Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)S
Posts
7685
Comments
1810
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Look at the nasal mist vaccines for your kid. Slightly less protection, but no needle. And you can get them by mail order and administer at home so that you don't need to organize an outing around the vaccine

  • New York Times gift articles @sopuli.xyz

    Judge Halts Trump Actions Aimed at Throttling Renewable Energy | The Interior Department had imposed restrictions on wind and solar projects across the country, prompting developers to sue.

    www.nytimes.com /2026/04/21/climate/solar-wind-trump-judge.html
  • The problem is that it's 90% stories that don't really lend themselves to partisan outcomes. Their fascism comes out only once in a while, when Sulzberger thinks it's important.

  • Rural smoke doesn't stay confined to rural areas. It's worth getting rid of the pollution from burning fossil fuels; it just won't be enough to solve seasonal smoke in India

  • So far, they're only firing women. Men get to stay in the liquor cabinet

  • UI design sharply increases the probability of behaving in this way; it takes a real fundamental rethink of the UI in order to change that. For what it's worth, commercial platforms are increasingly pushing people away from providing a link, either by banning links like Instagram, or by having a feed ranking algorithm which discourages their inclusion (X, Facebook, others)

    I don't blame individual choices for something that's largely a result of platform design.

  • How people treat the news is a result of how the UI on reddit, lemmy, and social media is designed. It's not appropriate to blame people who don't have control over that

  • Good guess, but no. The article is worth a click

  • The problem is that a huge chunk of the online audience only ever sees the headline. Click-through rates hover around 2% and of those who vote or comment, only about one in four has clicked the link.

    It's not a crazy concern, but definitely should be expressed more clearly.

    There is a reason I quoted the key paragraphs in the post.

  • Legislation designed to make appearing in public in clothing which doesn't conform to perceived gender norms a crime

  • That kind of wild unreliability drives people to home solar, batteries, and electric vehicles

  • Useful in NY where 3rd party cross endorsement is printed on the ballot. Limited impact elsewhere unless you've got a media microphone

  • The reality of a first-past-the-post system is that it is far easier to co-opt an existing party than to launch a new one. The latter approach usually means handing power to the people you dislike the most

  • Charging doesn't smell like gasoline.

  • In a dictatorship, competence is a threat to the dictator

  • Yeah, the US put in place policy to support batteries for electric vehicles, and the policy got yanked by Republicans while the factories were going up. So a lot of them are planning to produce batteries for the stationary storage market now

  • Imagine a US resistance capable of feeding seamen, and what an organization capable of that could achieve.

  • I think it's what's left after putting a Jolly Rancher under the insole of a midshipman's shoe for a couple days