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  • Yeah but then you have to clean the pot afterwards. You can throw away the bag.

    Is cleaning the pot hard? No, absolutely not. But if you're lazy, you'll probably lean towards the far easier option which is just the one where you throw away the bag afterwards

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    Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
  • Because any "official act" by the president is now legal, presidents are now kings, and the only treasonous thing is to not support anything and everything the president says or does

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    Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
  • I've used OCLP, and I didn't even realize they largely switched to Discord. That explains why finding some info was such a PITA when I was playing around with it.

    I will never understand why people choose to use Discord as a forum replacement. It's just such an awful platform for that.

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    Portable convenience [The Square Comics]
  • Seconding this. My company issued me a MacBook and I was really surprised by how well the touchpad worked, and how smoothly gestures work with it. For as much hate as Apple gets, a lot really Just Werks™. Windows and KDE (Wayland) (I haven't tested other DEs) are certainly improving, but they're still nowhere near as smooth as what MacOS has had for a pretty long time now.

    The crazy thing is that I've hackintoshed a ThinkPad T430 and T480, both with full gesture support (but no force touch, though to be fair I don't use that anyway). In both cases, using their touchpads on MacOS was much better than on Windows or KDE. Though some touchpads aren't that great to begin with (like, the one on the T430 is pretty small), it's crazy how much of a difference good software can make to how they feel to use.

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    Ocasio-Cortez: State of US health care is ‘barbarism’
  • Her birthday is in late October. She'll barely be 35 by the point of the election in November, but she will still be 35. So, she'd be 35 both when elected, and when inaugurated. It's a non-issue.

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    Ocasio-Cortez: State of US health care is ‘barbarism’
  • She was born October 13th, 1989. That means she'll be 35 by the time of the election in November, not to mention before the inauguration in January (the date that actually matters). So, she's definitely eligible.

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    Speed
  • 5 meters is definitely way too short for the chair swing ride. Look at the people in the seats. It's definitely at least 10 meters.

    Assuming 10 meters and 100 km/h, that gives about 7.9 g. That's in the range of what fighter pilots might experience and well beyond where most people black out, so that's still definitely too high.

    Looking it up online, this is a pretty classic physics problem and the numbers you might see around it are closer to a radius of 12 meters and a speed of 13 to 17 m/s. Taking that as 15 m/s (54 km/h), that works out to about 1.9 g, which I can subjectively say feels much closer to the real value if you ever ride on one of these.

    So, the second one is about 1.9 g

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    Seems legit
  • This is valid and I hate it.

    Anyway, according to Wolfram Alpha's calculation (because I'm lazy), my car has a fuel economy of 2.126x10^11 inverse hectares

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    The Internet is weird
  • Of note, it also straight up doesn't work on Tom Bombadil. He is immune to its temptation, and it doesn't make him invisible.

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    Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio
  • It's not reasonable to assume that most people are going to self-host, or even how to go about doing that if they wanted to, but people still deserve a right to privacy and products that support that. I think that's what they were trying to say

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  • That one is only going to be an annular eclipse, unfortunately. That's basically just a fancy partial eclipse, and far from a total eclipse.

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