qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

Some bulk food stores let you bring your own. You put a sticker on them with the bulk item # and also the dry weight, so it's a little more work, but then you can put your jars to use!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

I thought it was just "Slashdotted."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

The Gulf of Lesser Canada does have a certain ring to it...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Newer macOS is not Unix certified.

It's UNIX 03 compliant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

One or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, the 1st and 3rd worst offenders for plastic per capita are administrative regions of China (Macau and Hong Kong) https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/plastic-pollution-by-country

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a bulk food store near me and it allows BYO containers (or you can use one of their compostable bags). It's great! A little bit more work (you need to tare your/container write down the empty weight), but you get your goods in the container of your choice.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

What's the alternative? Strong arm a democratically elected


even if stupid at times


government to change policy? That's a terrifying precedent.

The other alternative is to backdoor or otherwise compromise users in other jurisdictions. Glad they didn't do that.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

You can ride your bike on many highways in the USA at least. Generally you cannot on the freeway, but there are some exceptions


in California there are requirements about bike accessibility which means that certain segments of a freeway may be bike accessible.

If you live far from a store then groceries are a problem unless you use a trailer, but if you live in a city it's totally reasonable to use a bike (or walk) for your weekly groceries.

And you can get a new Trek FX for under $600, and that's just from a quick search. Yes of you want Ultegra or better and a carbon frame, the sky is the limit.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

The subhead is

The ads promoted extremist hate speech

It wasn't clear to me from the title if "referencing Nazi war crimes" was a good or bad thing (as in, "don't let history repeat itself" seems a good message, but that's apparently not the perspective the ad was pushing...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

Living things are "entropy eaters"


they take in energy, reduce their own entropy, and poop out entropy to the environment. This is fine, and it doesn't violate any thermodynamics if you look at the whole picture.

So I think the point is that creationists take a myopic view and only look at the creature itself, where indeed it reduces its own entropy...but that's because the creationists are stupid and ignore, you know...everything else.

This is true not only for individual animals, but for evolution itself


more complexity in animals can be viewed as a decrease in entropy (again, this is only a problem if you ignore the rest of the universe).

Their argument is the same as saying that you can open your fridge door to cool off your room.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think mplayer has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believe youtube-dl can output to stdout.

The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.

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