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At least where I'm from (Portland), it's really not hard to find good beers, ciders, and so on. There are food carts that have 20 beers on tap and an extra collection of bottled/canned options.

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Counterpoint: you needed all those different ports because we didn't have USB-C and wifi yet.

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Oh yikes, zoonotic pathogens rejoice! We can barely deal with our own poop not making other humans sick.

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It will be more efficient eventually, just not yet. The technology isn't mature yet. But as you've noted, those "pro-free market" Floridians and Alabamans want to ban it, because global elites and eating bugs or something.

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There isn't a federal standard, but there is a common state-level standard in the US with class 1, 2, and 3. Class 1 cuts out at 20 mph and must be assist-only. Class 2 also cuts out at 20 mph, but may also have a throttle that works without peddling. Class 3 cuts out at 28 mph and may or may not have a throttle. Technically there are laws around not taking class 3 e-bikes in some spots, but I have found with mine as long as I ride it like a class 1 (15-20 mph max), no one bothers me. However, none of them require a license or insurance.

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Personally, I prefer a helmet mirror. Riding against traffic means that you reduce the reaction time for drivers. If you're going 15 mph and the driver is going 30 mph, you are approaching at 45 mph. If you are both going the same way, the driver is approaching at 15 mph, giving three times more time to react. It also tends to place you in spots on the road where you are not expected. A helmet mirror isn't as good as a straight-on view, but the tradeoffs are worth it.

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Too often, the prevalence of right wing domestic terrorism in the US gets ignored. The Oklahoma City bombing, Dylann Roof, anti-abortion violence, and the Orlando nightclub shooting just to name a few. As far back as 1870, the KKK was formally considered to be a terrorist organization. Lynching is considered a terrorist act.

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How'd you do? I

See you met my

Faithful handyman

He's just a little brought down because

When you knocked

He thought you were the

candy man.

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What exactly are these quotes supposed to prove? This was what, a few months or a few years after reunification? Any social change that large is going to cause some turbulence. And of course Parenti has an agenda, so he wouldn't include someone lauding their new experience.

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Are you actually modding conversations you are directly involved in? When I have done modding, that would usually be discouraged as a conflict of interest.

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Yeah, I have it for personal photos that will never be shared. If I am traveling, I want a record of where a given photo was. But those aren't photos I am sharing, and the ones I do share get their metadata stripped.

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I'm pretty sure Microsoft can tell them to fuck off. Maybe they pay millions, but even then MS has to weigh the possibility of bad press and lawsuits against a relatively paltry sum. The larger problem will be if someone finds a workaround or simply ignores the terms of service, I think. This article talked about the "United States Police Department," but there is no such department. Law enforcement in the US is highly fragmented across the federal, state, and local levels. Any of them could just decide to break the terms of service.

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But no, seriously, there's a big book of insults that actually fit Netanyahu. Genocidal maniac. Baby killer. Warmonger. Neocolonialist. The list goes on and on. Trying to fit the label "Nazi" on a Jew is a fool's errand.

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Could? Yes!

Will? Well, not in the US at least. :(

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Is it too much to ask for a car that doesn't spy on me, is reasonably comfortable, is efficient, and maybe has a few extra "smart" features to help me not run into other people? I guess my bike will do for now.

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I've seen judges let offenders off light on worse arguments. Unfortunately.

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The results aren't going to be that skewed. They operate on a simple principle. There are many features available on a modern web browser with a high degree of variability. Even not having a feature is itself a piece of a fingerprint. The combination of those many, many features is going to produce a high degree of uniqueness for almost any browser.

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I'm thinking the broomstick is going to be more trouble. That turns into toothpicks and ouchy ouchy.

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From what I understand, writers usually work under the Writer's Guild. This report says 12.1% for the motion and sound recording industry as a whole.

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The government, hiding magical fruit!

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Planted inside every vegan.

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I just have a toiletry bag with a collapsible toothbrush and toothpaste tablets. I pretty much always bring the same toiletries on any trip to keep it easy.

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I have a few different types of checklists in Google Keep based mostly on length of trip, type of trip, and mode of transportation. They are detailed, down to checking items in my pockets and removing my pocketknife where relevant. For each trip, I make a copy of the relevant list and get packing. I suppose it has taken some time to organize, but now I can pack pretty quickly the night before.

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Google Keep also has indentation in checklists, so there is also the option of breaking it down by packing cube, category, pockets, etc.

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I love that quote, and it's so reusable.

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wants the poors to go plant based but refuses to

I don't know much about him, but poking around a bit shows him saying vegetarian or reduced meat consumption. He eats cheese and fish. Sounds like he's doing exactly like what he's recommending to others.

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My grandmother got polio as an adult and suffered from post-polio syndrome. She lived to a ripe old age (mid 90's), but had a significantly reduced quality of life.

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We just had a downpour (COVID-19) and many of them were trying to blame it on umbrellas.

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Yeah, the idea of a sudden swap is simplistic. The New Deal coalition included white Southerners and a substantial number of Black people and people who were otherwise prone to being sympathetic to Black civil rights. Certain dynamics protected the spot of Dixiecrats, but the contradictions were just too great for the party to hold together forever. It was a simple matter of absorbing the disaffected Dixiecrats.

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Sure, but this is Mastodon, not murders. Much lower stakes.

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A Modest Proposal?

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I must be really out of the loop. Where were people saying this?

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Huh, I guess I'm just not usually around those sorts of people, even online.

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Isn't every day except Christmas the right season for this meme, since those are the days this lazy bum doesn't work?

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At its best, nationalism in some forms can help unify people from disparate backgrounds into an imagined national identity. Unfortunately, most nationalism rots into division instead. Christian nationalism in the US, Hindu nationalism in India, Nazis in Germany. These all reject members of the physical nation in favor of their crazed fantasy version.

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Yes. It is normal for your body to have some level of cancer cells, but the immune system constantly keeps cancers in check. As the immune system weakens, cancers are more likely to become problematic. There's even a group of cancer that is so much more likely to happen in AIDS patients that they're known as AIDS-related cancers.

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What is recent? W. Bush was four presidents ago, Clinton was only five presidents ago. We're only on our 46th president since Washington was inaugurated in 1789, 235 years ago. When you go through presidents that slowly, it's easy to have your sample thrown off if you just include a couple of decades.

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Just to explain my math point a bit more, let's take the definition of recent by decade, where all presidents serving within those decades count:

  • 1 decade (2014): 3
  • 2 decades (2004): 4
  • 3 decades (1994): 5
  • 4 decades (1984): 7
  • 5 decades (1974): 10
  • 6 decades (1964): 11
  • 7 decades (1955): 13
  • 8 decades (1945): 15

Even going back fairly far, we still have a pretty small sample size to draw conclusions for presidents specifically.

I agree with you on the age issue as a broader problem. There we have a solid sample. We've become a gerontocracy at the federal level especially, with the older generations holding onto power far past when they should have moved aside to allow in new people and fresh ideas. People in their 80's and 90's holding on to seats clogs the pipelines so that everyone else is prevented from moving up.

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I always felt empty and alone until I had a nice strong man to pump me full of babies! Ugh.

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I think this would be immensely helpful for niche topics, but I don't really see it as much of a direct competitor to Wikipedia. Interwiki links have been a thing for a long time, but they're not really used that much. They also are used by specialized shortcut syntax instead of using a more intuitive domain name syntax. So let's say you have a wiki for the Flash TV show and you want to link to an article in the Flash comic wiki. This would be great for that. Maybe have "search related wikis" as an option to search some hand picked wikis?

But for going head-to-head with Wikipedia, I don't really see it so much. Part of the success of Wikipedia is that it forces editors to work in a single namespace, debate the contents, use a common set of policies, and so on. There is also a lot of policy, process, human knowledge, and institution built up over the years geared solely towards writing an encyclopedia. If you go to Wikipedia, it may not be perfect, but it will have gone through that process. Trying to wade through hundreds of wikis to find a decent article does not sound like a treat, especially if effort gets spread across multiple wikis.

Like with Lemmy, I am excited to see where this goes. And nutomic, congratulations with your daughter!

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Fandom was exactly what I was thinking of. Just maybe without having more ads than content. That I'm not a fan of, especially for volunteer supplied content.

Extra thought on search: add a weighting option so individual servers can be searched, but don't come up as high in the rankings. So keeping with the superhero theme, have the Flash comic wiki with a 1 weighting and the more general DC comic and Arrowverse wikis with 0.8 weightings.

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I have only been to a stripper bar once. I thoroughly enjoyed the women's poll dancing skills. Then again, I am gay so it wasn't going to do anything sexual for me anyway.

[OC] Anyone else insist on using the generic name for all meds? (lemmy.world)

Image: 4 panels organized in a rectangle following a sequential order like a comic strip. The first panel is of a man with a very serious face stating, "Hey man, got any diphenhydramine?" The second panel is a grainy picture of the actor Robert Downey Jr. with a slightly inquisitive face and saying, "What's that?" The third...

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generics are the exact same drug

Yes but. From what I've heard, sometimes when switching to a generic, there might be subtle differences in manufacturing that affect how an individual absorbs it. For something minor - an off the shelf pain killer - probably not a problem. For someone where it's imperative that they maintain a certain blood level of the drug, some caution is a good idea.

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Queen of the Night, but it becomes Screamo of the Night?

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On the plus side, no USB-A quantum mechanics.

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No fourth dimension needed

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I'm in favor. Expose the rot. Too much of the US citizenry doesn't understand the threat these people pose. It takes them actually showing their stripes to understand what's at stake.

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To underscore this, NBC did an article about the presence of self-identified Nazis and similar worst of the worst undesirables at CPAC. CPAC disputed that they were there by invitation, but it's hard to not see it as a plus that NBC is holding their feet to the fire.

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