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Yeah, I'm suspicious that at least Warren isn't on that list given her performance in the last primary was higher than several of the folks there. Bernie could be more polarizing (and is also quite old, if that's the problem) but obviously I'd be interested in his statistics as well.

Hey this is a pretty common misconception! Project lifespan here is used like a financial term, not an engineering one. It's cost of initial project + maintainance and other costs, compared to energy generation $ minus energy losses over time from equipment degrading. Infrastructure requires maintenance and replacement, and 35 years here is kind of a "best by" guarantee.

Also, 35 years is actually a pretty long time! From now, that's 2058; looking backwards, that's 1988. Take a look at what wind turbine engineering looked like in 1988 and the difference to modern equipment is enormous. 35 years is a full generation of people: someone 18 today will be 53 when this project needs refurbishment.

This is a really exciting project (I think the article quoted some 5% total energy generation for the UK? That is truly insane) and I don't think that excitement should be outweighed by pretty mundane lifespan number! This much clean energy is awesome, will be present for a long long time, and get recycled and rebuilt when it has run its course.

Not to discourage usage of OSM at all, but you can absolutely download offline maps on mobile with Google Maps, they've just hidden it a bit. If you tap your account icon in the upper right, a menu pops up that includes offline maps, and it'll let you select boundaries to download.

I think the point is, human discomfort shouldn't play a role in scientific reporting. Humans have projected a lot of human social elements (sex and gender roles, etc) onto animals and called it science, but it's not objective. If we are self censoring, we can't effectively share knowledge with others and we might miss important things down the line.

I believe judges can issue temporary restraining orders against people not yet convicted of domestic violence, and that's what they mean by "accused", just that it hasn't been proven in court and gotten a guilty verdict.

This comments section seems to be suffering from the "I like pancakes" "oh so you hate waffles?" disease. I don't think you need to disclaimer "use painkillers responsibly" OP, it goes without saying.

This is a typical "lifespan" of these types of projects, that is to say, the lifespan where it produces sufficient amounts of energy versus the degradation of the equipment to justify upkeep costs (which may be greater for offshore wind than on-shore). It's not going to break down over night after 35 years, it could go 50 or even more, but at lower energy production. The other reason for these lifespan calculations is that, in 35 years, the technology may far out pace what is currently installed in likely a prime location, and maybe local energy demands have changed. If that's the case, a "repower" may occur where existing infrastructure is adapted to new equipment which produces far more energy.

I had some really helpful advice with this, especially in a professional setting: instead of apologizing, thank the other person instead.

• Sorry this was late -> Thank you for your patience
• Sorry I fucked up -> Thank you for correcting me
• Sorry I can't stop saying sorry -> Thank you for the feedback, I will try to do that differently in the future

People like getting thanked a lot more than they like hearing "sorry" every 5 minutes.

Just a headline suggestion, "beaten" and "beaten to death" are vastly different!

Hey OP, can you elaborate on the context for which you are looking to talk about the queer community? I think that matters a bit. There are more formal and more casual descriptions that I do think are important to discuss the differences of use.

For instance, Gender and Sexual Minorities or GSM is probably the most formal you can go with. This might be appropriate for corporate DEI, but you will get absolutely roasted on social media if you refer to gay people that way. (It's very clinical, not really something the community uses, but it's a wide umbrella)

LGBT(QIA+) is a little old school nowadays, a mouthful, and always feels a bit like you're always going to be missing some letters. If a cishet ally used any variety this, I'm not going to be offended and I'd appreciate that they're trying- it's clear that the intention is there and it's better to signal support imperfectly that be silent imo. This one usually comes up most frequently around Pride Month as there's a lot more visibility on our community from those who are not in it.

The queer community is probably your best all-purpose use but may not work 100% in formal situations as "queer" has historically been a pejorative. Boomers tend to look at you funny when you use it, and some younger folks who don't think that slurs can ever be reclaimed can sometimes be put off as well. That said, it's probably what the majority of the community uses as an umbrella term. This is the one I'd use when chatting with friends. "Gay" can also be used as a substitute for "queer" in this context as many folks will also use that as an umbrella term, but this can be confused with discussing just gay men, so you may have to know your audience.

I had a presumed cishet friend in high school who just used "homosexual". I wouldn't recommend. All of the formality of GSM, none of the inclusion.

Other things I would not recommend: alphabet mafia (unless you're on tiktok), anything that is still generally considered a slur (some folks are reclaiming the f-slur, t-slur and d-slur but I would consider that a deeply personal choice of self expression and not something for cishet folks to use at this time, unless personally invited to use to describe only that person), and lastly, using any of these broad identifiers to refer to specific people who have shared their specific label with you (ie don't call someone a queer woman when they have told you they identify as bisexual, or a queer man if they said they are a trans man, etc. Some people do identify as queer though, so if they have said as much you can use that specifically then).

That's a lot of minutia but I think the important thing is, the community generally knows when you are trying your best. Even if you accidentally offend someone, just asking what they would like to be referred to in the future is probably all you need to worry about.

I'm not seeing fried chicken on that article though, just barbecue (which could be chicken or not, but wouldn't be fried). Judging by the company response, someone over there is definitely being an asshole, even if there are elements that are traditional.

Anyone thinking that lemmy is a welcoming space to women should read through that thread first.

Edit: the current state of Lemmy and the fediverse reminds me heavily of early reddit, for better and for worse. You can curate some pretty supportive communities if you are careful picking them out, they remain well moderated, etc. But there are plenty of places where you'll get scummy content if you wander or if posts attract too much attention.

• not an ally because he's trans and bi, not because he's homophobic or something lol

Hello! I am a cis person who is close to the trans community. I'm happy to try to answer your questions a bit.

Question 1: Gender is a many faceted beast, but for now, let's focus on two aspects: gender as one feels internally, and gender as outwardly expressed/perceived by others. An easy way to describe the trans experience to cis people is through internal gender, knowing that you are something other than your gender assigned at birth, turning into an externalized gender expression; wearing the right clothes, the right hair length, etc. However, not every trans person is going neatly from one gender box to another. Maybe they like a few certain things picked up from their assigned gender, maybe they're nonbinary, maybe they're gender non-conforming (think of feminine gay men and butch lesbians for examples of cis people like that). Trans people deserve to have at least as much range of gender expression as that! The reason you might not see a lot of people with conflicting gender expressions and gender identity, is, well, these folks don't have to come out to everyone they meet. If you assume someone is a man and they're not, often they won't correct you.

Question 2: Previously (and similarly to homosexuality), being trans was categorized as a mental illness, but doctors took a closer look and found that was incorrect at least a decade ago in the 2013 update to DSM-5. Now, gender dysphoria (the diagnosis most trans people get) is described as an incongruence between the mind and body. Consider your limb example in the reverse: if someone were missing an arm and complained of feeling a phantom limb, you'd understand that to be an incongruence between the mind (expecting a limb) and the body (missing a limb). Most trans people are experiencing something like that, a desire for something positive (experiences of a "true", or preferred, gender) rather than just something negative (removing the experiences of the gender assigned at birth). The best treatment for trans people's mental health is to have a well-supported transition.

Not a question, but in regard to your intro, you don't have to worry so much about pronouns, rarely are people going to get pissed at you for an honest mistake. Other people using the correct pronoun for trans people (even if it's after correcting) can be very validating. As long as you're trying and listening to feedback (like, not repeatedly using the wrong pronouns for someone who told you otherwise), you're doing just fine, no need to be anxious over it!

Also, if you want to learn more in a casual setting, trans memes are 🔥, keep an eye on some of the communities around here!

Coding skills are almost always valuable even if you're not coding directly. Depending on what you're good at/interested in, I'd recommend data analysis (everyone has data! Gotta look at it somehow), database management, engineering roles other than just software engineering, IT, etc. Might not pay exactly as well as a big coding job out the gate, but it'll certainly be interesting if you like coding.

Looks like BDG and Jenna Stoeber when they both were at Polygon to me!

This video was soooo long and soooo good. I'd recommend watching on Nebula if you have it (since they could use some stuff that would get copyright strikes on YouTube) and it gets the creators more money, since YouTube demonitized them anyway.

I would say the answer is typically a-parent haha

Not very helpful but I hope a dumb joke makes you smile!

This is a general frustration, so not at all about you specifically, but: we can't keep condemning a whole state for the actions of their shitty government, even in a "haha West Virginia is full of republican hicks" or "can someone saw Florida off the mainland like Bugs Bunny already" or "Texas can just secede if they want, I don't care".

Painting these entire states by the brush of their elected government lowers our empathy for the people there, and that includes the people who didn't vote for these gerrymandered fucks, children who are affected by these policies without their input, and people who can't leave even if they wanted to. Those are real people who deserve to have things like libraries and the chance to escape poverty.

When we oppose policy decisions like this, we can't leave behind people who agree with us but are in terrible circumstances that they have no control over. Statistically the people who are going to make the West Virginia state government any better are already living there, and we need to be in community with them rather than pushing them away.

"Recent" being within 5 years seems understandable in a general political context, however is a little cruel to trans people who usually don't want their deadnames out in the public. Would this ruling be applied the same way to married people who changed their name?

What side of this story could justify beating up an old man until he can't speak?

I'm afraid that's a pretty poor argument. It's not inherently more mature to subject yourself things that harm you because there exist things that can harm you out in the world.

Please try listening to trans people about their experiences. Deadnaming isn't just using a old name. For a lot of people, it's kind of like being called the worst nickname your high school bully had for you, except that everyone in your life, your parents, your friends, everyone, has only called you that for years and years. Some people have a better or at least neutral relationship to their deadname, but it's still considered incredibly impolite to reference generally speaking.

In regards to this rule, I don't see a legitimate argument for excluding name changes from marriage and not similarly applying this exception for name changes for trans people (ie associated with a gender marker change, if we want similar criteria to differentiate from other name changes). Both are life events that should be considered normal and regular and not associated with potential fraud. Either this rule applies equally to everyone, or it shouldn't be applied at all (like it hasn't been applied in decades to the extent that it isn't even on the official form).

Safety tip, do not let anyone blow air up your vagina, even if they say they are God!! That's how you get a pulmonary embolism. Or immaculate conception.

I like that they went with the simplified "K" shape for Minnesota (the reverse triangle is really clever visually) but I did also like the more colorful version better. Just a little too plain now for me.

that it has nothing to do with people that think they are something they are not

Thanks for the explicit transphobia, I'm not interested in continuing this conversation either. Trans people are a normal part of life and until you come to terms with that, you should keep their names out of your mouth.

PBS Space Time

I'd recommend PBS Storied as well! It has a compilation of a few segments like Monsterum (folklore), Otherwords (etymology), Fate and Fabled (mythology), and more

I think you have identified some small truth, but have made an error in narrowing the scope of where the deficiency actually lies to the individual/group. Exceptions can imply deficiency (among other things) but I would argue that said deficiencies often are in how these groups are treated by society and not inherent to the groups or individuals themselves.

I'm going to use calculus as an example, since there are plenty of reasons you'd expect someone to not be able to do calculus. If you're sufficiently young, maybe you don't have the complex reasoning skills to understand calculus (deficiency, but not permanent). If you're an adult without a math education, would your inability to do calculus be considered a deficiency, or just a lack of opportunity which can be fixed through assistance? If you have been told your kind of person would suck at doing calculus but you really want to learn, and are performing worse than your peers who are told they are good at this naturally, is that a deficiency in the individual or the system they live in? If you have to work more than one job to keep your family housed and don't have time for calculus, if you are targeted for police violence, if you're discriminated against by even the most well-meaning people with authority over you, you could be the most brilliant mathematician and it wouldn't matter- society at large is failing you.

When you're talking about "exception" here, I think what is really happening is people taking measures to level the playing field for people who have experienced discrimination. In a perfect world with no individual or systemic discrimination, current or historical, these sorts of "exceptions" wouldn't be necessary! But that's not the world we live in. The first step to making a more equitable society is recognizing where people got shafted historically and what affect that still has on society today. Getting the short end of the historical stick does not imply immutable qualities about a group of people today.

So, no, I don't think that giving exceptions to people who need them most inherently implies that they are individually or categorically deficit.

Not sure what the distinction is, but, do consider trying this out next time you feel someone is getting frustrated! See if you get a better result. As someone who struggled with this, it can be very empowering to find the "right words" for a situation where you feel like you're doing poorly.

I'd add Maggie Mae Fish's series of videos on The Hero's Journey as well!

Part 1 Part 2

I think it's also a smidge less likely in the sense that the data would have to be accessed/scraped from many different instances, as opposed to the sort of bulk data reddit seems to be selling. So I'd say protection from AI is much the same as lock protection. Someone can almost always pick the lock, but if you deter folks they'll look for easier targets. If you want to ensure none of your words are used by AI, post nothing.

I have a very old Kindle that's still kicking. No reason to replace it if it still works right? I'm concerned that borrowing books from the library uses this delivery system and therefore might not be able to deliver to my Kindle. Ironically, piracy might be the only option to still use my working and not otherwise obsolete device.

I checked and I can get Mango through my local library for free. Definitely worth looking into!

You can do this with certain apps, like Boost!

The thing is, Republicans here don't actually want to escalate, or at least the Republican politicians. They want to scream loudly that whatever Biden does is hurting them, their constituents, and the country, whether it's "weak" inaction or authoritarian action. It is an election year after all.

Will the radicalized, bloodthirsty Republican population escalate though? That's maybe more likely. I'd be more concerned for violence as a minority in these states than as the National Guard.

I think there are ways OP can use queer respectfully, and there are ways they may accidentally slip into something that can sound homophobic, so, tread with caution. "The queer community" is fine, that reads to me with the same respect as "queer theory" in an academic setting. "The queers" =homophobic (unless you are part of that community and are being ironic), "are you queer?" =also bad, "my queer colleague" =not good unless that is the specific label they identify with, etc.

Alphabet mafia is best left to the Gen Z kids on TikTok, even as one of them queers myself I'd never use that in a serious setting.

I can vouch for BG3, it runs surprisingly well (fans going to the max of course). I have graphics on medium with the upscaling AMD FSR 2.2 on and it's perfectly fine on both the small screen and connected to the TV.

Re: OP's thoughts, I also have a desktop but usually my spouse is on it :) The SteamDeck also travels a lot nicer of course!

Somehow I don't think you're a reliable source on that, Miss Anthropy

I was being rhetorical- I know that they aren't applying it to married people. But why? Wouldn't the same reasoning hold, that you could use it to defraud? If not, why wouldn't changing your name to transition not be in the same category of life event as marriage?

Maybe I have the low, low standards of "does it run at all and I can stand to look at it" lol, in which it performs pretty well! I definitely wasn't planning on playing current release AAA games on the deck so anything that runs I'm pleasantly surprised.

My wife played the beta version on the deck last summer, and let me tell you, that version was baaaaad. It's really improved with the new upscaling!