Melting tundra releases methane, accelerating the increase in temperature. Rising temperature reduces polar ice, making oceans absorb more heat, accelerating heating. Climate pattern changes cause more frequent and larger wildfires, accelerating heating.

There are probably processes that work to reduce heating as it increases that I'm not aware of, but there are a lot of positive feedback processes which is concerning.

I believe the IPCC 1.5C was criticized because it included effects of a carbon sequestering process that hasn't been invented yet. That's pretty optimistic.

I switched from slashdot to Digg. Digg to Reddit when Digg started censoring the Blu-Ray decryption key (before v4), then was on Reddit until RIF shut down. I'm scheduled to get my 16 year badge this year I think. I haven't posted or commented since RIF shut down though.

I'm debating whether to sell my account or delete it. $75 could buy a lot of printer filament.

My only question is: Why? History is already not kind to Kissinger and he will be remembered as an architect of bloody wars. He's also not in any office of the US, so he's as legitimate as Dennis Rodman is for diplomatic negotiations.

"The Economy" is the state of the ruling class's bank account. It has nothing to do with whether the working class can afford housing or food. /S

You mention bedbug PTSD. That's not hyperbole. I think it's about 10% of bedbug infestations cause diagnosable conditions that meet clinical definitions of trauma or anxiety.

Related to fingerprinting, it's theorized that if a person doesn't have a Facebook account but their friend group does, Facebook will create a "shadow account" which isn't public but still attempts to collect data for this person based on the posts, pictures, and location data from friends on Facebook that spend time with this person. Zuckerberg admitted to Congress that Facebook does collect information on non-users.

Even for users, Facebook attempts to establish a lot of metrics, even if the user doesn't provide them, like estimated income and political affiliation, for advertisers to use.

I saw some of this first hand. Several years ago I tried some advertising for some affiliate marketing. Facebook's ad platform let me limit advertising to people with gaming consoles between certain ages, and I noticed I could target it for people who likely leaned more liberal or conservative if I wanted, or only for an estimated household income level. It's surprisingly detailed.

I'm not following closely and haven't gamed on PC in a while but:

Denovo is a technology that is supposed to prevent copying games (DRM). Not sure what it's current state is or might be mixing it up with other DRM, but DRM is known for causing headaches for paying customers. Using excessive system resources, refusal to launch for legitimate paying customers, spyware/excessive data collected and sent to a corporation, etc. In some games, volunteers will patch bugs out of a game, and this will cause the game to think it's cracked and refuse to launch.

Some DRM is "phone home" and can't be played offline, so people in remote areas can't play. And sometimes the company doesn't want to keep servers online when the game has been out for 10 years, so people that purchased the game can no longer play.

In this case, the company let reviewers rate the game and got the initial scores and sales, then pushed the unpopular DRM update. It's scummy. If you're using it, then use it. Don't bait and switch.

I don't think NY splits electoral votes. To get any NY electoral votes, he'd have to carry the whole state.

Will this leave him off the ballot for the primary? He is expected to win the primary and this will pump the numbers for another GOP candidate. If enough states do this, it could give the convention the cover to select someone else.

Regarding the 2017 comment: I was at work and read that quote "nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated" and I laughed hard for a while. Then sighed. Then I had to go for a walk. Deep down I had really doubted someone could get that far in life and be as dumb as he appeared to be. That statement shredded that thought. He wasn't acting. He was really that dumb, and the next three years were going to be rough.

There's a joke told around me that explains this. Why do you always invite two Baptists fishing? Because if you invite one Baptist, they'll drink all your beer.

I get the idea, but it's akin to saying "let's not enforce the law because these people might break more laws". It says to the public: to escape justice, you have to be violent enough that people fear you.

I'd make one exception: cotton wants to hold water. Evaporative cooling needs water to evaporate. There are synthetic materials that will hold much less water, so they'll weigh less from sweat and evaporate more quickly, providing a tiny bit more cooling. Plus many have protection from the sun reducing the amount of sunscreen that has to be worn.

There are a line of shirts known as "fishing shirts" that are made to be big, and they have vents to encourage air to circulate inside them. They work great.

If you don't do the right thing because you're afraid of bad actors, then the bad actors have won. I'm afraid of violence, too. But if the courts find him guilty on a charge that leads to incarceration, then he should be held to the same standard.

In the American southeast, especially in a river Delta, you can't live in a house long without AC or a dehumidifier. Mold will grow to toxic levels quickly in a house that's left without electricity for very long in areas around me.

We have trouble opening our front door in the summer when the temp gets above 38 due to the humidity causing the wood door to swell. The heat index reached 47 last week due to the high humidity so there's a ton of water in the air.

It behaves the same on their website, which doesn't use the app at all. I think it's back end. Which is why I was hoping there was a way to block it. Maybe I can turn on the explicit filter? I'll have to resubscribe to most afterwards.

Edit: I'm not able to turn on the explicit filter. App or web.

Within the Democratic party, there's debate about how to handle climate change. There are people who advocate for slow, cautious changes and still see fossil fuels having a small role to play in the future. There are others within the Democratic party that want more drastic action, and make a huge government spending program to try to rapidly move the US energy to renewables (even naming it after one of the biggest US government programs made during the depression). That's normal politics. And it's all within the Democratic party.

The GOP mostly deny climate change exists. A few GOP members suggest that climate change is happening, but is a natural event not caused by man.

The recent house drama from the speakership battle was caused because 10 nutjobs didn't want to fund any social programs and wouldn't approve the budget. Most GOP compromised and made a TEMPORARY budget proposal that the Democratic reps would vote for. This caused the hardliners to remove the speaker. Because he had the audacity to compromise on a TEMPORARY budget.

Removing policy aside and just looking at behavior, many GOP members do not believe in compromising to get things done. There's attempts to not hold elected officials accountable (unless they are from the other party). It's very little cooperation and more retaliation.

A single GOP senator didn't like that the US military would reimburse a servicemember's travel for medical care if they lived in a state where some reproductive treatments weren't available. This one senator has single-handedly denied 360 military promotions and nominations to military positions. The Senate has historically tried to make it where being the minority party still had some power, so the rules let this happen (the other GOP senators on this committee weren't blocking, just the one guy).

The Democratic senators became so fed up they decided to change the rules to prevent a single committee member from blocking promotions. While most GOP senators publicly condemn this guy, many said this rule change was too much. So it looks like the rule change vote will be along party lines, although the #1 GOP senator has said it might be necessary to vote through to get the military back on track.

The last GOP senator really known for being reasonable and wanting to work collaboratively (McCain) died. He was respected by both parties until Trump came along, and now the GOP don't really hold his legacy in high regard.

Sorry, a lot longer than I intended, but it's a pattern showing no desire to try to govern effectively. Putting all issues of policy aside, I think it's a bad idea to vote for the GOP.

Yep. Still can't unsubscribe. Uninstalled the app and reinstalled. Still there. I'm allowed to unsubscribe the other podcasts.

I used to use pocket casts, but I'll give all the apps mentioned here a try. Google podcasts integrated with auto mode in maps which I'll miss, though.

I've already lost Google music for the pretty much non-functional YouTube music. Google is losing their talent.

This Congress has the insane rule that a single person can force a vote of no confidence in the speaker. McCarthy fought hard against this rule being included (first vote of a new Congress is agreeing to rules. He wanted to be speaker without this rule, but didn't have enough of a margin to win without the hardliners). He knew, going in to this Congress, that one crazy person has insane leverage over him.

So, if he tries to work with a moderate group, his speakership is immediately threatened. This is why it took so long to elect him as speaker. He knew the position it would put him in and tried every single angle he could to prevent the single motion of no confidence rule.

Not McCarthy's fault directly, but he's been set up to be one of the least powerful, least effective speakers ever.

I do a lot of camping in bear country. I've been to Bannf. Bear spray is more effective than a firearm at stopping a brown bear attack. Bears have super sensitive noses and eyes, bear spray is immediate pain.

Bears are extremely muscular from the front, so even if you could manage to shoot one several times from the front, you'd have to use non-expanding bullets like hard cast lead or full metal jacket, which aren't as lethal as expanding bullets like flat nose or hollow points are (for people). Expanding bullets would be stopped by muscle in bears. Non-expanding bullets are slower at killing things (I believe it's illegal to hunt with FMJ around me). Bears can run so quickly that a lethal shot killing a bear in two seconds might not be enough time to stop the bear before it could hurt you. And if a lethal shot took a minute to kill a bear, it's not effective at stopping an attack.

9mm has stopped brown bear attacks plenty of times, but it's risky. Both US Parks Service and Parks Canada say bear spray is more effective at stopping a bear than a firearm. I think Parks Canada still uses 0.303 rifles to rangers, but that might be for polar bear. Canada is really strict on pepper spray and mace, but you can purchase bear spray, even if you're not a citizen. I don't think a non-citizen would be able to hike with a holstered 10mm or .40SW pistol anyways.

Bannf was really crowded when I went there. It's beautiful but the "must see" scenic spots are all filled with Instagrammers. Bears are probably less afraid of people, and I saw plenty of idiots 10 meters from a brown bear with an SLR camera without any precautions at all.

Pro tip: Jasper is very similar terrain, is also a Canadian Park, and is much less crowded. When I was there a couple of years ago, there was zero cell signal an hour before we arrived at the park. You'll need paper maps or offline GPS. If you want wilderness with fewer people, try Jasper Park.

Minors can't sign a contract. Their parents have to sign for them. Maybe that's related?

I was under the impression that when Beehaw chose to defederate, it only broke the community link. I thought that someone on lemmy.world could still see the local cached versions of posts, and could even continue posting content. However, only lemmy.world users would see the new comments as the local cache isn't pushed back to the Beehaw post.

What I'm still unclear on is if sh.itjust.works users could see lemmy.world posts to a cached Beehaw post. My guess is no, right? If Beehaw was still federated, the Lemmy.world user post would be synced to the Beehaw post, and then this would be synced to the sh.itjust.works local cache. Is there a mesh feature to Lemmy? Where the local cache of sh.itjust.works will sync comments from the local cache of lemmy.world comments to a beehaw post?

Relationships take effort and luck. You have to work on yourself to be prepared, put a lot out of effort into social things to meet people and develop relationships, and then most don't work out and you're sad for a bit.

The luck part is a huge part of the equation. Two people are perfect on paper but the "spark" doesn't happen. Maybe they could have a great relationship but the starting conditions weren't right to form a relationship. Having a close relative die, or having a mental health issue really early in a relationship can force a wedge that can't be overcome yet. A normal wedge that all relationships deal with regularly once they're established, but can't deal with in the first few weeks.

The only advice that worked for me (I was raised with very few other kids my age) when I started dating in college was that the skills to make a romantic relationship were just people skills. That I should intentionally strike up conversations with anyone I don't know. Most people have something to occupy their time. I try to find that out in the first conversation I have with someone. You can see when someone's expression changes when the ice breaks and they shift into excitedly talking about a new personal best in a 10k run, or getting a major part in King Lear, or published their first full comic book or novella.

I had to hone my ability to talk about my hobbies. At the time I was finding gargantuan prime numbers. I had to work on how to describe it to people to make it slightly approachable.

I also figured out that a huge part of wanting to be in a relationship was family pressure. I had to be at a place where I wanted it, and not because aunts and uncles poked fun at any young single people in the family.

In many fields, the best players often come in second or third place consistently. This is because some reckless person risks way too much to come in first. The risky move has 90% chance to fail, but someone makes the 10% chance and wins big.

This is his play. Randomly guessing 70% of GOP voters consider Jan 6th a dangerous thing. He's letting all of the other candidates fight over the 70% while he tries to get the other 30% vote. He pretty much can't win with the traditional campaigning methods (although on average they are more likely to succeed) so he has to go risky. He's stuck with that position if it succeeds.

Or he could be a true believer. I lean towards most of it being a calculated play, though.

Musk said something about how terraforming Mars to be habitable shouldn't be difficult, and I was thinking "well then getting CO2 from 400+ ppm to 300 ppm should be a cake walk for you! Why haven't you done that yet!"

I'm a mech E in the medical field. We're consistently understaffed. If I validate an Excel worksheet in Excel '08 or a Python program in 3.5 with a specific version of NumPy, we're probably sticking with those versions for a while. Every time I bring up re-validating with the latest version, keeping one old system running the old software requires fewer resources than me or a colleague re-validating.

My whole department is stuck on one version of Python because that was the most recent version when I had an emergency project and developed a data analysis algorithm. We validated it, then as new members were added to my team, they needed a copy, so we had to keep using it. I'll probably re-validate it to the next Python release. It's not only unit tests, or we could automate validation. Unit tests are a tiny part of validating software for making medical decisions. And software that directly runs a medical device (like firmware on an insulin pump) is an order of magnitude more rigorous than what I do.

Side note: there are people who somehow root their insulin pumps and run algorithms on them. There's a group that can get a PID control loop on an insulin pump that has a more simple control scheme on it (because that's how the FDA approved it). The company has been trying to get approval to use PID control in the US for years.

The more adjectives in a countries' official name, the less likely those names are to be accurate.

Republic of..... ok

The People's Democratic Republic of..... yeah ok buddy

It's common sense that if aging were solved tomorrow, it would be patented and the wealthiest 3% would enjoy much longer lives, while the working class wouldn't see much change.

Incidentally, longer life would allow even more accumulation of money and power, making inequality worse.

Plus side: billionaires now consider climate change threat #1 and use many more resources to solve it compared to today, rather than only care about the next 40-50 years.

Friend of a friend sued an antibiotic manufacturer. I think it was Cipro? He started a course for something then a few days in snapped and stabbed someone several times. His claim was that the Cipro caused him to become violent. I don't think my friend is friends with them anymore.

Barking is a performative aggression. It's meant to intimidate. Predatory attacks frequently don't have warning barks. It's quiet staring then a lunge.

The behavior you described sounds dangerous, but it's a known thing (that doesn't make it less dangerous, but does give opportunity to blame the owner that they should have known they had an aggressive dog). Terrible owners don't correct this behavior and have dogs that are dangerous to people. But there are many dogs that show zero aggression before attacking. There's a bunch of biased sources but I think there is some truth to it, nearly half of dogs that kill have not shown aggression towards humans before.

Side note: Rottweilers are the #2 killer dog breed in America. They average about 10% of all fatal attacks. Pits are the #1 killer dog breed. The past couple of years they've been 65%+ of fatal attacks.

He took it private so, although there can be shares, they aren't traded on the open market. So no positions to short.

A politician and a political party has two domains they operate in: policy and governance. Policy is where a politician stands on issues, and typically where almost all of the campaigning happens. Where does this politician stand on healthcare, gun control, environment, etc.

But governance is as important, both for the individual and for the political party. For the politician: can they build consensus? Can they prevent alienating their constituents. Can they set goals that are big, but achievable. And for the political party, governance is how well they develop their members. Identifying who fits best in each elected position. How to help members gain experience for other offices. How to identify up-and-coming politicians.

The GOP is currently experiencing a failure of governance. The HOR is unable to operate because the GOP can't effectively govern. And time is ticking on one of the core HOR duties: approving the budget. The GOP is not getting high quality people into the correct positions, and has too many obstinate people in place to govern.

It's sad that "moderate" in this context means that someone can compromise, work cooperatively, and not resort to lying about other political views.

This is where parliamentary systems can sometimes force cooperation. The US setup kind of pushes towards two parties.

I don't think a lot of thinking was part of that equation.

It's becoming more common to see police departments ban Malligators. Less predictable than GSD.

Any dog can be aggressive, yes. Most pits have great personalities, sure. But I've known a few pits that weren't aggressive towards people. Until they were.

The owner problem is a real factor (owners who are likely to raise aggressive dogs are more likely to get pits), but there's an extra layer to pits. They are raised to be muscular with very strong jaws. If a Yorkie turns on it's owner, someone's getting bloody ankles. A pit (and chow, and Rottweiler) can really hurt people.

On top of this, there's two types of aggression in dogs: performative aggression with barking and short charges, and prey drive which is quiet staring and sudden lunges towards the throat of another dog or animal. I was under the impression for a long time that dangerous dogs had terrible tempers and were "grouchy". No, dangerous dogs are social creatures like most dogs and many show affection to other pets and humans, until something triggers their prey instinct. The website I cite below has a statement that pits are less likely to act aggressive before an attack.

There were a string of dog deaths in my city last year. All pits. Two were family pets that both attacked their toddler playing in the family's yard. The mom ran to help and the dogs attacked her and their infant. Both children died and the mom was hospitalized. And a friend of mine had to mace a dog doing his job last year for the first time, it was a pit. Anecdotal, I know, but it's changed my mind on pits.

This group says 69% of dogs involved in fatal attacks in 2019 were pits: https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2019.php

One 2019 fatality was from 8 different breeds. This means that if you flip that statistic around to "percentage of fatal attacks involving pits", that number is even higher.

Pits are estimated to be 6.5% of American dogs.

The business strategy decisions behind CPU fab is really interesting over the past 15 years.

AMD made a budget clone of Intel two decades ago. Then Intel made a misstep and released Northwood Pentium 4. AMD used less power and was faster. And AMD decided to go with DDR memory, while Intel went RDRAM. Then AMD was king when they went AMDx86-64 for 64 bit and Intel went Itanium.

Then AMD made a huge miscalculation on the future of multicore computing and designed Bulldozer, while Intel got their shit together and went down the hyperthreading route and released CORE/Core2/Core2Duo chips. And Intel was king for a decade.

I don't know the exact timing, but AMD needed cash and sold their fabs to raise money, which became TSMC GlobalFoundries, sorry. GF learned how to make stuff small since smartphones became a huge market. Then AMD let an engineer run the company and she invested in the Zen architecture, which could be made by GF with their lessons from the mobile world.

This is my take. By AMD turning GF loose, GF could date other people work on mobile projects, which helped them learn.

It's a side note now, but Intel hung on to their fabs and lagged behind GF. AMD let their fab go and benefitted from it. EDIT: I had some facts wrong. It's possible Intel fabs are ahead of GF.

As a side note, Intel did try fairly hard to get into mobile like GF. They had the Atom chips and went for tablet, Ultrabook, netbook, and mobile. I had an ASUS Android phone with an Intel SOC. So it's not like they ignored mobile, but it didn't benefit them as much as TSMC.

Lemmy.zip users hoping the hamster has a few more months of running on the wheel to keep the servers powered until a new hamster can be purchased.

I chose my Gmail name when I was invited to it (it was invitation-only at the time), and it's not the greatest name. I use it because I have decades of tuning it with filters and rules. But when Microsoft launched "outlook.com" I made an account with my real name as soon as I could, which I use for resumes and similar reasons.

I no longer assume Hotmail users are less literate than users of other email providers. Gmail or iCloud seem to be the default platforms for illiterate people today. Who only get an account because they have to for their phone. It's so weird to me that my kids think email is archaic. I was a teenager before my family got email. And yes, we had one family email address. We had one family computer and one family landline. I was in college before I got my own email address and telephone number (thanks to my dorm Landline). Yet to my kids, it might as well be a fax machine.

"why would we want to marry our cousins?"

"because they're so attractive?"

Brine them in Vicker's sauce for 24 hours, place in a bowl or ziplock bag and toss in a heavy dark sauce like Stubb's, Corky's, or Jack Daniels. Smoke and caramelize the bbq sauce. Then, optionally, give a thin coat of BBQ sauce again for messy wings.

Stubb's original is my favorite.

A decade ago I had a little extra money and chose to buy a 144 hz gaming monitor and video card. I don't have great eyesight nor do I play games that require twitch reflexes, but at that time 144 hz frame rate (and configuring the game to be >100 fps) was very noticable. I'd much rather play 1080 at >100 fps rather than 4k at 60 fps or below.

This may be different between people. I don't believe I have great eyesight, depth perception, color perception, etc, but I am really sensitive to motion. I built my second computer (AMD Athlon 64 bit I think?) and spend a significant sum on a CRT that had higher refresh rates. I can't use a CRT at 60Hz. I perceive the flicker and I get a headache after about 20 minutes. I couldn't use Linux on that computer (I was stuck at 60 hz on that kernel/video driver) until I saved up even more to buy an LCD monitor. I can't perceive a 60 hz flicker on an LCD, and 60Hz is fine for work.

But for gaming, high refresh rate is noticable, even for someone that normally doesn't notice visual stuff, like me.