politics politics California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills to help boost homebuilding, expand housing for homeless residents
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    Spaceballstheusername
    3 hours ago 100%

    6.4 billion to build 4k units and services. I don't know how much is allocated to building and how much is allocated to services but even if it's 50/50(I think an insanely high ratio) that means the units cost 800k to build. Who is getting rich off this. I remember seeing one homeless project that was like a one room 400sf shack basically cost over 1 million each to build. The corruption when it comes to building contracts is insane.

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  • technology Technology Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers
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    Spaceballstheusername
    3 hours ago 66%

    My opinion for what it's worth is generally no one is going to not play hollow knight because they are playing the ripoff. You can't own a style or game genre if someone has a similar look and feel there's not much you can do about it than have a better game.

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  • technology Technology iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 hours ago 100%

    I have a 60w iron and 16awg is always the size that's just too big for me and always a pain to solder.

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  • technology Technology US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues
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    Spaceballstheusername
    9 hours ago 50%

    Then how did all these people eat tide pods. Once tiktok realized they were promoting check fraud they stopped it but you can't react fast enough for some of these things

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    Spaceballstheusername
    13 hours ago 77%

    That's like saying YouTube or Facebook I forget which one, got people to eat tide pods. Information spreads on all platforms whether good or bad.

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  • technology Technology iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
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    Spaceballstheusername
    6 days ago 100%

    I've never used one but I just looked up the specs and it looks like it maxs out at 75 watts. Is that enough to keep it hot with like 16 gauge wires?

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  • technology Technology iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
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    thepoliceproblem THE POLICE PROBLEM Riverside Sheriff walks into a house without a warrant, steps in, and says "Now that I'm inside your house, I own your house right now."
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    microblogmemes Microblog Memes What other movies wouldn't work today?
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    politics politics Trump aides alarmed he's 'just golfing all day and stewing' as election slips away: WaPo
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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 weeks ago 100%

    Two things that are just so indictive of the Republican party are 1) the aid said trump hasnt come up with a good nickname for Harris and that's really hurting him, like the future of democracy comes down to being able to call someone a funny name. It's so childish and so accurate to conservative voters. 2) the blatant admitting that him getting elected is the only way he can get out of his legal troubles, admitting that he's guilty and only if he gets special treatment by being president will he be able to avoid consequences.

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  • news News Teen girl sues Detroit judge who detained her after she fell asleep in courtroom
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    politics politics Donald Trump admits EV flip-flop was a quid pro quo to secure Elon Musk’s support
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    Spaceballstheusername
    1 month ago 100%

    But in practice what happens is people/companies make donations directly to a candidate then all of their priorities get fulfilled by the candidate even though the people that voted for the candidate don't support the issue.

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  • 196 196 Just kind of makes sense no?
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    Spaceballstheusername
    2 months ago 100%

    Depends on the crop lots of crops are still harvested by hand. Also lots of crops are destroyed by hail, heavy rains or high winds all of which are somewhat protected by solar panels above.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise?
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    Spaceballstheusername
    3 months ago 40%

    I never understood the hatred for crash. It's a great story great acting and great ending. I really don't see what the hate is about.

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  • technology Technology Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while
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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 months ago 93%

    I've heard of a male birth control every couple years and still nothing on the market. Usually it's because there are slight side effects and that's considered to much of a risk meanwhile female birth control can cause blood clots and whatnot. I'm too jaded to believe this will ever come to fruition.

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  • technology Technology Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower
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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 months ago 100%

    So it looks like for senior design classes the students don't have to be associated with projects where they lose their IP rights. But sponsors have the right to say a project will give all IP to the sponsor. I imagine how this works in practice is all external companies will require they retain IP then the professor creates additional projects where ip can be retained but these are usually canned projects solving some trivial problem that won't really allow the students to go anywhere interesting with the project. I am not saying that's the case but I remember at my undergrad and at the UC school that was the case.

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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 months ago 100%

    There are graduate students unions or research assistant unions. Undergraduates (not ones working in a lab) don't work for the university they are customers. It would be like members of a gym unionizing. I guess it could happen maybe.

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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 months ago 100%

    I worked at a UC and companies retained all IP across all UCs and my undergrad school from the east coast was the same way. I've never heard of a university that let students keep their IP. I would imagine it would be hard to attract outside companies since the companies pay to be a part of the program. Can you point to a university program that allows students to retain their IP for senior design projects? I know if a student is doing a project through the school for a different class like a lab and they invent something or are volunteering the university has no claim to it but senior design is different.

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  • technology Technology Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower
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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 months ago 97%

    The sad thing is the students who actually did the work will probably see no financial gain from this. Students pay to take a class and then a company pays the university for access to the students and the students ideas and work is used by a company with no financial benefit to the students. Everyone makes out except the students.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes Single Issue Voters will save the world!
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    Spaceballstheusername
    4 months ago 87%

    I'm furious about the genocide but I'm furious with our president not listening to 70% of Democrats and still supporting Israel.

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  • technology Technology Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
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    Spaceballstheusername
    5 months ago 100%

    That would be awesome, any idea where you heard that, I've read other sodium based technologies have ~65%

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  • technology Technology Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
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    Spaceballstheusername
    5 months ago 100%

    I didn't see anything about round trip efficiency. I've heard that's a big downside so it might make energy storage a hard sell.

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  • science_memes Science Memes Dank projection, bro.
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    Spaceballstheusername
    5 months ago 100%

    You mean like ores like copper, iron, rare earths that kinda thing. There are seems of minerals that are actually meteorites that have collected in certain spots on a glacier. Haven't heard anything about other large deposits but usually you would need to do all kinds of geological surveys to find that stuff and since most places are covered in 1mile+ of ice it's near impossible.

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  • politics politics Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump
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    Spaceballstheusername
    5 months ago 100%

    Problem is they know exactly what the people want (socialized healthcare, corporations to be held accountable for their actions, to break up monopolies, affordable housing, seriously address climate change, safe food and water, not supporting genocide) only problem is vested interests don't want that. So the Dems need to figure out how to balance those two things by appeasing the powerful interest and paying lip service to the voters.

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  • politics politics Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump
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    Spaceballstheusername
    5 months ago 100%

    I don't think that's true I think they really tried to pass universal healthcare and were basically kneecapped by 1 or 2 democrats.

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  • usauthoritarianism US Authoritarianism Half of America Makes Less Than 35k
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    Spaceballstheusername
    5 months ago 100%

    If you are saying half of america then the population usually includes everyone who is alive not just people 25-54, everyone needs money to live. But if you took that subset of the population (not sure why you would have an upper bound of 54 when most people retire at 65+) that still makes the point of half make less than 35k. The median is from full time employed people. Also someone driving for Uber who makes 60k gets counted as making 60k when a lot of that goes towards work expenses like gas and car maintenance.

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    Spaceballstheusername
    6 months ago 100%

    Only 46% of the population are working. https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2022/whos-not-working-in-the-us-learn-the-basics So technically, technically the quote is correct. The stat you are quoting is the median salary of someone working full-time is $58,001. So it leaves out all those people un and underemployed or who just gave up on joining the workforce. Idk where you got the 40,480 because your link just goes to a broken link. Millennials are also making less money are less likely to be married and have higher unemployment numbers than gen x so our numbers would be more screwed than the overall median which is what the original tweet was referencing when saying stop asking us about buying houses or having kids.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes What a benevolent lord!
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    Spaceballstheusername
    6 months ago 81%

    Who do you think pressures local politicians to not allow more housing be built or more dense housing be built?

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  • thepoliceproblem THE POLICE PROBLEM California Cop Who Shot 18-Year-Old Had His Bodycam Off, But Surveillance Footage Captured Him Shooting Suspect in the Back as He Fled
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    Spaceballstheusername
    6 months ago 70%

    Can you give me an example where this is true. There's plenty of counties that only have a sheriff's department with minimal police presence and they aren't overrun with gangs.

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  • workreform Work Reform Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more
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    Spaceballstheusername
    6 months ago 100%

    They're afraid more cities will do this and as they increase prices they won't be able to take more of the pie.

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  • fuckcars Fuck Cars Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago
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    6 months ago 100%

    On problem is most of the money supposedly meant for public transit in the IRA went towards roads and car infrastructure. So I have a feeling somehow this is just gonna make more highways if anything actually materializes from this.

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  • technology Technology A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
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    Spaceballstheusername
    6 months ago 100%

    No that's not the message, the message is if he doesn't listen to the people he won't win the election. It's a scary precedent to set that if the Democratic party doesn't listen to +70% of it's people and he still gets elected simply because the other side is worse when would they listen to their voters? The other side is always worse at least since I've been following politics(since Bill Clinton). They always use that to excuse their inaction because they think voters will be too afraid of the opposition to question it. This is a clear message and for the reason to stop a genocide. If now is not a time to take a stand idk when will be.

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    Spaceballstheusername
    7 months ago 100%

    The message is he'll lose the election if he doesn't change his stance. So if he has received it and chose to ignore it then why is he running. Either he doesn't believe the threat or he doesn't want to win.

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    Spaceballstheusername
    7 months ago 100%

    There's no message being sent if there's no real threat behind the message or else the message isn't being received if the Biden administration doesn't change their stance.

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  • world World News Biden announces U.S. will airdrop food aid into Gaza
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    7 months ago 92%

    Just to put into perspective it's something like 2 trucks worth at this point for 2 million people. This is a drop in the ocean. We should be sending 2 trucks a minute.

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  • microblogmemes Microblog Memes Avatar is cursed for remakes like Fantastic Four
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    Spaceballstheusername
    7 months ago 100%

    Im only 4 episodes in so I can't give a full review but I think the problem is there were some choices that were made that ruined the heart of what was good about the show. Uncle iroh and saka are not funny at all. I just saw the 4th episode which has the caves of omashu and the singing hippies were hilarious but got mostly removed. It's like they think laughing would cheapen then shows seriousness or something. There is no love connection between aang and katara. And they added a bunch of storyline from season 2 for some reason.

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    Ask Science Spaceballstheusername 1 year ago 100%
    could hurricane Hillary fill lake Mead?

    With the hurricane approaching and now some projections show it passing over Vegas could the hurricane fill lake Mead? Is there enough rainfall in a hurricane to fill that large of a lake.

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