[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Huh? Quick search shows that Oliver Tree is 30 years old, so birth year ~1994 or so. The jazz design came out in 1992 and was widely available through the early 2000s, by solo cup after they purchased it from sweetheart cup in 2004... I really don't see how he shouldn't know where the design came from, but regardless it's become a pop culture/nostalgia symbol because it's just a good, widely recognizable design. What else does he need to know?

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

Can't. The cab needed enough room to put the family so you know where they are without having to mow them down first.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is an excerpt from the comment I replied to:

In Germany virtually all medications are brought to the pharmacy pre-packaged and (as of this year) stamped with a batch number on the outside and on each inner container, so you can be absolutely sure what’s inside really is what it says on the outside.

Are you saying the individually dispensed medications are all sent to the pharmacy pre-filled? That sounds wildly inefficient and inflexible in terms of transport/logistics/packaging tbh.

Sorry. I thought you were talking about bulk medications that the pharmacy uses to fill prescriptions as they get them.

I'm sure there are insane repercussions to filling a prescription wrong, especially if someone is injured. There's also usually a description on the printed label of what the pill should look like; shape, color, unique printings, etc. Though I've had a medication or two that came in factory packaging cause its prescribed less often and really predictably. Tbh though, it's just not a worry that I've ever had cross my mind or heard of being an issue.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pharmacy techs actually make a pretty average salary (40k median), closely supervised by a pharmacist with a doctor of pharmacy degree who makes a pretty decent salary (136k median).

Read all about it: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacy-technicians.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacists.htm

I don't work anywhere near pharmacies or healthcare but I'm sure they do all the same stuff you described. I'm not really sure what suggested to you that they didn't tbh.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Also, why the focus on rich and middle class? Is the vast majority of america not "lower"/working class? Edit: it seems like the entire conclusion of the study is based on the influence that money has in politics.

One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

Of course if you focus only on people with money then you will come up with a conflicting result... so yeah. I also feel like I am missing something here.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

No, I'm fairly certain you would not use an apostrophe there. That's what trips me up though because, at least in my mind, 'it' takes the place of the possessive noun in that clause and therefore it should have an apostrophe. but god forbid the spelling remain consistent between the two 🙄

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Nah its/it's actually trips me up a lot because 'its' is an exception to the possessive apostrophe rule. What really gets me is seeing someone use a possessive apostrophe on a plural s. That is inexcusable.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago

We are actively being held back by companies catering exclusively to the lowest common denominator.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 31 points 6 days ago

At 300 Watt for an A100 at full load that would 45,000 kWh. This roughly the energy neeed to drive an electric car for 180,000 miles, which is a lot, but still on a reasonable scale.

My guy. That is over 15 years of daily driving and the occasional long haul trip, 1.5x the average lifespan of an EV. Consumed in under 2 years. For ONE iteration of ONE AI model. Nevermind how many thousands of people are running that "light bulb for slightly less than 35 minutes" every second, with the vast majority of what it spits out not even being used for anything of value except to tell the prompt writer what they need to tweak in order to get their perfect anime waifu out of it.

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An email I received from the Detroit Edison (DTE) Energy Company today. The text reads:

How it works:

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Protection and Warranties: The warranty coverage provides $5,000 per event for appliances and $1,000 per event for electronics to repair or replace your household items in the event the device fails to protect against damaging surges.

Stay Connected: Your surge device comes with a FREE 20-foot power cable. In the event of a power outage, you can connect your generator to the surge device with the power cable to power your home up to the generator’s capacity. Easy access for your generator – you won’t have to run extension cords from your generator into your home.

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*There’s a one-time installation fee for a surge protection plus device of $49.99, which is a limited time offer and will expire on December 31, 2024. After the expiration date, the installation fee will return to its normal price of $99.99. To access the Surge Protection Plus program’s Terms and Conditions, visit dteenergy.com/sppterms.

and of course that URL is hyperlinked with a big long tracking string on the end of it so I won't be sharing it

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 36 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently around 2012 she was on the street and had lost custody of her children. Anyways, for anyone else curious, heres a french cable network's news site that shared it for some reason.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 48 points 3 weeks ago

It's not uncommon. Here's just a few stories I was able to pull up, though my google-fu isn't what it used to be and theres a lot of noise from all the headlines made for the first one.

The Washington Post reported last week that last month, a 10-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister were walking one mile home from a park in Silver Spring. Someone called the cops, who picked them up about halfway and took them the rest of the way home. Their parents, Alexander and Danielle Meitiv, faced no criminal charges, but a few hours later Montgomery County Children's Protective Services (CPS) showed up. According to the Meitivs, a CPS worker required Alexander to sign a safety plan promising not to leave his children unsupervised until the following Monday, when CPS would follow up. If he refused, the worker said his children would be removed. CPS has since interviewed both children at school and returned to the Meitivs' house. - grist.com, USA Today, The Washington Post

8 and 10-Year-0ld Escorted Home by Firefighters After Neighbors Report Unsupervised Kids - reason.com

Mom Sues Cops Who Arrested Her for Leaving 14-Year-Old Daughter Home Alone - reason.com

a cop came knocking after someone reported two of Hershberger's children, ages five and almost seven, walking a few blocks from her home in Reading—a Boston suburb—and picking up litter. - reason.com

A Mom Let Her 7-Year-Old Play in the Park. Arizona Arrested Her and Banned Her From Working With Kids. - reason.com

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 51 points 1 month ago

So when do we get to start calling these guys nazis? Cause I'm pretty sure that calling to send dissenters to camps, where a concentrated ethnic group is actively having genocide committed against them, is some nazi shit.

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