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rockSlayer ,

Kill the sun!

Israel threatens to strike Iran directly if Iran launches attack from its territory (apnews.com)

Israel’s foreign minister threatened Wednesday that his country’s forces would strike Iran directly if the Islamic Republic launched an attack from its territory against Israel, as tensions between the rival powers flare following the killings of Iranian generals in a blast at the Iranian consulate in Syria....

rockSlayer ,

No it’s not, because Israel struck Iran first, and now they’re trying to play the victim.

NYPD Officials Orchestrated Smear Campaign of Police Critic Using Confidential Details of Her Rape, Lawsuit Alleges (www.thecity.nyc)

In the lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Monday, Rachlin alleges that in mid-2020 NYPD officials cut off her access to the North Brooklyn precincts her nonprofit serves and told precinct leaders not to work with her....

rockSlayer ,

I wanted to say ACAB, but holy shit this is way beyond fucked up. NYPD needs to be disbanded.

rockSlayer ,

The point isn’t to attack abortion or reproductive healthcare, it’s to make women secondary citizens again.

rockSlayer ,

I prefer the communities method more, since slows down my over sharing

rockSlayer ,

I’ve got it down to a science so I can procrastinate until the night before:

  • How many days? That many pairs of socks, underwear, and shirts, half that many pairs of pants. 2 additional pairs of socks and an extra shirt
  • Deodorant
  • Check to make sure the dedicated travel phone charger is still packed
  • Notebook
  • Laptop and charger dedicated to travel
  • A book that’s easy to pickup and set down
  • Corded headphones
  • Dedicated laundry bag for trips longer than 10 days
  • Bring a toothbrush for trips longer than 3 days
  • Bedding, soap, and shampoo only when traveling to the wilderness

I like to travel as light as I can and most of my trips are for a week or less, so oftentimes the only thing I need for luggage is a single carryon bag

rockSlayer ,

Yep! If you know you’ll have a bare bed, the sleeping bag can be used as bedding so you can save packing a blanket. If you know you’ll be in decent motels or better, you can save on packing the bedding if it’s not specialized. The only specialized thing I need for road trips are road atlases. Make sure you know how to read a map before you need it though. I assume this is for the eclipse, so make sure to pack bug spray and a thick sweatshirt if you’re coming to the Midwest

rockSlayer ,

I carry some disposable pre-pasted brushes instead

rockSlayer , (edited )

I needed that as a teen. I went from 5’ 5" (165cm) to 6’ 2" (188cm) over the course of 3 years. If I was particularly hungry, I’d eat 2/3 of the bowl

Edit: I feel like it’s necessary to mention that I wouldn’t eat more than 2/3 of the bowl because I felt like it would be unfair to have more than that

rockSlayer ,

Someone has to bite the bullet and ask the obvious questions. Everybody starts somewhere and learns at their own pace, so there’s probably dozens more with the same problem but too afraid to ask.

rockSlayer ,

Go fuck yourself dude, be self righteous somewhere else.

rockSlayer ,

Well I mean sarcastic or not, the comment isn’t appropriate. It’s very unlikely she started praying because she thought the person was a sinner, she started praying for the person’s safety. Prayer for something like this is an expression of concern.

rockSlayer ,

They’ll complain about it until Obama becomes white in 2008. I’m cool with Biden continuing to hammer this issue.

rockSlayer ,

5 minutes in and the only words of sense came from Greta.

rockSlayer ,

I see, so we’re just believing that it’s “faulty AI” rather than deliberate decisions? When it comes to war crimes, it’s not the fault of the AI.

rockSlayer ,

There’s a significant amount of people that have never met a trans person (or at least a trans person that didn’t pass), so it’s just foreign and scary to them. Think of it like a horror movie (to be clear, I’m not comparing trans people to horror movie creatures): the movie is more suspenseful and scary if we’re only able to see the creature from the shadows for a decent chunk of the first act. When a horror movie shows the the creature right away, the horror has to come from somewhere else. I think the idea is to take away the fear by presenting trans people to transphobes without endangering trans people.

rockSlayer ,

It depends on your use case. I live in a decent sized one bedroom apartment with heavy Internet usage, so I got a 500Mbps unlimited Internet service (remember, the hardware isn’t the only part of the equation) and the wifi 6 capable tp-link AX1500.

France 'Intends Legal Action' Against French-Israeli Soldiers Complicit in Gaza War Crimes (www.palestinechronicle.com)

According to Haaretz, the “underreported announcement” came after “pressure from members of the far-left France Unbowed party,” as well as the release of “various unverified videos” on social media platforms which show Israeli soldiers “engaged in illegal acts against prisoners of war.”...

rockSlayer ,

This is a good first step. The next is an expedited case at the ICC, followed by a 2 state solution. All the while, aid continues to pour in and UN boots on the ground are present to defend civilians.

rockSlayer ,

Netanyahu, other high ranking politicians, and IDF troops can be sentenced for the crimes of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes. These crimes come with prison sentences and execution.

Are there any online or in-person communities dedicated to minimizing the influence advertising has on its members? Do you know any strategies to minimize this effect on you?

Is there a lemmy community, for example, where people discuss shopping strategies which minimize the risk of the purchase decision being influenced by Brand Image or Flashy Packaging? Or similar topics. Maybe what product categories have cheapest products that are bad, so you can’t apply an objective criterion while making the...

rockSlayer ,

Do you think making a list of every company that has ever advertised to you so that you can hold it up to yourself when making a purchase decision and only buy from their competitors, makes sense and would be worth your time?

Absolutely not. I loathe ads with every fiber of my being, and I could not think of anything that would be a bigger waste of time. You’re also getting ads from the advertising competitors. Several store brands are just name brands in a suit. We’re so bombarded with ads, that it’s impossible to track them or know when something is an ad. Can you tell when a product listicle is based on genuine feedback and when it’s a sponsored post? Now, if you have a moral or ethical concern about the company then it totally makes sense to make a list. But not for seeing ads.

rockSlayer ,

Nah, the IDF just wants to starve children to death. Killing aid workers is a bonus to them.

rockSlayer ,

And due to open source, it was still caught within a month. Nothing could ever convince me more than that how secure FOSS can be.

rockSlayer ,

Yes, and the moment this broke other project maintainers are working on finding exploits now. They read the same news we do and have those same concerns.

rockSlayer ,

Bug fixes can be delayed for a security sweep. One of the quicker ways that come to mind is checking the hash between built from source and the tarball

Night lights that detect light levels are probably flickering so fast that it just appears to be on

Ok so I got this idea not while showering, but because I’m very high. The story does come from my bathroom though! I have a night light in my bathroom, and I was looking at the night light as I turned off the bathroom light. I’m a big nerd so I remembered that the things that detect light levels are actually diodes wired in...

rockSlayer OP ,

I knew that dimmable LEDs exist now, but I didn’t know why they worked. Cool!

rockSlayer OP , (edited )

From this source:

A phototransistor is a type of bipolar transistor in which the base-collector junction comes into light. This results in the same behavior of a photodiode

I’m high and I just wanted to post something low effort that I thought was funny. I know it’s more complex than the way I described it.

Edit: also, diodes are directional. Saying that a photodiode is “a diode wired in reverse” should be the first sign that I know more than what I’m actually saying. All diodes are capable of reacting to light, a photodiode exploits and amplifies the principle.

rockSlayer OP ,

I was going to protest this, but then I started looking into how ac is converted to dc and realized that it would be cheaper to just let the diodes run on ac.

oh shit, my stoned ass wasn’t prepared for this

rockSlayer ,

So what you’re saying is that we’ve been dealing with shitty naming schemes in tech for decades?

rockSlayer ,

They got it right with PlayStation. Sony’s other product lines should take notes

rockSlayer ,

Nah, fuck that. Promotions should be coming with a reasonable wage increase in every job.

rockSlayer , (edited )

Instead of being indignant, you should ask about my experience. I’ve done blue collar work, and so has everyone I know. Not a single person would be willing to take a promotion if it didn’t also mean a raise.

Edit: Where I grew up, we called people who took promotions without wage adjustments “suckers”.

rockSlayer ,

That fine if you don’t believe me, but I know my lived experience.

rockSlayer ,

I’ve worked as a field hand on multiple farms, picked rock, pulled ragweed, moved grain bins, fixed tractors, etc. I grew up in a rural area. Everyone I know has done work similar to this.

rockSlayer ,

You need to stop assuming things about me, my dude. Everyone should be paid a living wage. Beyond that, getting a promotion should mean a wage adjustment for a change in work scope and increased work demand. Having done both mental and physical labor, they are both exhausting in their own ways. Now if you want to debate “fair wage increase” as I mentioned earlier in the thread, that’s one of the points of having a union.

rockSlayer ,

Again, my point is that all promotions should come with a wage adjustment. Believe it or not, but promotions aren’t always into management. Even if they were, a good manager knows what it takes to do the job and is therefore worth getting paid more to utilize that experience in a management role.

rockSlayer ,

If we’re talking about work being structured in a cooperative fashion, then yes I’d agree. But until we as workers own the means of production, we need to fight for fair compensation in all jobs. This includes fighting for raises when you’re promoted.

rockSlayer ,

No, it’s not really a thing. There are some extremely entitled landlords that believe they do deserve a tip though. They can get the tip of my shoe up their ass if they really want one

rockSlayer ,

Wage theft isn’t a “fine”. It’s when a company illegally withholds wages from workers for hours worked.

rockSlayer ,

This image is from a study by the Economic Policy Institute, and it’s purely the amount of wages stolen from workers. You notice how the source adds important context?

Even if it’s a sliver of a fraction of the total economy, those numbers represent millions of lives getting fucked over by the company they work for and have little power to stop.

rockSlayer ,

To answer the question in the title, it’s because corporations have more rights than us.

rockSlayer ,

Both of those things are pretty easy now days. Proton seriously changed the game, and AMD is the graphics card of choice for Linux because they don’t actively hate free software like Intel and Nvidia

rockSlayer ,

My info is out of date then, I didn’t know that Intel had open source drivers for Arc. That’s awesome!

rockSlayer ,

I know a guy that likes his beer how he likes his coffee: hot. He buys a case of Hamm’s and tosses it in his truck for when he gets off work. He’s a construction worker so he’s mostly working while it’s 90°F (30°C) out.

rockSlayer ,

Of all methods for managing food production, capitalist free markets are one of the worst. Farmers must purchase everything to grow the crops, including the seeds and machinery. The machinery for modern farming alone costs $500k when 40 years old, used, and broken. If a large area, say the Midwest, has extremely fertile land capable of growing most crops then farmers will incentivized to purchase the machinery to grow a crop that is profitable in the moment. See the problem yet?

The farmers will then be financially forced into continuing to grow that crop, even if it’s no longer profitable to do so. The government then needs to provide assistance to these farmers: subsidies, research into utilizing thousands of tons of a single crop, exporting most of the crop grown, etc.

Due to the free market, farmers in the Midwest started growing corn because it was profitable during and after WW2. Now the Midwest grows seas of corn and soybeans, because government subsidies mean that growing any other crop is an extremely risky and very expensive. The market needs to hold for multiple years to pay for the seeds and machinery, because everything about farming is expensive. Rather than take the risk, farmers use the machinery they have to purchase the subsidized crops we don’t need because they need money to buy food that was imported rather than grown locally.

rockSlayer ,

Sounds like you’re speaking off of ignorance. Farm collectivization has led to some severe famines, but after the collectivization was completed those nations rarely saw food insecurity. China still hasn’t had major food insecurity since being collectivized. I think there are ways to prevent that from happening, because it hasn’t happened in every country that collectivized the farmland.

Stop trying to force things into terms of monetary exchange, because it doesn’t fit for everything. The government can provide the machine, since the US has monetary sovereignty (doesn’t owe a lot of debt to other countries) in a fiat currency. This means that as long as the federal government has access to the labor and resources, it can afford to do so by issuing debt to itself and paying it off with the next year’s run of fiat currency.

Now, it’s impractical and wasteful to manufacture all of the different combine heads for all of the different crops that could be grown by every farmer. Establish a library of sorts where farmers can utilize these machines without cost, and can be repaired without downtime (by using a different one in good repair while the broken one is fixed). Food can then be grown and distributed locally and based on need. This will also reduce overproduction and reduce emissions to transfer food. It also makes every place more resistant to natural disaster and disrupted supply lines.

rockSlayer ,

Please read what I said again. The whole thing. I’m saying that the federal government of US doesn’t need to raise any money at all because of modern monetary theory.

rockSlayer ,

I come from a Case family, so I’d rather they nationalized Case IH lol

On a serious note, we don’t need to nationalize the companies that make the machinery to solve this issue. There are many different methods (even in socdem ideologies) to solve this problem created by capitalism. Personally I think farmers should organize amongst themselves to collectively manage farmland and machinery. I don’t think we’d need to nationalize one of those farm equipment companies, we’d just have to abolish intellectual “property”. Then the machinery can be made and improved by anyone, because we don’t need free markets to innovate.

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