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Absolutely! The positive emotions are easily the best of humanity.
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I hope you don't feel that was an attack because the fact that it wasn't one will never override the emotional response if you feel it is. If you do feel that way, there is probably no reason to read on. You'll be wasting your own time.
For the record, I didn't say I agree with anything the right puts forward, I don't see room to compromise on things I care about, and if you're talking US I think the "center" is left of the two presidential candidates.
You're absolutely right those are facts (and those facts get totally ignore by people because the are in conflict with their emotions), but the reason you're looking at those stats is also emotion based:
Climate change will hurt blank (too many to list) and I LIKE blank (or am AFRAID of blank) so climate change is bad. Access to abortion is good because I VALUE people lives. All children should have food because I WANT to live in a world where everyone, especially those without agency, can be happy, healthy, and get at least a fair shake. Those are my motivations. How we get there is policy. That's when facts become relevant.
Understanding how we all make decisions based on emotions will help you understand yourself, your motivations, and help you convince people around you that they should also value the same things as you. Practically, you need to go a step further than facts. Ask yourself why that chunk of data is important to you. When you cite it, why would the other person care? Because people are dying? Why does that matter?
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This is a long one, and I want to start by saying that your comment is a super popular belief. Even so, I think misses the mark a little bit.
Everything in the political sphere is emotions based. 'Murder is bad' isn't some ultimate truth. We care about other people and ourselves. That emotion then leads to the reasoning that murder is bad and should be illegal. Same goes for everything else.
What conservatives tend to do is say 'murder is bad' and 'there is a group that I hate'. They then abandon the truth of what murder statistics tell them and blame it on the out group which justifies the second emotion. They're not wrong because it is emotionally centered (again we all do that). They're wrong because they aren't willing to examine that emotional motivation vs reality.
All of that to say that if we think the problem is emotionality we are probably making similar mistakes even if the outcome is better. To paraphrase a very true statement in Futurama - There is no scientific consensus that life is valuable.
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I think the point is that there isn't a good enough reason to put internet in a car that negates the risk of it.
It is like adding lead to food. It's a cheap sweetener with no calories. You can argue that cheap sweeteners aren't important to you, but I don't think you can argue that it isn't a good reason. It just isn't a good enough reason to negate the risk.
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This is absolutely true for a lot of people. A salary isn't guaranteed just because you're in a union, and it is often a lesser salary on strike to preserve funds. I think this person was asking about starting a union too, so there would be no fund set up unless they joined into a larger union.
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'Ask for more' is different from 'Get more'. The labor contract is a negotiation. Ultimately, the only card unions have to play at an impasse is a strike. If they use that tactict the workers of the union won't get paid while the contract is unresolved.
Let's say you're supporting your kid, don't have savings, and are offered a raise and some meager time off. Do you feel like you have the freedom to push harder, ie go on unpaid strike longer, or do you vote to accept the deal and get that paycheck again?
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I just lost my dog after her needing people around pretty constantly. My partner and I can mostly arrange working from home, so the situation is not the same. What is the same is how you approach how your dog feels and how to tell when it's 'the time'.
You're probably the most important part of his life. The shelter might let him find a home that can care for him better or it might not (because people are hesitant to adopt older dogs with health issues). What they can't give is the stability he gets from staying with you. It really sucks that we can't ask them what they want. I know that my pup would never have chosen a longer life if it meant giving us up.
When is it time? There are resources online about how to judge quality of life. For us it was as simple as picking her favorite things to do and watching to see if she still wanted to do them.
I have second guessed myself a lot - should we have done more vet care, should we have spent more time with her, etc. You're in a hard situation. The decicions don't get easier and sometimes are no win. My advice is to make your decisions for him as best you can knowing that your best is not ever going to be the perfect ideal AND it will be good enough.
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Something sweet to pair with the salty. Apple chips, dried fruit, caramel corn, or something like that
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The op has it right. Definitely dahlias. I can see why you'd think zinnias though. It's interesting how different (or similar) we can make plants look with dedicated breeding efforts.
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Seattle bedazzle
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For helping with breathing while swallowing you can elevate food and water to a height that he doesn't have to bend down for. It is recommended for things like laryngeal paralysis, but it couldn't hurt to make swallowing a little easier.
I've been there witb a pup. Try to remember to take care of yourself too. Wishing you and yours the best.
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In As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, one chapter is 5 words long...
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Same. Sucks when the infrastructure even drops out.
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Are you using https? On mine the app doesn't allow just http.
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Looks good! I save the simmer time by adding the tvp dry and after everything else has cooked. That way it thickens the chili and gets all the flavor into the tvp. Just add it slowly so you don't end up adding too much and having crunchy chili :)
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Am I really bathing if I’m using water I cannot drink?
Yes, drinking water is cleaned to the point that it will not make you sick to drink assuming a normal immune system. That is extreme over kill for bathing (and toilets, laundry, etc). The only reason we use drinking water for everything is because infrastructure is expensive and laying non-potable water pipes would cost tons.
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Native plant/ecosystem restoration and gardening especially where it intersects edible plants. Also especially around the 45th parallel in N. America.
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Yes, and you have to dig deep in some places to get below the frost with your foundation. In those places a basement makes sense because you're digging that far either way. Texas frosts don't get very deep, so you're able to have a shallower foundation making a basement just an extra cost.
Fake subtitles over Seinfeld about IOT.
I am looking to just dip my toes on a couple of other platforms. What I am finding while trying to choose an instance for Funkwhale (or Friendica, Pixelfed, etc) is that there is very little in the way of descriptions for finding something to match me and I would just be choosing at random. I am using the official sites' server recommendations/lists to look through and am really getting no info that is helpful to me. Does anyone know of other resources? My best option at this point is to use a throw away account to get on any server then spend just enough time interacting to find a good one and try to join it. Does that seem reasonable?
Just interesting and a nostalgic watch.
This plant works hard to clean the water I keep out for wildlife. This one grabbed up so much nitrogen/phosphorus that it got pot bound in one year. I split it in half so each half has twice as much room to grow this year.
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tldr: urban woodland edges around Boston are accumulating carbon faster than expected because the soil microbiome is less functional than in more rural systems. How long that will work as a C sink is unknown.
I thought I would throw this out to everyone in an easy way after seeing this post https://lemmy.ca/post/76405 What do you think the lemming mascot of Lemmy should be called? Top level comments should just be the name.
“These are people at their worst moments. Using that data to help other people is one thing, but commercializing it just seems like a real ethical line for a nonprofit to cross.” Jennifer King, privacy and data policy fellow at Stanford University
This is one of the best tasting and easiest things I make. If you don't want to buy harissa you can make your own pretty easily and keep the cost down. The measurements don't need to be precise at all, so I only translated to metric using numbers I thought I could multiply in my head. Let me know if I made a mistake. **Ingredients** *For cooking* 3-5 quarts water or veggie stock (4-6 L) 2 cups dried chickpeas (0.5 L) Kosher salt and ground black pepper (to taste) 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (75 mL) 1 large yellow onion, chopped 6 garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons tomato paste (30 mL) 2 tablespoons ground cumin, toasted (30 mL) 6 tablespoons harissa (90 mL) 2 tablespoons lemon juice (30 mL) *For Toppings* 8 ounces (250 g) crusty bread (stale works), sliced 1/2-inch-thick (1cm)and torn into bite-size pieces 2 tablespoons lemon juice (30 mL) Extra-virgin olive oil Harissa 2 tablespoons ground cumin, toasted (30 mL) 1/2 cup drained capers (120 mL) 1/2 cup chopped pitted green olives (120 mL) 1/2 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves (120 mL) 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro (120 mL) Lemon wedges **Method** Cook olive oil, onion, garlic cloves, tomato paste, ground cumin, harissa, salt, and black pepper in a pot on medium until the onions soften. Add chickpeas and water/stock and cook until the beans are done - 1 hr or so. Reduce or add water until it is as thick as you want it. I like it as a very thick stew. Stir in lemon juice once everything is cooked and remove from heat. Toss bread cubes in olive oil and toast on stove or in oven. Remove when toasted but before they get hard. Or use them untoasted if, like me, you don't want to wash another dish. To serve put some bread cubes in a bowl and laddle the stew over them. Add the toppings in the ingredient list. The stew portion freezes well, so you can scale the recipe up if you want some for next week too.
 
Does anyone have experience with this organization (https://divested.dev)? There isn't any footprint I can find of them outside their repos and message boards. I am specifically interested in their general credibility and legitimacy. To a lesser extent, I'm interested in views of their effectiveness at enhancing privacy and/or security.
I have been running lineageOS on my OnePlus 2. I liked it, but Lineage has stopped supporting my phone. There are two options that I have been able to find as replacements - postmarketOS and /e/OS. Any thoughts on those or other recommendation? Anything that gets security updates, is open source, and is functional meets my needs.
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Here is a video demonstrating how to make inari (tofu pouches filled with rice). Sushi purists might take issue with some of his technique, but they probably don't need to watch this anyways :)
Do any of you have thoughts on a business case for continued use of Firefox for an individual? Why? My employer is moving to uninstall all instances of Firefox on company computers for 'security reasons' in favor of Edge and Chrome. I would be allowed to keep it if I could make a business case for it. There is no legit reason why I can't get my work done with another browser, but I am going to push hoping just being a squeaky wheel is good enough. My guess is folks on here will have clearer thinking on this than me. Does anyone out there think my IT dept is making a good decision?
A fun watch of propane going either way through a Tesla valve and being ignited.
This is a copycat recipe from a restaurant. They serve it on top of rice, beans, olives, cilantro, and green onions. We put it on anything that needs a little something extra and change up the spices to match. It is supposed to be thick like a cheese sauce, but it tastes like its own thing. Anyways: Materials 1/2 cup Canola Oil 1/2 cup Almonds toasted 1/2 cup Chickpeas cooked and drained 1/2 cup Water 1/2 cup Freshly squeezed Juice of 1 Lemon 1/3 cup Nutritional Yeast Flakes 2 cloves Garlic crushed 1/2 teaspoon Salt 1 teaspoon Curry Powder 1/4 cup Cilantro chopped Instructions Place oil, almonds, chickpeas and water into a food processor or blender. Process until smooth. Add remaining ingredients. Process again until smooth. Store, covered (not too tightly, at first, the yeast may need to expand), in the refrigerator, until ready to use. Text copied from: https://secretcopycatrestaurantrecipes.com/cafe-yumm-yumm-sauce-recipe/
The large flowered collomia (Collomia grandiflora) is just starting to bloom around me. They are annual and have cool blue pollen (typically pollen is yellow). You can see the pollen on the anthers at the center of each flower. I am going to keep tossing these out into the ether unless I hear differently from the group. I have been doing flowers just because their showy, but if anyone has requests let me know (eg trees, sedges, garden plants). Also, I have been avoiding having pollinators in the photos on the assumption that any animal makes most people ignore plant. Any thoughts on that?
Does it make sense to ask: How hard does a photon hit an object? Does the waviness of photons make that a dumb question? If it does then what is a more correct way of conceptualizing the interaction of a photon with, for example, a light receptor? Or does the analogy in my head of a ball hitting a wall fairly represent the behavior of a photon at the moment of impact?