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- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 1 week ago:
often a really good option from a functional POV
This right here. Electronic devices are full of plastics because they are often the best, or only, way to make those devices function and remain safe. You’re not going to make a car that meets any modern crash safety standard without plastic materials. Your not going to replace medical tubing with paper or cloth. Etc., etc.
The world can certainly use less plastic, and should use less. But eliminating it completely will require either (a) developing some novel new replacement material, or (b) giving up a lot of useful things humans have developed in the past century.
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 2 weeks ago:
Texans will appreciate that you refer to them as Texans rather then American.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on your plumbing. If your sink’s waste pipe is large enough, and has enough slope, and you put enough water down the drain to wash all the solids through the pipe, then you can certainly put food down the sink drain.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 weeks ago:
I think that goes to my point about simple comparisons being difficult. Norway has a high GDP relative to its size, so 4% might be more than enough for their situation. You also have to account for things like the labor cost of teachers, which varies by country.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 weeks ago:
Comparing things like this between countries is not straightforward. For example, Australia spends $14.1k per student while New Zealand spends $8.6k. That’s about 5.2% of GDP for both countries. From those numbers, would we conclude that Australia is overpaying, or New Zealand is underpaying, or that the two countries are comparable?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education-spending-by-country
- Comment on Beachfront property 1 month ago:
Careful, that’s how that one evil boyfriend in Scott Pilgrim died.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 months ago:
it’s the first I’ve heard of maybe a US citizen being deported.
It’s been happening for years. From the Washington Post:
The U.S. government does not release data on how often ICE wrongfully detains or deports U.S. citizens. But investigations by media outlets, research institutes and oversight agencies have revealed that ICE has arrested, detained, deported and issued detainers — requests to local jails to hold a person in custody — for thousands of citizens since the agency was created in 2003. One 2011 study estimated that roughly 1 to 1.5 percent of deportees are U.S. citizens.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 2 months ago:
Okay all you generative AI image hobbyists, let’s see Legolas with big, shiny eyes!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Rebel Without a Cause
Requiem for a Dream
Revenge of the Nerds
- Comment on BioTechbros 2 months ago:
Ethics? That’s for philosophy majors. Science and engineering majors already have too many other credits to complete.
- Comment on How would I describe myself? 2 months ago:
It can be a very interesting conversation starter. I love hearing about the places people grew up, and how they ended up in the place they currently live. It’s a much better topic than the small talk about work or TV shows or whatever else people discuss the first time they meet.
- Comment on i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces 2 months ago:
In America, you first become a legal permanent resident (we would say you have a “green card”). Once you have lived here for five years then you can apply for citizenship. The whole process is slow and can be somewhat arbitrary.
Another option is to enlist in the US military. After serving for several years you can get preferred status for citizenship.
As others said, this is a difficult time to be an immigrant in America. The current government is arresting and deporting legal residents based on flimsy accusations. You should consider waiting for Trump to be gone, or look at other countries.
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 2 months ago:
Yes. About 75% of Google’s revenue is from ads. Most of their free products exist to feed the advertising business in one way or another.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
Not like commercial AM/FM radio stations playing music, but radio in the more general sense. 5G cell phones and satellite-to-earth communication systems use that frequency range, for example.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are both “ISM bands.” These are frequencies that regulators have set aside for unlicensed use.
Fun fact: 2.4 GHz is free to use because of microwave ovens. Microwaves are really noisy around 2.45 GHz. Rather than try to regulate their radio emissions, or make people license their kitchen appliances as radio transmitters, the FCC allocated that patch of spectrum for free use. Any device that can tolerate the noise can use that bit of the radio spectrum.
- Comment on I would like to change the capitalization of my username 3 months ago:
It appears that Lemmy usernames are case-insensitive. So in theory it should not make a difference.
- Comment on I would like to change the capitalization of my username 3 months ago:
Your account name cannot change, but you can make your display name whatever you want. Though various apps/UIs may only show one it the other. My app shows “Smokeydope” as the author of this post, but shows “SmokeyDope” when viewing your profile.
- Comment on tig ol bitties 3 months ago:
- Comment on In a hypothetical revolution who would secure the resistances comms? 3 months ago:
GPS devices only receives GPS signals; they do not broadcast any data. So carrying a basic handheld GPS device won’t give away your position to anyone else. However, a smarter device like a phone or InReach emergency locating device can relay your location to others.
For communications, lots of people would suddenly get really interested in VPNs and encryption (for using the existing Internet), private wireless mesh networks (for city- and region-level communication), and even amateur radio. Owners of mesh nodes or radios would need to limit their broadcasting time and/or do a lot of moving around to avoid being located.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 4 months ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 4 months ago:
I would expect an invasion order to be a breaking point that causes US political collapse and possibly a civil war.
The military brass might very well break the chain of command and refuse to follow an order to invade Canada. While I think that would be the right move, it would be a major constitutional crisis and there is no resolution that would not send one political faction or another completely off the rails.
- Comment on It was Steve 4 months ago:
Nobody was hurt.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 4 months ago:
-cartilage in joints can regenerate
-body can synthesize its own vitamin c
Other species already do these things smh.
- Comment on Microsoft refund problem 4 months ago:
Microsoft’s store is broken. I have had a similar problem with Minecraft.
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Want to buy DLC for my kid in Minecraft.
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Get forwarded to the Microsoft Store to process the transaction.
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For some reason the money goes into my Microsoft account balance rather than going toward the DLC I wanted to buy.
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Cash balance in a Microsoft account cannot be used to buy Minecraft DLC, and cannot be transferred to a Minecraft account. (Why tf not? Minecraft is a Microsoft property.)
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I now have money stuck in the Microsoft account that cannot be refunded, and I can’t get the DLC I wanted.
This sucks.
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- Comment on So many options, such excitement 5 months ago:
Also possibly bad lighting, loud noise, or staring at a screen too long. Getting old is awesome!
- Comment on nd snow 🥰 i love securing barren wilderness for oil 5 months ago:
Don’t forget half of them get jungle duty retaking the Panama Canal from * checks notes * a peaceful ally who has been doing a fine job of operating it.
God, every day feels less like reality and more like a fever dream.
- Comment on Listening to NPR news about mortgages 5 months ago:
Yes, each generation dies off and passes its wealth to the next. But the boomers are an unusual case because they hold a lot more wealth relative to their size. Boomers and millennials each account for about 20% of the population. But boomers hold 50% of the wealth in America, while millennials only hold 8%. The wealth transfer as the boomer generation dies off is going to be massive. And most of that Boomer wealth is tied up in real estate, which will have a big impact on the housing market when it becomes available.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-share-by-generation/
(Gen z Z is somewhere in the middle and I’m skipping over them, as is tradition. They wouldn’t want it any other way.)
- Comment on 25 hours of snow. 5 months ago:
I wish you could send some of your snow over here. I love the stuff, and I usually have to drive to the mountains to get to it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Seems like the world has moved away from that
Assuming that the world was once just, and recently changed to become unjust, is completely flawed. History provides endless examples of people with power and money doing horrible things and facing little or no consequences.
- Comment on is "oh boy" considered a gendered term? 7 months ago:
In a similar vein, I’m curious about the modern consensus on “you guys,” as in, “what do you guys want to do this weekend?”
