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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or, "the problem" is an uneducated electorate: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/11/08/men-and-white-people-vote-differently-based-education

Whether this is due to "book smarts" or just a statement that going to college means you meet different people and generally expands your worldview, it seems to make a difference (men still more problematic than women, but less so when educated!).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

Dipoles are, effectively, not


so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.

The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We're in the market for a kid carrying ebike, and while REI makes the most financial sense, I think we'll be paying a visit to our LBS.

As an aside, I tend to prefer Sports Basement. Have had better luck with their bike department, too. No idea if they're better from a corporate standpoint though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is the real big brain hack with decibels


you can use a linear scale, it's just that the units are logarithmic instead.

(Yes I know most people would call a dB axis logarithmic, it's just a silly comment.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

My $4k piece of carbon and $3k hunk of titanium would like to have a word...

I would bet just about anything that the only reason profit margins could possibly be higher for a car is due to volume


which, if everyone rode bikes, wouldn't be an issue at all.

Absolute profit, sure


cars are more expensive, so they'll win out.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We still use leaded gas for aviation, as does (I believe) the EU (I'm guessing RoW, too).

(Supposed to be banned this year in the EU but AFAICT pushed back until 2032.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 2 months ago

You can have a lot of smart functionality and remain local-only (e.g., Home Assistant). All my smart devices are on their own VLAN with no Internet access


if something breaks it's not the cloud's fault, it's mine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Fail2ban config can get fairly involved in my experience. I'm probably not doing it the right way, as I wrote a bunch of web server ban rules


anyone trying to access wpadmin gets banned, for instance (I don't use WordPress, and if I did, it wouldn't be accessible from my public facing reverse proxy).

I just skimmed my nginx logs and looked for anything funky and put that in a ban rule, basically.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

And probably only the second half of the 2nd amendment.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The lack of logic is astounding.

These are the same people who think abstinence only education works. Safe to say they're a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Judging by the camera angle, OP may have been today years old when they learned this as well (I learned it well into my 30s, too).

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