abrambleninja

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by abrambleninja 3y ago
They at least have made a strong argument for their case [1]. I don't read this as taking Hamas claims as valid by default because they backed it up with reasoning from their sources. Are they correct? Hard to say for sure, but there&#
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by abrambleninja 3y ago
Honeybees are actually not very good at pollinating plants; they take most of the pollen back to their hive instead of spreading it between plants. Furthermore, they often outcompete (non-honey producing) indigenous bees that are actually g
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by abrambleninja 4y ago
> processed sugars aren’t vegan because the whitening stage uses bone meal This is a good rule of thumb for North America, but not true all the time. In the USA, organic sugar cannot be processed with bone char. Also, beet sugar is never
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by abrambleninja 4y ago
In addition to what ipqk said, a large amount of deforestation is for growing soy. Approximately 77% of global soy production [2] is used for producing animal feed. It's much more environmentally friendly to just get eat soy directly,
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by abrambleninja 5y ago
In general I agree with you about the ability to customize Linux, but the author could be referring to systemd, which (from what I've seen) has been the target of many complaints about being too central and hard to replace, especially
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by abrambleninja 6y ago
Cory Doctorow has an excellent blogpost on Amazon's delivery service partners[1] and why it's a very difficult situation for the workers to demand better working conditions. It's very eye-opening in my opinion. [1]: https:&#
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by abrambleninja 6y ago
> Really? And whats with all the proprietary blobs? The Modules (like nvidia), for the end-user it changes absolutely nothing, having bad firmware your wifi will not work, the license is absolutely not important for the end-user. I think
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by abrambleninja 6y ago
The freedom for the user that comes with using Linux as a result of it being GPL-licensed is that entities have to contribute any changes they make to the kernel back to the community if they intend to distribute their modified, potentially
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by abrambleninja 7y ago
When I pre-ordered the phone, I also saw it as donating to (or at least contributing to the development of) open-source software in a way -- Purism is a for-profit company, but they've been doing a lot of software work on this phone an
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by abrambleninja 7y ago
As a big tea drinker, my solution to this when I've been on long road trips has been to use a car-outlet-powered water boiler (the coil kind). You can get them on Amazon for under $10 and they work alright. Though it's hard to do