[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] is correct. I would just add that you should always apply for unemployment when you leave a company and do not immediately have new employment. Don't disqualify yourself. That's the job of your state's department of labor.

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

I'll take any extra holidays I can get. However, voting by mail is really the way to go. I used to be reluctant to vote, but mail ballots just make it too easy.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I've got another one: make Mother's and Father's Days paid work holidays!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You’re more or less describing cap-and-trade…

I don't think I am. Under cap-and-trade, it's still possible for more than a safe amount of fossil fuels to be extracted from the ground within a given time period and subsequently burned. There's some similarity in the market mechanism, but in my scheme it's connected to actual fossil fuel extraction, not hypothetical emissions quantities.

If suburbia was an advantageous place for them, they’d already be there. …

I don't think the wolves are instinctively avoiding human populations. Wolves were deliberately exterminated from these places, so deliberate efforts are required to bring them back.

… high voltage transmission means that a plant can still be a few tens of kms outside of a city before transmission losses start to add up.

Transmission losses aren't the issue. If the plants are close to where people live and work then you can take advantage of cogeneration to provide district heating and utility steam. Also, urban nuclear plants can strengthen the relationship with agricultural regions by generating hydrogen/ammonia for GHG free fertilizer.

Any sort of dirty water recovery is more efficient at the municipal scale…

I agree, but homes should already have the plumbing to automatically collect bathing and laundry water for flushing toilets. The excess can get sent to the municipal water treatment plant and set aside for industrial uses.

Seems that’s not a super easy thing to do (read expensive)…

It gets more inefficient if the pee is mixed with the rest of the wastewater, so the idea is to adapt our bathrooms to help keep it separate. Perhaps converting to composting toilets, which collect urine separately, is the way go to here to help with gray water management as well. Anyway, if recovering phosphate from urine seems expensive, that's just relative to mining it from problematic places.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh man I used to be a menace on there.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I've got a few:

  • In addition to fluoride, water supplies should be dosed with small amounts of lithium. Maybe LSD, too.
  • Incel bounties: Anyone who has trouble getting laid can check into a facility where they are assigned a bounty equal to a set rate times the days they've spent in the facility. They can leave any time, but the clock restarts if they come back. Volunteers may show up and offer to have sex with a participant. If the participant agrees and the deed is done, the bounty gets split between the volunteer and the participant.
  • Hard rationing of greenhouse gas emissions: every year everyone gets issued an equal amount of GHG vouchers that, in total, represent a safe amount of GHGs that can be emitted that year. Fossil fuel companies then need to buy these vouchers on the market and turn them into the government in order to get permission to extract the representative amount of fossil fuels. Doing so without permission would carry a severe penalty. This concept could be applied to water supplies, fisheries, and other resources as well.
  • Imputed rent as taxable income instead of flat property or wealth taxes.
  • No fares for urban public transit. Instead, a special property tax should be applied to real estate inversely proportional to its walking distance from transit stops.
  • Reintroduce wolves to suburban areas to keep the deer under control.
  • Electric airships instead of fossil fuel powered passenger jets.
  • Nuclear power plants within or adjacent to urban centers, especially in colder climate regions.
  • Gray water recovery built into homes and municipal water systems.
  • Urine collection programs for phosphate recovery.
[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Just keep playing it on your stereo.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't recall any flowers, but the fruity part looks just like in the mock strawberry wiki article.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes, that has to be it. I've been had!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, but that was in 2002, long after his term in office.

[-] [email protected] 156 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Barak Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate nine months after his inauguration. Subsequently, he used a drone to murder an American citizen, among a litany of other atrocities.

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An ivy leaf peeking up through some mushrooms on a tree stump.

#fungi #ivy #mushtodon

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Well this is a bummer. (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
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Well this is a bummer.

Installing Lemmy with @[email protected] was probably the easiest way to get it up and running. Hopefully it's not abandoned.

#Lemmy #selfhosting #fediverse #yunohost

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Venus flytrap flowers [OC] (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
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Venus flytrap flowers [OC]

My Venus flytrap has sprouted a long stem with some pretty little flowers at the end. The purpose of the long stem is to help keep pollinators away from the traps.

#venusflytrap #macro #flower #carnivorousplants

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I guess this trap caught a bug that was a little too big again.

It's the second time that an ulcer has formed on one of this plant's traps after it caught a bug that was a little on the big side. I saw a TikTok video explaining that sometimes the trap will survive and it will just have a hole in the side, but I'm not holding out any hope for that. The last one just died. Fortunately,the rest of the plant seems healthy.

#venusflytrap #carnivorousplant #macro

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Who else's got a wet trunk? (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
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Who else's got a wet trunk?

I think my sunroof drains might have been clogged. Any suggestions as to the best way to dry it out?

#volkswagen #vwgolf #alltrack #diy

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Cicada killer wasps (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
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Cicada killer wasps

I think they're both males, because the females are bigger. The males technically can't sting (and the females only do if you're really asking for it), but it's still scary to get up close to one.

#wasp #CicadaKiller #insects

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Anyone else have trouble with these GE dishwashing machines?

Mine cleans dishes well enough, but the gaskets leak easier than any other dishwasher I've ever had. I replaced the gaskets a few months ago, but if a little bit of debris builds up then it's leaking again. Also, the racks are badly corroded, but the machine is only maybe five years old. Anyway, it's just kind of funny that my aunt is coming over tomorrow and the last time she was here she noticed the dishwasher was leaking.

#rant #appliance #GE #dishwasher

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