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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I'm sure the CO2 output will go down over time, considering how new the technology is, relatively speaking.

When you think about how much water and feed is required to make a substantially smaller portion of meat, then this technology is highly likely to undercut the CO2 emissions of traditional meat production once it's done on a large enough scale, considering that, at least based on what I've seen, the main expenditure of resources is just a pure nutrient solution, with the rest being electricity to generally operate the machinery, and maintain temperature (and of course, we've seen many advancements in heat pump-like technology in recent years making it insanely efficient at maintaining heat for a fraction of the electricity it traditionally costs.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They've been making many strides in terms of texture. Last I saw, they were completely growing cell cultures that produced a ground-beef like texture and look.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Exactly. Most things need to optimize for the lowest common denominator of understanding, and buttons with words and fields that have explicit purposes and positioning are a much easier starting point than "use command -help and figure out the syntax yourself," even if someone who learns the syntax could then possibly be more efficient at using it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Same. I still find myself regularly going to old Reddit threads on extremely niche topics that only a few people on the internet seem to have talked about somehow, but a lot of what I want most of the time is already here on Lemmy, so that's nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

hotel

I think you mean "all-inclusive" resort (that isn't all inclusive and actually charges a gazillion dollars in random fees) that makes them feel like they're experiencing local culture while actually just experiencing the effects of the resort chain exploiting the local population for cheap labor while cheaply imitating the culture.

Don't worry, we Americans are definitely capable of escaping our cultural bubble! /s

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not only are their wages lower than their parents’ earnings when they were in their 20s and 30s, after adjusting for inflation, but they are also carrying larger student loan balances, many reports show.

True, true. Surely they won't try to both-sides this and make it seem like they're overreacti-

But by other measures, young adults are doing well.

Oh no.

Compared with their parents at this age, Gen Zers are more likely to have a college degree

Because more jobs require them even when they're not necessary. Also, see the crippling debt you just mentioned.

and work full time.

Yet still make less than their parents while working longer hours. How is this "doing well?"

Plus, many millennials have more saved for retirement than they did just a few years ago, after reaping the benefits of positive market conditions.

Fun fact, if you save money for retirement, it tends to go up, shocking.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

GrapheneOS has Seedvault integrated in Settings > System > Backup, where you can choose what you want backed up, back it up into a file, then transfer that file anywhere you want.

You can then restore a backup from the three-dot menu in the top right.

I haven't had to do restore yet myself, so I'm unsure how well it restores, say, text messages, to an existing client on your phone. (I'm not sure if it replaces your existing messages or not)

As for Signal, I believe it now supports restoring up to the last 45 days of message history from your device. (Even after wiping your messages off Signal from your phone, leave the app itself, as it has totally innocuous files that definitely don't possibly harm police hardware used to crack phones embedded in it.)

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago

Here's a Snopes review of what I think is the same specific topic.

It mentions nothing about these being orphan support payments, but rather, these being possibly incorrectly typed SSNs that resulted in their recordkeeping systems assuming, based on the information tied to those SSNs, that the borrowers were, say, 11 years old, when in actuality they were not, and the SSNs had just been inputted incorrectly, even if all other borrower information was accurate.

They also didn't stop these funds, as they were already given out. They're simply "reviewing" them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look up "housing cooperative" in your area, there might actually be one, as there's a pretty substantial number of them scattered across many locations. My area has at least 10.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It doesn't guarantee them protection from liability, but it makes it easier to muddy the waters.

They never have to claim that autopilot or self driving was on during a crash in any comment to the press, or the courts. They never have to admit that it was directly the result of the crash, only that it "could have" led to the crash.

It just makes PR easier, and allows them to delay the resolution of court cases.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I've never seen subsistence living as a core belief of any large number of socialists. At least, no larger than the average amount of people in the general population that also find subsistence living to be a good idea.

Most socialists understand that many goods can't be fully produced by any one individual, and that we get a benefit from working together as a group. Hell, most of Socialist ideology revolves around groups of workers owning the means of production, and a government/society that shares resources between people to keep everyone as reasonably comfortable as possible.

The notion that subsistence living is something that more socialists would support than the average person isn't exactly something I've seen to be true in my personal experience. In fact, I see a lot more of that on the very much anti-socialist right, what with all the homesteading and "rugged independent man" stereotypes you'll see thrown about over there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The way you’ve phrase it here almost makes these tariffs sound good to a socialist

Hey, democratic socialist here, this does not sound good at all, nor does it sound remotely socialist to me.

 

Amazon gives non-Prime members free shipping at $35 or more of eligible items. Instead of simply letting users get the product with free shipping, they've added a discount that prices it exactly one cent below the $35 limit, while only subsidizing the price with $3.38, which is about half of what they'll then charge you for shipping.

 

HRC Article:

WASHINGTON — Last night, President Biden signed the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, which includes a provision inserted by Speaker Mike Johnson blocking healthcare for the transgender children of military servicemembers. This provision, the first anti-LGBTQ+ federal law enacted since the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, will rip medically necessary care from the transgender children of thousands of military families – families who make incredible sacrifices in defense of the country each and every day. The last anti-LGBTQ+ federal law that explicitly targeted military servicemembers was Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which went into effect in 1994.

Biden's press release:

No service member should have to decide between their family’s health care access and their call to serve our Nation.

 

This site is less useful, more... strange.

Anything you never wanted to know about bread bag clips can be found on HORG.

 

Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

 

I'm someone who believes landlording (and investing in property outside of just the one you live in) is immoral, because it makes it harder for other people to afford a home, and takes what should be a human right, and turns it into an investment.

At the same time, It's highly unlikely that I'll ever be able to own a home without investing my money.

And just investing in stocks means I won't have a diversified portfolio that could resist a financial crash as much as real estate can.

If I were to invest fractionally in real estate, say, through REITs, would it not be as immoral as landlording if I were to later sell all my shares of the REIT in order to buy my own home?

I personally think investing in general is usually immoral to some degree, since it relies on the exploitation of other's labour, but at the same time, it feels more like I'm buying back my own lost labour value, rather than solely exploiting others.

I'm curious how any of you might see this as it applies to real estate, so feel free to discuss :)

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