This is hilarious considering they fucked over the EPA provision that prevented one state’s emissions from harming another (eg Ohio smoke causing acid rain in upstate NY).

Thanks, interesting article.

Paywalled for me

Damn, I don’t follow any meme stuff anywhere but Lemmy. Guess I’m late to the meme party, I kinda hated them for the first couple decades of the 2000s.

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What do you mean by same thing with Meshtastic, are they trying to sell spectrum around 900mHz too?

Why

Calling that pyramid age I think is a little disingenuous, they didn’t have 40,000 psi concrete back in those days.

UPS or USPS has to pay for health insurance, retirement plans, vehicle maintenance, gas, all kinds of stuff.

With Lyft the driver is responsible for everything, and since there’s lots of people with cars, they can just churn through them. We’re also talking local delivery here not cross country shipping.

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Bat and bird poop can carry diseases such as histoplasmosis.

OP is asking about seeing light, not being directly hit by it. A psychological effect.

I do have a link: https://youtu.be/2UsNbsjpuLc

This is obviously true in the strictest sense, but I don’t think it’s going to have the desired effect you want in the long run. How’s the War on Drugs working out? It’s been going for 54 years, so I assume it’s about wrapped up now, drugs aren’t an issue, black market is choked out, and society is better off.

Firearms restrictions will be enforced unequally; it will be used as a pretense to further persecute minorities. Those with money will simply hire private security contractors who can jump through the legal hoops to get whatever they want. The majority of shootings in the US are related to drugs and other illegal activities that have logistics channels to get guns just as easily as drugs or exploited people. Guns are durable and the demand exists. They’re not going anywhere.

The gun problem in the US is not the cause of our woes, it is the symptom. “Make X illegal” is the laziest form of government and it’s just granting them more power which will be abused eventually.

Ban smartphones makes about as much sense as ban drugs or ban guns. It does nothing to address root causes and will do little to change anything for the better. Societal issues take more than “make X illegal”.

Violence didn’t create war or genocide, those are a result of nationalism and racism, respectively. Violence is the means used to accomplish the goal, but the motivation is what does the creating.

To be clear I’m not pro-violence or something, but it is kinda funny to me when you hear “violence is the answer” and open a history book to see time and time again that violence is the answer for quite a few problems.

No, they said government stuff is on a shoestring budget and doesn’t waste. This is not at all my experience with military / medical / research fields.

This wasn’t a contracting issue, it was blowing the budget on pointless reagents to ensure the budget wasn’t decreased the following year. They just picked the most expensive reagent and bought a ton - all the same lot, all the same expiration date.

Thing is, it wasn’t helpful or useful, and it’s clear whoever ordered it had no clue what was going on. We used maybe 1-2 boxes of those calibrators a year. I probably threw out 6 dozen boxes, all the exact same lot and expiration date, that had been sitting in the back of the -80C freezer for years.

That money could have gone towards any one of the actual lifesaving research programs we had going, but instead it went to some vendor.