

- Get passed over for promotions/laid off for “not being a team player” or some BS like that because idiots can’t tell you’re doing your job unless you waste time bragging about it.
I get the impression that Cricuts are super proprietary. Better to get some other brand of vinyl cutter machine, like Silhouette, Brother, Vevor, etc.
It’s a little thing we call “tyranny.”
They still had third places where they could organize face-to-face. Think union halls, fraternal organizations (which us Millennials only know about from old cartoons), churches, etc.
See also this Adam Conover video, which isn’t specifically about organizing to protest but nevertheless is pretty insightful about it.
Don’t forget that Greenland melting isn’t ‘just’ going to cause sea level rise (as if that isn’t bad enough), but also collapse of the AMOC, resulting in an ice age in NW Europe.
I gotta admit I don’t entirely understand it either, but people claim it matters. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-is-the-correct-polarity-important-with-ac.979324/
Thanks, I now also understand the purpose of Immich because of this post.
Because we’re not entitled to force some other country to take them!
WTF did you think the answer was‽
Do you have individual switches for each plug socket / outlet wired next to the door?
No, the rooms I’ve seen wired with lamp circuits would typically have one switch next to the entrance with several outlets wired together to it in the same circuit, along with another circuit of several unswitched outlets. Flipping that one switch would turn all the lamps on at once.
(More rarely, there might be two lamp circuits in a room, with two switches controlling two groups of outlets. I think my parents’ formal living room might be like that, but we barely used it and I haven’t lived there for 20 years, so I can’t quite remember.)
and one of the two entrance doors would have to be chosen. You’d then have to walk to that door every time you wanted to turn something off.
Nah, that’s what three-way switches are for: you can have a switch at each entrance that controls the same group of outlets.
While Elmo is just trolling for attention
No he isn’t; he’s deliberately trying to normalize Naziism.
the safety shutters over the positive and negative terminals that only open when the ground pin (which is longer than the others on the plug) is inserted up top is brilliant
The US is catching up in that regard, at least, with tamper-resistant (TR) outlets being mandated by the NEC since 2008.
I like the EU and US two prong cables ( 🔌?) where the prongs are parallel to the cable, but not the cables with the orthogonal prongs.
Non-grounded plugs aren’t that great, though, and once you add the third prong the plug gets much less flat. Compare:
Maybe Italy and Chile have the best idea in terms of slim grounded plugs, although the lack of polarity might be a problem?
Also, IMO right-angle plugs are often better than straight ones because you can put furniture closer up against them and do so without stressing the cable.
The real question is why did the UK decide that on the outlet itself is the best place for that switch, as opposed to e.g. in the US where outlets are sometimes wired to a switch located next to the door to the room?
[obi-wan.jpg] “Of course I blame him; he’s me!”
Hi folks, I’m the mod @GreenKnight23 is complaining about.
I removed four of his comments for incivility, out of the eight he had posted in the thread at the time. I chose those four and only those four because they consisted pretty much entirely of insults and accusations against another user. I omitted the other four because, while some of them contained incivility too, they also contained valid arguments and/or weren’t as egregious.
The comments removed were:
The contents of these comments are visible in the !fuckcars modlog:
https://lemmy.world/modlog/3902?page=1&actionType=All
He then proceeded to post the paranoid unhinged rant attacking me that he copied above, basically leaving me no choice but to ban him. After some waffling over the duration (which you can also see reflected in the modlog), I chose to temporarily ban him for 1 day, the shortest interval possible.
The contents of that removed comment are not visible in the !fuckcars modlog.
Later, he wrote the comment here in !selfhosted I’m now replying to (which I noticed because it showed up in my inbox due to the username mention) and I read that he claimed that all of his comments in the thread were removed. At first I thought it was just a blatant lie and began writing a rebuttal, but then I realized that he’s right: all of them are gone, and there are no entries in the modlog detailing why they were removed or who did it.
I think what happened was that when I banned him, I checked the “remove content” checkbox thinking that it removed the comment I was banning him for, but it apparently removed all of his comments in the thread instead. Worse, it doesn’t record in the modlog that that’s what it did. On top of that, unbanning him doesn’t undo the comment removals, which is unfortunate because testing that possibility and then re-banning him afterward reset the timer to the full 24 hours again.
Anyway, I’ve looked through the thread and attempted to individually restore the comments I never intended to remove. That in itself is difficult because I can’t see what the original text was until I restore it, and the comment IDs apparently change(!) when the original text is overwritten or when they’re viewed in context or something (I haven’t quite figured out the reason yet), so I can’t just match the numbers in the URLs. Nevertheless, the state of his comments in the thread should be as intended now. Also, I learned something new about how moderation works, so that’s nice I guess.
P.S.: I’d like to give a special shout-out to this comment of his…
…which I not only didn’t remove initially but also went to the trouble of restoring, even though it almost certainly deserves removal, just because of the minuscule chance that the deleted comment it’s replying to contained something that somehow justified it. That’s how lenient I’ve intended to be this entire time, and had still been in practice at the point @GreenKnight23 posted his rant.
P.P.S. I’m not actually colluding with any other users, BTW.
So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.
By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn’t useful anymore.
Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it’ll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.
The mnemonic I use is that longitude lines are all equally long, which means they must be the ones that are meridians and thus go north-south.
In contrast, latitude lines are all different lengths, analogous to how being given latitude in the figurative sense affords you freedom of choice.
(I’m willing to bet there’s an Age of Exploration sailing idiom somewhere in that etymology, BTW — probably something about how straying north or south of your target course in order to catch the right wind is no big deal because you can just use your sextant to keep track of it, but straying farther east or west than you intend means you’re screwed because chronometers hadn’t been invented yet.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRqXYsksFg