Anyone who knows how good we function in a crisis is able to extrapolate from there that this would be a thing.

As others have said it’s the burnout and the subsequent time it takes to recover that makes this basically unsustainable. Even when finding a balance there will still be burnout.

I’m positive at least some of the servers that house Lemmy and its FOSS sister networks are housed in VC companies. The amount of people who can support that data and the servers it resides on is small without Corps being in the mix.

We’re not exactly winning over here on Lemmy or Mastodon. I’ve been a member of the Mastodon community for close to 6 years or so. It isn’t a reasonable replacement for Twitter because (for what I used it for, which had nothing to do with Micro logging), it doesn’t do what I need it to because the number of people I want to follow there are few and far between. Bands, book authors, local news networks, international news networks. I’m not likely to find out about school closings on Mastodon.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesky-board/

This article gives basically no examples of what Gemini does better than regular Google Assistant Integration. It just claims it’s better and “more natural” and that you can change your mind.

The actual functionality of asking Google to set a timer for 5 minutes or three hours and then saying “no, make that two hours” isn’t super exciting. I can cancel that timer and set a new one at just about any time. This type of thing isn’t enough to get people who don’t want Gemini (like me) to switch.

Their own apps?

Google Home used to sell smoke and CO2 detectors. What… Just. Google. What are you doing?

I did after the update. Their comment doesn’t account for people who are old enough to vote/and counted in the census but still are not eligible voters. 78.76 percent of eligible voters voted. The total number of people who voted is 10,999,265 out of a total number of eligible voters 13,949,168.

This is important context that was missing from both the original comment and the edited comment.

57 percent of the people who voted voted for abortion rights. That’s 6,269,581 voters. Since the bar for a measure to pass in Florida is 60 percent, we know that if the other 2,949,903 people had voted at all and they’d voted in favor that would have passed the abortion rights initiatives on the ballot. In fact the abortion rights initiative only needed 109,927 more votes in order to pass. It was extremely close to passing.

https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/CountyReportingStatus

22million people who are eligible to vote? I want to know if that’s everyone who lives in Florida (man women, children, citizens, non-citizens etc), or just eligible voters.

Also some of them are much better quality than the ones Google sells. As someone who has bought many a Google band (Fitbit band) that ended up being high priced garbage. I learned my lesson after 5, but that’s still too many.

We need to impose term limits, fix education, reschedule drugs like pot, and pass some amendments to the constitution. Change the supreme Court so the people can recall them by popular vote for things like treason and knowing conflict of interest that they act on. And the electoral college needs an overhaul. Every state should follow the same criteria for choosing electoral voters and they should do ranked voting in addition. We also need to have federal anti-gerrymandering laws etc.

And for God’s sakes we need to look into and reform how many senators and congressmen states get because that’s just broken as hell.

How much of the traffic increase is bots. Because we still don’t have those numbers and I still don’t believe this is anything but bot influx and reddit grifting using ads.

Probably not actually, especially in the long term. Crowns and veneers can lead to lots of other dental problems and the thing is, the dog doesn’t have human speech to let handlers know it’s in pain or having a problem right away so if they have a rotting tooth or a cracked one under the cap all kinds of things can go wrong.

What the fuck. How is this not animal cruelty?

I use a Logitech K730. It’s got chiclet style keys so nothing too clacky, but I like it and it works with the logi receiver and a Logitech MX mouse. Both are nice, and work on my Bazzite (fedora) computer.

Buying isn’t owning from literally any game company. When you buy digital you own a license to play that game. The license can be revoked at any time.

When you buy a physical game you still only buy a license to play that game, and the license can be revoked at any time. The only difference here is you own the physical disk that media is on, and it’s harder (not impossible) for the owner of that media (the one who sells the license) to revoke the license to that media.

I appreciate that people are pissed about this but it was a thing before digital media took off and the only difference between a steam game and a game from Epic is the inclusion (on Epic) of an offline installer store that allows you to install the game without connecting to the internet.

It’s the same license.

I’m also going to add the PlayStation, Xbox, and even Nintendo have removed titles from people’s libraries when their agreement to license the media to the users lapsed or were removed. So it’s not just Valve.

Mask mandates may not be in effect but I can wear one to the grocery store. This is stupid and I will not participate.

If I had to guess it’s to protect their identity so that they can vote without being harassed. But I will fully admit I only looked at the picture and didn’t click the link or anything.

As an alternative to using a credit card online is a good idea, as good an idea as any for security and anti-tracking if nothing else. But only if you remember to use them.

One other thing is, (and I’m not positive this is true), but people on disability can’t have over a certain amount of cash. Giving a gift card makes sense in that instance because it no longer counts as cash at that point.

Two car lengths on the highway is not enough car lengths to make a meaningful difference in the event of a crash or giving you time to react to an emergency situation up ahead.

That being said, I respect that you leave any car lengths at all and it’s probably better than nothing. Especially since other drivers see any more than that as a challenge to enter that gap. Which is dangerous as shit and they are wrong but won’t learn even after they wreck doing it.

That’s true. That means the circulated air coming from that filter is clean. The problem is there is no air barrier between that air once it’s in the cabin, and any of the passengers, the cargo space, or behind any of the interior panels where dust builds up very fast. Peanut allergies are one of the most prevalent allergies, and can be some of the most severe, where even breathing in air contaminated with peanut oil can cause an anaphylactic reaction. People often forget that this dust gets deposited behind the panels the passengers and crew interact with and it accumulates to what I would consider to be significant levels (6-8" layers).