[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 17 points 16 hours ago

Missing New Zealand?

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 115 points 1 day ago

It's an education system and culture problem. You can't force a 40-year-old woman to be curious and critical, but you can plant the seed and encourage the growth of those skills and behaviors in children. That confusion at hearing something different followed by the attitude of putting it in a box and dismissing it ("I don't know what that is, but we have regular hot tea") comes from a lifetime of being told to accept whatever over simplified answer they are told and be quiet whenever they ask questions.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

No chance it will even come to the floor for a vote.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 15 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think that follows, because those are temporary conditions, and consuming the drug is a choice made by an individual not currently under the influence. So it's the person's responsibility before they consume the drug to prepare their environment for when they are under the influence. If they're so destructive under the influence that they can't not commit a crime, it is their responsibility not to take the drug at all.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 54 points 2 weeks ago

Line graphs of percentages not based at zero make it difficult for me to grok the magnitude of changes. Missed opportunity for the hue line color to match the actual hue in the vertical. Just being an angle value I have no idea what hue it's supposed to be.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago

Been the only one in my family for years using Linux, but over the last few months struggles with Windows have basically resulted in all but one computer in the house being migrated to Linux.

Put it on my 10-year-old son's desktop because Windows parental controls have been made overly complicated and require Internet connectivity and multiple Microsoft accounts to manage. Switched to Linux Mint, installed the apt sources for the parental control programs, made myself an account with permissions and one for him without permissions to change the parental controls, and done. With Steam he can play all of the games in his library.

Only my wife is still using Windows, but with ads embedded in the OS ramping up, and features she liked getting replaced with worse ones, she's getting increasingly frustrated with Microsoft.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think that word is required. If anything, I think

sometimes you come and pull the lever

sounds more natural, if you have to add a word. They're speaking more colloquially, rather than formally, but I don't think the original is grammatically incorrect.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've read it 3 times, and I can't find a missing word. It makes sense to me. What word is missing?

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago

No, they would respond exactly the way they already are responding. They would claim climate transition as a concept was made up by liberals, they would deny such a thing is possible, let alone happening, and they would enact policies in states they control to limit speech about it and punish people whose professions have to deal with it. You know, like they're doing in Florida to doctors and teachers about LGBTQ+ and to scientists about the climate.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 37 points 4 weeks ago

Democratic candidates have raised far more than Republicans and can purchase ads at the cheaper rate offered to candidates. Republicans rely more heavily on independent expenditures from their campaign arm and allied super PACs, which have to pay much more per ad.

Gee, it's almost like Republicans aren't favored by a large proportion of the population who can donate up to the ~$3,300 federal limit directly to campaigns and have to rely on their wealthy benefactors donating much, much more per capita through side channels that shouldn't even exist in a functional democracy.

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 3 points 4 weeks ago

How would you scientifically measure a difference between those two definitions?

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