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by wyre 3y ago
My heart goes out to everyone relying on these delivery jobs to make ends meet, but it is and always has been an unsustainable market and it’s great that this ordinance is revealing this. The delivery companies do the barest minimum to supp
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by wyre 3y ago
E-bikes certainly make it more accessible and I would highly recommend one if you are trying to drive less. Myself and many of my friends commute primarily by bicycle and get around fine on regular bikes, but our city is small and commutes
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by wyre 3y ago
I remember there being a few phone games with this format. Joining elements together to make other things and using those to make other things. Quick google search tells me the game is called Little Alchemy (there’s a sequel now too)
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by wyre 3y ago
It might be similar to the inverse of xkcd.com/1043 (Ten Thousand), in that something has been repeated so many times people believe it to be true. Thinking about this more I'd bet the myth that miscalculating your taxes was an ex
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by wyre 3y ago
Ha. There’s already a large cohort of people that are not being paid fairly and/or working a job they don’t enjoy and/or don’t have a job.
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by wyre 3y ago
GP says in comment to a post about regulations and paying a minimum wage to workers which I interpret they mean certain workers don’t have the right to worker protections because they work/want to work a sought-after job.
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by wyre 3y ago
Handheld card readers are price competitive, or at least marginally more expensive. I’d attribute it more to the time investment of switching POS systems.
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by wyre 3y ago
I was using Notion, but I found Obisidian to be very similar, maybe less powerful out of the box, but feels much better to use. All files are written in Markdown and stored on device (or in iCloud or wherever), has a "marketplace"
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by wyre 3y ago
Wealth for the lower 90% has gone up but that is nearly meaningless when the cost of living has increased much greater than any of those wealth increases.
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by wyre 3y ago
The average American already is skewed. The average 401k is only $129k while the median is a much lower $33k. [1] That’s not even 2 years of rent in most places (and isn’t a lot of money by any definition considering the amount needed for r
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by wyre 3y ago
I’d say Pareto Distribution is a good goal to start with the top 20% holding 80% of the wealth.
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by wyre 3y ago
I think even more than their lack of contributions to society, but the power their wealth brings to continue to protect their wealth, privilege, uphold the status quo, and continue widening the disparity of wealth between classes.
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by wyre 3y ago
Complex PTSD isn’t in the DSM (yet) so treatment for it is obsfucated behind every other diagnoses that carry traits of cPTSD.
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by wyre 3y ago
Certainly. TFA states the cannabis users experiences more exertion, while also contributing to more positive effect, enjoyment, and runner's high. Sure, if you took two identical runners the non-smoker would run faster/longer, but
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by wyre 3y ago
No. Tesla calling their cruise control Autopilot is a gross overstatement, meanwhile Cruise and Wayne has rolled out actual driverless vehicles and Honda released the first Level 3 autonomous vehicle to Japan last March [1]. [1] https:&#x2
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by wyre 3y ago
There is more to an economy than GDP.
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by wyre 3y ago
I would hope that the Chinese and Saudi's realize the youth in America's mental health is largely due to America's unique flavor of corporatacracy and the climate crisis. If you think this is wrong you either don't know
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by wyre 3y ago
Sorry for the lay question but what’s the benefit of the hard reset over a general restart?
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by wyre 3y ago
If someone is experienced at using CAD software and they can't navigate their way around a CAD software's UI then that software has a bad UI. Anyone new to CAD software is going to have a difficult time navigating all of the tools
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by wyre 3y ago
AFAIK real cinnamon isn't included in the umbrealla of "natural flavors" which are isolated compounds. If it contained real cinnamon it would list cinammon, or at least "spices"
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by wyre 3y ago
I learned/realized recently it's only because of the US's deeply entrentched subsidies on corn that allows for HFCS to be cheaper than sugar and why it's so heavily used in processed foods.
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by wyre 3y ago
Wow, that’s a cumulative 47,990 years.
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by wyre 3y ago
This seems cool but I can't help but think it should be named Brandy since brandy is distilled wine and whisky is something different.
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by wyre 3y ago
>you don't get less depressed from drinking coffee Not significantly enough to call it an antidepressant, but meta-analysis shows caffeine lowers risk of depression. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26518745/
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by wyre 3y ago
One heavy truck is still better in aggregate than many personal cars. I don’t have the numbers, but when transportation is the biggest cause of GHG emissions and microplastic pollution consolidating that transportation to as few vehicles as
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by wyre 3y ago
Why not ride an e-bike that one mile to the grocery store and go more often instead of needing to haul 50lbs in one trip. Also, it’s the year 2023 it is easier than ever to get a tv delivered to your front door without you needing to haul i
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by wyre 3y ago
I think the issue is the particles are from the friction of the road and to effectively collect the particles it would drastically reduce tire clearance, not an issue for F1, but for the consumer market tire clearance is important, for some
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Roads, utilities, emergency services…
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>The planet will survive just fine. Such a tired and nihilistic take. to call it survival is a stretch when we are artificially creating and contributing to the sixth mass extinction while we leave the planet full of plastic and cement,
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Years of propaganda and throttled data from Google to use Chrome doesn’t give a lot of real consumer choice. Even now there’s programmers only product testing in Chrome that makes some web services not work in anything but Chrome.

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