Eiri

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Honestly even Imperial would help at this point. Clothing sizes, in general, are based on basically clouds and dreams and vary wildly by brand or even by model.

I just wish the world standardized. I don't care how. As long as it's standard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

It's wild to me that people just buy the same shoe over and over. I'm not a fashionista by any stretch of the imagination; I just have one, maximum two, pair(s) of footwear per temperature slice, and I don't even have any formal ones.

But even I would want something new, even if my old pair had served me well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Feels vaguely threatening lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That sounds great!. I'm happy for Californians.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't it originally a huge public undertaking? It was my understanding that the rails and CN began their lives in public ownership before being privatized.

Did I misunderstand things?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Ugh. Why did we ever privatize rail. People would riot if we privatized the highway network, and yet...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I'm a woman and I was born in the 1990s. I do live in North America though.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago

The US are just a bad parody of themselves at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Can you expand on that? Good news in American politics would be a nice change.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone loves Bernie.

But dang it the man is 83. He should be enjoying the last years of his life in retirement. It makes me sad to think he still needs to be working in politics.

He's as old as Trump, who is already too old for this shit, will be at the end of his term.

Maybe there should be a hard limit at 65 or something for politicians. Both to keep out people in whom dementia is clearly starting to appear and to let old people frickin' rest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Sadly TVs with DisplayPort support are very rare, and mine is not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Used to do this. I had issues with either the audio or the video feed randomly dying, though, so I ended up finding a way to make HDMI+USB work when I moved.

More reliable, but now that I'm starting to think about reorganizing my office, copper will no longer do for 4K120 as that'll go over the 5-meter limit. And an optical high bandwidth HDMI+USB setup isn't cheap.

Upsides and downsides...

 

One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.

On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.

Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?

 

Sometimes, when I'm really cold, it can take over an hour to warm me up, even with a heating blanket. The quickest solution, a hot shower, feels really inefficient with all the heat going down the drain.

That got me thinking about microwaves. They heat food (partly) from the inside, contrary to simple infrared radiation.

Could we safely do that with people?

I found a Reddit thread where a non-lethal weapon and people getting eye damage because they stayed too long in front of a radar dish.

Could some sort of device be made that would warm specific areas (say, a hand or a leg) without endangering sensitive areas like the eyes?

Would it actually warm someone up from the inside? Would it be possible to make it safe?

Would it present advantages in cases of hypothermia, compared to heated IV fluids?

 

I don't see how it's a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each.

My gut feeling is that the stock market would not suffer, and less resources would be wasted, if trades and updates to stock prices were limited to, say, one batch per hour.

There are probably reasons the system is the way it is though.

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