I'm not going to worry about voting on election night. Because I will have voted days/weeks earlier through my state's effective vote by mail system.

I get that it's a meme, but what's the problem? I'm vegetarian/flirt with veganism; it's purely for moral/ethical/environmental reasons.

Indian food is delicious. An Impossible burger on a pretzel bun dripping with grilled onions, avocado, vegan aioli and mustard with a side of steak fries? That's also delicious, in my opinion.

Meat is delicious, and that's not at all incompatible with my reasoning for being vegetarian.

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.

https://m.xkcd.com/552/

I know it's just a meme, but an OBDII dongle --- even a cheap $10 Bluetooth one --- is super useful. You can read and reset the codes, and watch stats in real-time if so inclined.

The time travelling aspect is nice, too...

Calm down, this isn't the banks screwing the little guy. This number includes tax and possibly insurance --- "PITI" (principal, interest, taxes and insurance) is the standard quoted cost. It's just an estimate. You can often pick your own insurance which will change the cost, and if you're buying in cash, insurance may not even be required. (It will almost certainly be required if you have a loan, since the bank wants its assets protected.)

Remember: elections have consequences.

Also remember that --- as much as disaffected and/or malicious actors (or Simpsons and South Park, for that matter) will claim otherwise --- the two major political parties in the US are not the same.

I don't get all the Apple hate from the Linux community. Out of the box you have a fully usable *NIX machine --- they even switched the default shell to zsh! No advertising in the Start menu, and ssh (client and server) included by default. Install homebrew and boom --- tmux, htop, nload, lolcats.....most of your favorite tools can be installed easy as on any linux distro.

I use Debian for personal use, and I much prefer it...but basically only because I prefer i3 to the Mac GUI.

Lot of comments about RTGs, but I don't think that's what OP is asking. RTGs convert heat to electricity, same as a conventional power plants --- they just do it in a solid state way instead of steam. In RTGs it doesn't matter where the heat comes from; they are not really analogous to solar cells, as the title asks.

In fact, there are consumer products that use the same technology --- you can buy a little electric fan that sits on top of a wood stove and, once up to temp, will start spinning. The electricity is generated by the thermal gradient using heat from the stove, essentially the same as an RTG.

::: spoiler Thanks but Next time please use the spoiler tag, sheesh 🙄 :::

I think I saw this earlier on Lemmy, but without the red text spelling it out. I think I prefer that ever-so-slightly more subtle version.

Credit scores are often required for things that don't necessarily incur debit --- it can be a requirement for renting, and for credit cards (which, if paid off monthly, don't accumulate debt).

The credit system is far from perfect, but this is a step in the right direction it seems; I view it as a statement on "healthcare as a right," rather than as "good credit scores as a right."

After setting up my own network, and trying to (kinda sorta) do it the right way (multiple SSIDs, vlan segregation, restrictive firewalls for iot, VPN to a VPS, etc.) --- I have so much respect for network engineers. First month with my new router, felt like I "broke the Internet" every other day.

Probably referring to their ~$50B endowment.

[Billionaire Taylor] Swift, who has publicly aligned herself with the pro-choice movement and declared her opposition to former President Donald Trump, has become the ire of a vocal group of conservatives hell-bent on the bizarre notion that the singer is a political weapon aimed at the upcoming presidential election.

I mean, I'm no Swiftie, but that seems pretty reasonable to me...

streamline that shit

Or mainline that shit --- for me, "true" Linux support means drivers are in the mainline kernel, and will Just Work. Not sure I've ever had problems with drivers for an RS232 dongle on Linux, but I definitely have under Windows.

As others have mentioned, a few possibilities (I'm in the US, not sure how specific this is):

• Payment isn't always monthly, it is often every two weeks. So sometimes you get two paychecks in a month, sometimes you get three.
• Compensation isn't just salary, even if you're salaried. Bonuses, stock grants, etc. might be done yearly/every 6 mo./every quarter.
• Expenses aren't always monthly. If you own a place, you probably pay property tax which isn't due every month AFAIK. If you budget for vacations, holiday travel, etc., these are costs that vary wildly month to month, but have some stability on a yearly basis.
• ETA: taxes are based on annual income, too.

Just curious --- how would you like this to work? If you want high quality journalism, you need to pay journalists.

You can pay them through ads, but 1) this is annoying, and 2) people just install ad blockers.

You can have state-sponsored media, which can work reasonably well...or can end up a propaganda machine.

Or...you can pay.

Journalism is not a crazy lucrative career for most. Financially, most of the folks writing for NYT would be better off in PR --- and I don't think that's a good thing for society.

Good night, Lemmings. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely defederate you in the morning.

If, as an adult, you have a kid and send 'em to daycare...you're probably going to be getting sick "pretty regularly" again! (It's worth it, but it does suck.)