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@czech@kbin.social
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Isn't most bottled water just tap water packaged in landfill fodder?

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Consumers will choose to buy products from companies who don't spill molten sulfur so the invisible hand of the market will fix this situation any moment now.

Why though? I see intermittent availability, battery drain and security being issues and I don't see any up-sides.

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Is there something stopping you from making a new sub for people who live in Chicago?

Its amazing how much "fraud" they claim when they speak publicly yet they have nothing to say when they are under oath in a court room.

I had been off Linux for a few years but recently returned to arch. I didnt feel like mucking around with everything from scratch so I tried the included install script. Next thing I knew I was in a full xfce environment with everything working out of the box.

If arch can drop you in a full DE of your choosing, from an install script, what is the point of these other options? Genuinely wondering what's going on with them and if I should check them out.

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We spend 3.5% of our GDP on defense and that's actually far more than most countries. We have the 6th highest GPD to military spending ratio in the world. The countries who spend more of their GDP are relativity tiny. They amount to 11% of the total global spending on defense vs the USA's 39%.

The second largest GDP is China- they spend 1.6% of their GDP on defense. Third is Japan @ 1.1%... You get the idea.

Regarding the 2% NATO obligation- most members don't make it so it doesn't seem to be a real obligation.

This is fantastic. I've been a $5 Kagi user for a few months and have been really enjoying it. The only issue has been that sometimes when I'm working on a project I need to blow through a ton of similar queries to find what I'm looking for; I've been forced to switch back to google for those. Now I've upgraded and am going full Kagi.

That's wild. I've never felt that way at all. Are you sure its because you're male? What prompts your constant vilification?

This. Since I gained access: I only buy local, hormone free, open pastured, humanly treated meat. It's expensive as hell so I can only afford to eat smaller portions. It costs what it should cost.

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Allowing people to run for president who have a history of attempting to subvert democracy is decidedly more dangerous. Only a few specific crimes bar you from office and they are for good reason.

Sprite is "sparkling water" plus syrup. There's usually a second button on lemonade and lemon-lime soda which holds the syrup.

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NVMe drives have become to inexpensive recently I just bit the bullet and dual-boot windows from it's own drive. Takes less than ten seconds to switch.

Hey, can you folks at Lemmy see this post from kbin.social yet?

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  1. They didn't publish the article they just alerted police that the woman was driving with a suspended license.

I knew which user this was immediately after reading the comment. Check out their post history, all they do is shit on the fediverse. Why are you here if it's so terrible? Hmmm....

The singer does seem to be trying to distance himself from the conservative implications:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/entertainment/oliver-anthony-song-response/index.html

“The one thing that has bothered me is seeing people wrap politics up into this,” Anthony said. “It’s aggravating seeing people on conservative news try to identify with me, like I’m one of them. It’s aggravating seeing certain musicians and politicians act like we’re buddies and act like we’re fighting the same struggle here, like that we’re trying to present the same message.”

But the line about:

Well, God, if you're five-foot-three and you're three-hundred pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds

seems a bit hateful unless that's supposed to be a metaphor for "fat cats". The CNN article thinks it's a metaphor:

"though it has also courted controversy for its lyrics referring to politicians as “obese,” welfare recipients “milking” the system,"

But the antisemitic connotations seem like a stretch to me. To assuming that criticism of capitalists is automatically antisemitic seems pretty antisemitic to me in it's own right.

Looks like he was tricked into deleting his own channel by someone masquerading as YouTube support. https://futurism.com/the-byte/youtube-channel-hunts-scammers-gets-scammed

I think we just need better discovery and aggregation. If everyone is looking at an aggregation of "/technology" from every federated instance then there's no reason to flock to large instances.

They don"t fit in the spot then. Need to find a bigger spot or a smaller car.

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My girlfriend loves the bidet. You will not spray poop up into your bits but I get your concern. We also have a dial, on ours, to change the angle to vagina-mode. Great for periods, allegedly, but it blasts me in the balls if I don't notice.

When the economy is in shambles they buy-up assets at a steep discount. Wars are big money-makers too. It looks like things are going great for them.

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Costello denied altering the photo and said the image was “fan art” sent to him by an unspecified source,

(Costello did not respond to a request for comment.)

Yes, it sounds like bullshit. Did you read the article?

You won't be defederated from other instances. On the flip side if instances start using whitelists instead of automatically federating it could become an issue.

Every good command center has a pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile that appear to be out of use. That should be enough for anyone!

People actually do donate here! Check it out :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

Do those for-profit social media companies want to drive-down traffic that makes them seem more valuable to advertisers? I get that it's still insanely difficult, and we can't actually implement a captcha on every up-vote, but it seems like there's a conflict of interest between moderators and site owners when it comes to bot activity.

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The Judge thinks he may have been intentionally withholding the records.

“Perhaps he has made the calculation that his overall litigation risks are minimized by not complying with his discovery obligations in this case,” Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court in Washington, DC, wrote Wednesday. “Whatever the reason, obligations are case specific and withholding required discovery in this case has consequences.”

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You can for many models https://chrultrabook.github.io/docs/

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I've been enjoying kagi but it's tough trying to operate with a limited number of searches. For example: when I'm struggling to put together some basic python I'm used to iterating through many different queries to find the results I need. At 1.5 cents a search (or whatever) I have to be more careful. I can't swing $25/mo for my search engine at the moment.

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This is about the best you can hope for from hexbear users.

Very excited for kbin support!

Parking near other cars is not in your best interest if you want to avoid damage. If someone has to block walkways to keep their car safe they are in the wrong spot. There is no excuse.

This is a good idea. If it grouped similar searches together and only counted them as "one" it would feel a lot more usable.

$660mm, not k.

Kbin has some unique features like: blocking an entire instance per user, seeing who votes on a post without being an instance admin, and access to the "microblog" parts of the fediverse.

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I've lived outside NYC and in SoCal. I don't think fair to only consider the total numbers (especially "living outdoors") when one place is freezing and inhospitable for a few months every year while the other is relativity (and in some parts, actually) a tropical paradise. People are going to migrate from all around the country to the most comfortable places to live outside. Not to mention cities literally bussing their homeless out- NYC was actually the first and still has the largest program:

New York appears to have been the first major city to begin a relocation program for homeless people, back in 1987. After the current iteration of the program was relaunched during the tenure of mayor Michael Bloomberg, it ballooned, and its relocation scheme is now far larger than any other in the nation. The city homelessness department budgets $500,000 for it annually.

Now its a $2mm easter egg hunt to the programmer who can scan the archive for bitcoin info. If OP didn't take it someone else will.

Is you are someplace it is legal you can buy concentrates, eg: live rosin, which relativity smell like nothing. I vaporized weed for years; whatever room you are vaping in will smell like vaped weed. The best you can do is keep it to one room. With concentrates someone will only smell them if you open a container and bring it to their nose, or if they walk through your exhale. I use a an e-coil and a banger, the alternatives are to use a butane torch or a e-cig typle device.

Make sure you remineralize your distilled water or it will degrade your teeth over time.

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