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KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
News@lemmy.world•Nancy Pelosi: Democrat and ex-Speaker, 83, to seek re-electionEnglish
5·3 years agoShe’s had years to train up a successor, at this point it’s just blind power hungry arrogance.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Chicago@midwest.social•Revenue from Chicago speed cameras more than doubles after 6-10 mph change: dataEnglish
1·3 years agoI think the issue with introducing speed cameras is that it’s hard to convince folks it’s about safety and not just a cash grab.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Coffee@lemmy.ml•Need ideas for new grinder ($200-400)English
1·3 years agoI use it for espresso and pour over.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Coffee@lemmy.ml•Need ideas for new grinder ($200-400)English
1·3 years agoI’ve been using a refurbished Baratza Sette 270 for years and am really pleased with it. Very minimal grounds retention, which is important for me since I switch beans often.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Chicago@midwest.social•Revenue from Chicago speed cameras more than doubles after 6-10 mph change: dataEnglish
2·3 years agoI’d argue that changing speed limits without actually changing the design of the roads will not improve safety significantly.
There is a great video from Not Just Bikes on the subject: https://youtu.be/bglWCuCMSWc
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•Redcurrant cider and water issueEnglish
3·3 years agoI use malic acid to tune acidity, earl grey tea to play with tannins, and you can always cut up a few pounds of apples and throw them in there to get some of the flavors from the skins + flesh.
Sounds very cool. What water temp did you go with initially?
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymoreEnglish
1·3 years agoYou can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it’s the easiest thing to do.
Remember I said “It all depends on how you implement it”.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymoreEnglish
4·3 years agoIt all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.
Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymoreEnglish
3·3 years ago- Ad free
- Cloud backup
- Highlight users
- Tag users
- Translate text
- Select text from images
- Push notifications
- Saved folders
- Import / export subscriptions
Source: The sync ultra description from in-app
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Wisconsin@midwest.social•‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcoholEnglish
8·3 years agoThere are a few different things touched on in your comment, and I’ll try to respond to them all, sorry if I miss any.
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Losing jobs with no demand is not a bad thing. If you list a job, and nobody will take it for a year, then the market doesn’t want that job. There is an tendency to obsess over the number of jobs as a marker of economic health, but it’s a correlation at best.
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The restaurant industry specifically is hugely over saturated, plenty of restaurants succeed paying a living wage, if you can’t then you need to make adjustments (e.g. change menu, move to a different location, etc).
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A restaurant which can’t turn a profit is a hobby, not a business.
I imagine that at some point a UBI will be necessary, due to the lack of jobs lost to automation, but the purpose of UBI should never be to support the exploitation of workers. In fact it’s thought processes like that which make people argue against implementing UBI “Well if my landlord knows I get 1000 a month from UBI he will just charge me 1000 more for rent” or “If my boss knows I get 1000 a month from UBI then he’ll drop my salary by 1000 a month”.
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KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymoreEnglish
11·3 years agoI might be mistaken, but I don’t think Sync Ultra is the same thing as the ad-free sync premium. Sync Ultra is a subscription because it adds functionality that requires cloud resources, not just removes ads.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Police called on boy with autism and mum using toilet in anti-trans incident
21·3 years agoI think even more broadly, they want to encourage the harassment of anyone who goes outside their definition of what is culturally acceptable.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•"Incandescently stupid": Former DHS official says he had to "dumb" down classified memos for TrumpEnglish
31·3 years agoAt this point it’s like saying that water is wet.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Baldur's Gate 3@lemmy.world•Find a Party for Baldurs Gate 3
5·3 years agoIn my experience playing Original Sin 2, it really depends on your party members and how invested they are in the story. Generally we’ve had a party leader who essentially leads what’s gonna be happening that play session.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Memes@lemmy.ml•Reddit knew this was going to happen if they brought r/place back, right ?English
712·3 years ago“No such thing as bad publicity” comes to mind.
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•Pomegranate Cider
3·3 years agoAre there any apples in there?
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Chicago@midwest.social•IL Supreme Court allows ending of cash bailEnglish
4·3 years agoShocked to see that the original challenge came from a Kankakee County judge /s
KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialto
Politics@kbin.social•Why Isn't Clarence Thomas Facing Impeachment Hearings?
2·3 years agoSo first let’s be clear. I’m not "both sides"ing. My point is clearly that the overton window for centrists is so far right, that the parties would essentially meet in the center if the republican party hadn’t fully embraced the culture war insanity.
Voting against Trump (a member of the opposing party) is like, the least they could do. They should hardly get back pats for that.
How about this for “real things”. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes banning Congress members from owning individual stocks
She later did an about face and said she would bring legislation to do that, and what do you know, two years later and still nothing.











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