rhombus

joined 2 years ago
[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe if we had a functional government that gave a shit about innocent until proven guilty then this excuse would hold water. They shouldn’t release the files; they should use them as the basis for investigations and eventual prosecutions, because nobody can say for sure if every person on the list is guilty. But we can tell the excuses are bullshit because they’re just gonna sweep it all under the rug and pretend it didn’t happen,

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Greedy publishers screwing over Devs, or a dev shoving unfinished slop out in order to get a bonus?

Ultimately, I would still put blame on the publisher for dangling such a huge incentive over the devs heads. They probably didn’t think the devs could actually pull it off and are now scrambling to convince everyone it really isn’t ready.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

There’s a lot of really good advice here, I’ll just pitch in one thing I’ve been working on myself lately: mindfulness. Awareness of yourself, your surroundings, and how you feel (both emotionally and physically).

I’ve struggled a lot with the same problem of bottling emotions up, but I often do it because I don’t even register all of the little emotional paper cuts that feed into it. It’s helped me to make it a habit of stopping and assessing myself and asking “hows does this make me feel and why?”

Start doing that for even the little things and you’ll find it gets progressively easier to stop and assess even the bigger things. Won’t always make you feel better, but oftentimes all we need to avoid blowing up is that second of “stop and think” to make us cool off just a bit.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m sure all the savings from accelerated/cheaper R&D will be passed on to the consumer…right?

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The process you’re thinking of is oxygenation, not oxidation. Oxygenation is the binding of oxygen to other molecules, oxidation is the loss of electrons. When the iron in hemoglobin oxidizes (from Fe2+ to Fe3+) it stops binding with oxygen, and if it oxidizes further (to Fe4+) it can start oxidizing other molecules in your body. Your body has enzymes to reduce the iron back to a reactive state, but antioxidants also play a role in reducing oxidized molecules.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

There isn’t a grain elevator on every farm, farmers transport grain to them on trucks. So yeah, passenger rail as frequent as grain elevators would be great. Still need cars to get there.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you actually have a reason to live out there, like a farm

maybe car brains should all just get the fucking wall

I’m not going to bother here.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago

To save you some time: Google and Meta are monitoring the conversations using the device's microphone

This is not happening. It is not something that would be possible to hide, there are so many different places this could (and would) be detected by someone with the right know-how (data/battery consumption in particular).

Try and pay attention to how many ads you get that are completely irrelevant to you. It will happen way more often than ones that match up with your conversations.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

He’s literally going to The Hague for a NATO conference. Chill.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He’s literally going to The Hague for a NATO summit. Chill.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And people drive themselves on those roads. You need to hire people to run and maintain the trains.

How far do you expect people to walk? The rural parts of my state have an average of less than 10 people per square mile. Is the train stopping every mile or two? Not terribly efficient. Trains between and around population centers would be great, but expecting rural people to fully ditch cars is just completely infeasible.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Right, because it’s totally feasible to run a personal rail line to every home in a rural community. Taxpayers will happily pay for miles of rail so one family can get to town.

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