@BertramDitore @Hegar
Running water and indoor plumbing was relatively common in the ancient world.

really ?
In 1920, only *** 1% of US homes** had indoor plumbing

https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Panel1_Paper17.pdf

@teft

even if this were true, it is true only if you have time rest and rejuvenate, and in particular rest after an injury

tht option often not available to people working at lower wage jobs

right ?

@SteveKLord

1
yeah, I lie about my age

2
re the 1,000x
if you read the comments in the thread you posted, several people point out this is just ludicrouis

so I"m not quite sure what I should have said to you when you post something that is absurd
seriously, what am I to say ?

@SteveKLord it should be obvious to you that 1,000x more powerful is absurd

honestly

@SteveKLord
I was born in 1953 and my image of people doing labor like this , based on how we perceived people in low income countries, is of a person whose body was worn out by age 30

to a large extent progress is humans not having to do heavy manual labor
sheesh

@MicroWave

this is probably not true

eg, read the best thing, IMO, written on 2016, then think about how often liberals talk about trump's plan to cut taxes on working people [ "plan" of course being BS ]

don't wanna read the link ?
Tl;dr
Trump supporters didn't pay attn to the crazy stuff; they just hear him say: When I am POTUS there will be jobs
thats it, thats the mesagge

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/6/13853314/trump-speeches-lessons-democrats-economics-trade

@stabby_cicada

I distrust toots that assert something without providing a link
I was lucky and found a link to the 31K figure; sounds partially like it does NOT apply to all homeless people, just some small percentage, so probably a bullshit number

https://homelessvoice.org/the-cost-to-criminalize-homelessness/

@benfulton @bloomington_in

If YIMBYs are in favor of turning parks into asphalt, then YIMBYs are bad

but terms and conditions apply; what I said is certainly true for NYC or Chicago, maybe not Bloomington

but in general the willingness of YIMBYs to pave over grass is IMO really bad IMO

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

I clicked on the kde.org link and

I have no idea what plasma is

total fail when a website doesn't hit you in the head with a 2x4 telling you what it is about

typical

see the this great website, dead for many years but still relevant
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/does-my-web-site-suck/does-my-web-site-suck-checklist-part-one.html

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

this bloomberg piece talks about the hype that surrounded Musk

I wonder how much of that hype came fro slavish pieces written by bloomberg

that would be typical: first the media create a problem (hyping musk) then pretend they had nothing to do with the problem

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@Deceptichum

https://jabberwocking.com/israel-says-hamas-center-was-hidden-directly-below-unrwa-headquarters/

@Deceptichum are these the strikes where hostages were rescued ?

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Benjamin Franklin:

Freedom of the press belongs only to those who have one

@NoneOfUrBusiness @jimmydoreisalefty

yeah, but if the American people currently support biden, then if he shifts enough to get Muslim support he looses way more votes

and again, that the muslims think Trump is better
that is almost literally insane

@NoneOfUrBusiness @jimmydoreisalefty

The American people, according to the polling I have seen are pretty solidly behind Biden

Now this may seem strange here on mastodon, but that is reality

@jimmydoreisalefty

hard to understand how they think this helps

do they really think any Republican is gonna be better ?

@forrestguid @kde@floss.social ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ @kde@lemmy.kde.social

????

@forrestguid @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

that might be interesting . .

I assume you can divide ~ 1e9 Win10 machines/6e6 appleII machines . .

@holycrap

It is quite possible that my memory is from the slashdot era of comments like

"I put Linux on my laptop and then the wireless didn't work and it took me 3 hours on the help forum . ."