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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago (16 children)

TV show, not movie, but no, definitely not saying we should ban anything.

Given that the series handled his transition fairly head on, pretty sure no one wants to destroy the older seasons.

My only question was that this meme is directly referring to the top character as a woman. Most times I see this meme it doesn't have any references to gender ("morning shift going to work at 6am / night shift coming home at 6am," or something like that).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (24 children)

Is using an old picture of Elliot Page


and referencing women


considererd poor form? Honest question, I really don't know the etiquette.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 31 points 2 months ago

The only flaw in Corel's logic was that as soon as you're running Linux, you lose all desire to run WordPerfect, and develop an irresistible need to align yourself with vim or emacs...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

this was always bound to happen as we expand our presence in space.

Yes and no


from a different article:

Radiation associated with Starlink satellites was detected at observing frequencies between 110 and 188 MHz, which is well below the 10.7- 12.7 GHz radio frequencies used for the downlink communication signals.

(The original article said 5M radiation, which should be around 60MHz.)

So Starlink is emitting RF in spectrum where they shouldn't, which is avoidable, but takes effort.

My guess, and I could be wrong, is that this could be related to something other than the radio(s), such as switching power supplies finding opportunistic structures from which to radiate.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Sure. But this is kinda just accelerationism/xenophobia, no? For example, replace "Idaho" with "Mexico" in your argument, and it gets pretty ugly pretty fast IMHO.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago (59 children)

ID residents should be banned from receiving medical care in WA.

But I think accelerationist policies often hurt vulnerable people...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

...and I don't see it motivating people to go vote.

But it can do the opposite perhaps


"motivate" people to stay home who would otherwise vote R. Not that, in general, we should be celebrating voter apathy, but I think that some of these endorsements could dishearten folks enough that they end up abstaining.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I think you need to include energy cost in the preparation stage. Bread requires a hot oven, which is a real amount of electricity


it's close to $0.40/kWh where I live. From this link it says that a bread maker uses only .36kWh, but an electric oven would be more like 1.6kWh. So bakita single loaf of bread, you end up with a not insubstantial fraction of the total cost going to heating the oven.

Of course, many bulk foods require heat, so it gets a little sticky this way. Oats/oatmeal probably wins out here, as you can just soak them overnight.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 26 points 2 months ago

Ford, Harley- Davidson and Lowe’s are among the companies that announced they would no longer participate in the Corporate Equality Index.

Meanwhile, here are the ones that did well on the Corporate Equality Index link.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Right. But I think it's a mischaracterization to represent the EC as a "technicality," as it's very central to the way voting in the USA works. Don't get me wrong, I think it's stupid and should be abolished, but it's very much ingrained in the voting system.

I think I'd counter your example


keeping the sports theme


by saying it's like the World Series: it doesn't matter if there are three absolute blowouts, all the matters is who wins four games. So you could easily win the World Series, but have fewer total runs across seven games (game = EC votes, runs = popular).

(Again, I think the EC should absolutely be abolished.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

And water has great heat capacity, with a nice phase change, too.

From reading other links in this post, it sounds like pollution (runoff) is a concern, which is unfortunate.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's unfortunately not really a contradiction though, given the electoral college


I think Harris will obliterate Trump in the popular, but that's sadly not what matters.

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