[–] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

Okay, so in the spirit of this community's claimed goal let's analyse this critically. Here we have a very politically active conservative and member of conservative think tank, someone who literally tried to sue Cornell for not hiring white people, opening with dogwhistles like "trans-identified person", claiming that another study is completely useless primarily because not enough people were involved, after admitting to having harassed the people running the original study in an attempt to gain the information on the people involved despite being actively hostile to the already marginalised group, and making no attempt or even plan to run a larger scale study to either confirm or refute the result. Also, even if the study was right, they claim it's too narrow scope because they didn't include their suggested follow up study in this one too, because dividing the groups even further would somehow make this result clearer.

It's also published in Theory and Society, which recently had a mass resignation of the entire editorial board now replaced by what has been criticised as "a right-wing board with an evolutionist agenda".

It doesn't take a whole lot of critical thinking to see this is baseless political point scoring rather than any real attempt at science.

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  • I've never seen that, could be true for some brands but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Most brands on a fresh roll would have a tab on the end of the tape anyway, after one use any marking on the inside of the roll wouldn't line up with the new end.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Huh? I literally just sent you two links about roadside walkways. Australia's one is under the header "Footpaths in road reservations", while technically it doesn't always need to contain a road, it does include the road and area around it. Here's a definition from a random Aus council I found with a quick search:

    A road reserve is the public land outside your property boundary and generally includes the nature strip or verge, roadside drains or kerbing, footpath and roadway.

    The UK one literally gives that advice beside a diagram of a footway beside a road while clearly marking the 2m recommendation on the diagram.

    Personally I'm the same size wherever I'm walking, but I'd still prefer the extra space when I'm around cars rather than on a safe path, I'm not even sure what point you were trying to make?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    a 36” sidewalk

    So... About the minimum for a single person to walk with little leeway, normally in a safe indoor area with no car traffic?

    36" is the absolute bare minimum required walkway space in the US by ADA to technically be wheelchair compliant in that a single wheelchair user might be able to use it, roughly half the minimum 1.8m clear width recommended by Australia's Department of Transport, and less than half the 2m minimum unobstructed walkway space recommended for pedestrians in low-traffic areas by the UK's department for transport. This is undeniably too narrow.

    That road looks wide enough for about 4 cars, it's not a "waste" to surrender some of that to make it slightly less hostile to pedestrians.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Isn't that because it's Athena's shield though? Otherwise it's pretty easy to get around it.

    You could use two mirrors like a mini periscope to look directly at her, since it's a double reflection you're double protected! Or maybe they cancel each other out. And what about prisms or lenses bending light, does that work as well as a reflection? Are people with glasses immune?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This comment is very hard to parse. Is your complaint that Linux is worse because Windows screwed up your partitioning? If you're talking about partitioning you're already talking as a technical user, I'm not sure how Windows screwing up your partitions is evidence Linux less usable for non-technical people?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I can't say why people are using czar specifically but people have been called the "lord of X" or "Y king" practically forever without being literal kings or lords. It's just an emphatic way to say they're seen as powerful within a given space, it's not a claim that they're literally a Russian ruler.

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  • submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/meta@programming.dev
     

    Not sure exactly how long this has been happening, but it's been bugging me for the last week at least.

    Running Firefox 129.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint, it seems like the login session is just constantly expiring. Every time I boot up my machine the first time I open programming.dev I have to sign in again. Closing all programming.dev tabs and navigating back to programming.dev without closing Firefox seems to always preserve the session and not require a new sign-in.

    Closing all Firefox windows then opening Firefox and navigationg to programming.dev is a semi-reliable way to reproduce, about 75% of the time it requires a new sign-in even when I'd signed in less then a minute ago before closing the window. Further testing shortly before submitting this post and those steps no longer reproduce the issue, I'm signed in even after closing the window. Maybe it's a recurring transient issue with login service?

    Potentially relevant add-ons are UBlock Origin (0 blocks, shouldn't be an issue) and Privacy Badger (also 0 trackers blocked). I'm connected through VPN, but the issue seems to appear regardless of whether I stay on the same VPN server or switch servers. Firefox reports Content-Security-Policy issues but these seem unrelated and also appear when the session is successfully preserved.

    Possibly helpful, occasionally when I open programming.dev I'll see it's signed out then automatically signs in after a second or so; this might have been a known Lemmy issue at some point with delayed authentication as a (now insufficient) solution. A good chance that's a dead-end, might be worth checking anyway.

    Edit: It's worth noting that I'm also signed in via the android Jerboa app on another device and don't get signed out there. This could definitely be relevant if it turns out the Jerboa session somehow interferes with the Firefox session.

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