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  • What sort of circumstance could possibly make buying cheaper compatible batteries unethical?

    1. Did you make an express promise to only buy brand-name batteries? (I.e., are they paying you money to showcase their brand? Did you lease or rent tools with a contract that specified brand-name-only batteries? )
    2. Are you spending someone else's money who wants name brand batteries?
    3. Are the third-party batteries illegal in your country?
    4. Is there a known greater ecological harm in the manufacture of the third-party batteries?
    5. Are you expecting to have your power tools be harmed by the third party batteries and returning them for warranty repair you caused?

    For a typical consumer in America, and likely most professional contractors, the answer is "no" to all of these. And DeWalt apparently only offers a one year warranty that specifically excludes "normal wear and tear".

    https://www.dewalt.com/en-us/support/warranty

    Anything up to and including prying open the proprietary casing and swapping in new cells is entirely ethical.

  • Alexandria et al were given back to VA back in the time of slavery. Because of slavery.

    DC doesn't want it back.

  • He was literally replying with a "not all men" statement.

    How the fuck is "Children of all genders are harmed by sexual predators and all genders can be sexual predators, not just men." a "not all men" statement?

    Where did I imply that misandry is a myth? I refuted that I personally am a misandrist.

    Where? Because the post of yours that I originally replied to sure as fuck reads as "misandry is a myth, how dare you use that word"

    https://lemmy.world/comment/23373313

    And, in the post this one is attached to, you continue implying that women are not ever comitters of pedophilia, only ever its victims.

    I'm generally willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I dont see how either of your responses to me at all refute the accusation that you are a man-hating misandrist attempting to spread the idea that all adult pedophiles are men.

    Just saying "I'm not a misandrist" doesn't count as refutation anymore here than "I'm not a wife beater" would if said by a man with bloody knuckles and a beaten wife. As far as I can tell you dont accept that misandry is a thing that exists, and do not see casual discrimination against men as a bad thing.

  • The image OP posted here implied rather clearly that only men are pedophiles.

    The post you put your first comment on was a "boys can be victims and women can be offenders" statement with a link.

    https://lemmy.world/comment/23372649

    When you decided to respond to such a statement with a nitoick about what the article says, followed it by focusing on the gender of the victims and not the offenders, and then implied that misandry is a myth when you were called on it, you were carrying water for feminine cishet pedophiles.

  • Yes, it's the thing keeping you from hearing the same "some women are pedophiles" all the rest of us got just fine.

    Don't defend pedophiles, even cishet femm ones.

  • Trying to push the narrative to focus on 2010 games feels a bit like moving the goalposts,

    Why? Isn't the comparable expectation for consideration of what high-end phones ten years from now could do with a six-year old game to ask what today's high-end phones can do with sixteen year old games?

    Moore's Law was always a marketing gimmick, but progression of information technology has been a rather steady cycle of "next year's model will be even better" that it strikes me as a good starting point.

  • All congressional districts already work like that. Gerrymandering is the practice of re-drawing distirct borders within an area so that your team has more districts with your voters as the majority.

  • This is for members of Congress. Simply counting total votes would mean 100% of the delegation to the house are from whatever party gets 50%+1 votes.

  • I'm very confident that when my cats meow they are always saying a variant of "hooomaaaan!"

    They're like little eternally drunk roommates who walk around naked and are way too touchy for a household with children.

  • Cyberpunk came out in 2020. Are there games from 2010 that you would be surprised to see running af full speed on a high-end smartphone?

  • As I understand it, litigators have pretty wide latitude to call whomever they want to provide factual testimony in support of their case. At worst, in some jurisdictions the opposing council has a right to be prepared and can ask for a recess while they do so.

    And AFAIK states that grant spousal privilege limit that to private conservations, not overt acts or utterances made to a third party.

  • Since most automobiles are water-cooled, the pickup truck temp is probably about 110 f / 43 c, so you'd want to preheat to 3 1/2 pickup trucks.

    Similarly, since the mean life of trucks is probably 20 years, we'd measure casual time in a subdivisions of 175,320 hours / 10,519,200 minutes. One picotruck would be 1/10th of a minute, so you want to bake for 300 pico-trucks

    We will of course maintain this system once trucks become 50-year lived semi-autonomous drones that never get over 35 c, because the one constant in defining units is that rejiggijng definitions is preferred to technical precison.

  • It'd kinda work, but not so well with uranium itself.

    (A bunch of other atomic age materials like plutonium are radioactivley deadlier.)

    The real goal of terrorism is to make people afraid, so they either change behavior or exert political pressure on their government to change behaviour. It doesn't often work, often backfires, and when it does on occssion work we tend to stop calling the guys who set the bombs as terrorists.

  • You are largely resistant to the black plauge, though, if you're of European descent. It killed a bunch of people when it initially evolved, but never really went away. The humans who survied had modest resistance and adopted social habits that were both passed on to their kids. (Nowadays it's a simple course of antibiotics)

    Your larger point stands, though, since part of the end of any pandemic is the overly effective pathogen succumbing to the evolutionary pressure to not kill the host, since the bacteria that infects living animals does terrible when those animals die.

  • The Democrats introduced as their HR 1 a bill that would outlaw gerrymandering nationwide the last two cogresses where they picked the Speaker. They'll almost certainly do so in January next year and two years later.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act

    All Republicans have to do to end the gerrymandering in VA and CA and who knows where next year is get on board. They could even get a national voter ID rule if they really wanted.

    Sadly, like Trump, the whole GOP is really bad at the jobs our tax dollars pay them for.

  • Unless the cost of buying an equivalent version of CoD is more than $82 you can just do that and still save money.

  • Echoing this:

    Being dehydrated has real and generally unpleasant symptoms which drinking water alleviates. Dehyrdation is not just when your urine has a color.

    If you have to go #1 on a regular basis, you're probably not dehydrated.

  • Nothing in the constitution demands that we segregate prisoners by sex or gender.

    Doing so is just a fair shortcut to avoiding the cruel punishment of denying prisoners safety from assault in prison, but these RWNJs think prison is supposed to be inhumane.

  • The Onion is a parody website that managed to buy InfoWars with assistsnce from the judgement debt Alex Jones owes to the families of murdered children whom he spent over a decade defaming.

    About the only thing this has in common with Israel is "violence was done to children and a right wing asshole lied about it."

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    How do.contires that use commas for decimals read such numbers aloud?

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