[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 97 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It goes without saying that this absolutely will not pass constitutional muster.

You can categorically try to ban pornography but the second you try to ban it based on its content and not based on it being pornography you no longer have a leg to stand on.

I wish there were some way to have criminal consequences for deliberately passing unconstitutional laws. It definitely feels like it's some kind of sedition, violating your implicit or explicit oath of office so profoundly.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 108 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Dark patterns.

All the big tech firms do this shit all over the place because the regulators are sound asleep at the wheel.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 124 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Smart Features" in the Messages app have always been explicitly processed only on-device. This is a big change if it is different than that.

I'm betting they'll make this opt-out, which is fucking shady as hell. And worse, I bet opting out your own messages doesn't stop someone else that is opted in from unknowingly/unintentionally transmitting all your messages that they received. Ugh.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 93 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The purpose of those tests isn't even to test any general idea of "acuity". They're meant to monitor cognitive decline. With a good elder care GP, you start getting them regularly at 70.

You don't "ace" them. They aren't IQ tests or any shit like that. They don't measure your mind compared to anyone else's. The "best" result you should ever get is no change from baseline. They're compared to past performance. Anyone claiming to "ace" them just doesn't understand why they even took them.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 115 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

An $11,000 wage increase is ~$5/hr for a full time employee.

Starting pay at Startbucks is around $15/hr. They're famously stingy with full-time though, so in reality it is quite a bit more than a 25% increase.

Honestly, I was expecting to find some glaring error in the logic on this but I don't really see it.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 102 points 10 months ago

*Conservatives.

It's the conservatives doing it. It always has been, it always will be. No need for enlightened centrism here. And don't pretend they don't do it outside the US because I follow world news.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 102 points 10 months ago

In short: Joe Rogan is a crypto-fascist.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 110 points 1 year ago

All the other corruption and such aside, imagine how terrible this is for the urban development of your town.

The municipal government has no incentive to invest in forward-thinking policy that will lead to healthier and more economically sustainable communities. If they invest in any kind of maintenance or developments that increase road safety - and thus decrease fines - it hurts the government's ability to operate. Indeed, they have direct Financial incentive to make the roads less safe. Not to even mention that they have no incentive at all to do things that improved the city in ways that won't affect their traffic fines.

They've committed to giving up on good governance of their small town. They found a way to function by just parasitizing others. They've given up.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 112 points 1 year ago

They were told the other acceptable courtesy titles were Mrs., Ms., or Miss. Using "teacher" was also out of the question.

After being denied Teacher, Professor, or Dr. as the title (the last because they did not have a PhD even though evidently others in the school go by Dr. without a PhD without discipline). And note that "Mr." was apparently not an option?

The school's hands weren't tied. They appear enthusiastic.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She didn't "shut him down". She tried to get in a point across and he barged right on along unimpeded by her and continued peddling more bullshit and conspiracy theory.

The truth means absolutely nothing to a conservative. Evidence means nothing when you never cared about reality in the first place.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do cops have the power to just routinely turn off their body cams?

That should be limited to using the bathroom. If it gets turned off during regular duty, it should be presumed to mean something is being covered up because that is exactly what it means. There should be paperwork triggered every time it is turned off.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 150 points 1 year ago

Boebert told reporters she was “not in middle school” when asked to respond.

If she were still a middle schooler, her husband might not have left her.

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What exists right now for someone who wants to make a very small solar project?

A family member of mine was hoping to put 1 or 2 panels on the roof of their ADU to power maybe just the small window air conditioner in it, or at least offset a lot of its energy use. Is there anything practical for doing this that doesn't cost multiple thousands of dollars?

In my imagined setup, there would be 1-2 panels on the roof connected to a cheap consumer battery (something like a small ecoflow). The appliance would try and run only off the battery, but if the battery charge level dipped to low it would have some controller that would switch it to grid power until the charge level was back up. I would not want to feed any power into the grid, but I wouldn't want the person living in the space to have to manually switch the power source between the battery and a regular outlet.

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