grue 25m ago • 100%
Either way, that look of disappointment hertz.
grue 1h ago • 100%
So what's the new best practice for syncing Syncthing to an Android device going to be?
grue 1h ago • 100%
"Trump uses fascist rhetoric to stoke radicalization among his paramilitary in preparation for another coup attempt."
There, I fixed the headline.
grue 10h ago • 100%
Remember: the reason Garland got nominated for SCOTUS in the first place was that he was so conservative Obama figured Mitch McConnell couldn't possibly object to him.
grue 11h ago • 91%
Okay, enough is enough. The Internet Archive is both essential infrastructure and irreplaceable historical record; it cannot be allowed to fall. Rather than just hoping the Archive can defend itself, I say It's time to hunt down and counterattack the scum perpetrating this!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21043632 > Printed 110 years ago today in The Day Book. Image cleaned up, [see the original](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/iune/batch_iune_golf_ver01/data/sn83045487/00280761291/1914101901/1313.pdf). > > Found on [the Library of Congress site](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&date2=1963&language=&sequence=&lccn=&state=&rows=50&ortext=&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=57&sort=date).
grue 1d ago • 100%
I wonder if this early snow in New England is a symptom of the AMOC collapsing.
grue 1d ago • 100%
The real question is... why aren't we rioting about it?
grue 1d ago • 100%
Well, not that cynical.
grue 1d ago • 100%
Returning is not enough. Boycotting is not enough. We need to be marching on the FTC and Congress with torches and pitchforks about this shit!
grue 1d ago • 100%
In other words, because abuse begets abuse.
grue 1d ago • 100%
Never kill yourself for something that's somebody else's fault.
grue 1d ago • 100%
"It's the MLK Jr. of beverages!"
(FBI agents hate it.)
grue 2d ago • 83%
You realize they have the same policy for everybody from checkout clerks to corporate software developers, right? Even in positions that never get anywhere near any sort of dangerous equipment.
Hell, even pure software companies, that don't have any employees where the issues you cite would legitimately apply, sometimes have the same bullshit allegedly-insurance-mandated drug testing.
Point is, a lot of this shit is driven by busybodies inventing excuses for their puritan moral crusade, not genuine risk.
(Full disclosure: (a) I have firsthand experience working as a software engineer at places that do drug testing, including Home Depot specifically, and (b) I don't actually use drugs, so this pisses me off purely as a matter of principle.)
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31244231 > >Ian Brossat, a former Paris councillor and now a senator representing the French Communist party, called for SUVs to be banned in Paris. “This is not the first incident of its kind, and the dangerous nature of SUVs has already been pointed out on several occasions. We owe it to this young man to realise the scale of the problem and draw all the consequences,” Brossat told the Nouvel Obs.
grue 2d ago • 100%
Finally, appropriate charges for once!
grue 2d ago • 100%
Ironically, a Toyota. Specifically, my 1994 4Runner (that's from back when they were still the same as the famous indestructible Hilux, BTW). I've owned it since just before the pandemic and still haven't managed to get it to run right yet. It's been parked for months because I can't find any mechanic willing to touch it.
The lesson here is that when people say the 3VZE is the one bad engine Toyota made, believe them. The most common advice I've read for fixing it is "rip it out and swap in a 5VZE," which I'm seriously considering.
grue 2d ago • 94%
That shit should be illegal. Insurance companies should not have that kind of power.
grue 2d ago • 100%
Like it or not, the US presidential election has potentially dire worldwide consequences for global warming. If you think our attention is best spent on global warming -- and I would agree -- then paying attention to the election is that.
grue 2d ago • 100%
I feel like the Democrats ought to be pivoting towards attacking Vance at this point. The possibility of Trump kicking the bucket from natural causes and the GOP getting a sympathy (/conspiracy-theorist) bounce in the votes this late would be devastating, so they ought to be pulling out all the stops to anticipate and mitigate that before it happens.
grue 2d ago • 88%
It all has to start somewhere…
That "somewhere" ought to be complaining to the FTC etc., because boycotts are hardly ever effective. We've put the mythical "free market" on such a pedestal these days that it seems like a lot of us forget that consumer protection regulation is even an option!
grue 2d ago • 100%
The increase in average lifespan in the modern era has come almost entirely from a reduction of people dying during child birth and childhood. The life expectancy for people who've already reached adulthood (and for women, who've stopped having children) hasn't really changed much since prehistory. Maybe we are "on the cusp" of that changing, but it hasn't actually done so yet.
Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/5169111
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30563342 > This store just opened up a few months back, and they had zero bike parking. > > I emailed their head office, saying that I was planning to shop there, but not until they added a bike rack. > > Went to check last night, and boom! Bike rack!
saportareport.com
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3949298 > From the Saporta Report: > >  > Hurricane Helene rocked the Southeast in late September, bringing devastation to parts of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and more. The storm, a Category 4 at its peak, arrived in Georgia on Friday night and affected almost every part of the state. Gov. Brian Kemp has called the damage left by the storm “unprecedented.” Georgia cities […] > > The post [Atlanta’s green infrastructure at work during Hurricane Helene provides an example of learning from the past](https://saportareport.com/atlantas-green-infrastructure-at-work-during-hurricane-helene-providing-an-example-of-learning-from-the-past/uncategorized/mark-lannaman/) appeared first on [SaportaReport](https://saportareport.com).
www.wabe.org
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3894145 > From WABE Politics News: > > A Fulton County judge indicated Tuesday he is unlikely to invalidate controversial new rules on certifying election results but could still issue a ruling clarifying that certification is mandatory. The […]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20368770 > It’s easy to understand if you realize that America is essentially a corporation rather than a country, and that country is only representing its shareholders. > > In case you’re confused - if you’re not rich and powerful, you’re not a shareholder. You’re an employee or a commodity or an expense, and you exist to enrich the shareholder class.
www.yorkregion.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30050658 > > “They are not safe. They are anything but for safety,” said a woman **who added vehicles in the two-block section sometimes drive in the middle of Springbrook to avoid the bollards.** > > Oh, so drivers behind of the wheel of an automobile are the danger. Why remove the bike lanes rather than the car lanes? > > I heard that Etobicoke's NIMBYs are insane, but this is a new level of stupidity from Richmond Hill.
["The absolute state of US public transit and micromobility infrastructure." -- @TheTechnician27](https://lemmy.world/comment/12607726)
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13698320
www.asomo.co
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20696202
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20166859
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16756563 > Source: [Imperial War Museums](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/14006) > > Image Description: > > a battle scene set in a British village street, featuring a dismounted Territorial Army cyclist, in uniform and chin-strapped forage cap, loading his rifle. Behind him stand two more members of the battalion, one firing his rifle, the other placed his bicycle against a wall. In the background, the remainder of the battalion come to join them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19969965 > The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say. > > Siemiatycki said "this government has signalled that the car is king," pointing to prior steps the governing Progressive Conservatives (PCs) have taken to ease costs for drivers. > > He sees the PCs as making a clear play for the votes of motorists, and believes the policy would also appeal to many drivers frustrated with congestion on the roads.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19969965 > The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say. > > Siemiatycki said "this government has signalled that the car is king," pointing to prior steps the governing Progressive Conservatives (PCs) have taken to ease costs for drivers. > > He sees the PCs as making a clear play for the votes of motorists, and believes the policy would also appeal to many drivers frustrated with congestion on the roads.