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Seriously UK and Germany, you guys trying to upstage us or something?

Pots and pans. When it’s for sure I’ll be banging pots and pans as loud as I can regardless what time it is.

I like describing the 70s as convenient, because to me it reads as “convenient enough.” I just visited a recently renovated library and noticed curbside pickup spots (as in they run the books out while you sit in your car.) Outside of the disabled, do we really need that?

I’ve been wondering to what degree we’re addicted to convenience, and what the right amount might be.

Every time I hear someone repeat “Idiocracy was a documentary” what I hear is “Brawndo’s got what plants crave.” Mostly because of the number of times I’ve heard it but I guess also because it feels like a part of concentrated apathy? I’m probably just irrationally sick of the phrase, but the frequency and mindlessness of it being said seems kinda hypocritical.

Minor asterisk: we need to move away from abusive tech business practices altogether. It’s distressing how people can see the problem and recreate it like with Bluesky. I hope we can build better systems now rather than doing this all over again with european monopolists in 10 years.

Not completely unchanged. Someone briefly changed the name before other editors restored it and moved Lake America to the official_name:en-US tag. That’s been OSM’s way of not quite placating people insisting on the name change.

I had this exact delivery tracking weirdness on amazon and the seller was another big company… got a refund and have zero regrets.

My last few have been used off ebay. Pixels really are mediocre phones these days. And the deals on used A series aren’t as good as I remember.

Nuclear power is a toppic dripping with nuance… which we’re totally great at dealing with these days…

So stun gun gloves. That’s absolutely a weapon aimed at intimidation and “punishment” plain and simple. Stun guns aren’t tasers and can’t incapacitate someone in the same way. So they intend to use these on unarmed people. Even the most bastard cops know that stun guns make no sense for police.

So these gloves are super fucked and really exactly what a fascist force would like to use on people, but honestly it’s so blatant this is going nowhere. The first time these were used a judge would rip ICE a new one. I’ll bet everyone forgets about this pretty fast and the gloves never happen.

It feels like sometimes we fail to comnunicate that while climate models are extremely rigorous and meticulously put together, there’s always the possibility of unknown factors.

I appreciate scientists aversion to alarmism, and the difficulty of balancing effective communication on the topic. But if we’re honest our species has been dicking around with the most complex system we know of. Even if we start doing everything right there are certainly any number of surprises lurking that we will need to deal with. And to some degree guessing at the scope of the unknown is impossible.

Can someone tell me I’m wrong and somehow we know where all the environmental landmines are? Cause I want to believe that the “this much inventment and change equals this much less warming” can be relied upon, but I worry it’s tempering the apparent scale of the crisis.

My local government had funds offered by a federal grant they didn’t apply for. A neighboring county had applied for the federal grant, received a ton of money, and was dishing it out to police across the region.

Security on android ereaders is definitely disappointing. My Boox palma 2 only supports pins, not passwords. And unfortunately I don’t think a pure eink would work for me. The xteink has me curious if you could make firmware to “leech” off grapheneOS’ security by doing something like an SMB share to avoid having potentially pirated books unencrypted.

What I’d personally love to see is an X4 sized device with NFC, wireless charging, and Lora for meshtastic.

Worth noting that when we hit these temperatures the humidity is usually 5% so we may have a record headline but I’ll honestly take this over hot and humid any day.

You find them regularly?

My apartment has a nice gas range that I put an induction cooktop on since I prefer it.