[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 weeks ago

They're actually required to give 85% of everything back, so they give back most of it. It seems like Florida is becoming too much of a hassle to insure, though. Some companies have pulled out of florida.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's pretty much completely impossible for a third party candidate to ever win. You have to get 270 (just over half) of all the electoral votes. If any third party made a huge amount of headway it'd still be almost impossible to take enough votes from the repubs or democrats to hit 270, and anything less than 270 means the House gets to decide who becomes president. Obviously, the house filled with democrats and Republicans, would never select the third party candidate.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago

Firefighter here. Sometimes a better and less harmful option is to let things burn and protect the area. I went to a semi wreck that was hauling diesel and on fire on its side in the grassy median about 100' away from a storm drain. Trying to put that out with just water would have become an environmental nightmare if all that fuel would have gotten washed into the storm system.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 month ago

I was all set to re purchase the original ff7 on steam to play it again on my steam deck. Then I seen that the assholes require an internet connection to run it. My playstation sure as hell didn't have an internet connection. Yo ho ho ho

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 months ago

The lack of this basic type of knowledge in a plug people use every single day both astounds and disappoints me. Right down to people asking me if I have a charger for one of the new iPhones.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 3 months ago

I'd love for him to be the vp running mate, and I love Bernie, but he's the exact same age as Biden. He's still sharp and awesome, but you can't expect one 81 year old to have to quit, while putting in another 81 year old and think there's a chance of him winning.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 6 months ago

Is John deere exempt?

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 7 months ago

There were many assassinations and atrocities (including gunning down over 800 unarmed indians) that happened for 50 years leading up to that. Also, after ww2 the British feared that the ton of Indian National Army POWs released from Japan were gearing up to violently resist the British on a large scale. The British didn't just give up because Ghandi was nice and all the non violent protests. They gave up after years of violence, then a break from the violence, and then the threat of going back to violence against the former POWs and the support they were getting.

Ghandi and his followers were very influential and peaceful, but thats far from the only thing that forced out the brits.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Balloon helium is 3% helium. So every 33 balloons is one Balloon worth of pure helium. No helium starts off pure. It all gets concentrated/separated to get that way. "Balloon grade" helium can be concentrated just fine and considering that thousands of those balloons are filled every day, it is a lot of wasted helium.

*I had my percentage swapped, it seems. Balloon helium is 97% helium.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 7 months ago

It was just an acorn.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago

There might be a subscription option or a subscription tier with a windows suite like office and stuff included in it, but for normal windows OS, they're decades away from going to a subscription only model, at best.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago

If everyone hasn't watched Hot Tub Time Machine, everyone should watch Hot Tub Time Machine.

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