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barsoap ,

Palestinians are quite liberal and progressive compared to other Arabs, and being gay is legal in the West Bank -- that doesn't mean that there's no issues, this article about a planned LGBT youth camp gives a good impression. There's allies, but keep your head down and out of sight of religious nutjobs. It's pretty much the same thing atheists do over there: Plenty of them around with all that secular history but the religious nutjobs are simply too rabid to allow public discourse about the topic. It's way easier to go the "secular Muslim" route: Fast, but not for Allah.

In Gaza the legal situation is undetermined (scholars disagree on whether British mandate law prohibiting gay sex still applies) but anyway Hamas is in power, they instituted a religious police, tried to enforce headscarfs, go after male hairdressers cutting women's hairs without any legal basis etc. don't look at the statute book Hamas doesn't care and they're crazy. Also you don't want to go to Gaza right now. Also, you probably can't even if you're an UN aid worker.

barsoap ,

Me, here.

Picking on younger generations is healthy and natural: They're still figuring stuff out and it's a good way to give some teachings while everyone has a chuckle. What's not healthy and natural is leaving them with neuroses where silent expectations, judgements, unwillingness to see their side etc. are the usual weapons: Don't carry a dagger behind your back, doubly so don't be unconscious of it, instead, open-carry a super soaker.

barsoap ,

As a rule of thumb westeners tend to brew tea too hot, don't be afraid of messing around with lower temperatures. Doubly so if you're living in the lowlands, in mountainous regions where the tea grows people might be using boiling water but that doesn't mean 100C: In the Andes, where potatoes are from, they're doing some freezing and whatnot processing to prepare them instead of boiling. Wouldn't really work because you can't get water hotter than 80-85C there.

Also cold brewed, as in refrigerator brewed, Earl Grey is one of my favourites in summer. Needs the right base tea though mine's a decent Cylon. Couple of hours at least, better overnight, practically impossible to steep too long.

barsoap ,

It can done be quickly but what’s the point if you’ve got to rush it

Yep a good shave needs time and most of all four passes: first with the grain, that's for the colleagues, second two at right angles to the grain, that's for your lover, and the fourth one against the grain, for personal satisfaction.

OTOH if you know what you're doing a quick and dirty shave is just as good as an electric one and you don't have to deal with batteries. If a short buzz cut is all you want do that.

The whole setup is a bit of a bother if you're new but basic guidelines:

  1. Shower. Well you don't 100% need to but dry skin and shaving don't mix well so do it before.
  2. A whisk and bowl, a cheap synthetic whisk is just fine the natural hair ones are a bugger to deal with anyway (have to take care to dry them properly etc), 5-10 bucks for the whisk, 25ct for the bowl in the euro store they came in a 4-pack, really tiny stainless ones. The rest I use for mise en place.
  3. Shaving cream/soap. Don't think you'll get away with using those self-foaming gels in a can they clog the razor, don't glide well, and I've never come across one that's nice to the skin. Comes in bar or tube form, some are better at gliding some smell better if you're lucky you get both, I'd put the palmolive shaving cream on #1 as "what to get when you don't know what you want": Glides very well, dirt cheap, forgiving when whisking, like a bit over a buck a tube.
  4. The actual foam: This is going to take some trial+error, you want extra water in it but don't make it a soup, you want fine bubbles and proper shaving cream/soap will make them have standing power (though if you're in a pinch you can use regular soap, no biggie). It should be nice and sloppy, with two 'c's. If in doubt, whisk more. Apply, then let soak, make coffee or something. Oh, some people don't use a bowl to whisk but do it directly on the skin. IMO they're madmen, it's like brewing tea in your mouth, but you do you.
  5. The razor. Lots could be said about geometry, about different comb sizes, ultra-fancy blade change mechanisms, long story short buy a Merkur 23C, 30-40 bucks, chrome-plated zinc and brass. Good weight, excellent general-purpose geometry, inexpensive, literally unchanged for a hundred years. You might be tempted to cheap out and get a Wilkinson they sell cheap plastic holders that take standard razor blades but trust me the only reason why they're selling them is to make people believe standard razor blades suck.
  6. The blades. Feather is the creme de la creme and might be just a bit too sharp for some, and also comparatively pricey. Russian manufacturers generally are good but given the situation let's boycott them, many western producers have spotty quality, that leaves BIC. Yes, the guys who also make lighters, ballpoint pens and surfboards. Bonus: Carton/wax paper packaging, if you re-wrap used blades and put them back in the carton you can toss them in the bin, no worries. How long a blade lasts depends on many factors, the biggest of which is your personal preference. But even if you buy feather blades and use a new one every day you'll still end up spending less money than using a cartridge system.
  7. Shaving: See the very top. Be aware of the grain, flip the razor over to wear the blades evenly, occasionally rinse it in the sink, you'll figure it out. Avoid being silly: Don't move the thing sideways over the skin that's how you cut yourself. The geometry of the razor will tell you the right angle, just let it lead. Always make sure there's good gliding going on, never tolerate resistance. Make funny faces to get skin into places where it's easier to shave, make it taught, etc. It's an ancient, secret art, traditionally transmitted from father to son, with a break in tradition you'll have to rediscover it for yourself.
  8. Cold (not ice cold) rinse. A very good way to wake up.
  9. Aftershave, a deeply personal matter. Generally speaking you want an astringent to stop any bleeding (also micro bleeds you can't see) and a disinfectant and something nice for the skin, my personal recipe is first alumina alum, rinse, then a bog-standard random face wash from the discounter, says aloe vera. The alum will burn worse than an aftershave with alcohol could ever burn but once you rinse it's over and I don't want to sit there with a slightly burning face for half the morning. As said: Deeply personal matter. Use whisky if you want I don't care.
barsoap ,

You're completely right, I described shaving with the extra steps of figuring out what to buy and why to buy it as well as showering and making coffee. I even briefly touched on cooking.

barsoap ,

The cherry on top is that this whole ritual is to save someone the hassle of “having to deal with batteries”. The horror!

You missed the "a quick and dirty [wet] shave is just as good as an electric one" part, didn't you. In both cases I'm partly scratchy by noon and fully scratchy come evening. A good wet shave will be about as good in the evening as a quick or electric one is once I get to work.

For most people, all it will become is a lesson in why they preferred the original path of convenience in the first place.

If the convenient path gives you a result you're happy with then take it. There's a reason I put "personal satisfaction" as a step after "for your lover".

I don't even shave that often. But when I do, I do it properly. I also don't make Ragout Bolognese that often but when I do, I do it properly. If that offends you then I can't help you, either.

barsoap ,

Most microcontrollers also don't need wall clock, monotonous time is sufficient. uint32_max counting in seconds gets you 136 years of uptime before the thing wraps which exceeds lifetime, in milliseconds it's 50 days which is well within the warranty window.

And, no, 64bit time_t is generally not an issue for 32-bit platforms: Those upper bits only get touched once every 136 years. OS vendors did step up and change stuff so everything that gets produced now should be fine. And don't even start complaining about memory budget while those things are talking json.

barsoap ,

Fluoride might be sufficiently safe in the drinking water and it's slightly effective but you know what would actually help? Dental hygiene. Fluoride in a form that actually stays with the teeth for more than a split second and has a chance to soak in instead of being drunk, i.e. toothpaste. Fluor in tap water is an absolute stop-gap measure introduced by a country which can't be arsed to have universal healthcare, they apparently can't even be arsed to have a campaign to get people to brush their fucking teeth.

Stop-gap measure like the Teletubbies. No, wait, hear me out: The whole thing is a very scientific, and successful, way to teach basic language skills to toddlers parked in front of the TV. It does the maximum possible in the situation but the results are still worse than plain old interactions with actual people.

barsoap ,

The human body can't turn dietary fluoride into harder enamel, it has to stay on the teeth, topically, for a while to soak in. As such drinking water is a suboptimal way of going about applying it to teeth. Fluoride in toothpaste is highly effective. Dentists applying highly-concentrated fluoride stuff directly to your teeth even more. In people who actually get their teeth made resilient by such measures fluoridated drinking water has exactly zero impact as the teeth can't get more resilient, in people who don't, well, it's something, a little step. There's a reason Europe isn't fluoridating drinking water: We don't have huge segments of the population falling through the gaps of the health system.

is cheap AF, and is completely trivial to distribute.

And if you were Brasil or India that would make sense. The US, OTOH, does not have an excuse when it comes to stingy with more effective measures: You have the resources to do better.

barsoap , (edited )

Had to translate it root by root but literally "Zwangsgesetz". My best guess is that Dutch rightoids use it in the sense of "tyranny", same as Brexiteers used "Brussels dictate". Somewhat embarrassingly "Dwangwett" is valid Low Saxon though we also have "Gesett" and I only just learned that "Wett" exists. Probably an East Frisian thing, you know, the kind of people who don't even know the proper word for "to talk".

Also I'll assume that he can't spell for shit and "mbt" is "met".

barsoap ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_(signal_processing)

Roughly speaking: The AI equivalent of reducing bitrate. Works quite well if you're only running them in inference mode and don't want to train them as the networks are quite noise-resistant (rounding all weights is, in essence, introducing noise).

barsoap ,

Also, it is a time management issue, on a cultural level. Try getting Germans to stay past their shift they'll tell you to get better at managing. Not their department, not their problem.

Thinking "fixing this requires a socialist revolution" honestly is part of the problem: Organise to fix the issue, there, workers will see that issues can be fixed, fix more that comes up, and they'll both be emboldened and educated about their strength. Foreplay before sex.

barsoap ,

This person is essentially shaming the individual worker for falling prey to a cultural and systemic problem.

And that's not a way to change culture because...? It's "if your friends jumped from a bridge" in disguise.

barsoap ,

You're talking individual, not group psychology. Chances are that in a group someone will laugh, others chuckle, and the person directly addressed will not be individually offended because you made a joke. Deflated, maybe, yes, but that's par for the course when bragging. Which is what OP's post talks about. If you go all "dear, dear" on people doing that they'll definitely be offended.

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. (grist.org)

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

barsoap ,

Did you know that regular buses also come in electrical variants?

Even more shockingly: So do trams and metros.

barsoap , (edited )

That route changes every year and not everyone lives where you can expect kids to be able walk to a high traffic bus stop.

If you had proper public transport that number would be quite negligible. Very very occasionally you see dedicated school buses in rural areas in Germany: Minivans. Which makes sense as boondonks areas might not have bus service but have collect taxis as only public transport, which generally are also minivans. Think living in a village of 50 and going to a school in another village, population of 2k or so. The scale of Wacken, maybe a bit smaller. Let me see... Yeah Bokelrehm doesn't have a bus station. OTOH it's like a kilometre from the school in Wacken so kids are probably biking ("Grundschule Wacken", northern end of the village on the road to Bokelrehm).

Usually the most that happens is that a regular bus service gets a doubled-up schedule when school starts and ends.

barsoap ,

Buses aren’t insulated.

Why. I mean if the weather is usually fine sure but if you're living on the arctic circle they better be insulated.

barsoap ,

I think the most important thing about schools in the US would be to reduce their size. The minimum size for a primary school in my state is 80 pupils under ordinary circumstances, arbitrarily few if the location requires it (the commute would be intolerable, we don't do boarding in primary education), Nordstrandischmoor (an island) has a primary school with one teacher and two students. Average size is about 270, scattered throughout towns and every village with a population over 1k or so. Our rural density is lower than that of US suburbia so it's definitely doable to have a primary school within what 500m of most of pupils and 3km max for anything but exceptional cases. Probably few enough that you don't want to use a bus but a minivan if it's a place where public transport doesn't reach.

barsoap ,

Less dense than thinking that public transport can't use electric vehicles, claiming that public transport wouldn't fix diesel issues.

barsoap ,

You:

Why not just make normal public transit? Like school busses aren’t a thing here so I took the regular bus to school like everyone else, it’s a lot more versatile too since people can take it to more places.

that doesn’t fix the toxic diesel pollution does it?

OP there wanted to know why school buses instead of ordinary public transport buses, separate from any diesel vs. electric issue.

You then went ahead and said "nuh-uh if we don't have dedicated school buses we can't fix diesel fumes".

That's why you got downvoted, that's why my snarky retort got upvoted. You may not have meant it like that but that's how what you wrote reads to other people.

barsoap ,

GRR Martin does scientifically accurate dragons: No six-limbed nonsense, they have two legs and two wings. That's generally good world-building advise, things can be different from the reality we know but you have to have rules, there's got to be patterns, don't just throw shit at the wall. If you absolutely want to have six-limbed dragons you better also have centaurs and other six-limbed creatures, there's six-limbed gods, etc.

SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves (www.cbc.ca)

SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves::A Toronto man used location tags to track his stolen GMC Yukon from a rail yard in the GTA to a used car lot in the United Arab Emirates. But despite calls to...

barsoap ,

Brand-new cars get shipped all the time over oceans before showing up in showrooms, it's not that expensive.

OTOH it might be cheaper to sell the car in the middle east and buy a used one on the continent it's produced on. On yet another hand the insurance might just say "we don't want to deal with this shit" and pay out: Even figuring out the legalities, paying agents in multiple countries etc. might be more expensive.

barsoap ,

I know a famila which doesn't use deposit carts, and they happen to share a parking lot and cart pool with an Aldi which also don't use deposit, a famila employee does the corralling -- mostly re-distributing carts between isles as people do, in fact, return carts just unevenly so.

I don't really think it's about the deposit, culture-wise, Germans are as likely to understand a deposit as "that's mine now", see Christmas market mugs. It's signalling "please really do return carts it's important we don't want to hire someone to do it and bill you for it that would make our milk 1ct more expensive than the neighbouring store".

barsoap ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union

barsoap ,

The Nazi stance on abortion wasn't "liberal", that's ludicrous. It ranged from being forbidden for parents of German blood to encouraged or even forced in other cases, it was all about their ideas of racial hygiene. Not even the GOP is that racist, or can you imagine them mandating abortions for mixed-race couples?

The only case where this might be true is even the ban on abortion for German couples did not mean a ban on abortions in medical cases. German (not just Nazi) law generally considers it, as is proper, self-defence. Honestly I don't think a legal system which doesn't consider it such can consider itself a legal system at all, Radbruch and everything.

barsoap ,

Can you point me to the exact sentence where I trivialised the holocaust? Hint: I didn't say anything about the holocaust. All I gave you is a link, the rest is your imagination.

You, OTOH, are severely trivialising antisemitism within the USSR. Stop fucking fanboying.

pre-soviet monarchy backed by western liberal democracies

Please fucking what liberal democracies during Tsarist times? England, France, possibly, am I missing one? And none of that antisemitism was home-grown, it was all the fault of those evil foreigners making poor Russian nobles and priests do stuff? The country most busy with fucking with Tsarist Russia, specifically sending Lenin over mind you, was Germany, very much not a liberal democracy. The age of liberal democracies started after WWI.

barsoap ,

Oh, so to clarify, you don’t think that the USSR could be described as morally equivalent to fascism?

Morally? I'm not talking about morally I'm talking objectively and no of course it was objectively fascist. So was Italy and they didn't do the Holocaust. So is Scientology, in case you're looking for an example of non-racist fascists. So are Kahanites and they definitely aren't antisemitic, being Jews and all that. Your point?

barsoap ,

Okay, define fascism in a way that excludes liberal democracies and their colonies or neocolonies but includes the USSR. I dont think you know what fascism is.

My definition of fascism is the usual one you'll hear from any anarchist: People who send me to bed. But feel free to read Umberto Eco and observe how the USSR gets a score of 10 out of 14, where of course one would be sufficient for fascism to coalesce. Also how you were all too happy to display rejection of modernism by your implicit dissing of liberal democracies. Please, go ahead, tell me about the grand colonial empire of Estonia! Of Greenland! Of Samoa!

barsoap ,

Disagreement is treason (elementary school dismissal without argumentative engagement), reference to your precious cult of tradition (Nazism is also modernist you muppet) which you of course misread all the time that's another strike for Newspeak your "Marxist democracy" is neither of the two, lastly the equation of bourgeois oligarchy with liberal democracy (one does not imply the other), that's strike four, obsession with a plot and/or the enemy is simultaneously weak and strong, could go either way. Maybe just popular elitism.

As your lawyer I counsel you to continue posting.

barsoap ,

I completely agree with your gist but

whose academic background has fuckall to do with history since he’s a fucking philologist.

Dude, don't do philology dirty like that. They're reading dusty old tomes all day long and you need a lot of historical knowledge to make proper sense of them. We couldn't read hieroglyphics without their work, and their extrapolations have been proven by Hittite (which was discovered after the reconstruction of proto-Indo-European and looks exactly as expected). The two disciplines feed into each other. Dr. Daniel Jackson is a philologist and at least as cool as Indiana Jones and do I need to mention J.R.R. Tolkien.

barsoap ,

Source?

Me. And Eco. You just can't let it go, can you, that someone disagrees with your precious ideology.

Lol. Yes trying to return to an imagined past and having an intellectual tradition are the same thing /s

I never said that. I said that you think that all truth has already been revealed by Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and possibly Mao. At least one of which you misread but that's another topic.

You said I was rejecting modernism by rejecting liberal democracy, which is literally rooted in enlightenment ideas. I was saying you are not making sense, because you are saying I’m rejecting modernism when I’m rejecting enlightenment era ideology.

You are rejecting the rational development that started with the Enlightenment, aka modernism. Nazism and Marxism-Leninism are both part of that and reject it in their own ways, in a sense anticipating post-modernism. Neither are theologies or whatever, both reject democracy, both reject actually scientific socialism, the proper rational strain to follow, aka Anarchism. Something something complexity theory I'll let you do your own research can't be arsed to feed that to a tankie.

Have you even ever read about “dictatorship of capital”?

How's the GINI coefficient where you're from? Maybe that's the reason. Over where I am, struggle-wise, the labour aristocracy is actually kinda more of a headache than capital because capital is so easy to see.

Also again you are misreading the 14 points as some litmus test.

What is the proper application in your mind then, pray tell? Can you explain it?

There's a reason I said "one would be sufficient for fascism to coalesce around", not "one is sufficient for fascism". Otherwise post-modernism would be fascist which makes no sense. At the very least you need an ideological group which corrals around a specific instantiation of those points, a particular way to gloss over the inherent contradictions, really, and engages in political action.

barsoap ,

Eco claims disagreement was treason in the USSR? What supporting evidence does he use?

I don't even. He wrote about fascism in general, not about specific regimes short of Italy which he uses for some anecdotes, unsurprising given that he's Italian.

The rest of what you wrote makes just as little sense, so goodbye. Talk to me when you're grown up.

barsoap , (edited )

If your liberal democracy puts you into a mental health ward or gulag for your opinion about the system it's not a liberal democracy. ML states OTOH really like to do that. There's an inherent totalitarianism to them, they demand that everyone thinks precisely like some centralised decision organ decides, and you tankies will even defend that. Note here totalitarian vs. authoritarian: Thought itself is controlled, not just practical behaviour (fulfilling the quota won't help you, you still can't complain). That kind of monopolisation of the prerogative of interpretation is a practical sign of fascism, once it is coalesced. The Ur-fascism points are merely crystallisation points.

The very point that you can type all that in (presumably) a liberal democracy without getting disappeared means that you're not living under fascism.

It's really something, MLs having so shit takes that you make me defend liberal democracies.

barsoap ,

It was once upon a time, in the age of olde, where switched-mode power supplies were not the norm and GaN semiconductors weren't in the process of taking over the whole power IC market. Taking in any mains voltage/frequency and spitting out any reasonable DC voltage is no issue for those things, they simply don't care.

It's still going to be an issue in the future but pretty much only for resistive heaters (well, at least the voltage part) and motors with oomph.

Speaking of DC though: The EU is looking into applying HVDC not just to point-to-point connections but at a network level. Don't expect that to hit your home in your lifetime, but if you're an aluminium smelter it would make a lot of sense to have a direct connection to tons of DC.

Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy' (www.businessinsider.com)

Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'::Products have appeared on the platform with odd titles that are seemingly related to OpenAI's usage policy.

barsoap ,

It's true though I've had orders where I bought a multimeter, soap, Szechuan pepper, and a bamboo shelf for the bath. That's at least three stores and more likely four.

It's the only advantage they have left, here in Germany Amazon has become worse and worse and worse with shipping. Unless the online store is set up in the boondonks or you live there next-day delivery is the norm, and pretty much all other shops dispatch packages on the same day as long as you order early enough, Amazon often takes days to dispatch, and if I want to use my close-by Hermes pickup they take weeks because apparently they don't like how much Hermes is charging them. And no I won't be paying for fucking prime to get a service level you get everywhere else as standard.

AliExpress, meanwhile, I mean it's hit and miss but if you're ordering something from out of a EU warehouse it arrives reasonably quickly, usually the next day after. If you're ordering directly from China all bets are off right now: The northern rail links via Russia are down, so is pretty much the red sea, what's left is the Horn of Africa or the TRACECA rail link. Also doing import yourself can be a bureaucratic nightmare possibly involving first figuring out where your local customs office is (it usually won't be local at all) if they retained the package.

barsoap ,

This seems to be an implementation issue. In my neighbourhood discounter, in Germany, there's three self-checkouts and while they're a bit small they also don't do any of that weighing and whatnot bullshit: You scan your stuff, pay, done. The only thing they can't do is apply best-before rebates.

There's also always a manned till open (or at the very least, when things are slow, a worker hanging out in the vicinity). In practice if the queue is empty you go there, if you have lots of stuff you go there (because it's bound to be faster as you can focus on packing while things get scanned), otherwise you have the choice to use self-checkout. Never had to stand in line for self-checkout, before that happens they open another manned till. What the self-checkouts do is keep small purchases away from the manned tills when they're busy which is exactly what they're good for. I

barsoap ,

Over here in Germany you can prove your age with your girocard, your bank knows whether you're over 16/18 and relaying that information is good enough in the eyes of the law.

barsoap ,

If the people at the till are rude your problem is probably that you're living in Berlin.

barsoap ,

I'm quite sure I'd go mental over in the US as I very much doubt a bagger can tetris my backpack as well as me.

barsoap ,

They just toss it into your cart.

That's a US thing. In Germany it's common practice everywhere that the cashier does the scanning, you do the putting in your cart, or wherever, but if "wherever" is slower than a cart you'll get death stares from other customers. They probably introduced that to deal with Americans who'd otherwise just stand there twiddling their thumbs.

Also ALDI cashiers have gotten slow: They introduced scanners very late, before that cashiers would rummage through the belt with one hand and enter four-digit codes with another. It was possible to keep up with fresh cashiers but the seasoned ones were absolute speed-hogs -- not that they'd mind you being slower, they just were done quickly because with practice, you get blazing fast at code entering.

barsoap , (edited )

I'm sure they will at some point but it just doesn't seem to be a priority. It's not like they closed the manned tills, and the total number of items is quite low. Basically only applies to the packaged meat section and then maybe two handful of items a day, if you don't shop in the morning you'll probably never see a sticker.

My guess is that with other items they run an ordinary rebate well before the best before to get rid of stale stock but meat spoils too fast for that.

barsoap ,

There's no extra gate or dedicated staff member in my store only whoever's at the till and if the self-checkout is busy they're too busy to watch them.

What I did notice though is that they now put anti-theft tags on more stuff, e.g. the ones on big packages of sausages are new. But it's still the same open beep gate at the end, which I actually triggered exactly once and that was when using the manned checkout, they're older and cashiers need to deactivate the tags manually (and they missed my coffee), the self-checkout ones apparently do it reliably when you're scanning the item.

Over time I think that's probably where this is heading. The store still uses those very old EM fuses/amplifiers as anti-theft tags and of course ordinary barcodes, at some point the larger industry is going to switch to RFID for everything and every item will know whether it's been paid for.

barsoap ,

I think the age check requires a PIN, noone but the owner of the card is supposed to have it. Dunno whether the check shows up on the transaction history it probably should.

Germany is actually kinda strict about age checks, it's the reason why not a single porn site is hosted here they'd all need that level of age auth. OTOH it's also understood that kids will find ways to circumvent things and that's also fine because you can't stop them anyway, if they do so sensibly you can ignore it and if they're not being sensible you can whip out the good ole "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed", either way they learned something about responsibility. Learning to keep your parents on a need-to-know basis is a rite of passage.

barsoap ,

Let's flip this around: Show me a thing that Meta has touched that hasn't turned to shit. Why risk the same fate when we don't have to? What is meta bringing to the table that would warrant foolhardiness on our part?

See the opposite of FUD is naivete, hubris, make-believe, not something one wants to be engaged in either.

barsoap ,

Maybe 10k Euro a month, eyeballing from total amount and the fuckton of other donors. Two entry-level developers (blender indeed pays well starting at 58000 Euro p.a.). They should rather take that money and hire some moderators in Myanmar.

barsoap ,

WTH would they develop cycles it's not like they're making movies or such. Or really anything that's not interactive. But yes meta does a lot of open source work in general. Probably should've specified "a product they make money with".

Hmmm page 95 values the EPIC megagrant at 87,540 yet they're in the corporate patron tier, should be platinum.

barsoap ,

And it’s more ethical and environmentally friendlier than Lithium-Ion, right?

The amount of metallic sodium we need for these purposes dwarfs compared to what we're using directly as NaCl, that is, table salt, not just in food but primarily industrial processes. Which again dwarfs compared to what we have available (vaguely gestures at the oceans). Sixth most abundant element in the earth's crust and conveniently most of it is in the form of huge contiguous dried-up oceans buried somewhere.

Thinking of it should become standard practice to actually use the salt that's accumulated when desalinating to get drinking water, lots of issues with locally increasing the salt level in the ocean even though on a large scale the change in salinity is absolutely negligible.

barsoap ,

The issue of eliminating cobalt is specific to Lithium batteries as without it lithium likes to grow dendrites which then causes a short.

And cobalt really wouldn't be much of an issue if the Congo wasn't the shithole that it is, it has over 50% of known reserves. Even with addressing child labour making definite inroads "artisanal" and "mining" isn't something you generally want to hear in the same term short of say gold panning (hey that's even a hobby for some), as soon as mine shafts get involved it's a recipe for disaster. Australia, Cuba, the Phillipines, Russia and Canada all have very significant deposits.

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