CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on "I hate this place even more than I did before" 1 day ago:
I visited a country with functioning infrastructure and beautiful scenery for a week and returned to a new assignment at work which was absolutely dreadful and this hits home.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 4 days ago:
Some societies consider the welfare of others; other societies don’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They’re both seafaring Europeans and got around.
Also, the Spanish Netherlands and Norway aren’t far apart, along trading routes.
- Comment on America Cannot Withstand the Economic Shock That’s Coming 1 week ago:
Imagine thinking replacing workers with AI is what’s going to demolish the economy, rather than the circular reinvestment of trillions of dollars in ludicrously unprofitable companies to build the AI.
Or a war. That’s also hurting.
- Comment on Finally, taxpayer dollars put to a good use 1 week ago:
If this were the case, the goon squad would have showed up.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 1 week ago:
Good idea.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 1 week ago:
Some can be converted to EV chargers. It’s considered contaminated ground, so the options are limited without expensive remediation. Depending on the economic situation they may just be abandoned.
They won’t all shut down at once. The ICE cars won’t all turn off at once; they’ll fade.
- Comment on Contractual trap on remote working job offer 1 week ago:
So, weekends and holidays to be interrupted as desired by the boss, onsite. What rot.
- Comment on FIFA-accredited vehicles will be allowed to use Vancouver bus lanes during World Cup 2 weeks ago:
“I think this really shows that we need more lanes, as opposed to just splitting the ones we have across more and more vehicles.”
What is a tram, I wonder? What other mode of transportation is there beyond bus and car?
- Comment on Is it rude to go through the car wash with a bunch of snow on your car? 3 weeks ago:
By driving down the street before clearing snow you are driving with snow on it. Don’t do that. Not for 500m or 5km.
They need to remove snow because it could clog up the drains etc. If everyone did what you’re proposing it takes a lot longer to prep cars and they’ll need to shovel frequently.
Just scrape your car.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 3 weeks ago:
IANAL! Double check.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 3 weeks ago:
Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.
In other words, your gift has zero impact on the store’s income taxes. Keep in mind that the store chooses the receiving charity, so make sure it is one you can support. As a customer, the donation will appear on your receipt and you can claim it as a charitable deduction when you file your income tax return.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think they can get a tax break, but they definitely get the media attention.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 3 weeks ago:
Kids these days have it bad for games.
- Comment on Do not give away Diego Garcia, Trump tells UK 3 weeks ago:
USA doesn’t want to lose one of its black sites.
- Comment on 'Just push us into the sea': The frustration of an area failed by politics 3 weeks ago:
Just a PSA: cannabis contains nearly no THC, the psychoactive compound, until is processed (“de carb”) or smoked. The scent given off by growing cannabis is not harmful. Some people like it.
Let the children outside.
- Comment on What else can we do with sugar (sucrose)? 3 weeks ago:
Conservatively, using the land currently used for fuel ethanol production in the USA for solar instead would add more generating capacity than the entire capacity of the USA today. . It’s a terrible use of land, not to mention energy and chemical inputs.
- Comment on If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently? 3 weeks ago:
If the next president is a Democrat and has the Senate and House, they still can’t. There’s decades of institutional knowledge that has been terminated - and those people aren’t coming back. Many of them are also Republicans, even after seeing the damage, and they won’t be working to return everything to the way it used to be.
The Trump administration - and don’t fool yourself, he’s a pawn - has months to sabotage the handover of key roles. They’ve spent the last year demonstrating that USA is not a trustworthy partner in trade or defence. Treaties need to be renegotiated and other countries won’t be interested in giving the USA the same consideration that the post-Marshall Plan world would. Democrats in the USA see Trump and his administration; the rest of the world sees that “the majority” of Americans voted for him and his policies, and even now there’s still significant support for him.
It’s unlikely, too, that it will be possible to end DHS for example. There’s too many people in too many high places that have relationships that depend on DHS people for support. PATRIOT act is another example. The dogma that it’s legal for ICE to inspect within the 100(?) mile border zone. These are significant intrusions on basic freedom and privacy but they’re also centralization of power.
That, and the Supreme Court is stacked.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 3 weeks ago:
That someone thought Electron was a not just a reasonable approach but a good idea, when it sucks down a gig of RAM for what amounts to mIRC with GIFs, is a strong support of your claim.
- Comment on Now hit mute and you are all set 3 weeks ago:
When I join a meeting with webcams on, it’s either someone trying to sell something or it’s beyond my pay grade.
- Comment on With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules 4 weeks ago:
Rolling coal to own the libs.
If the Big 3 don’t respond by announcing plans for fleet electrification, they’re going to be globally irrelevant in 10 years. I wonder how they’ll respond to this…
- Comment on Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago 4 weeks ago:
Never left.
- Comment on Wicked hangover 4 weeks ago:
Less than 1/4 kilo. I just cut it in half, roughly it works out. Don’t ask me about stones though.
- Comment on A Bathing Area on the Thames? 4 weeks ago:
This Thames?
- Comment on In Kentucky, People Blame Ford More Than Trump for Lost Factory Jobs 4 weeks ago:
the government is forcing us to use electric vehicles so that they have control over our cars and can turn off the chargers whenever they want.
Actual thing people have told me. This is what happens when people are getting their news from their Facebook feed.
- Comment on Is ironing clothes significantly less common now? 4 weeks ago:
No suit, shirts, and tie for the office grunts anymore.
- Comment on Anon has a question 4 weeks ago:
Stop
Giving
Them
Oxygen
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 4 weeks ago:
Only the first two vehicles show signs of armouring. I don’t think that all this theatrics would happen and then not put the cargo in the armoured car.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 4 weeks ago:
One size doesn’t fit all.
Moreover, the president is getting the treatment of a king. They are ostensibly fungible assets. There’s a succession plan. The more they’re protected, the more they’re a target (and invading foreign countries doesn’t help).
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 4 weeks ago:
From a security perspective, these only serve to create an extensive roadblock. Disable one in front, one in rear, and you’ve got them kettled.
Whoever came up with this idea should be fired.