bilb

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[–] bilb@lem.monster 49 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This is someone finding novel ways to scold vague unnamed people to impress their followers, I think. What is that, threads?

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 3 days ago

That's dumb. They're birds.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is an acceptable thing to believe if you're a teenager or younger. Past that it's just embarrassing.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 4 days ago

You probably could, but you'd have the taste of citric acid (which is not awful) and baking soda in the water. The Spärkel has the water that activates the reaction in a separate chamber so they don't wind up in your drink. You need to change that water every four or five times you use it.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

I use a "Spärkel" carbonator. Instead of CO2 canisters, it uses packets of citric acid and baking soda to generate CO2 and uses a compressor to infuse the liquid.

Pros:

  • You can either use their pre-measured packets if that's convenient for you, or do what I do and just buy a bulk amount of both the citric acid and baking soda.
  • You can carbonate pretty much any liquid. Water, wine, flat soda, mixed drinks, you name it. The sodastream will explode and cause a huge mess if you try to carbonate anything besides water.
  • They don't appear to be Israeli.

Cons:

  • Because it uses a compressor, it needs to be plugged in to operate. It's pretty loud too!
  • It takes longer than a sodastream. While a sodastream is almost instant, this will take 1-3 minutes depending on the level of carbonation you desire.
[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 4 days ago

I don't think we disagree about that at all. It's just a weird point to be making. I haven't seen anybody try to say that what he was doing in his capacity as CEO was illegal.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 9 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I wonder what might might cause the American people to be inured to crime and violence. We see oligarchs making a mockery of the law almost constantly, not to even mention the ridiculous appeals to "rules based international order" abroad.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know why you think people cannot be blamed for the role they choose to have in society. That's very weird. And if that's not the point you're trying to make I'm not sure what it is.

I was answering the question you asked, which was about whether or not he had committed any crimes. And like I said it's beside the point, which you seem to agree with.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 5 days ago

I definitely wouldn't stop working, but I would have more flexibility to try things like taking a risk on something entrepreneurial or choosing to work in a field that aligns with my values, salary be damned. That cannot be allowed.

Any measure that reduces the leverage employers have over labor will not be simply given to us. People fought and died to get what little control we have, and it's been whittled away for decades.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 5 days ago

I take downvotes as an admission of guilt to my observations, thanks.

That's not a very reliable way to determine that. Might as well admit something like "I take the shape of the tea leaves to mean that I am correct."

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 5 days ago

Agreed. It's touch optimized, not mouse and keyboard. That's not a criticism!

 

I was made moderator of the /c/TrueAnon on the lemmy.ml instance a while ago, and none of my actions have ever federated to lemmy.ml, so I gave up. Thought I'd try again after this upgrade and still no dice. The response I'm getting back from the API when I try to add my lemmy.ml account to moderator status is "not_a_moderator." Is this a transient federation issue or are there more fixes required for this scenario to work correctly?

 

Looking forward to this machine. The only thing that would preempt my purchasing a Framework 16 might be the System76 Virgo laptop, but that seems to still be in early dev.

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