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[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

For anyone wondering why a new law would target reusable bags as well, the phrasing of the old law basically encouraged stores to replace single use plastic bags with reusable plastic bags. Reusable bags use more plastic so they're sturdier and last longer, but they were treated as single use bags anyways so functionally we were just producing and subsequently wasting more plastic.

I haven't read this new law but hopefully it encourages or requires actually using paper bags or cardboard boxes or something if you don't have your own reusable bag. It would be a shame if it just kicks the can down the road again and people buy reusable bags in the checkout aisle that they throw away when they get home instead of keeping in the car.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They didn't include https so the link doesn't know what protocol it's meant to open with

https://rye.astral.sh/

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

The worst is when it either won't tell you what the character limit is so you have to just keep lowering it and retrying until it finally works, or when the infrastructure for signing up has a different character limit than the infrastructure for logging in, so you can sign up with a long password but can't actually sign in with it. I once encountered a website that had this issue for both the password AND username so I had to change my password and then contact support to change my username. Absurd.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't wear mine often, but I find that somehow the corners always get smudges on them no matter how careful I am to not touch the lenses. Keep a microfiber cloth around to clean them.

I use EyeBuyDirect for my glasses and don't have any complaints. They come in a box with a microfiber bundle to carry them glasses in and wipe them off with. Obviously since it's online you'll have to be careful about getting a pair that fits correctly, but if you get a temporary or cheap pair in real life that you know the measurements of you can find a pair with similar stats.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

If you use the public instance you don't need to set up or host or install anything. You can selfhost it if you want, but the public instance works just fine.

One person goes to the web page and starts a room. The other can join the same room by knowing the name of the room. (It will generate a link when you create a room to make it easy to send to someone so they can join by just clicking the link.)

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Consider giving MiroTalk a try. It has several versions but the P2P version would probably be perfect for your scenario. It's free, runs in your browser, doesn't need an account, and doesn't have time limit shenanigans. I've used it in lieu of Discord calls before and don't have any complaints.

GitHub

Public instance

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

I believe it's her daughter's!

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Cocaine Sharknado (2025) I am so ready

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

They have tons of servers worldwide for varying use cases, the speed is great, and I've never had to contact support.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

They could create a new flag for Abandoned Early Access games. If an Early Access game hasn't been updated in a long time, that could trigger an automatic email to the publisher saying "Hey your game hasn't been updated in a long time and could be changed from Early Access to Abandoned Early Access. Consider updating the game or store page to keep Early Access status. If you would like to switch to Abandoned Early Access, you can ignore this message and it will automatically update in two weeks or you can manually change the status on your game's Steam page." Wouldn't really need more employees to handle this unless the current employees are all too busy to implement something like it.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Considering they hate us this is their best move.

This is a super naive way of looking at geopolitics, especially regarding China. We are their biggest trade ally. If the US crumbles, both of our economies implode. Trump wants to put insane tariffs on our imports from China. An economically strong US is to China's benefit since we are their single biggest trade ally (comparable to the entire European Union, which includes major trade allies as well). A strong US is not "China's biggest hurdle."

Russia geopolitically benefits from Trump in power because, among other things, Trump is fine letting Russia continue to ravage Ukraine with war and wants to pull us out of NATO (or at least cut funding to it). We don't have strong trade relations with Russia so they aren't directly affected if we economically flounder (the weak trade relations is why the sanctions on Russia did basically nothing long-term; Russia was already doing very little trade with the US).

China is not interested in "destabilizing the west." They would obviously benefit from being the economic center of the world, but they get there via strong geopolitical and economic relations with other relevant countries (which means not trying to cause those countries to collapse). Russia has less incentive to avoid causing turmoil in the US and EU, but right now it would very directly benefit from a Trump presidency, which in this case would be the driver behind Russia's decision to help put Trump back in power.

 

so anyways my ethics classes are going great im having a fun great awesome cool fun great poggers time

 
 
 
 

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