How to punish Iran? Convince the people of Iran to elect trump as their president. The damage and destruction caused to the domestic economy would devastate Iran even further.

You want to blame Singer Sewing Machine company for this. They’re the ones in the 1850s that came up with the idea of pre-made non-negotiable contracts. Before this, every single contract had to have lawyers adding and removing terms until both sides agreed to it. I know today’s version sucks, but the alternative could be worse.

Imagine having to bring (and pay!) your lawyer to a car dealership to buy a car or even sign up for Netflix. Imagine how much more expensive the goods and services would cost you because of the army of lawyers needed to negotiate contracts for every single consumer.

Looks like Google Play Music was the product name until it was discontinued in 2020. This is a clue that this chart may be way out-of-date.

Absolutely! People are always wondering “how do you get experience in X?”. The answer is “be the person that volunteers to research and implement it”. Multiple times in my career I’ve done this and I took that knowledge and experience and got a better higher paying job from it. Rinse repeat.

If your employer is going to pay you to learn a skill or product that will make you more valuable, if you turn that down you’re passing up an opportunity to advance. That advancement just may not be at that employer.

Or a more cynical version of this is “make your mistakes in learning at your current employer and if your efforts are not rewarded, take that knowledge and experience elsewhere for higher pay”.

I’m all for giving Ukraine this type of capability, but tying the capability with a civilian product name has massive risks that used to mostly just be theory until wildberries warehouses started exploding. I just checked Amazon, there’s a LOT of starlink for sale on there.

Not quite the same thing.

The fact that Wildberries sells drones isn’t the reason that Ukraine is targeting them. Its the fact that formal Russian military units and Russian soldiers are ordering drones, body armor, grenade release parts, etc from Wildberries that get delivered by Wildberries to the Russian military. As in, there is no distinction from Wildberries and the Russian military logistics channels, ItsTheSamePicture.jpg.

Now, if the Ukrainian military is ordering Starlink terminals from Amazon, then Amazon could be targeted by Russia for the same reason. Instead, Ukraine is getting Starlink terminals en masse from foriegn governments and directly from SpaceX.

Even more specifically, Ukraine has designed and built their own antennas that are compatible with many different satellite constellations with Starlink being just one of them. As I understand it, these Ukrainian build antennas are the ones we see on drone guided weapons.

Knowing that one if us will be without the other when one of us eventually dies first at some unknown point in the future hopefully from old age. It certainly beats the alternative though of not having met and fallen in love.

There are better targets for the anger for not paying enough taxes:

Alphabet (Google parent company) earned $132.17 billion in profits in 2025 and paid $26.656 billion in US taxes for an effective tax rate of 20.1%. Sure this could be, and historically was, higher before trump cut the corporate tax rate from 35% in 2017.

Tesla, on the other hand at the same time in 2025, paid $0 in US taxes in 2025 on profits of $3.794 billion for an effective tax rate of 0%.

Google isn’t in financial trouble from this spending. Cash Flow Negative just means in a specific period they’re spending more than they bring for that period. Google and other tech giants have been sitting on mountains of unused cash at $242.5 billion for years. This is a rare time where they’re finally dipping into it to the tune of $5.9 billion.

The front page is just VetOfTheSeas and everybody else lol.

The default Lemmy UI “front page” is posts that are “Active”. First, try setting it to “Scaled” and you’ll get much more variety of posts instead of just the ones with the most replies. You can set this as a setting each time you visit Lemmy, or edit your Lemmy profile so it defaults to “Scaled” all the time you visit.

Second, start cultivating Lemmy communities you like. “Subscribe” to communities and block the ones you don’t like. Your “front page” will have lots more content you like and far fewer of things you don’t care about.

Third, some poster are consistently too far away from from what I want to consume on the internet. You’ll know them when you see them where everything they post something you wish you didn’t have to see. Block these users and you won’t see their posts or their comments on other posts. None of these change affect what other people see so there’s not risk of harming others or censoring them for others. They are free to continue to be seen by whomever else doesn’t want to block them.

With these three changes I have found Lemmy to be a much more engaging place.

The first company implemented remote work with options. I don’t trust them anymore and would never go back.

If the price was right, I’d absolutely go back with a full remote work position. These organizations have no institutional memory. Holding a grudge for something a CEO three CEOs ago could be cutting off your nose to spike your face. There is no longevity in the corporate world anymore anywhere. The optimized path for workers is to get the highest salary for the most tolerable conditions for as long as it lasts until the salary falls or the conditions become intolerable.

If you have better options elsewhere, sure go elsewhere, but if that old employer is offering the most compensation with the best conditions, I would say its the best place to go…until it isn’t again.

Trump is worse he isn’t out of office and not causing harm.

In 1938 Hitler seized the Sudetenland (modern day Slovakia and Czechia) that was just before the gas chambers. If trump seizes Greenland, then I’ll say he’s on track to be worse than Hitler. As it stands, as horrible as trump is, he barely ranks against Hitler so far.

I know trump is abhorrent, but don’t downplay the inhuman sins Hitler committed against the world and the people of 20th century Europe.

I think Trump is actually a bigger cunt than Hitler.

trump is a tremendous asshole having caused permanent damage to the USA and the world along with indirect deaths from cuts in humanitarian aid (USAID) plus the deaths of civilians in Iran in an unnecessary war, but lets not forget that Hitler was the man that caused WWII in Europe and made literal gas chambers for mass killings of millions of Poles, Jews, LGBT, Belarusians, Blacks, Greeks, Italians, Roma, Russians, Serbs, Ukrainians, his political opponents and others.

Hitler is still worse than trump.

I guess I’ll go against the common answer. I choose “customs”.

Learning customs requires vastly more time than language. Each situation would have its own nuance given the parties involved, the prior events, and the intent you want to communicate. Social class, religion, and history all influence customs. Dress, speech, body language, all are part of customs that are subtle and not necessarily written down to study.

To be able to instantly know all the customs for every situation would be amazing! Language can be learned in isolation and with the instant knowledge of custom language learning itself would be significantly easier.

Although less integrated with the vehicle’s systems, aftermarket telematics and diagnostic-port (OBD) solutions offer limited cloud connectivity to fill the gap left by OE services when they’re phased out. Unfortunately, most are engineered for fleet services

No mention of Open Vehicle Monitoring System (OVMS) here? Its mostly focused on older EVs where the manufacturer has abandoned the cloud portal for remote management of the car. However, that’s nearly the exact problem the article is calling out for other non-EV cars.

oil

It’s right there, in the first paragraph. How did the writers miss it?

One important fact that the article author left out of their article that might have cleared up the confusion:

“Oil generates a very small amount of electricity in the United States, totaling about 16 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) or roughly 0.4% of the nation’s total utility-scale electricity generation.” source

So (in the USA anyway) increases in oil costs don’t have a substantive increase in the price of electricity. So to confirm the headline accuracy, Iran war (and the subsequent increase in oil prices) isn’t increasing electricity prices in the USA.

My first eink device was the Sony PRS-500 way back in 2007. It was slow and heavy for the time, but I was instantly sold on eink. I bought a Kindle in 2012 when it was a much more open ecosystem that absorbed the Mobi ebook commercial format. A year or two ago I bought a Kindle 12th gen, but Amazon lockdown, forced ads, and DRM was finally too much and I’ve given up on Amazon for ebooks. I was able to jailbreak that 12th gen Kindle and run KORreader on it so its no longer dependent on Amazon to read DRM free books. I can always boot back into the regular Kindle app if I want to read checked out library ebooks which run on Kindle DRM. I’m pretty happy with my current solution.

There are good guides for how to select an eink ereader that will likely have more info on today’s choices for you. Eink readers measuring battery life in “weeks per charge” is something you’ll love if you’ve been reading on an LCD tablet.

She concluded the plaintiffs – which include the ACLU of Ohio – didn’t show a certainty that future injury will occur.

I like to buy print books because I hate reading on tiny screens.

I agree with you about color LCD screens. However, do you count e-ink displays as a “screen”? I find reading on e-ink, better than paper. Publishers have cut corners in the last 15 years shrinking font sizes to use fewer pages and using cheaper paper. Having dynamically adjustment of font size helps my older eyes. Additionally frontlit e-ink displays are very comfortable for me to read in lowlight conditions compared to paper relying on external light source. Lastly, the weight of an e-ink devices is a fraction of the giant 1000 page novels I keep finding myself reading. Having hundreds of those books available on my single e-ink reader is so much easier than hauling around even a couple hardbacks or paperbacks.

If I have the choice between a paper book or ebook on e-ink for regular written word books, I’ll choose ebook nearly every time.

This isn’t new. Many young Boomers were helped financially by their Silent Generation parents in going to college and buying their first houses.

I honestly don’t know why the GOP are attacking mail-in ballots. I would guess the majority of mail-in ballot users are established older adults, a demographic that usually leans more red. If the GOP is successful in stopping mail-in ballots, won’t a higher percentage of their own voters be blocked from voting for the GOP?