Fracking is used for oil and for natural gas. And it absolutely pollutes local water supplies, aside from also using a shit ton of water, causing tremors, and wrecking wildlife habitats.

If there’s one benefit for it, it’s that it improves energy independence because it allows us to tap more difficult wells cost-effectively.

But that’s a bit of a stretch, because divesting away from fossil fuels also improves energy independence.

Maybe try typing the word you’re talking about into Google before speaking so confidently out of your ass. What are you, Ace Ventura?

Because it’s a bad faith argument.

There’s no candidate that opposes Israel’s actions.

It’s certainly okay, even preferable, to be critical of our administration, but it serves no point to bring it up in a discussion of the election, because it serves only to de-rail the conversation when any candidate who matters supports the genocide.

Hitler wouldn’t have been shit if he wasn’t celebrated by German media during the Beer Hall Putsch trials. And he would’ve faded to obscurity pretty quick if not for Goebbels.

Fascists are bad. But they only get dangerous when they’re given a platform.

I don’t think the fascism would exist if it wasn’t profitable to give it a platform.

It’s like My 600lb Life.

Trump is the bedridden 800lb lump of a human. And the news cycle that brings him hamburgers by the pallet is the enabler spouse.

Trump is an outrage machine, and we have a media that deals in an economy of outrage.

Trump gets outrage. Outrage gets clicks. Clicks get money. It’s a pretty simple chain to follow.

We need to wake up and realize that a profit-driven instantaneous news system that leverages strong emotions is not good for anybody. Truth is subjective nowadays, (always has been, really, but it’s especially evident in the current media climate) and all that matters is getting information and narratives (not necessarily facts) out and people consuming it (and all the ads embedded with it) there, first, and right now.

Why are they still so hung up on 8.3 long after Win95?

I get not wanting to have spaces in a filename. Those suck.

Is there something low-level that still doesn’t like long filenames?

Kellogs, General Mills, and Post are the big three and they are all pretty much their own companies.

You could say Quaker, too, and they are owned by PepsiCo.

But most of our food comes from like 5 companies anyway. At least everything in the middle aisles.

I got mine 13 months ago, still going strong. I can check how much time is left on my phone anyway.

If I won a gold medal, I’d probably kiss it. Not bite it tho.

Yeah I’d check for fragmentation, particularly coming from whatever was on the opposite end of this tunnel. This looks like librespeed (which is super simple to run in a container, ‘adolfintel/speedtest‘, if interested…I run some at work and it’s very useful) so I’m assuming it was running on the server at the other end of the wireguard tunnel?

That latency and jitter are also absurd tho. Op should run a bufferbloat test on both sides. Though I don’t always trust those results from librespeed.

Serious privacy issues around copying cards. That means the store has to retain a physical copy of the full embossed card number.

There were boxes full of them in the backroom.

Baby trees rely on the shade of their parents (or rather older established trees. It takes a village…) to regulate growth. If they get too much sun and grow too fast, they grow up weak.

Recommend reading “the secret life of trees” to learn about how important the diversity of forests is. The trees evolved to compete with each other, and as a result somewhat rely on the behaviors of old growth forests.

Really interesting book. Nonfiction.

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got 'til it’s gone?

You smash parking lots to put up a paradise.

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum.

“Roe was legislating from the bench!”

…goes on to carve unlimited executive power out of thin air…

Dude have you seen an American public education?

America is the hero throughout all of history class.

Because we know he won’t. He knows he’s unwelcome by the majority of the people. That just makes his worshippers praise him even more.

What do you expect…Democrats ask him to step down because he’s a convicted felon? He’s gonna listen?

Republicans to have him step down…why? Because he said lies(that they believe) and sounded good saying them?

Biden we at least know is receptive. And he’s got an amazing career behind him. Losing the presidency, as an incumbent, to Trump (the incumbent he just barely defeated four years ago when he exuded much more confidence when he spoke against him) would be a terrible way to end it.

There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story.

This is what happens when you hire editors based on who has the reddest hat.

NGL I kinda want to look into OG Xbox emulation, been waxing nostalgia for Fable.