niucllos

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

I'm not saying me driving an EV does statistically anything to reduce carbon emissions, or even that if I got all my friends and family to go vegan and bike instead of drive cars that it would. I am saying that the broad public doesn't care about these issues enough to consume differently or vote for policy or politicians that make their lives less convenient in order to fight climate change, and that instead our individual actions to avert climate change contribute to a public ethos that can accept lifestyle changes and that may potentially hold the mega polluting corporations to account and fix our throw-away durable goods culture in a way that media-demonized protests and pestering bought-and-paid politicians never can.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

While this is basically true, what it ignores is the impact personal decisions make on the ethos around us to build support for legal pressure. I have family that doesn't disbelieve climate change but isn't motivated by it, and by us going mostly meatless and buying and EV they've started meatless Mondays and Thursdays and are considering an EV for their next car. Our individual actions ripple out, and create a public normalization for these types of changes so that it isnt an uphill battle to get uninformed laypeople to care about climate policy at the polling stations

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

We can trust him to look out for himself as he sees it, not necessarily rationally. And also not to plan long-term if he needs a cash infusion now. Will be interesting (I guess) to see which pressure wins out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a bummer, I really liked their website and themed ink sample packs too! I'm sure they aren't the only ones who do it, but now I have to find another retailer I trust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

He's saying every single quiet thought any of them have ever had!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Additionally, the raised and blunt hood height makes a full-body impact with no force dissipation much more likely, particularly for shorter people, where a more traditional hood shape allows a struck pedestrian to roll over the top and avert some of the force of the strike

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

I'm going to be a bit blunt, but unfortunately you didn't score big in a cash sense. The tag on the arm is to make it easier to check brand on a store rack and is designed to be easily cut off--having it still on does increase its value as it's a sign of low/no use. However, tailored clothing like suits and blazers are a relatively niche and very saturated market, so unless it's a new or like-new 100% wool or wool/silk blend in the classic 2-button style and from a very well known brand (Brooks Brothers, Hugo Boss, etc.), it's going to be very hard to sell it for much because people can just do what you did and go to a thrift store and choose from tons of suits for ~$8 each. Even if the store originally charged $800 for it, as another poster commented these suits are selling for ~$30-$100 on Poshmark and most of those listings have been up for months. If you're very patient you could maybe get $20-$50.

However, if it fits well and you like it, you scored a fantastic clothing deal on a fun jacket, so congratulations! The money you saved instead of buying the $300 jacket at DXL is now free for your emergency fund!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It works great for notes, it's not great for recording data because if it mishears me/I mumble once an entire set of 500+ observations can be frame shifted away from their identifiers and I have to redo it

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As if the Kamala/Waltz ticket isn't an extension of the current administration, why would they wait?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gesture typing is definitely faster, but I find it much less accurate and requires vision. My old sliding phone I could write whole essays in my hoodie pocket while walking home with few to no typos, which was a niche use-case for sure but an existing one. I work outside a fair amount and would love having that back for notetaking in the field

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It sounds like British Irish

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

On Linux at least low enough power chargers will get rejected and won't do anything. Idk what the cutoff is but USB a phone chargers won't work.

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