[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Not with that attitude.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We also use it for engine displacement.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

If you own anything with "white" LEDs, I have some bad news for you...

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

*since 2020.

If my cowboy math is correct (assuming two parents and two children), that comes out to about 292 people per year or 876 since 2020.

With a population the size of the United States (330 million), that means that, for a given year, 0.00009% (rounded up) of that population dies as a result of a family annihilation. For comparison, around 40,000 people (including around 1,000 children) die in vehicle accidents annually in the US.

Not that family annihilations aren't horrible. They are. But, from a purely statistical perspective, there are much more frequent horrible things that we don't talk about as much, for a variety of reasons.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

In Iowa, at least, the state had a pre-existing fiber network that got expanded to a shit-ton of rural communities and local (often municipal) ISPs. It's more expensive than what you'd get in the cities, but much better bang for buck than Starlink.

The only people still struggling to get service are those who live way, way outside those communities -- the kind of people for whom "neighbor" means somebody who lives a significant fraction of a mile away. And, outside of comfortably wealthy individuals, those people are a dying breed, at least in Iowa.

If Iowa of all places can pull something like that off, I figure it's not out of reach of any state (or nation, for that matter) whose inhabitants give a nano-fuck about access to technology.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

This is the comic Salvatore based his skit on.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

[gestures vaguely]

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It definitely could be both.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I see someone else has discovered the gold mine that is SkyCorp Home Video.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

As we've seen over the past decade (well, past few decades, tbh), changing the word only moves the objectionable meaning onto the new word. The goal is to address the meaning, but it feels like so much energy is being spent on addressing the words themselves that the meaning never gets dealt with...

...which I guess is understandable for those who have given up hope of the meaning being addressed, but then why spend the effort on the word?

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Memes, uh, find a way.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Talks about Perseverance.

Image is of Spirit or Opportunity.

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Emisar D4V2 mule - W1 Amber. It's got that same monochromatic yellow as an old sodium street lamp, to the point that I briefly felt a tinge of nostalgia on firing it up for the first time.

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