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nvermind

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  • Female pilot in crash Trump blamed on DEI was top 20% Army cadet

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  • Exactly! And disputing it in this way just adds credence to the argument. Failing to rejection the premicr wholesale gives tacit approval that sometimes it might be the case, and sets us up to keep having to respond like this, rather than saying any argument centered on DEI is bullshit.

  • Elon Musk says he might sue Gov. Tim Walz over accusations he gave a Nazi salute

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  • SLAPP, SLAPP, SLAPP

  • F35 crashes at Alaska Air Force Base

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  • Happened Yesterday At Eielsen Air Force Base. According to the article, the pilot was ok but the plane suffered “significant structural damage”…yeah, I’d say so.

    That F35 cost taxpayers around $100M!

  • Is it illegal to download things that aren't meant to be downloaded?

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  • This. In a case around LinkedIn courts ruled that in the US it’s legal to scrape publicly available data. The company doing the scraping was selling that data to corporate customers, but ultimately use might depend on the information you’re accessing and under what permissions. (Not a lawyer)

  • Texas Instruments Monopoly

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  • Lol, popularity vs monopoly is barely more than a matter of perspective. Google argues they don’t have a monopoly on ad services, they’re just the most popular (the government disagrees).

    Every company I listed attempts to stop others from entering the market. TSMC holds the lions share of the market and works hard to keep it that way. They are also one of few foundry’s manucturing the highest end chips. Just because multiple companies use them as a foundry doesn’t mean they aren’t a monopoly over certain segments of the market. (Google is used by literally everyone).

    If you’re interested in how the chip market is actually dominated by very few players, check out Chip Wars by Chris Miller.

  • Texas Instruments Monopoly

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  • Yup, several companies have near-monopolies on microchips at different levels (Intel for CPU, NVidia for GPUs, TSMC for manufacturing) but not really TI. They used to, but pretty much lost it now.

  • Has there ever been anything originally dismissed as pseudoscience that was later proven to be legit?

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  • A lot of science around trees and forest management has gone this way. Forest used to be seen as competitive areas that needed to be thoroughly managed to be healthy. Now we know that’s not true at all, and overall would be better off if we just let them be (in most, though not all cases). Same with the idea that trees communicate with each other and share resources. This was dismissed and ridiculed for a long time, but has now been pretty resoundingly proven true. Peter Wohlleben’s The Secret Life of Trees talks a lot about this.

  • Another account banned from Twitter thanks to Musky Boy

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  • Seems unlikely since it was posted by the guy who took the picture.

  • ‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

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  • I mean, we obviously need to do both. The conversation in the thread is about nuclear, which is a supply side resource. DR and demand shaping do even more to enable truly renewable resources. Why do the demand shaping to enable nuclear when renewables are cleaner and cheaper?

  • ‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

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  • This would be true, except for the fact that nuclear is terrible at filling in slack times. Nuclear power for the most part needs to run really consistently, 24/7. Better to fill gaps with a diversity of reasources, more transmission, and storage.

  • ‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

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  • Basically no one outside of china is advocating for coal use anymore, so this is a BS comparison. The much more apt comparison is against wind, solar, and storage, against which nuclear is far more dangerous. Also, it’s hard for environmental damage assessment to take into account the EXTREMELY long-lived impacts of fuel “disposal”.

  • Draw your own conculsions

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  • I like the Bourne Ultimatum theory better. We peaked there and will never achieve that high again!

  • Rudy Guliani Blows Past the $43,000 Budget He Committed to in Bankruptcy Proceedings

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  • Same! And most of that’s just rent!

  • News @lemmy.world
    nvermind @lemm.ee

    Rudy Guliani Blows Past the $43,000 Budget He Committed to in Bankruptcy Proceedings

    www.nytimes.com /2024/05/01/us/politics/bankruptcy-giuliani-spending.html

  • Five Major Climate Policies Trump Would Probably Reverse if Elected

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  • Don’t get me wrong, Trump would be terrible for the environment and climate change, but saying that it might be a stretch to say he would be able to repeal all the policies listed in the article. (Then again, the last Trump presidency was wildly destructive, so who knows).

    1 & 2: EPA rules on coal and gas and tailpipe emissions: the EPA has intentionally announced these pretty early so they wouldn’t be subject to the Congressional Review Act (CRA) making them harder to repeal quickly. Trump also can’t unilaterally repeal them, just like how Biden couldn’t unilaterally execute them, they have to go through the EPA rule making process. The power plant rules face significant threats from the courts, but less so from the executive. Similarly for the vehicle emissions standards, and those have the added benefit of being similar to rules adopted by states, which means that even if they are repealed federally, car companies will still have to comply with them in several major markets (e.g. California).

    1. The IRA: So much IRA money has already gone out that it’s a pretty durable piece of legislation. Big moneyed players have invested a lot because of the legislation, and they don’t want to see it go away. Trump is clearly in the pocket of billionaires, so it could be hard to repeal. It’s also huge, so even if piece of it are undercut, the law itself could stay more or less intact.

    2. Oils and Gas Drilling: sure, Biden has made drilling for oil more expensive and building clean energy in federal land cheaper, but he head still leased a TON of oil and gas land, more than Trump in the first two years, so I’m not sure we’ll see huge changes there anyway! I don’t think the land that Biden has protected will be easily opened back up again, and it’s unclear how long the LNG pause will last regardless of the administration.

    3. Global Climate Negotiations: this is the big one. As with everything else Trump does, a second Trump presidency would set us so much further back in the global stage it’s ridiculous. The US is already a laughing stock for how un-seriously we take climate change, and while that has improved, a Trump reelection would tank us.

    All of that to say, a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate, not necessarily because the progress made by Biden wouldn’t stick, but because we would stall here and have very little possibility of getting more done for the next four years, leaving us two years before our Paris commitments (god that’s a terrifying thought).

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
    nvermind @lemm.ee

    E.P.A. Severely Limits Pollution From Coal Burning Power Plants

    www.nytimes.com /2024/04/25/climate/biden-power-plants-pollution.html
  • Baldur's Gate 3 @lemmy.world
    nvermind @lemm.ee

    BG3 Wins BAFTA for Best Game

    www.bafta.org /games/awards/2024-nominations-winners

  • What is the most on-the-nose or strangely objective name that you have heard?

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  • I didn’t know that reference but this makes is so much better!

  • What is the most on-the-nose or strangely objective name that you have heard?

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  • The pilot on my plane a few years back was named Max Power

  • "Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer

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  • Musk’s wealth went up in 2020. So did several other billionaires. The ultra wealthy don’t obey the same rules you and I do, and they’re still making billions when the world is shit.

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  • Is this what the Cheese of Truth guy does?

  • Cup rule

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  • It’s impressive that every part of this is wrong!

  • nottheonion @lemm.ee
    nvermind @lemm.ee

    Panera founder says employees aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders: 'Nobody cares'

    www.businessinsider.com /panera-founder-workers-not-motivated-making-money-shareholders-ceo-therapy-2023-12