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ContriteErudite

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  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • The OP’s position is reasonable given their circumstances, and several people, including you, have clearly said as much. Even industry and financial experts acknowledge that if someone already owns a functioning vehicle, the most economical and environmentally responsible choice is often to continue driving it until replacement becomes necessary, regardless of whether it is ICE or EV.

    OP seems less interested in discussing practicality than repeated reaffirmation of “I do not want an EV.”

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  • Pre-COVID (Trump's first time) I took a trip to Europe. All of the European customs officials were polite and professional, did what they needed to do, and still made me feel welcome in their country. When I returned to America, the customs official checking me back into the country was mean-mugging the entire time, rude, and acted like I wasn't welcome back to my own home.

  • Chocolate

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  • What food can I grow at home to save grocery money?

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  • Your hardiness zone is probably the best way to decide what kind of berries to grow. In my experience, compared to most other crops, berries are most likely to be cheaper when grown at home versus buying at the store. I'd recommend looking at what berries grow best in your zone, then choose cultivars based on what growing conditions you can provide.

    Blackberries tend to need a lot of space, growing an average of 2m high and 1.5m across. When I was little, one of my neighbors had a blackberry patch and some of the plants were over 3m tall. Raspberry plants are marginally smaller, growing an average of 1.5m high and 1m across, though there are some dwarf varieties that can thrive in patio containers. Blueberries are moderate in size and can be grown in containers, but they thrive best in acidic soils. Plant near pine trees, or mulch with pine needles for good results. You can also fertilize with specific blends that increases acidity specifically for blueberries.

    Strawberries are fairly easy to grow. The only downside is the most varieties only fruit once a year in late spring/early summer. Varieties that produce all summer are still tasty, but they are typically just a little bit sweeter than store bought. The great thing about strawberries is that if you have half-decent soil and don't prune runners, they will propagate endlessly with very little upkeep.

    I planted several gooseberry bushes on my property. They take a few years to start putting out berries, but once they do it's so nice. Unripe gooseberries are tart and great for making pies and jams. When ripe they are sweeter, but not too sweet, and I love eating them fresh off the bush... as long as I can get to them before birds do.I also have several aronia, chokecherry, and elderberry bushes. Their berries are smaller and more tart that other 'dessert' berries, most suitable for syrups or mixed into desserts or jams. Supposedly their health benefits are phenomenal, but I discount a lot of that kind of talk and just enjoy using them where and when I can.I've also planted a Hawthorne tree that puts out a ton of berries each year, but one thing I didn't realize is that they are extremely susceptible to rust (fungal disease), and if I don't treat it every spring when it flowers then I won't be able to use the berries in the fall. When I do treat it, and I do get around to using the berries, they taste like a cross between an apple and a cranberry, and I like to use them in my thanksgiving stuffing/dressing and cranberry sauces.

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    Rep. Johnny Olszewski proposes bill for 18-year Supreme Court term limits

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  • RCV is huge step forward compared to the current FPTP, but given the amount of power wielded by corps and foreign groups it follows that they'll still try to tilt the ballot in their favor, they'll just have to donate/bribe more than one or two candidates each election.

    I think we need to move on to a system where the congress is comprised of volunteer citizens selected by random lottery. That is more likely to create a congress that evenly represents the populace, whereas candidates in an RCV ballot are still likely to be overemphasized/propagandized by the media and rich donors.

    That said, this is just an off-the-cuff hot take by me. I'm not an expert by any means, just another frustrated and jaded citizen.

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    Rep. Johnny Olszewski proposes bill for 18-year Supreme Court term limits

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  • My hot take is that the number of justices should be raised to match the number of federal judicial circuits, reasonable term limits given, and and the seat should be impeachable. Each circuit nominates and seats its own justice, and congress presides over impeachment proceedings.

  • How many of these "What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?" replies have aged like milk, and which have aged like wine?

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  • I haven't logged into my reddit account in almost a decade. A few weeks ago I was searching for something and ended up on the reddit front page, and I saw a video of a man punching a woman. It's not about how one curates their feed; it is what new users are served.

  • TIL the color "chartreuse" is named after a liqueur

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  • As with another well-known French hard liquor, drink enough and you, too, just might taste colors swirling on your tongue and hear emotions swirling in the sky.

    Absinthe does not actually cause hallucinations

  • Here's the severance package Oracle offered laid-off US employees

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  • Ownership class needs to extract as much value as they can out of their workers. They think that if you don't entangle healthcare with employment, then no one's going to work anymore. I think it is all projection; the wealthy already don't work nearly as hard as the people they exploit.

  • GOP Senate candidate on rising gas prices: ‘Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks’

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  • Yep! Not only is incredibly economical, it's a healthier meal than most "traditional" American breakfasts.

    Didn't stop conservative media from deriding it as millennial over-indulgence. Vilifying the millennial tendency of frugality + preference for plants-based diet choices by portraying avocado toast as excessive and soy milk as emasculating, along with a concerted effort to deliver narrative to the /pol/ audience, it not only swayed the opinions of older generations, but spurred parts of the younger generations to resent each other. I'm sure meat industry profits were also in the mix somewhere.

    The only winners in the culture war are the ones who drive the narratives, and it's been that way in the US since radio was invented.

  • America needs a movement to curb billionaires' power

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  • You are right that worker unions should have the weight of collective bargaining behind them, enough to affect the big changes. However, the US has demonstrated again and again that it will just crush unions if they start to irritate the ownership class a little too much. Like what Reagan did to air traffic controllers, what Scott Walker did to the Wisconsin public employees union, and the 2022 railway worker labor dispute under Biden.

    Unions have been defanged by decades of ownership class lobbying and regulatory capture. The executive branch has no qualms about neutralizing and marginalizing union workers who step too far out of line. Something much bigger than labor unions is needed, but I'm afraid the ownership class has us all so exhausted from overwork and the media too wary of our neighbors for that to happen. For the public to build the kind of movement it needs will take both a hugely impactful economic downturn that affects everyone, and as much as I wish it weren't the case, an immensely charismatic figure to pull them together. Whenever someone with an anti-status quo message and the charisma to start pulling people together starts to gain traction, they invariably end up on the business end of the CIA.

    It's hard not to feel defeated and deflated, especially when we're all so exhausted.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Goes Off About Gas Prices and ‘Worthless Pile of Sh*t’ Trump: ‘Apparently, I’m An Idiot!’

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  • A couple weeks ago I had a back-and-forth with a conservative poster who staunchly believed that the GOP is still the "Party of Lincoln." I was telling them how that wasn't the case anymore, described the fifth party system, explained that the two parties switched views in the mid-20th century. They responded by saying I had been brain-washed by the MSM and calling me a sheep. I hadn't seen so many emojis in a reply since ~2009, so I shrugged them off as a bot.

    Maybe I gave them the benefit of the doubt a bit too freely.

  • Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real

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  • "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen is widely regarded as a patriotic anthem. It's played at so many sporting events and political rallies that most people think it celebrates American pride. But the song itself is about a small-town kid who gets drafted, sent to war, and then comes home to find himself unemployed, homeless, and abandoned by the system that sent him there.

    The irony is that media and propagandists grabbed the punchy chorus and stripped it from the rest of the song. An anti-establishment story about neglect and disillusionment that got balefully repurposed as an advertising jingle to drive military recruitment.

  • Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket

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  • Some American grocery stores already tested the waters by posting armed guards in its stores. This article is a few years old, but the precedent stands.https://retailwire.com/discussion/hy-vee-creates-its-own-armed-security-squad-to-deter-crime/

    Hy-Vee last week announced the introduction of an in-house armed security team to manage theft and in-store disturbances.

    The Midwest grocery chain said in a statement that it has long worked with third-party contractors or off-duty law enforcement that work in a security capacity. The goal of bringing it in-house is “to create a consistent look for the security team and consistent approach to customer service and security across all [its] stores.”

  • DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice

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  • Many Americans proclaim that they are a "Christian" nation, even though its own founding documents prescribed no religious alignment. It's not hard to figure out why.

    When the printing press was invented, the Church was against it because it did not want the knowledge of the scriptures to be accessible by commoners; it wanted control over how the scriptures were interpreted to keep the common folk acted in line with the Church's interests.

    For the most part, their fears were unfounded. Even today, with near-universal literacy rates, the average religious American has not actually read their holy book. They rely instead on preachers and the media to interpret the text for them, hence America's widespread endorsements of the "prosperity gospel" and "empathy is a sin".

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  • On the side of the Earth facing the sun, the magnetosphere extends about 40,000km into space. On the side facing away from the sun, the solar wind stretches the magnetosphere into a tail that extends well beyond the Moon's orbit. The ISS orbits at an altitude of about 400km; it is well within the magnetosphere.

    Because it is above the majority of the atmosphere (and also because it just barely passes through the lowest part of the Van Allen radiation belts), astronauts in the ISS are exposed to higher levels of radiation. However, the ISS has shielding specifically designed to minimize radiation, and astronauts living there are considered to be within safe levels of exposure.

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  • Thanks for clarifying; I know tone is hard to convey on the internet. Sarcasm and "gotcha" replies have been the default tone since the beginning, even if that's not the poster's intent. I honestly was curious what you meant :)

    My favorite thing about this community is that while I come for the memes, there's almost always something new to learn in the comments. Or a knew line of inquiry where I can start looking into videos or articles to learn more.

  • I've got a fever...

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  • This is what I love about this community. Come for the memes, stay to learn something new.I'm double-dipping for dopamine.

  • Science wins again

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  • This thread reminds me of an Asimov short story where someone discovers that humor is just a vehicle for psychological experimentation being done on humans by an extraterrestrial intelligence. Now that humans know where jokes come from, it's no longer a useful tool to the observers and is removed from the testing environment...

    "The gift of humor is gone," said Trask drearily. "No manwill ever laugh again."And they remained there, staring, feeling the world shrinkdown to the dimensions of an experimental rat cage---withthe maze removed and something, something about to be put in its place.

    http://blog.ac-versailles.fr/villaroylit/public/Jokester.pdf