I disagree, conservatives reduce taxes on corporations and the rich. Alphabet has all the incentive to subtly (or not) nudge the narrative so more people vote conservative.

I definitely notice the political ragebait suggestions too. I’ve had all kinds of blocking on the platform for a long time, so it’s scary to think (but not overly surprising) that that is what they’re trying to spoonfeed everyone.

With that, survey data are some of the poorest quality data.

I agree, the assignments will need to adapt to discourage the use of LLMs. Easiest is in-class writing or written exams. Unfortunately that takes away from other class activities.

I remember one of my favourite courses in university had exams where you could bring in any resource you wanted (excluding phones), because the exam was written in a way that required understanding of the core topic, something you can’t simply look up.

Nope. No one person ever needs anything near that amount of money.

An HRV tempers the incoming air with the air going out no matter the season. So, in winter, it recovers some heat from the exhaust air and exchanges it with the cold intake air, keeping heat inside.

In the summer, it’s the opposite. The exhaust air cools the hot intake air, keeping the heat outside.

It’s essentially always working for your benefit (except for one edge case that I can expand on if you’d like), always providing fresh air and exhausting stale air while helping to keep the interior temperature where desired.

I’d recommend keeping it on all the time, no matter if you open windows or not.

A 30 year old friend of mine didn’t know about incognito mode. A certain subreddit popped up, on his projector screen, as a recommendation when we were searching for a sports stream to watch. I don’t think anyone else noticed or would really know what the sub was, but I later casually mentioned this really cool browser feature to use in case you need to search something weird.

I learned one shouldn’t assume that everyone is familiar with all the digital tricks to hide what they’d prefer others not see.

I’ve just started using linkwarden and love it as well. I chose it over Karakeep because it archives a copy of the page so it’s still accessible if the original page is modified or becomes inaccessible in the future.

What are you using for oil? Perhaps it’s rancid. Or perhaps you have an allergy.

Just another day in Florida.

That’s a great point. Doesn’t much matter if there are methods in place if many are complicit in the tyranny.

It’s quite interesting how American’s have always been about their government’s “checks and balances” to prevent tyranny, but all it took was one person who was fine with saying, “fuck your checks and balances” to effectively create a dictatorship, and the whole government is left blabbering, “you can’t do that” with no mechanism to actually do anything meaningful to remove the tyrant.

Like, I’m sure there were “checks and balances” in place for employing directors of these various governments offices, so it’s almost comical that a President can just fire anyone who doesn’t agree with him. I suppose it’s not surprising for a country with very little worker protections, though.

There could be thousands of people in that shower if they were pondering in the rain!

One would’ve thought the organization that stands for open source software to be quite democratic. Seems that may not be the case.

I was going to say, that list is many of the things you can get through Kiwix.

It’s self hostable and some of the resources are really quite interesting.

icantstopbuying.domains seems most appropriate…

I’ve got a few ego tools and the only one I’m slightly disappointed with is the mower. The outlet design isn’t great and can clog up if you mow anything denser than grass.

String trimmer, leaf blower and snow blowers (both single and dual stage) all work great.

Did you crank it too hard?

I agree with this, though if you have something like Sonarr or Radarr, the titles you have (or had) would all be on there, so reaquiring isn’t quite as significant a task.

Unfortunately I’ve recently had to put this into practice because I didn’t understand hardlinks and zfs subpools…

Steam Link works well if they’re still around.