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2·2 months agoI mostly agree - however there are physical/mechanical reasons behind the use of some of those. For example, Phillips head screws will ‘cam out’ (driver will slip out of the screw head) rather than get over-torqued, which is useful in various situations - although TIL this was not actually an intentional design feature!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out
Hex keys are better than a Robertson (square head) in tight spaces with something like an Allan key, and, in my experience anyway, Robertson can take a fair bit of torque, so they’re great for sinking into softwood - and also for getting out again, even when they’ve been painted over.
Flathead screws, on the other hand, should launched into the sun
5·2 months agoThis is horrible.
It would be reasonable to assume that the lack of LTC supply is at least partly because it’s not profitable to have extra spaces you’re not using.
That lack of supply makes it more likely that seniors would have to look at places further away.
Plus, the people profiting off LTC are folks like former Conservative Premier Mike Harris, who not only used to be chair of the board of Chartwell Retirement Residences, but has also owned millions of dollars in company shares (as of 2022, Harris no longer controls >10% of the company, so he doesn’t have to file public disclosures of his holdings).
While premier, Harris also pushed hard to privatize the industry that he would later benefit from.
This looks like another case of Ford making sure his buddies rake in as much money as possible, even if it causes human misery.
25·2 months agoUnfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners
Would be very interested to know if Meta (listed as a “partner” organization) is providing financial support, like how fellow partner the Ford Foundation lists a $50k grant[1] in February 2024 to the Exchange Point Institute, which is the “fiscal sponsor” of the Social Web Foundation[2]
Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12
No replies yet so I’ll give it a try - feel free to ignore if you solved this already
Are you using pipewire? I would think that either helvum or qpwgraph would be able to route the audio from youtube into bitwig but I haven’t tried to do this.
15·2 months agoRegardless of what happened on the sidelines, Hawkins added that on the field, there was sportsmanship, as some of the Bow soccer players reached out to the transgender girl on the Plymouth team.
“Some of the fellow soccer players from Bow actually sent supportive letters of love and support and encouraging that student to continue to play,” Hawkins said.
The kids are alright ❤️
You may want to double-check that math ;)
Did no one in the replies happen to notice that this is a loan
17·2 months agoCorporations and surveillance?
Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.
For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here’s a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:
Reveal: It’s Not Easy Going Green
https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/
1·2 months agoThis move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That’s effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.
That’s where I drew the conclusion from
Isn’t technofeudalism great?
11·2 months ago1 Ape = 1 Ape
What’s strange about defending people’s freedom to be themselves?
What’s the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?
After having recently restored some stuff from an aging external hdd, i’m seriously considering getting a few dvdr discs and burning the important things every now and then.
I know they don’t last forever either, but - just as a random example that has definitely never happened to me hahaha - you can drop them from a height of 3 feet and still get files off them!