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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

Besides lemmy, there's also lotide which has a number of instances.

I recently discovered that I can follow friendica groups using lotide, so I suspect you can also follow the same using lemmy too.

Diversity is important in this space(and I'm referring to diversity of topics, diversity of ideology, all kinds of people interested in being in different ways), and imo there isn't enough of it. Some people want all kinds of different communities and so we really need more people in that corner of the fediverse to get a critical mass where all kinds of people can enjoy all kinds of communities.

For real though, if Truth Social activated federation, that might actually make it worth caring about in the least. Without federation, it's just another crappy twitter clone.

Anyone who thinks weight doesn't correlate to fitness hasn't been fat and skinny.

Yeah, and you need to track temperature as well.

Most likely it'll be fine, but it's better to be safe than sorry when dealing with chemical batteries.

People who follow my posts know I have no great love of Elon Musk, but it's important to be talking reality. Acting like he's singularly responsible for a seismic shift in markets that happened to land right as he was putting an offer in is really slimy and deceptive.

And yeah, everyone's been dealing with the same things including needing to lay people off.

What a fucking retarded argument.

Meta is down by half, Netflix is down by half, Pfizer is down by half, paramount is down 75%, lumen is down 90% -- damn you Elon Musk! Why would you do this?!?!?!

Actual protip: occasionally, lithium ion batteries appear to completely fail. Sometimes that's not because they've failed, but just because they dropped below a certain arbitrary voltage level and the controller isn't allowing the cells to charge. In this case, you can apply the correct voltage at a very low current to raise the voltage above that threshold and like magic the battery comes back to life.

Happened to me 2 times this week. First with a drill battery, second with the battery out of a rugged Samsung tablet. Both were perfectly fine and normal once I returned the cells to their minimum voltage.

Now, be careful: it's important to limit current and voltage because if there's something wrong you don't want your cell to blow up in your hands!

Oh, polls by pleroma

Mao sentenced drug dealers to death and forced drug addicts into mandatory treatment.

Both Cuba and the Soviet union also had death penalties on the books for drug dealing, and mandatory treatment for addicts.

Ok, so let's see what the current plans are in places like California... Oh, legalize hard drugs and provide drugs.

The disconnect between what these people think their glorious revolution will look like and what it would look like is crazy

"The name's Nicholas D. Wolfwood."

"What's the D. For?"

"Millie Thompson."

If they want to do that, fine, but I don't want to hear any crap about "tax the rich" while the rich get billions of dollars in handouts and the middle class is being crushed with taxation levels over 50% of income.

Apparently the parties in the US didn't really pick their colors. It was an artifact of televised election maps where all the stations standardized on one set of colors.

Yes.

Conservatives tend to be blue
NDP (socialists) are orange
Liberals (used to be center left, but now socialist too) red
Bloc Quebecois (separatists) light blue
Green party is green
PPC (right populists) are purple

People are so focused.on "tax the rich".

Maybe instead they should be focused on "stop giving the rich all our money"?

Our far left prime minister just pledged 18 billion dollars to Volkswagen for a 5 billion dollar battery plant, in a country of 45 million people. About 500 dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country.

There's homeless people begging in the streets. There's hundreds of native reserves without water. But no, it's the poor poor company founded by Hitler that really needs that money, extracted directly from the middle class and future generations.

For those keeping track, Alberta had an election last night. The United conservatives won a majority of seats vs. the socialist NDP. The province was a sea of blue except in the two largest cities where there was a strong showing by the nep.

You cant even rely on a gallon being the same. I wouldn't be surprised to find a beer bottle is different

It's pretty funny since we all know the op he was responding to was intending to allude to the stereotype of dumb white rednecks.

Suddenly the chatgpt "it's important to note IQ is a discredited method of determining intelligence" disclaimers all come out once a precious protected class is involved.

I saw a styxhexenhammer stream today "the war on farms", and I read that as "the war on the farms" so I assumed someone was trying to take down the kiwi farms again.

I might just be terminally online.

"nobody's coming to save us, we can only save ourselves"

I think we're doing ok without big tech.

In Canada, the key really is who the prime minister is, less than the party.

It was the Federal Liberal party under Jean Chretien and his successor Paul Martin (who was the finance minister under Jean Chretien) who balanced the budget for those 10 years.

The prime minister isn't just the head of the government, but he's also the leader of the party. Unlike in the US where the president and the congress can disagree, in Canada the Prime Minister will just fire anyone who dissents against him. In that way, the Prime Minister is absurdly powerful, controlling the execution of the law and also being primary in determining what the law itself will be.

It's one good reason to be republican (in the sense of non monarchist), to help separate the powers of the head of government and the head of the dominant party in parliament.

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