“just budget better bro” isn’t a response to a systemic criticism.

it sounds like you’re enjoying the best coffee in your city

Nah, the roasts aren’t very consistent so most of the time it’s kinda mid. Sometimes it’s so good it demands 3 more shots.

it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist

For the purpose of directing new users, who tend to just pick the largest instance, sure. But if you and they are both federated, there’s no difference in the content.

So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?

Correct, because this increases the reliability of the average lemmy user’s experience as one point of failure affects fewer users.

alienating 41% of their active user base

Why would distributing users to smaller instances alienate Lemmy.world users?

If anything, distributing the load results in a better user experience, since the last Reddit exodus was taking down .world every few hours.

sending DNA data to another country

This is a cop-out.

All companies handing US medical data have to comply with HIPA.

suspect standards

This is also a cop-out.

All cars sold in the US have to meet US regulations.

I’m not trying to be a jerk

You’re grasping at straws trying to excuse our representatives representing capital over us. Can’t sell $60,000 SUVs when a $20,000 EV is higher quality.

Diamond rings are basically worth fuckall for resale. Most pawn shops won’t even take them

I buy 20 lb bags of green for 80-120 once a year or so, roast a batch once a week or so in a modified popcorn maker, and make espresso, pour over, or french press depending on how it turns out.

I probably don’t save any money when you calculate power, and even if I did, it would take a decade to pay for the grinder/espresso machine.

Do you live in northern canada?

Dry bulb is the temperature independent of humidity. Wet bulb is has a wet cloth on the thermometer bulb. This simulates how much sweat cools you in the current humidity and wind.

Measuring humidity instead and cross-referencing to get heat index is more common these days, but IMO it’s worse. 120 in the desert vs 120 heat index due to humidity is the difference between someone using a hair dryer on your face and getting cooked in a steam room, and it doesn’t consider wind and cloud cover.

In the same way a US ton and a metric ton is like 10% different, a 556 bullet is actually 5.7 mm across.

Kelvin is used for math pretty regularly. Rankine was too.

Yes, it does a better job of impressing that is all of the hot (or cold), and then 10% more than the difference between 38 and 43

100F was defined as the human body temperature (The guy they used had a cold or something so it’s off by a degree and a half.)

That’s useful for perception of heat. When the dry bulb gets above 100F, wind only cools you down by sweat evaporation, and when the wet bulb gets above 100F, even that can’t cool you down, and you will die if you don’t get to a cooler or drier environment.

This is more intuitive than 36.5C.

But really it is much better for human temperatures.

It’s just intuitive, 0F is 100% cold, and 100F is 100% hot.

When the dry bulb gets above 100F, wind only cools you down by sweat evaporation, and when the wet bulb gets above 100F, even that can’t cool you down, and you will die if you don’t get to a cooler or drier environment.

OK, but with Rankine, if it’s 101 out, you can go Five Hundred and SIXTY degrees??!

Can’t have Americans getting cheap EVs or cancer screening tests.

The irritation caused by heartburn increases heartburn. So during your proton-pump inhibitor cycle, you still get heartburn, treat it with baking soda dissolved in warm for instant relief

Or treatment of indigenous people. “We need to take their children away so they can be educated in a safe environment (and not grow up like that)” is not uncommon.

Encouraging people to take away a group’s children for the purpose of destroying that group is a violation of the Genocide Convention btw.

Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes

Yes, that’s why I recommended The Jakarta Method, it details exactly what the outcome looks like when the left doesn’t repress the right and instead lets the sabotage and organize. It’s really an important book because you can see echos of the methods in South Korea under the dictatorship, Taiwan during the white terror, Pinochet’s Chile, Uruguay even before the '73 coup, etc.

they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.

If you believe this, you do not know the scale and details of capitalist repression.

utopia

Literally no Marxist would call any AES project Utopian, except as a pejorative.

Here’s a pamphlet differentiating Utopian and Scientific Socialism It’s not an easy read due to being from 1880.

The OP meme is mocking the Taliban for their lack of money. The Taliban don’t have money because the US stole the Afghan government’s funds and imposed sanctions.

The result of this has been the worst famine in the world during the period between shortly after the withdrawal and shortly after Oct 7. OP believes that this is liberating for afghan women because they think the Taliban need money to oppress women or something.