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pomegranatefern

@ pomegranatefern @sh.itjust.works

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She/her. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. New to the Fediverse, literally just picked the instance that seemed the most frictionless. Progressive new urbanist vegan in New England.

  • What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?

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  • I was looking over instances sorted by uptime, saw one that had high uptime, a lot of users, and a literal promise that shit will just work in its name. I did a bit of scoping to see that it was easy to view communities across all instances from SJW and figured, fuck it, seems like as good a choice as any.

  • Operation Epstein Fury

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  • Oh my God they literally gave it the same acronym.

  • His name was Kevin

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  • What a beautiful companion he was. I'm so sorry for your loss.

  • Forget electric bikes, Kawasaki is building an electric horse for actual production

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  • I think it depends, but considering pure practicality, horses tend to require a fair amount of pasture and food that an electric "horse" wouldn't. You can't just leave a horse in a garage for a few months.

  • Forget electric bikes, Kawasaki is building an electric horse for actual production

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  • Yeah, exactly.

  • Forget electric bikes, Kawasaki is building an electric horse for actual production

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  • My first reaction: LOL. LMAO, even.

    My second reaction: ... Wait, this could actually be really useful if it's actually functional and affordable though.

    I'm not holding my breath, but like, in theory this could actually be really good?

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • Frustrating, but I appreciate your answer; thank you.

  • Sunlight kinda feels good... is there a way to have a "mini-sun" inside my room that I can activate at any time to obtain the "good feeling"? Takes too much energy to touch grass when depressed

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  • Check out Seasonal Affective Disorder lamps.

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • Why is "(most favored nation status)" in parentheses?

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • I have often wondered whether targeted internet boycott days would shake up AWS, but I don't know enough about their billing structure to run the numbers to see how much that would dig into AWS profits + how much of their income is flat subscription fees vs. billing on number of calls and haven't had a chance to dig into it yet.

  • Texas Rep. Al Green waves 'Black People Aren't Apes!' sign, gets booted from SOTU

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  • This feels like a "read the room" kind of comment.

    All humans are biologically considered animals, and there are many times when I feel that viewing human behavior through that lens genuinely encourages compassion and understanding, and yet: there is a long history of people being called "animals" as a dehumanizing measure in order to justify doing the same horrible things to them that humans routinely do to non-human animals. This is particularly true for historically marginalized groups.

    Likewise, there is a long, racist history of white people calling Black people "apes" or "monkeys" to justify racist systems and treat Black people the way they view monkeys and non-human apes, as resembling humans but not fully human.

    This representative is specifically responding to a video shared by Trump, who has a long history of racist behavior, in which the Obamas were depicted as distinctly non-human apes (I cannot recall the specific ape and cannot readily look it up. Gorillas, I think?), echoing that racist trope.

    When someone responds to Trump trafficking in racist tropes with "Black people aren't apes," they are not getting into the nitty gritty of taxonomical clades, they're countering that trope. "Well, actually"-ing about humans technically being apes is undercutting the focus on countering Trump's racism. Time and place.

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • The other commenters here are right about Amazon's initial methods, but I'm also going to highly recommend Cory Doctorow's Enshittification for a detailed explanation of how this happens (including a breakdown on Amazon specifically) and what to do about it.

  • Percentage of Passport Ownership

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  • I respect not wanting to deal with this administration, but also, this administration does not seem like a good one not to have a passport under.

  • Confirmed: Cancer Free!

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  • Congratulations!

  • Cold and expensive vs hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden

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  • District heating systems have fascinated me since I learned about them and I wish I could find more information on things like the financial costs and work involved in converting existing neighborhoods to block heating, etc. I don't like having single points of failure, but the idea of having some kind of central heating station for every square mile or something seems like a happy medium and I'm curious how the numbers actually play out.

  • ICE Goon Shoots Bed in Neighboring Hotel Room While Fiddling With His Gun

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  • Another reason to avoid patronizing hotels that house I.C.E. agents.

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • I believe it's a 9/11 reference, with the "two very big reasons" alluding to the Twin Towers.

  • Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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  • Call me when you can run AI on burritos.

  • ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

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    1. Rule #1.
    2. I doubt the Mozilla Foundation is particularly aware of this platform, but you can always request a product receive a privacy review using this link.
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    pomegranatefern @sh.itjust.works

    ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

    www.mozillafoundation.org /en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/