Hamas lied about the death tolls but not in the way you think. The truth is that Hamas only counted the people who they could confirm the identity of, their death toll is a massive underestimate. Basically all credible sources agree that the death toll is at least as high as Hamas says.

Fatshaming is almost never done out of a genuine concern for the person’s health, and it’s debatable how effective it is at getting people to lose weight. Especially because of how confusing the process is.

Given the identity ICE agents have of themselves, as a muscular brute standing between civilized Americans and barbaric outsiders, fat-shaming them is reasonable. Also, they don’t deserve to be treated as human beings. Even murderers deserve better than ICE agents.

That sounds kinda reasonable then. If the company has access to the chat logs in plain text, they should probably be scanning it for CSAM. Though the use of AI to identify it is concerning, given the low accuracy. And I guess there’s also the risk of communications with someone’s doctor being flagged.

On reflection it’s still a dumb law.

I was banned from the lemmy.ml memes community for saying the Democrats are slightly better than Republicans. After saying it I needed to argue with 20 people at once, all with preprepared arguments, who were adamant that both sides are the same.

I’ve also recently seen that that community is extremely toxic in other ways.

This lawsuit is about end-to-end encryption and the lack of age verification on Instagram. So not good.

This lawsuit is about end-to-end encryption and the lack of age verification on Instagram. So not good.

The vertical axis is labelled “gun homicides”. That’s not a very useful statistic.

Whatever the correct arrangement is, Hungary or Tajikistan need to be on the right side.

In my country WFH is being enshrined as a legal right. And people say the party of trade unions is center-right.

Just make me CEO of a company. Surely I can’t do worse than the crop of people they’re currently finding.

I’d just start by building toilet stall without gaps in the door so wide that people can see into the stalls whenever they walk past.

Purely based on vibes, I think Mint takes security less seriously than Fedora and OpenSUSE.

Fedora v OpenSUSE.

IIRC it’s been mathematically proven that no single-member electoral system can be perfect. If it wins in one area it fails in another.

My preferred system is to use a standard ranked ballot, count it using IRV until every candidate has above 20% and then switch to ranked pairs (so there are no spoilers, but the daylight savings party doesn’t end up winning by default).

Proportional representation leads to total chaos at government formation, and in Europe it has largely failed to stop the far-right because it gives the far-right a platform by default. It’s not really a better system than STV. The best system is probably a mix between STV and condorcet.

I live in Australia. We have STV at federal elections and PR in Tasmania. Tasmania has gone from the strongest economy in the country to the weakest, as a result of PR.

Anything is better than FPTP though.

Those ships seem to be blocking out half the ocean, based on the image provided. I imagine greater access to sunlight, especially along the coast, will do wonders for the environment.

GNOME feels great to use based on the 10 seconds I used it for.

But I don’t like GNOME for many reasons.

Won’t be enough to resolve the fact that we just don’t have enough lithium.

The majority of ethanol based crop production comes from growing corn in the Midwest, specifically Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana.

My argument was never that we “should” replace all our ethanol corn crops with solar panels. Just that we could. And we could still theoretically make it work with enough money and gumption (and moving energy intensive industries inland to reduce the need for transmission).

I’m not arguing that they aren’t recyclable but rather they aren’t accessible at the volume needed.

Lithium supply is a concern. We don’t have enough in the world to support the green transition and there’s no clear solution. A few that come to mind are:

• New battery technologies that have been in the pipeline for a while.
• Overbuilding renewable electricity to account for a lack of batteries.
• Building a diverse range of renewable power sources.
• Peak pricing, and load shedding when there’s not enough supply.
• Interstate power connections to share surplus and deficits.

I think this is a fair and nuanced point. In my opinion the solution is not one singular option, such as 100% solar, but a mix of options which might include some percentage of non-renewable energy. I think reduction of non-renewable should be the goal, but switching 100% to renewable does not seem feasible to me.

I think we should use a small amount of methane to supply power in the event of an emergency, instead of building enough batteries to supply us for an entire year of cloudy weather and stagnant air. In the first place the thought experiment was about 35 million acres of solar, not about a 100% renewable grid. That’s a separate discussion to be had among engineers.