[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 72 points 4 months ago

If you put a TV in a Faraday cage that blocked the relevant radio spectrum, would there be no static on it? I expected the answer to be a quick Google, but it wasn't.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 71 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Really resembles a bill of attainder, to me.

We'd ALL be much better off, and a similar outcome could be achieved, by putting to law strict data security and privacy rules. Plus it wouldn't inevitably be challenged on very reasonable 1A grounds. But that isn't as politically possible because so many -- especially conservatives -- don't believe in the liberty of privacy.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 66 points 5 months ago

It's critical to the conspiracy theory, though. By making it so incredibly arcane and difficult to follow, it makes it possible to point out a mistake the person made that stopped the incantation from working. Lets you avoid the more obvious conclusion of magic isn't real.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 66 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Notepad is definitionally not an IDE. It is not an integrated environment -- and anyone who is intentionally using it over alternatives is almost certainly doing so precisely because they do not want their text editor to be an integrated environment.

I'm sure there's some case where Notepad is PART of an integrated environment, but it would have to be with support of other tools -- likely a terminal of some sort.

The reason other text editors like -- like Notepad++ or Neovim -- can be full IDEs is because they have plugins to generate that integrated experience.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

After winning on Prop 22, Uber/Lyft guaranteed drivers $13/hr. I'm not sure where the likes of Uber Eats/Grubhub stand in comparison, but even if we assume they're also at $13/hr, that's a full 'federal minimum wage' less than the Pizza Hut drivers would need to be paid. For doing literally the same job but with way, way worse benefits (e.g., having to provide your own insurance).

It's actually insane. Prop 22 is a travesty.

$20/hr isn't even what I would consider a living wage in California, and Pizza Hut is here proudly admitting they were paying their drivers substantially less than that. But the deliveries will still happen, just to even worse-paid people. It's a crazy cycle of abuse of labor.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You should check out what happened to Chuck Marohn in Minnesota: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/23/lawsuit

A fully-qualified engineer discussing the politics of engineering -- not acting in any way as an engineer -- fined, censured, and defamed in the public record by the state board of engineers. Because of a pretty obtuse technicality that absolutely no reasonable person would have interpreted as an issue and which only exists in the record thanks to actual perjury. All because he expressed sincerely-held beliefs as part of his political advocacy that could be interpreted as very embarrassing to the (incredibly incompetent) board. Things that even the board acknowledged were not related to the practice of engineering but that didn't matter to them.

These conservative organizations do not care about your civil rights. They only care about not being embarrassed. They will wield the powers of the state to silence anyone seen as a dissenter without shame or remorse. The guy in this article was very lucky indeed a federal court was willing to take the appeal. If they get any power over you, they will use it to get you to get you to bend to knee.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 71 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

One of its primary purposes was literally as a distraction to prevent investment in traditional transportation infrastructure like trains. When a car maker is suggesting some kind of strange new transportation technology, be skeptical always.

And it wasn't entirely unsuccessful. Vegas got duped on it (plus boring company) pretty badly, for example. Idiot suckers. But it wasn't successful enough for the auto mogul Elon Musk to continue throwing money at it I suppose.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 64 points 8 months ago

Building everything to be able to re-route to everything is WHY all the consoles are constantly exploding.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The one thing Reddit is great for, and for which substitutes do not yet exist, is its crowdsourced information. Especially product reviews. And finding those from within Reddit is impossible because their search simply does not work.

Appending "Reddit" to a Google search remains the best first-past method for making certain kinds of decisions where you need concrete, good-quality answers. Even for that, it's a bit of a minefield. Especially post-mod-purge, a lot of the once-great enthusiast subs have gotten pretty blase. Still better than all those consumer advertorial "BEST OF 2024" lists that you find everywhere full of extremely mediocre and likely corrupt reviews, but nothing compared to the straightforward buying guides you used to find.

On top of that, the "new" sight is a million times less usable than old.reddit.com and search engines shoot you in through that terrifically terrible gateway to experience confusingly-organized and incomplete content. Orders of magnitude worse on mobile, too.

If Reddit is de-indexed, I'll simply never be there at this point. Though I admit, I'm already there extremely rarely.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But don't you know? Straight relationships are all about playing psychological games on each other to trick your partner into tolerating you even though you hate each other. This is healthy and normal.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Researchers concluded that the culprit behind the extremely unusual 2019 outbreak was the intestinal pathogen, Campylobacter jejuni. The gut-dwelling bacteria is well-known as one of the most common causes of food poisoning and diarrheal cases in the world. But, less well-known, it's also one of the leading triggers for GBS.

Adding this because I think it's pretty critical for your quotes. So this is something that has been (likely) foodborne in Peru before. But the article implies that only about 2/3 of their identified cases showed signs of the same infection.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fruited beers are very popular and breweries make them sincerely and routinely, especially for sours and milkshake-style ipas that tend to be the big hits with young people that don't have a taste for more "serious"/traditional beers. This is the beer for Basics and is the bread and butter of the local nano and microbrewery to draw in diverse crowds. They also change up their selection to drum up continuing interest.

If there is any brewery that tries to recover infected batches by masking the flavor the Brewery deserves to be ridiculed and shut down. I spent over a decade as a craft beer buyer for a large place that dealt with literal scores of microbreweries and have never even heard a sniff of a rumor about a good brewery doing that shit, and I think you should name and shame the one you worked for the did.

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