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roguetrick ,

To be sure. The lawsuit is fine, if you build capacity for the state and they don't use it, they still need to pay for the costs of having that capacity. Actually creating a situation where a business must increase incarceration to create a profit is actually the potential for a much darker path than a fucking lawsuit.

The problem is it was privatized at all.

roguetrick ,

Oh I'm all for radical change up to and including the redistribution of property and the abolishment of common law. I just don't think that's happening anytime soon.

roguetrick ,

GnuCash

Huh, they've even got active development on an Android app.
https://github.com/GnuCash-Pocket/gnucash-android?tab=readme-ov-file

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Edit: ignore this post, I have no idea what Canada's disability law is like

roguetrick ,

Administrative law is complicated by them having to follow their own procedures and the courts deciding to completely ignore changes to those procedures or make new ones up out of whole cloth.

The autonomy is a strength in some ways compared to parliamentary democracy and ministers, but the courts have really fucked around with it.

roguetrick ,

There are cheaper plans that subsidize under the AT&T network even.

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Basic first aid for this taught in nursing school: cover in sterile abdominal pad wetted with saline solution. Keep moist. Prepare for surgery.

Common enough that its taught in the basics and overall not a big deal. It's just that usually this sort of thing happens only in the hospital.

roguetrick ,

Every first aid kit in a restaurant should have a bottle of saline and some gauze for treating burns and eye injuries. There will not, however, be anybody that knows how to use said first aid kit and the owners are unlikely to be very proactive in replacing supplies.

roguetrick ,

The royals have actual huge tracts of tax free land though. That's why capitalists want their own fiefs.

roguetrick ,

You gotta be stupid as shit to run something like this from the US and keep a financial tail of credit card payments to you.

You also gotta be stupid as shit to actually pay 10 bux for this.

roguetrick ,

I don't really know how you misunderstood his post in order to correct you, but I'll try.

He's saying crypto nerds like cryptography and crypto bros are cryptocurrency shills.

roguetrick ,

How'd they fortify it? I thought they didn't do distillation until at least the 10th century and it was too warm to do fractional freezing.

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You've never seen post trans-urethral prostate resection continuous bladder irrigation before.

roguetrick ,

Oh I had downvoted myself. I do that that for fun sometimes. It often results in a lot more downvotes and is funny.

roguetrick ,

Oh no. I do not. I'm a nurse and this twigs me out. Gloves are considered dirty to us. Washed hands are the only thing that are clean.

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To be sure. Cross contamination has the same principles in both healthcare and food service. We're just much more anal about it in healthcare.

I'd prefer not to see gloves at all if you're not directly at a station. You'll certainly get written up in a hospital if you start walking the halls while wearing gloves (since it means you didn't wash your hands when you left the room). About the only grey area is during transport of a contact precaution patient.

Generally when I see someone wearing gloves doing something random(like eating their lunch or operating a cash register), all that goes through my mind is "they didn't wash their hands and don't plan to."

roguetrick ,

A self revoking license. You can only use or distribute this software if you've made the last commit.

roguetrick ,

Is this going to be the most replied to post on the Fediverse? 635 in 2 days and still going strong.

roguetrick ,

There's a few with a thousand on top of all time for Lemmy. It would have to break those before it gets there. But since we've got a perfect storm of Linux, crypto, and anti ai discussions going, all we need is @PugJesus to make a top level comment about how not voting for Biden is voting for Trump to really push it over the top.

roguetrick ,

You and downpunxx are my most frequent mentions from my kbin days. Not that I particularly want to compare you.

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' ( kyivindependent.com )

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine's partners "are afraid of Russia losing the war" and would like Kyiv "to win in such a way that Russia does not lose," Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

roguetrick ,

Yugoslavia is coming back? Hot damn the Balkans are gonna get together to kick all our asses led by zombie Tito. We deserve it.

roguetrick ,

Slovakia and Prague will be joined back together when the EU gets more federal due to the resource wars. No need to rush it.

roguetrick ,

I always give that misspelling a pass. It's literally the same word borrowed from French twice.

roguetrick ,

If it ain't fluxbox, I don't want it

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Oh I never washed mine. Just kept it in a plastic bag and wore it till the straps broke.

Edit: downvotes make me laugh. For context, I was a pre vaccine nurse on a COVID unit for the duration of the pandemic. Never did catch it though from the hospital.

Also wore a plastic face shield that I washed every time I left the room with bleach. Thankfully COVID is droplet spread so that's plenty ppe. I wouldn't have wanted to wear that N95 in a TB room though.

roguetrick ,

Of course it is. The what neuralink is touting is the exact same situation that company was in. What happened there was they were creating an application for types of rare retinal blindness with the hopes that some other research would magically come along that makes it apply to other types of blindness and give them a market they could properly scale in. Surprise Surprise, no such deus ex machina occurred and the company could not see a path to profitability.

Neuralink is the exact same, cervical vertebra paralysis has less invasive adaptive mechanisms that are cheaper to implement, so there's no way this will ever be a profitable approach with that alone. They're hoping that this will magic into some brain machine interface without any actual hope that is going to happen.

The basic research just isn't there to be doing this shit, but the investor dollars need to be put somewhere.

roguetrick ,

Market consolidation resulting in less of a desire to compete with innovation? Who would've thought.

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Reddit migrated to cloud providers and it's a major part of how they serve videos. They don't self host or cache and peer that stuff. Their bills are astronomical, like vimoe. It was a dumb move in my opinion and I don't see how they'll ever reach profitability because of it.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/reddit-uses-aws-and-google-cloud-plans-to-spend-at-least-385m-on-cloud-by-september-2026/

$400 million in 2 years on cloud hosting.

roguetrick ,

Hell if I know, I'm sure most of their R&D budget is focused on figuring out just how to dig themselves out of the cloud pit before it gets deeper. I doubt the storage is the most expensive part of things. It's paying for serving everyone internationally with all the interconnect that's getting them.

roguetrick ,

Only for kidney stones, which frankly were an extremely specialized surgery. They cut from the prenium to locate the blockage.

roguetrick ,

Torque from a high voltage electric battery lawnmower motor just can't be beat in my experience. Just chews up things that would make a similarly priced gas engine stall.

roguetrick ,

Look, a rare upvoted satansmaggotycumfart post.

roguetrick ,

Tough to do when those services tend to get infiltrated by bots as well.

roguetrick ,

When you have to make an argument you've already lost, make it as structural/functionalist as possible to reduce how much surface area you have to defend.

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can’t just push it back into the ocean because that increases the salt concentration in the ocean which is actually not great and when done at scale

Only locally, it's absolutely not a problem globally. That water will go back into the ocean soon enough. We're not generally putting wastewater in aquifers. The same is true of lithium. Both sodium and lithium form salts that dissolve in water, so over time their biggest concentration is in the water and that's why we refine it from salt flats.

I don't consider the refining of lithium to be a huge problem, other than the fact that it usually just means they're trucking a bunch of water to the desert for concentration and evaporation ponds (or worse, using the local groundwater in the desert instead of trucking in desalinated water like they should be).

To put it into perspective, high lithium brine and ore reserves contain about 14 million tons of lithium. Seawater contains over 2 trillion tons. We currently have a yearly consumption somewhere under 200 thousand tons. We won't be hitting a lithium resource crunch anytime soon, it'll just get more expensive. If we ever get hydrogen fusion running, we'd have to separate a bunch of lithium-6 which makes up under 5 percent of lithium.

roguetrick ,

Doesn't take into account the reactivity difference with the matrix either. Solid state batteries are in a vitrified matrix essentially, and glass don't burn. Would make a lithium solid state battery likely safer than this.

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It depends on how local we're talking about. If you build a pipe out of the littoral zone into the ocean with multiple outputs you likely wouldn't kill much of anything but a few plankton. The intake pipe is often worse than the output pipe for wildlife.

For a place like, say, the the Persian Gulf, that uses oil for heat desal and gets their intake and output from a sea so it's all littoral and doesn't as quickly exchange it's water with the ocean, of course it's an environmental nightmare. It's naturally saltier without desal because of the higher evaporation rate and small comparative inlet size of the straight of hormuz, but at this point its 25% saltier than the rest of the ocean thanks to that desal.

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I misspelled strait, but I was referring to the shallows that contain the vast majority of ocean life due to ease of photosynthesis with littoral. Much of the Persian Gulf is within these shallows. In a lot of ways it acts like a salty inland sea that exchanges some of it's saltier water with fresher water from the ocean, but that's limited by the size of the strait of Hormuz.

roguetrick ,

The baltics and the balkans never get a break.

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Shit, they were both oppressed forever. The byzantines for the Balkans and the northern crusade and the teutonic order against the Balts come to mind.

Now the Japanese want to being their reign of terror with restrictive game accounts!

roguetrick ,

To be sure. This sort of argument is as productive as saying the Palestinians don't belong there because they're actually Arabs. Neither is true. Palestinians are about as much genetically Arab as maghrebis are Arab. Both groups experienced massive culture shifts, but there was little change in actual population.

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I don't think that's true at all. Collectively determining racism is a complex process that involves interrogating social structures and power imbalances as a whole. Minority opinions are an important part of that, perhaps the most important part, but not the only part. Intersectionality taught us how flawed that was. That's how we got the TERFs

In this case he's talking specifically about an intersectional issue.

roguetrick ,

That's not a fridge it's a goddamn Cadillac.

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established ( apnews.com )

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

roguetrick ,

Everyone who thinks different than me are not human.

roguetrick ,

Oh, it's just that everyone that thinks different than you is under duress huh? Or paid? I guess I'm that case I don't think you're being vacuous.

roguetrick ,

The level of irony here is quite amusing. You're complaining that you're being accused of things you aren't by saying that I'm accusing you of things I didn't.

roguetrick ,

Must be a grand conspiracy right?

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