• Hottest 14 days ever recorded so far…

For our generation, sure, but there’s an entire generation of internet users that have never known a world without streaming services, and never got in to physical media, archived media, or piracy. A lot of them grew up with mobile devices only and hardly ever used desktop or laptop computers.

I was talking to some of my younger coworkers about music the other day. I mentioned something about the hundreds of gigabytes of music, all in FLAC, ALAC, and high quality mp3, and the question I got was “why? Why not just use spotify/Apple Music?” Well what happens when music from your favorite artist gets taken down because it wasn’t profitable? What happens when your favorite show gets cancelled and pulled because it wasn’t profitable?

So much data would have been flat out gone without piracy.

Nuclear tech is still tech, even if it’s not something that we’ll personally encounter.

Lemmy reminds me a lot of the way the internet used to be- smaller, independent communities with more real engagement and less of a content firehose. With so many instances, if you want something, you have to seek it out or start it yourself- with the added benefit of federation keeping everyone connected.

I’m really optimistic that this will get critical mass. I think the concept of federation is great, and I like to think we’re at the forefront of a whole new phase of online community.

Sadly, that’s the intersection of I-75/85 and I-20, right in the middle of downtown ATL. Here’s a more recent picture showing some more context.

Also, here’s an article talking about the history of I-20 being built through Atlanta: https://smartgrowthamerica.org/program/divided-by-design/atlanta-ga/

I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.

Still not worth supporting Reddit though.

This is a pretty good article. I think the author dances around it a bit but gets it: it’s all about investors wanting infinite growth.

Think about it this way- if ad-supported social media isn’t profitable (which seems to be the case) and constantly requires VC cash to stay afloat, really the customers of the product are the investors. The cult of “line go up” demands that engagement be constantly increasing, which means that it’s effectively impossible nowadays to have a social media site focused on creating a vibrant active community. Community equals steady traffic and engagement once it hits its stable point. That’s just not good enough.

It really explains why every site is trying their hardest to become TikTok- short, relatively cheap to host video clips that press the dopamine button and get users addicted to the service. Add an endless feed to keep users hooked, and you have a recipe for maximum engagement. It’s the best bang for the Buck from an investor perspective.

This really does read like a high school word problem.

This has been a “thing” for a while now. Here’s a Hackaday article on it from 2018:

https://hackaday.com/2018/07/02/using-an-ai-and-wifi-to-see-through-walls/

Lol. Carrot is always on point.

Strongly agree. We’ve already learned that prohibition doesn’t work and that people will always find other ways to get their fix.

If flavored vapes are “marketed to children”, what about flavored THC edibles and fruity/candy flavored alcohol? What about energy drinks and highly caffeinated sodas? What about high calorie ultra-palatable foods with absurd quantities of high fructose corn syrup? How is nicotine so different from any of the other drugs that society has decided are socially acceptable?

Humanity has had a relationship with mind altering substances since the dawn of time. It’s ingrained in our cultures, and may even be partially responsible for how human intelligence has adapted to where it is today. Nobody is going to overwrite thousands of years of history by banning vapes. People will just find some other way to access nicotine and other substances, probably by switching back to smoking or chewing. A brief ten-year interval of pushback against smoking in select countries didn’t mean that people no longer wanted nicotine, it just meant that people wanted a less objectionable way of consuming it than burning leaves in paper.

As always, the problem is advertising capitalism.

Definitely don’t use JB weld, and I think you should be able to do it without replacing the box.

Regular electrical boxes are usually 6-32 size screws, ceiling fan boxes usually 8-32. If the holes are stripped, especially with plastic boxes, a lot of times you can get away with using the next size up (either 8-32 or 10-32) and forcibly screwing them in. They will cut new threads in the soft plastic/metal of the box, and you’ll be good to go. This is how most electricians would handle it without replacing the box.

If you want to do a cleaner, less hacky job, you can get a set of drill-taps, like this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Drill-Tap-Tool-Set-4-Piece-32383SEN/304401087

Or the hand tool: https://a.co/d/6fr9d4Z

You can usually find them in the electrical section of your big-box home improvement store of choice. Just use the next size up and get some appropriate screws.

Looking forward to hearing the results of this. No one should be above the law.

This is just another avenue for corporate control of the country. Look at the cases:

• A predatory industry (payday loans) that wants to be unregulated
• A commercial fishing company that doesn’t want to pay their fair share for conservation

And previously:

• The coal industry (indirectly through the bought and paid for government of West Virginia) wanting to keep coal power plants from being regulated

This gutting of federal regulations is going to set us back years.

This may be one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

Rockfall is absolutely terrifying. It looked like that thing came out of nowhere- that group got really lucky.

Good post for sure. I can chime in from the environmental consulting and remediation side. Honestly, from the pictures that doesn’t look that bad. If it were my house I’d treat with biocide, paint, and be done with it assuming it’s fully dry and the water problem is gone.

Not an official recommendation of course, but I wouldn’t use bleach. Bleach can damage building materials. What’s a better option is something like Shockwave or Concrobium, something that is EPA-registered for use as a biocide. I would apply it on both sides of the drywall to the point of it soaking in, and then allow it to get fully dry. After I was SURE it was dry I’d paint both sides with Kilz primer, and repaint to suit. The Kilz primer will act as an encapsulent and make sure you are not exposed to any of the dead mold.

I’ve done quite a bit of mold removal in my house from before we encapsulated the crawl space, and this has worked flawlessly even though I have family members that are extremely sensitive to molds. I wouldnt worry too much about mold spores present throughout your house- the dirty secret of the remediation industry is that there are mold spores literally everywhere. They key is to make sure the humidity levels in your house are controlled and never exceed 60-65%.

This is some great news. De-industrialization has created a skills gap in the trades that is going to take a generation or more to overcome. So many industries are utterly dependent on skilled people that have many years of experience, and those people are aging out of the workforce too rapidly to be replaced.

The culture shift in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s which treated “blue collar” as something for young adults to try to avoid is partially responsible, but without the demand for those jobs there was no push to fix that.

There’s really no need to isolate a “dedicated” toilet from the rest of your plumbing system. If you don’t use it for bathroom business, a new, never used toilet isn’t much different than a sink.

The only issue might be the water in the tank getting stagnant and developing biofilm. The best way to prevent that would be to install a commercial-style toilet with a flushometer valve instead of a tank. Might also give you the “institutional” feel if that’s what you’re looking for.