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[–] current@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Wtf even does "the current generations" mean? Whenever people say "the newer generation" or "the young generation" or something they just sound so fucking incompetent.

[–] current@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the internet would never lie to me

[–] current@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the act is disrespectful, to refer to human beings using pronouns; by referring to people using fully qualified names, respect and humility is shown. pronouns are a declaration of war on the attributed creature, as immense inferiority is implied. societies created names with purpose – and to sidestep names is to break the fabric of culture!

[–] current@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can +1 this, a looong time ago I tried uninstalling Microsoft Edge and it made the system go ballistic. Every time I clicked a link, instead of going to my default browser (Chrome then) it would just open a completely broken Edge window with no functionality. Any time I tried to change settings, it'd do the same thing. Anything to do with touching the internet got fucked. I spent hours trying to reinstall Edge, contacting a Microsoft support person who was useless, before I realized that the official site only provides the Windows download for Edge if you set your user agent with... any system other than Windows. Huh.

[–] current@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

these are definitely not the words of a cybersecurity prodigy, i can tell that

[–] current@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

tactical explosive blåhajs incoming, you better be ready russia

[–] current@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

reddit has been pretty much the only reliable option that isn't stackoverflow, in my experience

[–] current@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Coal (anything) doesn’t "contain" energy. We can transform some things, and some transformations produce energy in some form or another.

Akstchually energy is a property of matter, or matter is a property of energy, whatever 🤓 but your point still stands

[–] current@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The US gets 1/5 of its power from nuclear energy, and produces 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste per year – only enough to fill about half of the volume of an olympic-sized swimming pool (and about the same weight as 10 wind turbines).

Only 3% of all of that waste is actually long-lived and highly radioactive, potentially requiring isolation from the environment. In France, this number goes down to 0.2% due to fuel being reprocessed.

Taking that into consideration, that means it would take about 2/3 of a century for the US to produce enough dangerous nuclear waste to fill this pool completely. And it can still be way more efficient.

Nuclear produces negligible amounts of actual waste for the amount of energy it gives us. The problems with nuclear aren't at all the waste, rather it's the current highly used methods that are used to harvest the fuel (slave labour and unsafe, dirty, destructive drilling). Very similar problems faced with, say, lithium and cobalt.

[–] current@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

bang should be a schedule 1 drug, it's the worst thing i can imagine putting in your body lmao

[–] current@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Retirement being supported through taxes rather than individuals choosing to save would be far better. It's wealth based so people who can afford to save for retirement are already doing it by default, and people who make an egregious amount of money are taxed so those who can't afford to save for retirement aren't left to rot.

Same concept as other social services, really. Having the means for basic survival should be guaranteed by society, especially for people who can't support themselves.

[–] current@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

william taft died in a bathtub due to his terrible health, a month after resigning from the supreme court.

his health had been mentally and physically declining for about a decade before that point, but despite that he insisted on staying as a justice on the supreme court the entire time because he viewed hoover as too progressive and was paranoid he'd be replaced by a dirty commie. so he stayed a supreme court justice and caused a lot of problems by having increasingly worse memory and having a worse and worse ability to actually attend his job.

he was also the president before ww1 started, he lost re-election because teddy roosevelt (the person who helped get him elected in the first place) no longer viewed him as a suitable president and ran against him as a 3rd party candidate.

also, taft's son was the co-sponsor of the taft-hartley act of 1947, which took away many worker's rights and crippled unions in the united states, criminalizing things like solidarity strikes (what's happening in sweden with tesla now), wildcat strikes (striking without union leader approval), jurisdictional strikes, and most forms of picketing. ;)

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