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bluGill

@bluGill@kbin.social

A programmer with an interest in transit, making music, and building things of all types.

I have dysgraphia which makes writing difficult for me. I hope you can figure out what I mean despite my issues.

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Because someone needs to be enslaved to provide universial health care. If even one person wants to opt out, no matter how wrong their reason you if you allow don't allow it they are enslaved. (note that there have been many different systems of slavery, but even the best still remones choice from someone). as such I prefer other options if they exist.

There are other options and so I oppose universial health care. Do not confuse that with approving of the system we have.

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You are a slave and should opt out of those things.

Your proble is you know what is and cannot imangine what could be.

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Ripe strawberries. I can buy them but they are never ripe and so taste terrible. Other fruit is often as bad.

Alon, to random
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TIL Uncle Tom was based on a real slave who managed to escape the plantation, made it to Canada, opened a sawmill, and repeatedly traveled back to the US to free more than 100 slaves. His name was Josiah Henson and he was treated as a hero of abolitionism by some black Americans, who criticized Harriet Beecher Stowe for not sharing her considerable profit from writing the book with him.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-josiah-henson-real-inspiration-uncle-toms-cabin-180969094/

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@Alon the book was written to start the civil war. Yet it treats slavery nicer than most corrent accounts.

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Your local bike store should have a nice selection. I use my EV bike all the time and the car I keep for those few trips where the bike doesn't work just sits... You should too. Don't forget to check out the local transit options (and if - as is likely - they are bad demand better)

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There are lots of ways to hide guns. One person who is a legal gun owner who doesn't approve of the law can hide them for his friends. Do not assume Illinois is united on this, enough voters are to pass a law, but gun owners consider this a tyranny of the majority and are sticking together

In a lot of rural areas where guns are most common the police don't approve of the law. They won't ask for a warrant in the first place. If someone else asks for one they will give plenty of warning to the person to be searched - or they will just take the warrant and throw it away without searching. If forced to search they will ignore you moving guns past the front door when they knock, then when the door opens find no guns in plane sight in the front room and leave.

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Guns are designed to kill deer, ducks, and other animals that I want to kill. That they can kill humans is not intentional.

That argument isn't much different from the argument that cars are for getting around and that they can kill is not intentional. If you care about death, then by every metric you need to ban cars first.

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That isn't acceptable. One person who for whatever reason is out late (emergency at work, or invited to a party) will be screwed when they can't get back home and tell everyone else.

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I know it is true almost everywhere, but that doesn't make it acceptable. People need to get places, transit is just a tool.

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While you are not wrong, you should always strive to perfection. Running train transit 24x7x365 is low hanging fruit (modern fully automated trains exist - note that the topic here is trains not buses). You do need to do something about maintenance, so I'll let you get by with 30 minute headways overnight, while during the day you should be running every 5 minutes.

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In this case the rails are already there but unused.

That is also several strike against this. Those rails exist but they are all in really bad shape as they were nearly universally used without maintenance until it was no longer feasible. They are also generally in bad areas where there isn't much need for more transport - we already have roads in good shape (to run a bus on). The only thing this has over a bus is you can run them fully automated - which isn't enough IMO.

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It is stupid not to. It doesn't cost much and makes transit so much nicer.

matthiasott, to UX
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A little quiz: in which of those two inputs will your password be visible aka unmasked? 🤔

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@matthiasott I type a letter that is not the first letter of my password, and look to see what shows up. This is easy for any human to understand, unlike the icons in your question above. (unless the icons are accompanied by either letters or dots which indicate current state)

Fewer people in the US plan to buy EVs this year, study shows (www.reuters.com)

The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and ignorance about EV benefits, a study by J.D. Power, opens new tab has shown....

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I've wanted one for many years - but so far there is still no EV minivan for sale, and that is what my family needs right now.

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I live in the US. I know Europe has had the ID buzz for a couple years, but we still get a promise that it will come sometime this year. Time well tell if it comes or not (probably) and how much it costs.

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If you can't get to work during a cold snap than either you are not charging your battery (that is your stupid fault), or live a lot farther from work than the average person and really need to move anyway.

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Look. I know I'm cynical, but I'm just not comfortable using my credit card to pledge money to a private company that will then coerce my child to run laps around a gym while calling it a "Fun Run" in order to increase the amount of money said company 'gives' back to my child's school.

But I'm trying to keep an open mind.

Anyone out here ever heard of a company called "My Booster" or maybe "Boosterthon" (it's unclear)?

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@DrTCombs We do, but it is "for the kids" so we can always find ways to scam people out of more money no matter how much you give.

I was awarded my 3 gallon award today for blood donations. (lemmy.world)

I am truly honored. I hope every blood donation I gave was able to help save a life. I always wonder about how the recipients are doing, and what circumstances led them to need a life saving blood transfusion. The blood bank keeps all of that private for security reasons, of course, along with the name of the donors who donate....

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as someone who cannot, thank you. I depend on people like you to make up for me,

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I faint after (or sometimes while) giving blood. After a couple times they told me thanks for trying, but they don't want to have to deal with that again so please don't. I could probably do a half donation but they don't take those. I used to donate plasma without problem but there is no location to do that near where I live.

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Which is true only in the rare case you only have one office that everyone is in. As soom as you don't have everyone in the same room teams is better. So once you have more than 50 people

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They’ll overpay to hold houses a while until they can corner the rent market and charge through the nose.

Only if this is possible. If zoning allows someone will just build a new place to make up for their empty one. And of course there is nothing about being a landlord that gives it a natural monopoly so competition is likely to own some of those places and rent it out thus limiting what rent they can charge

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Yes you can. Banks do loans for this kind of thing all the time. They prefer experience though, and so if you don't have that you will need to prove you have enough on the line that you will lose if you don't complete the deal.

Many condos are built by small companies. They build a few every month and it is enough to pay their employees and make a nice living. It is hard to break into this as the banks want to see experience, but it can be done.

FTC bans most noncompete agreements between employers and workers (www.npr.org)

The FTC estimates about 30 million people, or one in five American workers, from minimum wage earners to CEOs, are bound by noncompetes. It says the policy change could lead to increased wages totaling nearly $300 billion per year by encouraging people to swap jobs freely.

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While they have been around forever, courts tend to take kindly to the argument that you need to be able to earn a living doing what you are an expert in, and so unless very narrow they tend to be struck down. You need a good lawyer though to get far in court which often makes the fight not worth it.

CloudyMrs, to cycling
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I want to change my pedals for better ones, but they're stuck. I've tried all sorts, including use of a strong person, heat, and WD40. They've only been on the bike for a couple o months, and i greased them when i put them on, so I don't know why they're so stuck. Any novel suggestions short of a grinder?

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@CloudyMrs A real penetrating oil. WD-40 is for water displacement not rusted bolts, use the right oil for the job (which is almost never WD-40 so I rarely use it despite how common it is). Liquid wrench is a common brand that is easy to remember (there are better, but I can never remember the names) Don't forget that often pedals have left handed threads on one side so you have to turn backwards.

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There are Japanese, Korean, and European car makers in the US though and they are likely to do something that US car makers cannot ignore. China is currently nothing in the US auto market

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