[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The sanctity of a lack of indigenous people. Everywhere in the Americas was indigenous territory once, so I don't see why this land is any different from all the rest. On the contrary, other land might still have a tribe with a historical claim to it, whereas this land clearly doesn't.

But yeah, a circuitous path to protecting rainforest...

I guess they want another international arms dealer back. However, I don't think that Trump is going to be as willing to appease as Biden has been.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

San Francisco spends (very roughly) $100,000 a year per homeless person and that doesn't "end homelessness" there. It doesn't even come close. These dollar estimates are all unrealistic because the issue is generally not that there's insufficient funding. It's that the sort of person who is homeless long-term is often not the sort of person who would want to be housed in any housing that the government could reasonably provide.

Here in NYC there was controversy because the city government was telling some homeless people that they could choose between going to a shelter or being arrested but they couldn't remain camped where they were. If you want to end homelessness, you can't just build housing. You have to force these homeless people to live in it. Are you willing to do that?

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is a lot more reckless than I was expecting, and I didn't have high hopes. Denmark is a NATO ally. If the USA is challenging its territorial integrity like this, the ability of that alliance to act as a deterrent is going to be seriously compromised. That's bad for reasons bigger than Greenland.

Trump is doing more damage to the security of the USA and its allies than he would have if he merely sank a couple of aircraft carriers, and most voters aren't even going to be aware of that.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I have such a hard time when I need to stop doing one thing and start doing another, especially when that requires traveling somewhere. This gets me in trouble fairly often.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Some of the doctor killers surrendered immediately, but there were manhunts for ones who fled. The killers were usually caught quickly so most manhunts didn't need to be nationwide, but law enforcement considered the attacks a big deal. This guy managed to flee the country and the international hunt for him lasted over two years until he was caught in France and extradited.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The naming is not consistent. As Wikipedia puts it,

This article follows usage in the United States. Readers in most other countries should read "two-way" or "SPDT" for the United States "three-way"; and "intermediate", "crossover" or "DPDT" switch for the United States "four-way".

The switches I'm using are marked with cute "ON/ON" labels which I suppose could be a metaphor for something.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

printer ink was somehow related to breakfast

For when you want your coffee really, really black.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This seems like the thread to ask. I am wiring up a two-way switch so that a person on either side of my bed can turn the bedside light on or off without having to roll over to the side that the light is on. Is... Is that gay?

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

But if you don't signal, how will the commoners know to make way?

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 days ago

Eh, if those things start launching then you're probably as good as dead anyway.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Although the law does not define what a reasonable policy should look like, it says the companies should not deactivate drivers for failing to drive enough hours, falling below a minimum customer rating or turning down ride offers and deactivation should not be based on the results of a background check or driver record, except in egregious circumstances.

Source.

Wait what? This sounds rather extreme. I suppose Uber could have some sort of mechanism for evaluating driver performance other than customer ratings, but I'm not sure what that could be in practice.

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Archive link.

As recently as February, Mr. Walz said on a podcast that he had been in Hong Kong, then a British colony, “on June 4 when Tiananmen happened,” and decided to cross into mainland China to take up his teaching duties even though many people were urging him not to.

But it was not true. Mr. Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, indeed taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.

Why bother making something like this up?

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Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.

I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb. I have not found a single shopping website that won't show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don't want to see listings that say 40w and don't say 60w anywhere, and it isn't hard to filter them out!

Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What's in it for them?

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I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...

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