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I mostly agree - however there are physical/mechanical reasons behind the use of some of those. For example, Phillips head screws will 'cam out' (driver will slip out of the screw head) rather than get over-torqued, which is useful in various situations - although TIL this was not actually an intentional design feature!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out
Hex keys are better than a Robertson (square head) in tight spaces with something like an Allan key, and, in my experience anyway, Robertson can take a fair bit of torque, so they're great for sinking into softwood - and also for getting out again, even when they've been painted over.
Flathead screws, on the other hand, should launched into the sun
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This is horrible.
It would be reasonable to assume that the lack of LTC supply is at least partly because it's not profitable to have extra spaces you're not using.
That lack of supply makes it more likely that seniors would have to look at places further away.
Plus, the people profiting off LTC are folks like former Conservative Premier Mike Harris, who not only used to be chair of the board of Chartwell Retirement Residences, but has also owned millions of dollars in company shares (as of 2022, Harris no longer controls >10% of the company, so he doesn't have to file public disclosures of his holdings).
While premier, Harris also pushed hard to privatize the industry that he would later benefit from.
This looks like another case of Ford making sure his buddies rake in as much money as possible, even if it causes human misery.
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Unfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners
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Would be very interested to know if Meta (listed as a "partner" organization) is providing financial support, like how fellow partner the Ford Foundation lists a $50k grant[1] in February 2024 to the Exchange Point Institute, which is the "fiscal sponsor" of the Social Web Foundation[2]
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Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12
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Regardless of what happened on the sidelines, Hawkins added that on the field, there was sportsmanship, as some of the Bow soccer players reached out to the transgender girl on the Plymouth team.
"Some of the fellow soccer players from Bow actually sent supportive letters of love and support and encouraging that student to continue to play," Hawkins said.
The kids are alright ❤️
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You may want to double-check that math ;)
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Did no one in the replies happen to notice that this is a loan
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Corporations and surveillance?
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Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.
For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here's a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:
Reveal: It's Not Easy Going Green
https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/
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This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That's effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.
That's where I drew the conclusion from
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Isn't technofeudalism great?
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1 Ape = 1 Ape
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What's strange about defending people's freedom to be themselves?
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What's the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?
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Like it or not, things sometimes become symbols for other things, and especially given the political climate, it makes sense for people to get their guard up if they see something that looks like one of those symbols that represents, say, an utterly toxic ideology.
Not wanting to make others navigate that stuff unnecessarily is a sign of thoughtfulness and pro-social tendencies, not weakness.
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With energy companies, you mean? Like, we've seen federal governments of various countries cancel (or re-approve) pipelines all the time - Keystone XL comes to mind, for instance
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finally got around to watching this one today - fantastic
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39429322 > Interesting essay looking at the role of friction in human development, and how a particular vision of technology's function in society - one that seeks to eliminate friction - paradoxically reduces our autonomy, rather than enhancing it. > > This post was reported as spam on technology @ lemmy.world, and was removed, then eventually reinstated, by the mods. The original reason for removal was "it's not really technology-related." I suspect it's being brigaded due to my cryptocurrency criticism, but I have no way to know for sure. (Edit - update: I have now been banned from technology @ lemmy.world for ... I guess asking the mods how this isn't tech-related? LOL)
35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji". F that
35 crypto companies made a Change Dot Org petition called ["Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji"](https://www.change.org/p/bitcoin-deserves-an-emoji) F that Sign this one instead: "Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji": https://www.change.org/bitcoin-is-stupid
The Fediverse - especially the microblogging side of it - has deep issues when it comes to environmental sustainability. And the high resource requirements, which result from an incredible level of redundancy, aren't just bad environmentally: they make running a server more costly, and increase our reliance on Big Tech's infrastructure. I wrote about all this, along with some suggestions for how we can improve things somewhat.
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