Enk1

@Enk1@lemmy.world
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Easy solution: only buy drinks in aluminum cans or glass bottles. World is already drowning in microplastic pollution.

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The "I never thought they'd come for me" crowd appears to have fucked around and, subsequently, found out.

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Theater room, maybe? The receptacles on the ceiling and along the side walls could be for speakers. A Dolby Atmos setup has speakers on every wall, the floor, and the ceiling.

It's a truck that's meant to tow and haul loads. Using it for that purpose is a much larger drain on the battery than aggressive driving, and significantly reduces its useful range. If it's getting these numbers just being driven, you can expect a sub-100 mile range per charge when towing. Imagine having to stop to recharge for 30+ minutes for every hour and half of towing you do. Woof.

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More broadly, we developed more slow twitch muscles that granted us greater fine motor skills, and subsequently the ability to create and use tools. Other apes retained their fast twitch muscles, so their ability to use tools is limited, but pound-for-pound they're FAR stronger than humans.

Not to mention that every single food product has metric measurements on the label as well.

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Likely, but DP is still superior to even the latest HDMI standards, so I'd choose it over HDMI whenever that's an option.

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If you pass the Cheeky Sausage, you've gone too far.

A storied history of systemic racism and violence. A lack of adequate training. A lack of accountability. A complete lack of repercussions that actually affect them - tax payers footing the bill for settlements instead of cop pension funds. A mob-like culture that protects abusive cops and uses fear to keep the rest in line.

Should I go on?

There's no exposure to the virus with RNA vaccines.

3x as much is "marginally better." What world do you Apple zealots live in?

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Same for 5.56 and .223.

If they marketed it as such, but they heavily marketed it as capable as, if not better, at doing truck things than other trucks. And to be fair, most of us knew it was bullshit, but it's impressive how absolutely wrong they were. I mean, Elon said it'd tow a Porsche 911 faster in the quarter than the 911 could run the 1/4 mile itself, and they released a video to prove it...except keen eyed folks quickly noticed that the "finish line" they show is actually the 1/8th mile marker on that drag strip, and the 911 is clearly about to pass the CT at that point. Engineering Explained on YT made a great video detailing how it couldn't beat even the slowest modern 911.

Most ammunition, especially ammo used at a range, are copper jacketed. There is no exposure to lead when handling most ammo.

Why would you only use a privacy focused ROM and not stock Android, when you use a stock iPhone? Do you think that Apple doesn't collect just as much data on you as Android does? It's literally in the Apple terms of service. They've just conned you into believing their marketing BS.

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POS software is right up there with vehicle infotainment systems when it comes to reliability and usability. They get the dregs of the programming world because decent coders have a way better selection of companies to work for.

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Right, because Apple doesn't collect your data, even though it says they do right in the terms of service you agreed to without reading.

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This is it. A lack of training for officers and a lack of infrastructure to support rehabilitation. The bill was set up for failure, as none of the above happened prior to the law going into effect. It's like removing your physical fence before installing an invisible fence and wondering why your animals all ran away.

I use my F-150 fairly often to haul and tow. If I didn't need to tow ~5000lbs I'd have just kept my old 97 Tacoma. I was all in on getting a Lightning a few months ago, especially with $15,000 in rebates and tax credits. Then I did the math and realized going from my brother's shop to my place while towing 5000lbs means I'd have to stop and charge for 30 minutes SIX times on that trip. And sadly, it seems that's as good as it gets for EV trucks right now. I'm 100% onboard with an EV truck, especially a Lightning with the ability to use it as a generator for your home in an outage, but towing/hauling range has to improve astronomically before they're practical.

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Have you actually watched TV in America in the past decade? We take our violence with all the boobs we can get these days.

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$25 an hour is sadly not too good for any job in the US these days. $50k doesn't go that far anymore.

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Where is this at? I've never seen 440ml or 440ml cans in North America. Canned drinks/beers usually come in 355ml (12 US ounces), 473ml (16oz), 500ml (16.9 oz), or 19.2 US ounces (20 British ounces aka British pint). Other less common sizes are 8oz (236ml / Red Bull) and big beer formats like 24oz and 32oz (just shy of a litre).

404ml is around 13.66 US ounces or 14.2 imperial ounces. 440ml is around 14.7 US ounces or 15.5 imperial ounces.

Usually when you get a measurement that's not a nice round number like 500 or 750 it means it was probably converted from some other measurement standard. But both measurements seem completely arbitrary for what I assume is an English speaking country.

I looked through some antique measurements but didn't find anything useful. It seems to be more than half a chungah, but far less than a butt.

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Majority of eyewitness testimony is inaccurate. That alone should never have been enough to convict, much less from someone with legitimately terrible eyesight.

Heritage breeds are the way to go if you can find them. Taste better and typically more humanely raised.

Disney and Miami/Keys. No one WANTS to go through Jacksonville, but it's the shortest route if you're going down the coast.

Oh, man, you got us!

Wait. I'm being told that the US is the largest exporter of agricultural goods in the world, exporting 20% of its agricultural production.

They're not cheap if you get them first hand but they're not insane considering who we're talking about. Bands like The Eagles, Rolling Stones,etc were commanding $150+ tickets two decades ago. But good luck getting a non-resale ticket, between bots and the companies themselves buying the tickets solely to mark up for resale it's nearly impossible to get a ticket at face value.

Ok, so you were saying you prefer a privacy focused OS but settle for iOS because it's simpler. Fair point.

As far as data collection goes, Google isn't selling it either. Apple and Google are both collecting your data to assign you to certain demographics. They then sell ad space, and the people that purchase those ads can select the demographic they want it to go to. It's not ideal, but it's certainly better than them selling your actual personal data to third parties.

The spelling of whisky/whiskey is not tied to the speaker's dialect, it's actually tied to the whisk(e)y's origin.

Scotch, Canadian, and Japanese whiskies are spelled "whisky."

American and Irish whiskeys are spelled "whiskey."

So "bourbon whisky" would be incorrect in any English dialect, as would "Canadian whiskey."

I used to feel this way until I realized that a large percentage of phone users rarely used earbuds or headphones, including myself. Wired earbuds were a pain in the ass, nobody wanted to carry a coiled up cable in their pocket all day. But a little clamshell with a couple small buds in it fits pretty well into a jeans pocket. Once wireless earbuds hit the market, everyone started using them for a reason.

The only real argument for an analog headphone jack at this point is audio fidelity, and if you care about that you're 1, not using your phone with a cheap DAC to do it and 2, your headphones probably use a 1/4" jack not a 3.5mm one. Wireless protocols are also catching up to analog as far as audio quality as well, and most people expect IP68 from a good phone these days, and you're not getting that with a 3.5mm audio jack or removable battery.

The consumers who care about an audio jack on phones these days are a very vocal minority.

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I bet you're fun at parties.

I'm not sure if you're being genuine or not; your last sentence makes me lean towards racist, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

The issue is not doctors giving lesser quality healthcare to children of color, it's that healthcare in America is the most expensive in the world, and people of color are extremely disproportionately impoverished in the US compared to white people. They get poorer healthcare because they literally cannot afford decent healthcare.

The US government spent the century after the Civil War preventing free men and women of color from voting and creating generational wealth. Regressive tax laws, and private school vouchers that serve no other purpose than to defund public schools people of color rely on for education are just a couple of the litany of things that keep poor people in a cycle of generational poverty. Does this also affect poor white people? Absolutely. But Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be below the poverty line in the US.

The system is broken for all of us that aren't shareholders and CEOs, it just happens to disproportionately affect people of color. We're all on the same team and we're not part of the 1%. But politicians and media have convinced 49.5% of us that the other 49.5% are our enemies so we'll be distracted while the 1% picks our pockets.

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I believe Canada and the UK do similarly.

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For universities, sure. But not for US public elementary and high schools. They're just poor.

Nice, I'll have to try this soon. Last time I checked the process was way more complicated.

How dare you sully the name of Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein!

The collective confusion and mental gymnastics to twist it when Republicans heard about the Hunter Biden conviction cost the US billions in lost productivity.

Name literally one thing that Google markets well.

I think they mean allowing Signal to use RCS would let them combine all their messaging into a single app and/or use it for RCS on ROMs without Google apps. Kinda like how Facebook Messenger tries to be your SMS app as well, except with apps like Signal, people might actually use the feature.

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