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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Lack of affordable housing is certainly an issue.

When rent is over half of your budget, how do you keep a roof over your head when an emergency comes up.

We need mental health care too, but we also need to correct the housing market in general. Building lots of cheap housing is still a good option.

The new housing development near me is trying to sell brownstones for half a million, and the new condos are going for 250K. They’re all nearly empty because very few can afford them. So we either need higher wages, or actually affordable housing. Ideally we’d get both, it’s not like we don’t have the money to try multiple solutions.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

20 billion could go a long way to curbing homelessness.

20 billion invested in high density, low rent housing units could make housing more accessible to millions of people, including the homeless.

Remember, not all homeless people are completely jobless. Many are couch surfing or sleeping in their cars, have stables jobs, and just can’t afford rent where their job is. An apartment they can afford could do a lot for these people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Actually the rule very clearly states that no one can be elected more than twice for the presidency.

So looking at it from the Trump campaign’s perspective, assuming this is their official stance, they are running an illegal campaign to elect a president for a third time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I could actually see this being useful for dangerous working environments like steelworks or inside nuclear facilities. As long as the control system is on a separate intranet that’s properly air gapped.

You should still pay the operator their full wage though. The human still needs all of the technical knowledge to do the job, you’re just removing most of the physical risk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Eating any rare wild game is stupid.

You’re eating a wild animal, you have no idea what it’s been eating, drinking, or rolling around in. Cook the hell out of it.

Last time I made elk, I slow cooked it for like 8 hours. It was fall apart tender, but it had been in boiling broth for many hours. You can make delicious meals with wild game, you just have to cook it right.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s kind of like saying that ford can’t make a model t anymore.

I’m sure they could, there’s just no reason to.

I’m also sure the contractors that built the Saturn V, those that are still in business, could build equivalent parts today if the government asked.

The Saturn five was an absurdly large rocket designed specifically to get 3 people from earth to the moon. It was insanely expensive per launch, and the only reason it ever flew was because the government was writing nasa blank checks in order to beat the soviets.

Today the government wants a reasonable dollar figure for a launch, and the days of spending a billion dollars per launch are long past.

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

That’s an extremely bold assumption.

The space shuttle was designed originally to be rapidly reusable, but its shortest turn around time was still measured in weeks, not days.

And its main engines only produced water as a by product, no soot or carbon deposits to worry about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

There’s a bunch of hacked chalice dungeons you can join that essentially give you unlimited blood echoes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

The party of conspiracy theories is eating itself due to conspiracy theories.

That seems about right.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The “front” or “forward” direction of a screw is clearly the face of the fastener itself, be it a hex head, Phillips, or Slotted screw. Picking a side of a face as the front doesn’t make any sense. The whole thing needs to rotate one direction or another, and it will either rotate to the right to tighten, or the left to loosen.

If I ask you what the front of a clock is, are you going to tell me it’s the top curve near the ceiling? No it’s the face of the clock, and the hands rotate around it to the right.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The whole thing is rotating to the right, that’s what clockwise means. Clocks rotate to the right. One arrow is not pointing left, it’s pointing in the direction of rotation, which is to the right.

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