[-] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago

It's worth noting that the current outbreak that's occurring north of Panama started prior to DOGE doing its bullshit. Apparently it began in 2022.

[-] [email protected] 307 points 2 months ago

For anyone like me whose bullshit detector calibration is off from the past 10 years of crazy, this is indeed a real tweet from the official White House Twitter account.

[-] [email protected] 106 points 3 months ago

He doesn't understand anything. Here's what he said about income taxes and tariffs today.

They established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government

[-] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago

No, it's half the tariff those countries place on American goods. Or so he claims. I have no idea where those numbers come from.

[-] [email protected] 89 points 10 months ago

The only good thing about Fahrenheit is that 69 degrees (20.5 C) is a nice temperature.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago

One of my professors wrote the textbook we were using. Before the first day of class, he sent out a greeting email. Attached to that email was a .PDF of the textbook. Hell yeah.

[-] [email protected] 418 points 1 year ago

Reddit does shitty stuff, but at least I'm able to find stuff on there. Why Discord took off as a medium to replace forums is beyond me. It's not easily searchable, and search engines can't index it. If people aren't fastidious about replying to messages they're responding to, it's just a nonsense stream of consciousness from dozens of people.

That being said, I hate the formatting of most forums. Reddit and Lemmy's comment nesting is excellent. It's very easy to follow conversations.

[-] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago

Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

[-] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago

The plane is 34 years old. It's probably more likely it's Delta's lack of maintenance than a problem with Boeing.

[-] [email protected] 247 points 1 year ago

Philips screws are awful. They strip if you look at them wrong. Flatheads should only be used on thumbscrews just in case you need a little extra torque from a screwdriver.

Torx and Hex are excellent.

[-] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago

Tangentially related, but are job fairs even worth it? In my limited experience, you wait in a long line for someone to tell you to apply online. I was better off getting a list of employers who were attending, and then looking through each of their websites.

[-] [email protected] 92 points 2 years ago

Cool.

The average income in India is 25x ish less than that of the US. If we scale the $75 million cost to land on the moon by 25 times, we get $1.8 billion. The Perseverance rover's cost is estimated at $2.75 billion and that thing landed on Mars.

It's incredibly impressive that India has landed on the moon on their 2nd try. Nothing should take away from that, and India should be very proud of their achievement. But geez this is a braindead article. Yes, poorer countries can pay people less do the same amount of work as someone in another country.

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