SwingingTheLamp

Gotcha, but I still have to disagree. As a hot, sweaty person like the OC, getting enough potassium (or even sodium at times) for cycling in hot weather through diet alone would require massive quantities of food. The amount of sweating that can happen when one doesn’t have the physique for long-distance running is nuts!

Potassium is an electrolyte.

See, now, as much as this is a conspiracy theory, it doesn’t flatly contradict reality. It’s not implausible on the face of it, given what we know. I’m agnostic about it, because at the end of the day, it doesn’t really even matter whether anybody knew exactly when and where. The Bushies knew an attack was coming—multiple sources (the Clinton team, the FBI, the CIA)—and they did nothing. That’s enough to damn them.

This is what we should be focusing our attention on, not trying to prove that buildings which suffer severe structural damage, for which they weren’t designed, somehow wouldn’t fall down.

Hot take: 9/11 conspiracies are an al-Qaeda psyop to sow dissent and take the U.S. down from within.

RIP the Microsoft Chair beta test announcement. We don’t do physical packaging anymore, so the punchline (“This isn’t the first time Microsoft has sent us a shrink-wrapped stool sample.”) no longer works.

Recently, the nvidia-dkms driver updates wouldn’t build for 5.x series kernels, so if you hadn’t cleaned up old kernels, the update bombed out before updating the initrd filesystem, the system couldn’t boot without intervention. Thankfully, I noticed before trying to reboot my work desktop, and the solution was “apt autoremove && apt upgrade”.

But the install media for my desktop at home was 18.04, and it’s running 26.04 now. It has an AMD GPU, so it hasn’t had update problems.

Indeed, the location in DeForest, Wisconsin is “on hold” because the village can’t afford the $17 million highway interchange for it. (No chance of the company helping fund it, nosiree, that’s communism or something.)

My collapsible canoe paddle snapped while in use. Doubt that it’s fixable, since most of it floated away in the wind while I hand-paddled to shore.

To add even more background, Eunice Newton Foote discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856. Right there, in the very first scientific paper describing the heat-trapping property of CO₂, she predicted global warming. (Other scientists had caught on that atmospheric gases trap heat decades earlier, without being able to know which ones.)

By 1896, Svante Arrhenius had quantified it, actually calculating the increases in temperature due to increases in atmospheric CO₂.

The modern petroleum industry appeared around the same time. The oil companies never didn’t know about the connection between oil and climate change.

I was on the cusp of leaving Reddit just before the API fiasco, and Redditors treating every interaction as combat by rhetoric, a contest rather than a discussion, was one of the main reasons.

Yes, that happens here, but it’s, like, the same two or three people every time. For several of your examples, particular usernames come to mind. The background vibe is much more chill, I feel.

I still have it, but reminisce is all that I can do because I have no landline service to plug it in. It’s the Trimline phone that we had when I was growing up. I think it was the one my parents previously rented from Wisconsin Bell, then bought after the breakup of AT&T when they had to let customer-owned devices connect to the network. It sits in the superannuated telephone nook in my kitchen, because, why not?

More projection than an IMAX multiplex. Very on-brand for conservatives.

The reason is kind of important, no? You can shrug and say idiots and racists, but that’s far from the whole story, not really even the primary reason. A big piece of it is people feeling disengaged from politics, which is understandable, since U.S. policy hasn’t reflected the will of the people for almost 50 years now.

More or less telegraphing that “I will not listen to what you want” and “I support evil but have the decency to feel bad about it” (like on Gaza, for example) is not a great way to motivate people in this environment.

It was the Minoans. Well, at least there’s an argument to be made. It’s intriguing to note the two mysteries of how haplogroup X ended up in North America (not through Asia), and where all the copper went. As well, the time and place match well for stories of such journeys to make it into the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Trump literally said he wanted to turn the entire area into a parking lot and hotels.

That’s what Ben-Gvir, and other Israeli ultranationalists want. They’d still want that even if Harris were President. I just don’t see the evidence that her adminstration would be pushing back on that, given that Democratic leaders are still voting to send foreign aid to Israel.

(I’m not trying to defend the fascist regime, but I think truth matters.)

I do live in the U.S., and I’m acutely aware that it’s not a law of nature. It won’t endure forever, as some sort of fundamental human condition. It may feel that way because it’s always been there, even in our great-grandparents’ lifetimes, by we’re seeing how fragile it actually is. The nation and its values have to be maintained, as any system has to. Voting for the lesser evil every time, rather than doing the maintenance, will catch up to us. There won’t always be a next time to attempt a non-evil candidate.

It ain’t fair, there’s not always a solution or a good option, but that’s life. We need better than what Harris offered, or we’re cooked.

Haha, my Lemmy blocklist is mostly empty… I have a pretty good idea already of what this will turn up.

Honestly, though, this is a great rule of thumb for people confused about when to use a comma: Read it out loud, with a pause for each comma. If you sound like Capt. Kirk, take a few out.

That’s fine, but other people (like the ones you were criticizing) may have different motivations.

Design city streets for humans, rather than maximum car speed.