I prefer the original artist's work

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

The thing that pisses me off most is that cars have these vulnerabilities, and automakers do a shit job of protecting them, but do just a good enough job to keep me, the owner, from playing with them.

I cannot emphasize enough how unwilling I'd be to interact with someone that has these.

this thread is making me realize I'm clearly missing something. How do people actually use discord? Me and my friends basically use it as semi-permanent group chat. A few different topic areas, and no stupid android/ios compatibility issues. I'm also in two servers for some small clubs. Do people really use it the way they would lemmy/reddit?

I don't know about power, but Vegas is actually incredibly water efficient. Due to the way the water rights work with the Colorado river, they're not allowed very much, but it doesn't "count" if you put it back in. So nearly every drop they use is treated and put back (probably cleaner, tbh). Boggles the brain, but somehow it's actually a fairly sustainable city. More than any other other major metro, in any event.

So most fungi do have a lifespan, they have teleomere decay, and when you're cloning mushrooms (from propagating mycelia) you have to let them go to fruit (the part that looks like a mushroom) every now and then. It's a pain in the ass.

But like the other poster said, they play it fast and loose with which part you consider the "organism". My favorite thing is that they do cytosolic streaming. Genetics can be a pain on mushrooms because not only do they share nutrients and metabolic burden through mycelia, they can share nuclei.

One of the weird convienent realities we used extensively is that cells are big enough you can spread them over a petri dish with a little loop, and if you diluted the initial sample enough, the colonies that developed were, practically speaking, from one parent cell. So you could try to modify a bunch, and then plate them (spreading the cells around) and pick individual colonies that were all clones from a single parent. Fungi mycelia means the nucleus isn't stuck in one cell. It also means expression levels can be variable (some cells will have multiple nuclei, and then later maybe they don't).

Fungi are a godamn pain in the ass to study. They're not mysterious, they're not alien, they're just fucking assholes.

That split entirely ruined the season for me. There's way to much time between seasons, which I get, animation takes time, and they have some big names voice acting. But that split in addition with the long season time meant I could barley remember what was going on and then it was over.

I don't know, it's a great show but I'll probably catch it 5 years from now when it's done. Just boneheaded producing decisions.

Yeah, that one hit me weird also. Like there's videos of him doing installs and stuff at other employees houses, so maybe that's just a culture thing, but it's still weird. Like can you imagine one of the late-night folks making a joke about how the cue card guy screwed up installing his dishwasher, but not meaning it as a joke? Like you don't screw with peoples livelihood.

Like if you had a glass instsall company, and some of your employees did a sloppy job on your personal shower door, you might have a talk with them, implement an improvement plan, etc because it affects clients experiences. What you wouldn't do is put them on blast for views. And that's only because it's relevant to their actual work. Last I checked LTT doesn't offer install services.

Restaurants have notoriously thin margins. I'm not defending this bill, and there are definitely awful practices out there, but it ain't easy. Even a $34 dollar steak only kind of covers all the ancillary costs that make it happen.

The biggest issue with the crunch we have going on is that food (prepared or otherwise) should be way more expensive, and that shouldn't be an issue because most people should be making way more money. All of those should/shouldn'ts got way out of whack over the course of decades, and the circus only continued because people found crappy ways to keep it going.

It's a lot of industries. Construction is a great example. The developers make money. The material vendors make money. The builders make money. The sub contractors who actually put the parts together get haggled on invoices and take the lower amount because they have payroll to make and equipment loans to pay. Loans that are happily given out because the equipment can be easily repossessed.

It's a very good thing everything is correcting, but it's going to be an ugly process as workers get their due and pass the burden on to the small business owners.

I'm a registered libertarian. Despite the craziness, I don't plan on changing that. I wouldn't have voted for Biden, strictly because I live in a state that has 0% chance of flipping, BUT I routinely vote for democrats in senate/house/local races where my vote actually does make a difference. I also encouraged friends with similar mindsets in battleground states to vote Biden.

I think the democratic party needs to fracture, it just needs to fracture AFTER the republican party.

All of that is a setup to say: I also am excited, and if someone like me is excited, I think that's a DAMN good sign. I cannot wait to piss and moan about a Harris admin. It is a big damn country, I look forward to disagreement returning to the point it doesn't result in erosion of fundamental rights and democracy itself, not to mention godamn violent insurrection.

They NAILED it. They, somehow, took the loving but self aware fan service of lower decks and jammed it into SNW which has been the most consistent reboot back to the core of this series. This was absolutely some of the best show writing I've seen in a very long time.

Lol, my neighbor across the way put one of those up in 2020, we chit chat so while watering the garden I said "man I wasn't going to vote, but because of your sign yeah, go Biden". I mean I was... But anyway he took down the sign lol.

Because it is, in fact, gen z. I deal with a lot of contractors in a tech field. There's a lot of stuff we do that is prototype/beta level. It's not customer facing. Rough edges are fine, having to reboot it once a day is fine, it just needs to work and if it's not I need to know why.

Gen Z is wayyyyy better at that than millennials. Don't spin me some bullshit, just explain the issues and how much of a headache I'm in for. Previous folks would give me some bullshit about "well it doesn't do that but that's out of scope of our original contract so fixing it is $X/hr on retainment for our expertise and our ability to bring in affiliate partners". Gen Z is much more "man, this shit is cool, but those goal posts shifted, did the best I could, call me if you have issues and at a certain point and I if you're a pain in my ass I'll bill you".

Like they just don't beat around the bush. No spec is ever perfect, and rather than dance around it they'll just be like "I did my best, and I'll go extra until I won't and I'm not really going to bother spending much time explaining to you we're out of scope. You know it. I know it. I ain't dancing because I don't get paid to dance."

Similar to the meme... godamn did they fuck up by not holding geneticists to something close to... SOME standard naming.

Dated a maternal fetal medicine specialist. She'd come home being like "you ever have to explain to someone they have a mutation in the 'sonic the hedgehog' gene of their kid?!" If you're familiar with what it does in fruit flies (when it was named), it's fucking horrific in humans. Don't google it.

Had the "dadjokebot" jump in a tread about not having children in a subreddit for folks with a genetic disorder. The novelty of those bots wore out in 2013.

I'm sure there are people who have said it before, but Lindsey Ellis did a great essay on mel Brooks, and the whole point of his comedy being "dude... People marching in synchro is just goofy". The point being how damn fragile a facade is when there's nothing behind it, and how much these kind of "strong men" depend on it.

The whole "weird" thing was the perfect shot. The reason it works is because it's also true "no man, you're not to tough for me, you're just... Fucking weird..."

Eh, skill up had a great take on this. The thing is it's wayyyyy easier to be a small indie developer than it ever was before. Making a game (or any art) still isn't easy, it never was and never will be, but it's viable without a giant publisher in a way it just hasn't been before.

Its the AA titles that are on the most precarious footing, but I bet even those do ok. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy some AAA stuff time to time, I've got a stupid amount of hours in overwatch, but I've never once paid for a skin because... why would you?

The thing that's going to suck is losing the studios like Arkane. Their games weren't perfect but they were freaking cool, and they basically always got the raw end of the deal. Even Prey(2016), their masterpiece, is the product of corporate bullshitiery they had nothing to do with. So we're probably going to miss studios like that for a while (as they get re-tasked to fortnite/cod support teams) but "indie" stuff has already been stepping up to fill that void, and is less indie all the time.

Look at Dave the Diver. That's not exactly an indie studio. They had resources. There's going to be a gap for a bit, but there's still a demand for good games and art. Those AA breakthroughs are what people want. Again, I continue to spend dumb amounts of time on overwatch, but it's not where I spend my money. Microsoft hovelled themselves by buying all these studios and not taking the leap with supporting them. Distribution just doesn't have the value it once did. So if microsoft wants to become CandyCrush, feeding an addiction loop to grab the whales, sure, whatever, but there's plenty of bread out there for studios doing other stuff.

Broader point stands, but I want to split some hairs around love canal because there's an important part of that story that's normally swept under the rug.

The offending company tried to keep the land from development. They knew the land wasn't safe, said as much, and when eminent domain was threatened sold it for $1, discharging their responsibility. But again they tried not to sell it all.

Now, the dumping was pretty crappy, but that was also the practice at the time. I'm not saying companies shouldn't carry liabilities to clean up their messes, intended and/or following best practices or not, they absolutely should. It's important, though, I think, to remember the company knew and communicated the risks, and tried to keep the land from being transferred. Ironically, part of what moved the domain threat along was that they intentionally stopped using the dump as housing developments expanded out closer to it.

When it became clear it was leaving their hands one way or the other, they sought to limit their liability, and to a certain extent that has to be understood: We said you don't want this land, you're taking it anyway, it's not on us.

My point in all this isn't to stump for Hooker Chemical, it's to point out most of these disasters have layers of problems to them. I'm all for strong regulation, there are things which just cannot be fixed after the damage has occurred, so it has to be avoided. But it's important to remember the regulations are only as good as we make them and their enforcement.

Ironically, there are very cherrypicked examples of voluntary regulation working well. A good example of that is Underwriters Lab certification for electronics. It's not required by law, but is required by a lot of insurance companies. I not using that as an example against governmental regulation, I just think it's an example where interests align pro-, rather than retro-actively: If you don't abide by the regulations, you are not selling any product. Same with how a bank won't issue a mortgage unless the home passes inspection: they're protecting themselves, you're just a happy side benefit.

Bit of a first coffee rant, but especially as all this stuff is getting gutted, the nuance needs to be appreciated. Trump would be a disaster for the little mechanisms we've managed to get put in place over the years to protect ourselves, but a Biden administration is going to have a tough road. I'm optimistic they'll have some wins, but they're going to lose ground in some areas as well as they're forced to make compromises and allocate focus and political capital. The net result is we're all going to need to become a lot smarter and more active.

The local government at love canal had all of the information they needed, and proceeded anyway. They were decided by local elections. It could have been stopped.

That voltage output is pretty typical. They should have gone with "cell" over "battery" though.