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I am very typical earthling. I like earth food and earth drink and earth sports and earth media. Im all about earth things because I am so typical and earthling. so typical as to be very boring and not worth investigating or looking into because I am definately from earth.

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/kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

about this last weekend and the whole totally down thing. we going to get any word around that.

It would just be nice to know what the heck happened.

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/kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

about this last weekend and the whole totally down thing. we going to get any word around that.

It would just be nice to know what the heck happened.

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Poll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their lives
  • 50% would be fine but it should apply to all income including investments, gifts, etc. maybe let inheritance be amoritized over 10 years or something.

  • Gaming vs Regular Distros
  • I view the gaming distros as being about out of box. I don't see anything improving performance outside of how the kernel compiles but I doubt any do anything special.

  • Texas GOP Wish List Includes Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
  • Remember if your in one of these states that sterilization is your best defense.

  • Texas GOP Wish List Includes Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
  • Molech's still in the biz? Man its been awhile since I sacrificed ala molech.

  • Trial results for new lung cancer drug are ‘off the charts’, say doctors
  • doctors further said that once the results where back on the charts it showed a beneficial effect.

  • Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.?
  • Never had a paid lunch

  • Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out After Conviction in Misleading Speech
  • One thing I am glad about is the press used to tippie toe around calling out lying with him and at least that seems to not so much be the case anymore.

  • The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
  • yeah. funny thing is there is like gridcoin which is perfectly fine because it uses the energy for useful work but they don't like it because it does not have the pyramid scheme artifical value increase. Its value by and large stays in line with energy prices (although if you look historically there is this hilarious spike when idiots were grabbing at everything crypto. it pretty much shows the point in time where cypto became a buzzword thing)

  • Biden administration canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers
  • I have no idea how you seem to be drawing that conclusion from my conversation so far so I can't answer your question. Our you saying im defending it by him dealing with the reality of it???

  • Americans shrug over falling birthrate
  • well im not sure I consider myself and edge case but I get your point.

  • Americans shrug over falling birthrate
  • this has actually benn really interesting for me and im now evaluating how I think of both depression and anxiety.

  • Gamers aged 55+ account for almost a third of gamers now, and that share is on the rise.
  • I was actually the poor kid in a rich area so like my friend had a commodore and the game consoles as they came out (and his family was like average wealth for the area). Money was definitely not stopping most of the kids from being into video games. Arcades were very active to so nothing keeping kids from being into gaming by going to the arcades but again it was a crowd that had almost 100% overlap with the comic book shop.

  • Former President Trump is found guilty in historic New York criminal case
  • worst witchhunt in history which is saying something since the last 100 worst witchhunts in history have taken place in the last 8 years /s

  • Americans shrug over falling birthrate
  • yeah. I guess is are they not having it because of anxiety about the future or the fact its a reality now and the future effects are just reality. Is facing reality anxiety?

  • Americans shrug over falling birthrate
  • Im starting to get it. the phrase just to me sounds like its more about a possibility but the replies make me get it. I definitely get anxiety from current circumstances although I guess both my wife and I were discussing that with our depression. Its not like it can be cured because it comes from our current circumstances and often you think about like diagnosis and medication and its like how is that going to help when there are external factors. We think of it as more anxiety/depression for no reason or for reasons that should not cause them.

  • Texas Republicans Offer Up a Christian Nationalist, Anti-Democracy Platform
  • wow. just wow. with the earlier articles I assumed what would actually pass would eliminate the crazy but:

    During its state convention this past weekend, the Republican Party of Texas approved a platform that lays out a Christian nationalist vision for the state, which would be maintained through an anti-democratic elections process that would create a permanent, one-party system.

    Party platforms are meant to give voters an impression of what that organization’s principles and goals are. While not binding, they provide a basic idea of the policies a party will pursue should its members win control of government in an upcoming election.

    The 50-page platform from the Republican Party of Texas suggests that the party will seek to instill a number of far right policies, including:

    Restricting in-person voting to just three days prior to an election day;
    Adopting a so-called “parents’ rights” view of schooling, which would forbid any schools from teaching about “sexual choice or identity…in any grade whatsoever” and passing a law “even more comprehensive than the Florida [Don’t Say Gay] law,” effectively stamping out LGBTQ students’ right to feel safe in schools;
    Restricting even further the right to obtain an abortion, and banning methods of birth control that the far right considers “abortifacients,” such as Plan B (“the morning after” pill);
    And mandating that the state legislature and the state Board of Education “require instruction on the Bible” in all public schools throughout Texas.
    
    

    The party platform also calls for vast changes to how statewide officials are elected, urging for the creation of a system that would be an extreme version of the federal Electoral College by giving equal voting weight to each county, regardless of population size.

    In the proposal, candidates for statewide office would have to win a majority of counties in the state, rather than a direct majority of voters, to win the position they’re seeking. Per the platform:

    The State Legislature shall cause to be enacted a State Constitutional Amendment to add the additional criteria for election to a statewide office to include the majority vote of the counties with each individual county being assigned one vote allocated to the popular majority vote winner of each individual county.

    Democrats have not won a statewide office position in Texas for decades, but the proposal would almost guarantee that they could never win a position ever again.

    The last presidential election provides an example of how extreme this plan would be. Former President Donald Trump won the state against President Joe Biden by a margin of 52 percent to 46 percent, respectively. But under the Texas GOP’s proposed changes, Trump would have won 91 percent of the total counties compared to Biden’s 9 percent.

    Even if a Democratic candidate has a majority of voters supporting them — likely through obtaining large margins of victories in highly populated counties — they still wouldn’t win the election. In Dallas County, for example, where Biden won with 598,576 votes compared to Trump’s 307,076, the outcome would be canceled out under the GOP’s proposal by the outcome in Loving County, a sparsely populated jurisdiction where Trump won 60 votes total compared to Biden’s nine votes from people living there.

    In short, the Republican Party would likely become the only party in the state under this scheme, although far right third parties could potentially do well under it, too.

    On his Substack, historian Kevin Kruse described the proposal as a “throwback to the decidedly undemocratic systems that southern states had before the civil rights era.” Indeed, several states, Kruse noted, had similar voting systems in place that Republicans in Texas are now proposing to bring back; such systems served as a means to prevent Black voters from obtaining any real representation in the state legislature during the Jim Crow era.

    Those systems were invalidated by a series of Supreme Court rulings that created the standard of “one person, one vote” in state elections. If Texas tries to reimplement the plan, however, it will likely return to the Court, which has taken a decidedly right-wing turn over the past two decades, and may give reconsideration to those past precedents.

  • Donald Trump's popularity is soaring
  • I have said it before but I am blown away by what he has accomplished in one term with such an adversarial setup. I loved obama but he pretty much flushed his first term down the toilet trying to work with the rebulicans. Granted joe had that as a lesson learned by that time. There are to many lessons in recent history to ignore. How much better position would we be environment wise if the president after carter had not symbolically taken down the solar panels and had a deregulation emphasis and then put in gore whose main platform was global warming instead of bush jr. Then we have had 45 years of tax cuts (any time its been raised its by an insignificant amounts next to the cuts) and it has not been a good thing. As a matter of fact from my experience the time following tax increases have tended to be better right up to about when they cut them again.

  • Medical Bill negotiation, how should one do it?
  • Its a bit like the law that is on the books but not enforced. Until it is and the problem with using another credit card is now you are taking out of your regular savings when you specifically have saved for medical issues from a pool that is not being used for that. Its not great.

  • Americans shrug over falling birthrate
  • Its happening now though. Its like being anxious about walking down a dark alley because you might get the shit beat out of you as opposed to being anxious about the medical bills you will have while your getting the shit beat out of you.

  • Donald Trump's popularity is soaring
  • Exactly. He should be doing something about student loan debt. Like blanket forgiving it and if they stop him in the courts then he should turn around and use the judgements to identify more narrow actions he should take. He should get rid of the bs of companies calling all their employees exempt and not paying overtime. Or do something about non compete clauses in contracts. Or fight the roe vs wade and get an over the counter birth control pill available. At least get passed a large budget bill that prioritizes encouraging energy efficiency and green energy. Maybe getting our aging infrstructure more healthy while your at it. How about do something about all these bs fees companies charge. Or hey given jan 6th how about revising the law to make it clear the vice president can't just choose the presidential electors. Maybe incentivize important production capacity for the country like microchips. Cancers been around for awhile. How bout putting more effort toward eliminating that. Or jeesh at least make the airlines not blow you off if they cancel a flight. I mean common. Show us something with the one term youve gotten. Anything at all. Something we can measure against trumps accomplishments in the term he got.

  • I was caring about work today.

    Please help! Argh! Im thinking about it right now. Get these thoughts out of my head.

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    hello

    subscribing. been looking for something like this. sometimes I have something that does not really have to do with anything and I want to let it out. will post when I have something if I remember.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

    Are we cut off?

    I can only get my subscriptions and not the all feed. I feel like maybe I am only getting kbin content.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

    Is there a way to message a user?

    I have not seen an option so replying to a thread seems to be the only way that I can tell.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

    url link blocking. What happened to it.

    So when someone submitted a url at least at one point it would show up on the right and you could block it. So if someone posted a newsweek link you could block any link postings from like newsweek.com or maybe reddit.com or google.com. Lately though I have not been able to. It seemed to disapear at some point. I have not seen it as an option in a long time.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

    Reporting?

    So im pretty happy with users just being able to block and control things themselves but there has been posts from this somali call girls account where I feel like the extra step of reporting is warranted.

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    Looking for the word or phrase that means how many barrels of oil we produce from one barrel of oil.

    Question is in title. My searching is actually rather disturbing this morning as the results are fillled with industry fud and not what im looking for. What im really trying to find is a graph of oil produced historically because I recall we used to get something like a 50 barrel return but now we get single digits.

    Edited - thanks for the info. kbin has an issue or at least my account does for some magazines where I can't see any replies when logged in so I can see it from a non logged in browser but can't reply so im replying in my post. EROI fits what I was looking for but if anyone finds a nice historical chart for it specifically with oil that would be great but with the EROI term I think I will be able to find it.

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    How do folks feel about the firing of Arwady?

    It bothers me as I feel she was fired do to her doing her job and sticking to her guns on what the correct thing to do given the data. FYI im on kbin and my notifications page is not working so I may not respond so well.

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    Search engine that defaults to open street map?

    I tend to use maps from a search browser and it suddenly occurred to me that if the search engine I used defaulted to open street maps I would use it. Do any search engines default map searches to open street maps?

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

    View users block lists.

    I sorta hate this request as it seems invasive but I was thinking about folks in the future and even myself now and I was thinking I would love to see what folks that I have subscribed to have blocked. I don't subscribe to a person unless Im really impressed by what they post or their discourse so its like a trusted list of users for me. That made me think I would love to see how they have blocked so I could look at it and see if it looks like an obvious person or place I would want to block.

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    steam @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

    Will the index headset work standalone? When I look at the site it still lists the base stations as a requirement but looking at the base station it seems like those are for the controller.

    Will the index headset work standalone? When I look at the site it still lists the base stations as a requirement but looking at the base station it seems like those are for the controller.

    \#steam

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    Cybersecurity employee training that includes chatbots? I know, I know. I should ask this in technology or something but what im really looking for is more business related. Im looking for those d

    Cybersecurity employee training that includes chatbots? I know, I know. I should ask this in technology or something but what im really looking for is more business related. Im looking for those duh, duh, kind of employee training but updated with the dangers of chatbots. Things like don't paste in private or confidential data, don't trust its answers are right, ask questions generally and move down to specifics, etc. etc. And yes I did ask a chatbot for the answer.

    \#AskKbin

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HubertManne @kbin.social

    search for thread lists. I realize this is not exactly the best time to suggest features but man would I love a search bar at the top of the thread bars where I could put like. I dunno. -titan

    search for thread lists. I realize this is not exactly the best time to suggest features but man would I love a search bar at the top of the thread bars where I could put like. I dunno. -titan

    \#kbinMeta

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    www.cnn.com For first time, US task force recommends screening adults for anxiety disorders | CNN

    All adults in the United States ages 19 to 64 should be screened for anxiety disorders, according to a recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force that was released Tuesday.

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    apnews.com US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation's first 'lab-grown' meat

    Chicken grown from animal cells, not from slaughtered birds, can now be sold in the U.S. The Agriculture Department issued approvals Wednesday to California firms Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell the products, known as “lab-grown” or “cultivated” meat. The meat is grown in steel tanks, using cells...

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    www.nature.com Large global variations in the carbon dioxide removal potential of seaweed farming due to biophysical constraints - Communications Earth & Environment

    Cultivating 1 million km2 of the most productive exclusive economic zones, which are in the equatorial Pacific, could produce 1 Gt of seaweed carbon per year; however, beyond these productive waters carbon harvest efficiency drops dramatically, according to global dynamic seaweed growth simulations.

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