The zero thing was hyperbole, but there are numbers available. Voter fraud has never been significant enough to matter, despite being non zero.
And no, not everyone can obtain the mandated IDs. It’s a real problem specifically because the mandated IDs are harder to get for the poor amd disenfranchised.
There’s a limit to it though.
Biking is great for cities, unless you’d have to cross most of it to reach work, hospitals, or healthy foods and bring them home. I’ve known people that did it, but I don’t think most of the country could qualify as a paradise, even if we tore down and rebuilt cities from the ground up.
Plus, it doesn’t address the needs of those that can’t bike, or maybe even not walk. The elderly, the disabled, the temporarily sick, and even kids considering the way the world has gotten populated ( bigger numbers mean the percentage of predators also returns bigger numbers of those).
And it really only works in some cities, and would require shifting all of the shipping to retail connections. You can’t get supplies from a train to a warehouse on pedal power realistically, nor from warehouse to citizen available stations like stores.
Unless you’re suggesting a total death of modern civilization. Which is cool, but not at all going to happen. Because without the supply infrastructure that gets materials from suppliers to where the goods need to be, they can’t get there. Even if we went back to horses and carriages for that, we’d still need well built roads that connect things. Doing that leaves biking in the same category it does with cars, so the only improvement is in not having to suck exhaust. Which would be great, just not sure it’s a realistic thing
I happened to catch the comment before you deleted it, and I’m sorry that happened to anyone, and I’m sorry it was someone you obviously care about. Not gonna argue the point under discussion because I don’t want to cause any distress beyond what’s inevitable.
You’ve apparently never had to make it to a hospital before someone dies.
Ai isn’t the problem.
It’s the system it’s being created in, combined with the sheer nastiness of the companies and executives in charge.
It’s a tool. And it’s an inevitable tool if one accepts that software progress be allowed to progress at all. Only way to prevent the kind of ai people are currently mad at would be to outright ban research and experimentation in that field. While that’s a valid choice for a society to make, it comes with its own problems.
It could have been done “ethically”. It wasn’t, and that makes all future profits from the technology tainted until and unless the learning aspect is redone from the ground up.
That being said, it’s kinda like eating soy products. The massive industry behind production of soy products is run by, and feeds profits to, some of the worst humanity has to offer. But it isn’t going anywhere, and we also aren’t staging a revolution to reclaim the means of production, so every soy product not grown by one’s self is tainted by that rot.
You can use whatever industry you want as an example, it doesn’t have to be soy, it’s just that soy brings a lot of benefits in the same way that the technology behind the current wave of ai and generative software does. And, in a similar way, the problems come from implementation and systemic ill rather than the thing itself.
Again, similarly, it’s plain pointless to totally boycott the technology. It’s not going away without a revolution. Screaming at this single symptom of a systemic disease is a waste of energy.
If one decides not to make use of it, that’s fine. But it’s also fine if someone does. I would, however, encourage anyone and everyone to choose human directly generated products whenever possible, because that is an effective way to mitigate some of the problems the implementation has.
Like the inside of a coffin
Do you fuck wit pangaea?
There was also mimeo, or some similar spelling, from mimeograph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph
Looking over that, I’m not certain those would smell the same way otheroptions did, but at my elementary school, that’s what teachers usually called them. If it wasn’t that, it was dittos
Depends on what you mean.
Humans can live without limbs at all. There’s issues that need to be watched because the body can struggle to regulate itself with that much mass and blood vessels gone, but it isn’t a problem by itself… We can live with no eyes, ears, nose, or even lips and teeth. We can lose one kidney, part of a liver, one lung, and segments of our intestines.
But, again, the more you lose, the more support you need, and the shorter your life expectancy.
However, that’s not survivable if you lose it all at once, without very fast help. Just losing part of an arm or leg can kill you without addressing the loss of blood that’s probably happening as well. The survivability of losing two feet of intestines to a bear in the woods vs losing it in a surgery is massively different, to put another slant on it.
Depends on what’s on them.
It turns out that having a little fat/oil on dishes helps get the whole load clean because of some chemical fuckery I don’t understand. Something about the surfactants working better or some such.
So, if it’s a little light grease, or something that will dissolve completely (like a smooth condiment), I don’t bother. But covid chunks, you gotta get off unless you enjoy digging around in a filter that’s clogged and under a puddle of trash filled water
Nah. Not much can do that. I used to wipe asses, bandage wounds, and otherwise be inundated with bad smells, sounds, and sights for a living. You do that, you either develop a strong stomach, or you find another line of work lol.
But I’ve never had a problem with the sensory input of cooking meat under normal circumstances. Hell, most of the time, meat cooking was an appetite stimulant for me. There have been exceptions, but almost always when the meat was highly processed, or otherwise having something weird going on
Well, the little buggers take a while to spread across a surface. They only move in terms of nanometers per second. Double to triple digits of nanometers per second, but still. They also tend to reproduce at a similar pace wherein even if they didn’t actively move themselves, the pressure from that would eventually cover a surface.
In other words, a few bacteria dropped on the back of hand can possibly end up having a colony on the palm of your hand in a few minutes.
However, since transferring from one surface to another is faster than that, well under a second, everything you touch is also going to have a colony soon after you touch it. Which isn’t necessarily bad since not all bacteria are pathogens to humans. But it very clearly shows why washing one’s hands thoroughly is a damn good idea.
So, even though the process can cause problems for hands, it’s still better than the problems of not washing thoroughly. Washing thoroughly includes both the palms and backs. If you’re washing often enough to cause skin problems, invest in good lotions and accept it as the price of not having pinkeye and diarrhea constantly.
People washing only the palms are going to eventually enjoy the pleasures of gastrointestinal upset and/or infected eyes, or respiratory infections. It might not be all the time, every time, but the chance of going through a year with poor hand washing in a medium to high risk environment without illness approaches zero. You might get lucky and it be nothing more than a cold, or something similarly easy to deal with.
But it might be MRSA.
Me? I’m playing the odds and following best practices.
Nah, there were early studies on this pre-internet, which also means pre-smart devices.
All the other Alexanders are just imitating
!look, there were already great answers, so there was room for a joke one!<
In “fairness”, all it takes to be an ice agent is two legs, a trigger finger and the ability to goose step with one hand raised. It takes a small amount of actual brain power to do real investigations
Didn’t forget it. Just left it at religious compatibility.
Most of the time, sync, because I prefer my scrolling and reading on a tablet, and having dual columns that are easy to parse is more important than most other factors.
Boost is my backup for the same reason, since so far all the otherwise great lemmy first apps don’t do dual column well, when they do it at all.
That being said, check out connect, summit, and thunder. All damn fine apps overall
Man! That’s a can of worms!
Entire books have been written on the subject.
The U.S.and Israel have a tangled history going back most of a century at this point.
The short answer is that there are enough historical, religious, and cultural ties for the two countries to be allies long term. Since the us, and by extension NATO, needed a place of projected power in the region, and there was an opportunity to make that happen, Israel happened.
And, being real, Israel has mostly been a reliable ally since its creation as a country. It’s hard to point to a time when Israel didn’t fulfill its expected role in the relationship.
As such, it’s really no surprise that when both countries have leadership that are absolute fascist pricks, that the governments would go whole hog in supporting each other.
Again, that’s the disgustingly short, over simplified version. I don’t have enough interest to turn it into an essay, nor even a discussion, just wanted to drop my take on the matter in a simple way since I didn’t see anything in other comments to just upvote and support with a subsidiary comment as being super close to the way I would say it.
Stay chill and friendly when doing it all, no matter how hard that is.
No bullshit, you can present almost anything with a smile and a casual shrug and get away with it as long you stay polite in your wording. Very often, throwing in a “you now how it is” and giving it that tone of commiseration keeps things smooth even if you’re essentially telling the person to fuck off.
Since you’re in hospital setting, you can sometimes throw in “that’s out of scope” and at least befuddle whoever it is.
And, smile a lot. But not one of those rictus smiles, or smug ones. Think inwardly of your coming escape and hold tight to the relief, and just radiate that glow. Takes serious prep mentally to stay in he right frame of mind for it, but that jolly bastard will make it so much harder for people to ramp up their aggression.
It always helped me to remember that anyone getting all bothered and upset in that situation has a much sadder life than me. It let me reframe a given interaction to a different dynamic.