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Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents
  • The Biden administration is working on improving train infrastructure but if you look at the map of what they're adding, it's limited to a very small section of the country. I mean, it's like cross country but it's such a massive country that it's still super limited.

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    There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)
  • In the meantime there are some apps that "block" instances. Connect has it, but it doesn't fully block the instance, more like it shows up in the feed with a content warning that the message is from a blocked instance and you can choose to view it if you want. I also do think lemm.ee will defederate from hexbear pretty soon. The admin has had personally horrendous experiences with their users and that meta thread about it was a dumpster fire of hexbear users making unrelated political comments and blocking the actual instance users from having a discussion. It got locked at almost 2000 comments so I'm sure he's still digging through that toxic waste to make his decision.

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    There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)
  • The standard web UI also needs major improvements. Nobody logs in through an app for their first time and first impressions are critical. It needs to be easier to navigate and use without downloading an app so people will stick around long enough to get involved and have a good time.

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    Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"
  • I thought it was hilarious and works with their dishonor but I also wouldn't have loved if they had been head banging to metal or going to town on some Klingon opera.

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    Withering heat is more common, but getting AC is still a struggle in public housing
  • The actual AC issue aside, I feel that this is a good argument for some urban redevelopment to plant more area/climate appropriate trees. It would provide shade and provide some offset for the CO2 emissions. Getting shade between the sun and the buildings would help make the heat more tolerable and getting some shade over the roadways and parking lots would help decrease urban heat bubble effects.

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    Lemmings of Lemmy, what is the scariest situation in the outdoors that you have experienced?
  • Oh no please anything but starting questions with Lemmings of Lemmy!

    So I went hiking by myself on an old abandoned logging road once and got a little bit up there, pretty far away from the main road. I hadn't noticed anything like bear poo but you have to always be on guard. Well eventually I got to a point where an animal didn't like me being up there and started huffing and snorting at me. I turned and left because whatever it was, it was not happy. I never saw the animal but given the location and the noises I'm pretty sure it was a moose, and you definitely don't want to get into it with an angry moose.

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    Biden video mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene speech hit more than 30M views in 12 hours
  • This both sides stuff is so disingenuous. One side is populated by centrists who generally want to mostly do the right thing, occasionally being cruddy because they're too conservative to do the hard things to improve the world. The other side is populated by white supremacist terrorists. That isn't the same.

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    Biden video mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene speech hit more than 30M views in 12 hours
  • Why does this have upvotes whilst the literal exact same comment immediately above it in my feed posted by another account has downvotes? I mean, come on. Also, like the replies to the other comment said, you can post links to important news if you would like to spread awareness. But I don't think you will because you just want to complain about the libs owning MTG.

    Edit: wait I just realized this is a reply to that comment and more I'm even more confused.

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    Desktop A/C unit. This can't possibly work! Prove me wrong?
  • The issue here is that your wife bought this thinking it's an ac when it's an evaporative cooler aka swamp cooler. They do work if you have low humidity. If you are in a humid area this definitely won't work. Since the unit is small it won't cool the entire room but she should feel nice and cool about 3 to 5 feet in front of it. She will need to make sure the wicking action is working to get the pads nice and wet, otherwise she will have to manually remove them to wet them.

    Edit: I wanted to add that I have had a similar small unit before which is why I know that she needs to be 3 to 5 feet in front of it to hit the little target cool zone.

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    How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
  • Well gee whiz, I have this little doggy avatar picture thing that I got... somehow? I assume that's what you mean. I had no idea those were NFTs or that they were actually selling them. I just thought it was some stupid achievement I accidentally got.

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    Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook
  • Someone in another thread somewhere said it was stated on mastodon.world that they would only block in if something happens. I don't remember what topic that was in so unfortunately I don't have a link for you. At any rate, silence also speaks volumes.

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    How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
  • The users who left were often likely to be the most dedicated (which is why they were the most butt hurt). This is only the beginning and the exodus will continue and the content will decline, although I don't know why I'm even telling you this since you're probably a spezbot.

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