settxy

joined 3 years ago
[–] settxy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

100% agree.

I can wear a t-shirt and shorts pretty much every day without having to look at the weather to know if I need the light jacket, the jacket or the coat, ugh I picked the wrong one, now I'm freezing, or burning to death. Oh crap, I shoulda brought gloves. Where's THE BEANIE... ughhh.... THESE SOCKS ARE TOO DAMN THIN.

[–] settxy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh... pretty much the entire agriculture industry works this way... Monsanto forces farmers to sign licenses that they won't use the seeds produced by their crops to grow more crops.

[–] settxy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I believe the 'harm' here is that the USPS isn't allowed to set internal policies for how to operate. Such as the USPS being allowed to set policies on what they can/can't mail. This might mean that their rules around refusing to ship some items (e.g. explosives, hazmat, air bags, mercury, etc.) might be blocked as that's not an 'illegal' substance or whatever.

To be clear, I don't agree with this ruling, since I think this blocks a state's ability to operate their elections as they see fit. There's also no reason to block the mail as it's not dangerous or illegal. So, I think the court missed the mark here.

[–] settxy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fighting the classification of lootboxes as gambling. Sony is absolute garbage, but Valve isn't perfect.

https://youtu.be/13eiDhuvM6Y?is=6S3VWl4DnKcaw3LQ

[–] settxy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Last year? They've been a cartel for far longer than that... The early 2000s there were multiple indictments including some executives serving time in jail. Early 2010s the EU fined the cartels. Then even in the late 2010s there was a suit over price fixing... They've just gotten better at their cartel operations to dodge litigation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

[–] settxy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I've found Faugus to just be better.

[–] settxy@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cringe…

AI slop?

Plutonium-238's half-life is 87.7 years, Americium-241 is 432.6 years. Which... is almost 5 times longer, so... not sure why that's cringe?

With an atomic number of 241, it’s hardly small.

I believe they're referring to the fact that it's not an element of major topic. This is the first time I've ever heard of it.

I think this could be compelling given that tech continues to get more power efficient. I don't know the numbers, but if we were to launch the same tech that's on Voyager 1/2 today, would we be able to do that with 1/5 the power? If so, those probes could likely still have all their instruments running if they used Americium.