in australia they absolutely do
we take skin cancer very seriously down here
in australia they absolutely do
we take skin cancer very seriously down here


wait this isn’t parody?


i don’t think you understand what the word “crime” means


when people are forced to choose starvation or shoplifting, there’s not a great deal of choice there
it’s not self hate: it’s an acknowledgment that SNAP is survival, and people will find a way to survive with or without it… without it, it’s just far less fair and measurable


re argentina, swap lines and private financing isn’t the US government “giving” billions
still laughable, but giving them real “fake news” ammo will only hinder


a great illustration of the dunning-kruger effect
i’m glad for you, but jellyfin doesn’t have apps on some platforms i use, remained buggy on apple tv, and support for media segments was patchy… these are all nonstarters for me: simply being able to stream video on demand to android and ios devices is barely better than a network share for a huge amount of my use-case


right? i sounds great until you realize oh shit… logistics exist… all those perishable goods don’t just magically appear on people’s plates… 2.3billion people’s worth of food waste for 7.7bn people is honestly bloody miraculous tbh… can we do more to reduce food waste in our rich nations? sure… would that help feed people in areas of famine? unlikely
the case for grid-scale batteries is getting stronger every month:
the more people driving EVs the more used EV batteries will become available… EVs require a pretty good energy density, but grid storage can buy up a bunch of dirt cheap EV batteries with 60% capacity and call it a day, and then onsell them for recycling in 10 years for exactly the same price (because the raw materials are the same: recyclers don’t care if the battery has 100% or 60% or 50% max capacity)
other battery tech is also getting much more interesting, like sodium batteries. they don’t have the energy density of lithium, but they’re more durable and have less fire risk. they’re pretty ideal for grid-scale storage, and when commodities of scale kick in with them they’re likely to become pretty common in grid storage and prices and usefulness just gets better from there
also, afaik gravity batteries aren’t really being used… the most common thing these days looks like it’s going to be flywheels, but using them more like capacitors: smoothing out load spikes and maintaining grid frequency (which with PV can go downhill fast)
i agree with the anti-nuclear, but the mining conditions are really far less of a problem with uranium… canada and australia are #2 and #4 in the world respectively
uranium is relatively plentiful, and hugely energy-dense so most places have some that’s viable to extract, and it’s not worth cheaping out on costs to save a couple of $ buying from slave mines given the potential backlash
i actually wouldn’t be surprised if uranium mining is one of the best jobs in the developing world because if they actually want to sell their product they’d have to market their working conditions
nuclear costs a shit load of money up front and has such massive NIMBY pushback… it’s great for the fossil fuel industry to argue for because it’s politically impossible to actually implement: we need more nuclear! stop with all the renewables! leads to only 1 thing… talk about nuclear and no more renewables
meanwhile, batteries really don’t produce much environmental damage… that’s just straight up misinformation… and the bonus with batteries is nice the materielsd are mined, you can recycle them back to brand new forever… you don’t have to keep mining all the lithium; just enough to keep up with new capacity
so have bacteria but that doesn’t make them entirely benign when introduced to humans
i mean nixon got a fucking pardon too
as did all of the confederates
the US government has been excusing blatant crime for “harmony” since basically forever
if america isn’t there right now, i struggle to see a situation when you’re going to be there
also
bringing guns to a drone fight


i guess joggers are kinda a “casualty of broad language”… people see pedestrians, people think walking is okay
but also just like bikes on the freeway are a hazard, i’d say pedestrians of all kinds on the veloway is a hazard… they’re always just going to be much slower


yeah tbh i think for this to work they probably need a pedestrian access running exactly beside it so there’s no reason for pedestrians use the separated cycle lanes
people are gonna be entitled and fighting that is a losing battle


hard disagree on what belongs in the same commit history… a single merge should be an entire feature, and your commit history should read like a change log


Squashed commits are not atomic … overall task requires modifying multiple different systems
that’s why monorepos exist
i’d say squashed commits aren’t always atomic, but this is one of the biggest reasons people add the complexity of a monorepo: if changes cross multiple systems, ideally their merge/revert should be an atomic operation
you either have deployment complexity (ensuring the feature is in all deployed systems before switching over), code complexity (dealing with the feature only maybe exiting in parts of the system), or repo complexity (where tools manage a monorepo and thus commits and PR/MRs are atomic across your system)
in a situation in which harm increase over time, like the rise of far right, anti-science, environmental damage, etc… perhaps that “wait” is a less ethical solution than to solve the problem
now, perhaps causing harm isn’t the way to go, but… the lesser of 2 evils may still be somewhat problematic