[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

Ugh, gig workers need to be brought into some semblance of a minimum wage. Uber and Doordash are just techstortion.

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[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Nah, the remaining employees aren't the "dead wood" necessarily. They're all the ones on H1 visas who can't legally work in the US anywhere else (without taking a massive risk).

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

I bet they could get the Democrats' help! All they have to do is nominate a Democrat for Speaker. What a beautiful opportunity for bipartisanship!

...wait that's not what they meant?

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

EVs start their life with a higher environmental burden than ICE vehicles, but the math comes out so that the burden becomes lower after between 15k-20k miles.

By the end of life of an EV, they are more eco friendly than an ICE vehicle of similar build.

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

It's also how you destroy the environment of the Niger River Delta.

You want to take out the pumps, not the pipelines.

(Calm down NSA, I'm saying this purely in jest)

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

That "college friends" line always bugged me. I keep in closer touch with my good high school friends then I do with my old college friends.

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

I remember thinking a similar thing in early 2016

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Her advance team realized there weren't going to be enough plugs to go around. One of the station's four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.

That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?

In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved: They called the police.

The sheriff's office couldn't do anything. It's not illegal for a non-EV to claim a charging spot in Georgia.

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Her advance team realized there weren't going to be enough plugs to go around. One of the station's four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.

That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?

In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved: They called the police.

The sheriff's office couldn't do anything. It's not illegal for a non-EV to claim a charging spot in Georgia.

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

"Sir you don't understand. We were being completely chaste while fucking the shit out of each other. We were just trying to prepare for that orgo exam."

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Rodents might not be a great model. We know from a variety of sources that humans can't really sense excess nitrogen or hypoxic air: industrial accidents, diving experiments, even astronauts.

However, rodents may be able to sense hypoxia a bit better than we do: experiments found that rodents presented a choice would avoid a hypoxic chamber. Guinea pigs may not be the humane animal model here.

A hypoxic chamber does sound like one of the less painful ways to go. I'm not in favor of governments killing people, but a relatively quick loss of consciousness seems far better than getting poked with needles, electrocuted in the brain, shot with bullets, or hanged on a rope. Although I'm still expecting Alabama to screw this up somehow.

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 127 points 10 months ago

Orange County, where Disney World is located, went for the D candidate 53-46. Don't blame them for the malignant human tumor their state foisted on them.

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

LOCK HIM UP

[-] Staccato@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Rehabilitation doesn't mean the perpetrator won't spend years separated from society, just that the perp's sequestration happens in a setting meant to enable him/her to return to society in the distant future, assuming the perp becomes a changed person.

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