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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

PDF X-Change editor, WunderShare PDFElement (although their license is a bit annoying), and other can easily replace Adobe for editing PDFs. Probably are some open source options as well.

SumatraPDF for viewing. As others had mentioned, Preview.app on Mac has always been pretty robust.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But we still have lawns, which is a significant chunk of water use.

FWIW, lawns aren't the problem. Take Colorado for example. 97% of the portion of Colorado River water (the rest goes to downstream states like Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Wyoming, and also to Mexico) that Colorado gets to use is agriculture.

Of the remaining 3% that isn't used for inefficient ag, that whole 3% includes industrial, residential, businesses.

Of the subset of that 3% that covers residential, that subset includes some percentage of lawn water use (your references mentioned 50% to 70%) for the months that irrigation is turned on (in Colorado, late May to mid October.)

Lawns are very far down the scale of concern, but media and industry like to make the problem about the individual instead of admitting responsibility for their inefficient and wasteful processes.

Yes, lawns in desert environments don't make any sense, but there are entire industries to fry before it becomes necessary to be concerned with that with any amount of alarm. Wet land around homes also helps mitigate wildfire spread, although hopefully plant type, object placement, and technology help mitigate that in the future as xeriscaping and zeroscaping become more common. It also helps slow dirt erosion.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The ~~war~~ genocide in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Every time, even NPR. Clickbait can suck it.

Thanks for saving the click.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

low unemployment

Unemployment is a flawed 6-month rolling window metric that is ostensibly meaningless.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unrelated to the content and scary situation itself, just a general media commentary, why is that WaPo article using a tiny AM radio quality image? It seems many online media companies still live in the age of paper publishing. Now, an image like that converted to CMYK @ 170dpi and run through a Panther would end up looking passable on newsprint, even blown up a bit.

It's the Internet future, publish better quality photos. Yet the media wonders why they died. So many thousands of cuts like this.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, didn't mean to come across as an apologist. Call a shit spade a shit spade. Just annoyed with the media riding the name trolley for ad clicks.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

It wasn't just retraining, using an old certified airframe let's them skip the airframe certification process. There are similarly some helicopter companies that do similar and make emergency save your life vehicle fireball death traps rather than certify a new design. It is like airframe design died in the 1960s to save money.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 months ago (9 children)

It is annoying how the media keeps riding the Boeing name for the clicks. Yes, Boeing fucked up, they aren't the only one in aerospace fucking up.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Very fair point.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (8 children)

FWIW the main meds can be started/stopped at will. They aren't like the drugs that mess directly with neurotransmitter chemical reactions directly.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

They don't even need to push an update, they just need to send a kill command from their activation servers.

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