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  • The idea of a personal "Carbon Footprint" was spread as an idea by BP in order to make people believe individual action/responsibility was more important than systemic change.

    It worked really well.

  • Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!
  • A tariff is what you pay to the government of the port of call to get the item you shipped.

    When you pay $1000 for a DJI drone and it get's to Seattle the US government says "pay us $600 or it goes back on the boat."

    The Chinese company sees literally zero impact other than possibly less orders and probably a wave of refused merch. Which they might keep some or all of the purchase price of anyway.

  • An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted
  • As much as I love Tom Scott and it's a fantastic visual/temporal representation, I doubt a lot of people have the patience.

    I like "1 Million seconds is 11 days, 1 Billion seconds is 31 years" as a more succinct example.

    One person earning $3600/hr, 24/7, without spending any of it, would take 31 years to become a billionaire.

  • FAQ: Yes, We Suppirt Kinect
  • Lack of sales IIRC. They're very neat but kind of niche because of their non-standard layout, they were aiming to be a keyboard/mouse replacement instead of "just another controller". Extremely customizable control schemes too.

    Would absolutely love a 2.0 one based off the Steam Deck or something.

  • File clerks at elevator desks in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937
  • This system hasn't lasted ~90 years because they just throw someone in a chair and let them figure it out on the job.

    Any reliable system, electro-mechanical or digital, needs thorough user training and checks.

    The worry with this one is it's a single authoritative record with no easy way to backup or replicate it. They say there are non-authoritative (at least legally) digital versions of most(?) of the records. I hope/assume they're actually more consistent with that than the video makes it seem because those are the only feasible off-site backups they really have. If not one fire is all it would take to wipe out an entire countries SSA program.

  • Jill Stein: The Grifter Who May Hand Trump the White House Again
  • The last US Presidential election decided with more than a 10% margin was Regan. The only vote with above a 5% margin this millennium was Obama's first term.

    "Anything lower than 10% and it probably doesn't matter much" is a weird take.

  • Enterprise-D(ebunking)
  • No, they're saying regardless of if the signal was encrypted or whatever format it was in, anyone with a directional antenna could triangulate where the signal was coming from. If there were only a repeater on the moon that NASA was transmitting to that was then sending the signal back, that would also have been able to be determined.

    Both the Russians, who had a vested interest in embarrassing the US, and every other amateur and professional radio operator on the planet agreed that the moon landing was being transmitted from the moon.

  • This made me so angry, enjoy!
  • Yeah, no. It was (/is? damn, dude's still going. Good for him.) a comedy/commentary comic mostly about gaming and basically interactions that wouldn't be out of place in a Clarks movie. This was a standalone just a week or so before Loss.

    Que super serious miscarriage storyline for "art" reasons.

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)TU
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