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by jefurii 5y ago
Are you advocating this course of action?
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If there's a reticulum somebody's going to make a syndev whose sole purpose is to spew crap into it. Then somebody else is going to make an Artificial Inanity system to plant misinformation in the enemy’s reticules. And then that
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Yep, dairy is the real big gorilla here, and the biggest line item on the state's water budget.
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Fifteen or twenty years ago most people had never even heard about almond milk. It got popular because of an intense marketing campaign. So what if it raises the cost of almonds? That would get people to stop doing something stupid like u
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The government pays farmers not to grow crops all the time. In the past we've done it to raise the cost of corn in order to shut Mexican farmers out of the market. We can totally do this if we choose to. I grew up in the Central Va
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Residential water use is about 10-15% of total water use in the state. Agriculture and industry uses about 85%. The two biggest line-items are cows (and alfalfa) and almonds. 50% of the water in the Colorado River Basin is ised for cows i
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Science is a pitifully small portion of our budget. We spend more on potato chips as a nation than we spend on NASA for instance.
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> A lot of drivers in China, the world’s biggest EV market, live in apartment blocks and so don’t necessarily have personal charging outlets. As an apartment dweller this makes so much sense.
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The first Great Information War began in 2014(threadreaderapp.com)
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Yeah I know. It'd be great if it was tho wouldn't it?
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Now is the time for a Linux distro that uses NTFS and installs over the top of Windows, leaves all your files where they are, and hooks up WINE to run all your apps.
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Django developer here. I have limited experience with WP but used Drupal back in the day, and from everything I've heard WP is the same with respect to what I'm going to say. You can touch your nose two ways right? You can just re
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It's untrue to say that lower classes are not paying taxes. They can't access the array of techniques the wealthy use to avoid paying their fair share. Undocumented people in particular pay into the system by having social secur
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There are at least two popular visual programming languages for electronic music: Max/MSP (cycling74.com) and PureData (puredata.info).
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When I learned this stuff I started with The Debian Administrator's Handbook ( https://debian-handbook.info ) and an O'Reilly book called Unix Power Tools. Since then I've read handbooks for whatever servers/f
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> - "Here's why everything is too complex and everyone should run their application on a single abacus connected to the internet by carrier pigeon" LOL yeah true. But with all the marketing pressure to buy all these expen
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So these people are trying to do some good, and your criticism of them is that they're not perfect? Tell me how much good are you doing? It's not possible to live completely off the grid. Is that a reason not to try at all?
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This doesn't necessarily help with finding new friends, but Minecraft along with various video chat services really helped my 10yo kiddo hang on to his friends during COVID. I made a point to get contact info for all his friends&#x27
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Before Recent Wave of Train Cargo Thefts, Union Pacific Laid Off Unspecified Number of Its Railroad Police Force https://www.lataco.com/union-pacific-theft-police-laid-off/ "A Union Pacific worker, who asked to re
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Science starts with people being puzzled. This doesn't make sense, it doesn't fit with how I understand the world, what's going on here? Then it's a process of making hypotheses, figuring out how to test them, conductin
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Drawing Machines – Optical/mechanical/automated drawing machines/devices/aids(drawingmachines.org)
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Speaking for myself, one of the main benefits of fasting is that I start to feel like I have more control over my eating. When I'm fasting it starts to become easier to say "No" to cravings and impulses to wander into the ki
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> And we also can put a lot of blame on our vaunted universities. How many communist revolutionaries have been produced by radical tenured professors. I’d say most. Oh yeah, communist revolutionaries are a big problem in the United State
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> The public make the mistake in trusting those who rule over them. Like we're supposed to trust corporations more? At least the government has some degree of transparency and it's at least theoretically possible to vote people
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It'd be awesome if I could SSH in to the VMs and edit from Emacs on my desktop. I'd also like a pony.
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Working for me as well.
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Plus these designs really only work if you have control over your space. You couldn't install this in an apartment you're renting, where you can't e.g. rip out the carpet. If you're able to install this you're proba
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You're talking about Portland, OR.
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Like in David Macaulay's "Motel Of The Mysteries".
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We keep having to repost this: https://xkcd.com/1987/ Why don't we ever learn?

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