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How serious are you guys when you talk about punching nazis?
  • The state and corporations will absolutely protect themselves with extreme violence.

    Also, it's nice to see a link to the anarchist library instead of Amazon.

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    Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees
  • We have both Aldi here but they're differently named. One is just Aldi, the other is Trader Joe's.

    It's our super low cost grocer, that has in recent years become more high quality. When I was a kid (80s-90s) it was like "never buy fresh anything there because it's all crap" but these days it's all pretty decent quality stuff. Not like farmstand good, but better than Walmart.

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    Schematic problem - It gets hot and smells like burning
  • I could be wrong, but I did finish a degree in EE even if I just do software now. But here's my quick take on it.

    Probably because you're driving voltage on STAT from REGN.

    STAT should have a current limiting resistor on it, go through your led, then ground.

    REGN should have a 2.2uf cap between the pin and ground according to the datasheet.

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    Kids Are Working in America’s Meatpacking Plants
  • Teen Vogue really on some shit lately.

    Between them and Rolling Stone the last few years...

    "Well guys, looks like the grey lady is doing a 1935 again, so Jackson, I'm gonna need you to pivot from writing relationship quizzes to the child labor beat. Ada, Frank, can you handle best makeup tutorials and genocide? Allison, I know you're on concert reviews, how would you feel about also picking up the investigation on coal coke emissions?"

    Fucking good on them, I'm sure that there have always been people doing good work at these publications, but it seems like they've had to really expand their purview recently to cover these giant gaps.

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    Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?
  • I used to call myself a "left libertarian" but to be frank, after learning more I've found that "anarchist" fits far better. And there's a lot of interesting content out there that I enjoy. I'm not sure who all .world has defederated, but the solar punk instance is always great, our mods are great (Midwest social), some people may find them abrasive, but those are people who maybe don't understand that when you play in someone else's home, you play by their rules.

    Also: blahaj, beehaw, and even hexbear is usually entertaining, even if I have some disagreements with them.

    The point is, there's a lot out there, depending on who you're federating with.

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    Language mimicry
  • "We only got old gangster movies, see? My dad, the old fink, didn't have two pennies to rub together see? Me and my buddy got nipped yanking some movie films from the local five and dime, he sang like a bird, so here I am up the river in sing-sing."

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    Percentages of british adults who found each activity involving animals acceptable or unacceptable
  • I used to be very opposed to deer hunting. Until I took a biology course and there was some discussion about how humans have eliminated, or nearly eliminated all their natural predators in the United States.

    The way their population ends up being controlled in the absence of those predators is disease, famine, and cars. Unless we hunt them sufficiently in areas where wolves in particular have been eliminated.

    If you are hunting and wasting the resources of an animal you've culled, it's absolutely unethical. But if you're using all of the resources you can provide by the animal, and you're hunting in an area where the only natural population control mechanisms are famine and disease, I'd argue that's the most ethical way you can hunt in a modern society.

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  • Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

    Heard what sounded like a massive flushing sound from the sky, turns out I was right.

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    Just wanted to share a little success, after some wrangling I've finally got an M600 macro working on Klipper. I've been trying to print some ornaments for my holiday tree (a Christmas tree that I'm never taking down). These turned out pretty great!

    (Ignore the wago connectors, they're "temporary")

    ETA:

    I used all Voxel PLA and found the model on printables. Sliced with Prusaslicer and just added the color changes at the appropriate layers.

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    Updated Guidelines for Groundwater contaminants take effect in 5 Days

    36 contaminants have been added or updated on the "Human Health Based Water Guidance Table"

    It's a list of chemicals that could be in your water and the health effects that the state department of health has determined are possible based on different exposure levels.

    The actual usage of these guidelines only appear to be for state legislation, but if you're a well water user or a concerned city water user, this data might be of interest to you.

    17 are new, 19 have updated guidelines

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    A Million Minnesota Q's

    Hello Minnesotans,

    In about a month I'll be joining your ranks. I'm buying a house just outside of St Cloud. It's not my first pick in terms of politics from what I've read, but the state laws are far better for my family than where we live now.

    Aside from the fact that we're moving in November, which is one of my more brilliant strokes, to be sure, I'm very excited for this change.

    I'm looking for any and all of your Minnesota advice.

    I've got a pretty big family, gaggle of kids (from 2nd grade to sophomore in high school), a few dogs, and ambitions on some waterfowl next year maybe.

    I'm not afraid of driving in snow, I grew up in MO, we got our share of snow, so I know that often judicious throttle control is better than frantic braking. However, I've never dealt with snow on that scale that sticks for that long. I think we're going from an average annual snowfall of 12ish inches to 40-something annual inches of snow.

    Will a self-propelled two stage snowblower kill me on a couple hundred feet of driveway?

    Do I really need to scrape the snow off my roof?

    How do I help the dogs with the cold? (Do dog boots and coats actually work?)

    Got any recommendations for cold weather clothes? (I know we need layers, I'm already a fan of wool, but I need some advice on sourcing stuff that my kids will want to wear)

    I love gardening, how much more time will a greenhouse give me in terms of growing season?

    How the heck do I make Minnesota friends? I'm not a church person, so I expect this to be difficult for me.

    DMV advice?

    Best restaurants to visit?

    Our family has spent the last year grieving and trying to process what has often felt like some kind of absurd unreality. I want to make this transition as positive as I can.

    You don't get to pick where you're born, but you do (to some extent at least) get to pick where you live. We picked Minnesota because of the people, the land, and even the weather.

    Sorry for being a stereotype, but I really don't know how else to ask aside from the non-stop googling and YouTube I'm already doing.

    TL;DR:

    Yet another "I'm moving to Minnesota, help me!" Post.

    Edit: You all have given me some great ideas and places to start! Thank you so much!

    I'm really excited to start this new chapter and you all have helped relieve some of my worries about being buried alive in snow at least :)

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