argue that lots of the rest of us have “unquenchable sexual appetites” and in that way it would be completely normal for a number of them too as well.

partial_accumen ,

You’re underscoring the reality we now know. I’m not disputing that. I’m saying the whitewashed view that a good chunk of America isn’t also “hot blooded” and “sex obsessed” is the implied lie from the christian community.

partial_accumen ,

Correction: They’ll take your money and let you buy the ticket, but when you try to enter the theater, then they’ll require a PSN account.

partial_accumen ,

They’re not a sustainable solution for a planet

They are A PART of a sustainable solution for the planet.

but rather a way for auto manufacturers to stay rich off a tiny, extremely privileged minority.

What is your solution for low density populations living far from urban centers?

partial_accumen ,

That would work for Level 2 charging, but Level 3 DC fast charging requires a recirculating liquid cooling jacket inside the cable close to the conductor to allow the high current fast charging.

partial_accumen ,

The car already has water cooling anyway.

Car cooling cools the car, not the cable. If you’re removing the cooling requirement from the cable you either burn up the cable or downrate the charging session to be significantly slower.

But the cable could also just be not hanging around freely.

Where are you proposing the cable go if not hanging/attached to the charger?

partial_accumen ,

“150 max amp @ 600 volt DC”

Those are the older style cables that aren’t liquid cooled.

Cost would be a big issue too. You see that replacement cable is listed at $575 as is. It would be even more for the double ended version (and I’m not sure two connectors is allowed in the CCS 2 spec).

partial_accumen ,

Let’s see the mental gymnastics on this one, because I know quite a few hardcore republicans that loooove themselves some weed.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit

So those hardcore week smoking republicans want to be in the first group, and want everyone else to be in the second. If weed was legal it would collapse both into a single group. Republicans don’t want that.

partial_accumen ,

Its not the question you asked, but Nuclear plants can raise the temperature of the bodies of water they use for cooling nuclear plants. Additionally climate change is reducing water availability needed for nuke plants which is something I don’t hear the nuclear advocates talk about when we’re facing a dryer and hotter future. We’ll have to start turning off nuclear plants right when we need them.

This is already happening occasionally in the last decade:

Lochbaum analyzes reports from the NRC showing when nuclear plants scale back generation because of warm water.

In June, nuclear plants in Georgia, South Carolina and Pennsylvania scaled back their generation multiple times because of hot temperatures warming their cooling water. The Limerick power plant on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia has scaled back because of high temperatures frequently over the past decade, according to the reports.

The Dresden and Quad Cities plants in Illinois had to scale back because of high water temperatures multiple times over the past five years. The Duane Arnold plant in Iowa and the Monticello plant in Minnesota also reported scaling back generation because of temperatures.

source

partial_accumen ,

Following the publication of this story, X owner Elon Musk reshared a screenshot of it, saying it’s “important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”

“We’ve listened to our users who’ve voice concerns about being labeled ‘racist piece of shit’ merely for supporting tweets that suggest that other races are less human than white people. Today we’re doubling down on our own brand of ‘freedom of speech’ to mean ‘freedom from consequences’. From today forward, twitter users will be safe and comfortable voicing their (anonymous) support for the most disgusting racist, homophobic, or misogynistic tweets imaginable.” -Twitter PR probably

partial_accumen ,

“I agree that the word grope is a very odd word,” Spacey said. “I personally—I have caressed people, I have been gentle with people. That is the way that I am. You’re making a pass at someone, you don’t want to be aggressive. You want to be gentle. You want to see if they’re going to respond positively. So, I think the word [grope] is not a word that I associate with my experience.”

Its 2024 and Spacey still doesn’t understand the concept of consent.

partial_accumen ,

Don’t stare at the sun

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partial_accumen ,

Human Trafficker and Defeated Traitor Robert E Lee Memorial Park.

AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips (www.tomshardware.com)

In another attempt to convince us that “AI PCs” are somehow fundamentally different from the PCs we’re already using, AMD has officially dropped support for Windows 10 from its new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series platform. This can be observed by glancing at the official AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page, which now only lists...

partial_accumen ,

I’m guess its more a cost savings effort for AMD that they won’t have to do a development and testing channel for Windows 10 anymore.

partial_accumen ,

They’ll have to ban cell phones too, because people have been shot for holding cell phones that “looked like a gun”.

partial_accumen ,

Do you honestly think that kids need a molded plastic or stamped metal toy gun to “play with guns”? Have you never seen kids pick up a “Y” shaped stick off the ground and say “bang bang!” or “zap zap!” pretending its a gun (or laser gun)?

partial_accumen ,

That’s interesting! I also wonder if its a legal shielding technique to abandon the “vegan” label in case one of their upstream suppliers changes without notifying the manufacturer. If you never claim it to be vegan, you’ve in no danger of violation.

partial_accumen ,

There are people that hold specific definitions of the term “vegan”. If you never use the word, you can never run afoul of anyone’s definition.

partial_accumen ,

You need to do one of those force perspective photos making the giant watch look small. Give him the photo first.

partial_accumen ,

Not that I know anything about this company but like most companies I’ve seen do this, you can opt-out of arbitration and these other surrendering of rights. I just did a quick google search for “displate.com opt-out” and it was the first hit:

“THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE, A CLASS ACTION WAIVER AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER CLAUSE THAT IMPACT YOUR RIGHTS IN RESPECT OF HOW TO RESOLVE DISPUTES. UNLESS YOU OPT OUT OF THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE WITHIN 30 DAYS:”

displate.com/about-regulations

partial_accumen ,

I don’t have the OP’s original source code, but I’m betting the “here” hyperlink leads right to the page I posted. So probably not quite hidden, but “you have to click on the one thing we’re give you to click on to have more information”

partial_accumen ,

I was just quoting the Hitchhiker’s Guide.

First, keep doing that.

but Displate is counting on users glossing over the possibility until they have a reason to want to opt out at which point it will be too late

Of course they are, but there are options (not quite hidden) for users to combat this by opting out. The vast majority of people won’t read it, and won’t opt out.

I really would like laws that prevent this type of language though. That’s about the extent of my knowledge on the subject. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

partial_accumen ,

"The felon"s lowest approval was still more than 3% lower than Joe’s new low. That ain’t sayin’ much though.

partial_accumen ,

I think that tells you everything you need to know about Biden as a candidate.

It absolutely does. Biden is the right pick over Trump.

Non-viable. If you can’t out approval a 34-count convicted felon, we shouldn’t be running you as candidate.

Did you have reading comprehension error? Trump was more than 3% LOWER in approval. Than this new low for Biden. As in, even Biden as his worst approval rating is better than Trump (at his worst).

partial_accumen ,

Was. Not is.

Was, when President. Which is the equal measure.

Trumps approval was also much higher then Bidens ever has been at some points. Do those times not count?

Not cherry picking one time for one and a different time for the other. Just the facts ma’am.

Now who’s cherry picking? Biden’s highest approval is above Trumps highest approval, during both of their Presidencies. With Biden at 59% and Trump only reaching 47%.

Living in a constant state of outrage because reality doesn’t meet your expectations and other people obviously don’t share them is delusional to the point of exhaustion.

You brought your whole army of strawmen didn’t you? Did you even see how I started this thread?

Feel free to respond to the void. I won’t be wasting more time on you and your bad faith arguments.

partial_accumen ,

Also its likely not just black Americans being conspired against by these US institutions, likely other minority groups in addition, but yes definitely black Americans.

partial_accumen ,

this aint a race thing… it is a class thing.

Its also a class thing, but for many of the worst offenders out there, its absolutely a race thing.

partial_accumen ,

So is “artificially sweetened”,

That description doesn’t communicate if there is any sugar (calories) in it or not. That label would be accurate on a zero calorie or full calorie beverage.

The term you’re looking for is “unsweetened”. That tells you there’s no natural or artificial sweeteners in it.

partial_accumen ,

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partial_accumen ,

I think you’re looking at these labels thinking they are there to solve your problem of labeling a beverage that isn’t sweet (by any means). They aren’t.

These labels are there because most buyers of beverages are interested in if they contain calories or not. So the “zero sugar” clearly solves that.

Unless enough buyers are like you that they are seeking an unsweetened beverage, you’re out of luck looking for every beverage to be labeled as “sweet” or “not sweet”.

partial_accumen ,

Maybe they are and I’m (partially) justified and maybe I’m attributing malice to stupidity or however that saying goes.

I don’t think they’re trying to trick people into drinking sweet drinks. I think they’re trying to appeal to their largest customer base (calorie conscious buyers). There is limited attention buyers have, so drink makers have to be careful not to put too much, so their most important parts of their message get through. In this case “zero sugar”. They are probably aware that some people like yourself end up with something you don’t like, but they just don’t care because it doesn’t negatively effect enough people for their sales to suffer.

So not really malice, or stupidity on their part, but apathy. They likely know, they just don’t care.

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