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All that says is that Disney moved the ground up so that they could have underground stuff without it getting flooded. Or is the entire park the roof of a one story building?

You really either ride it out or be OK with the chance of missing out on a few more years of a hot market. I've been expecting a big (sustained) correction since 2018 and even COVID couldn't get it done.

If you need money soon, put it in something fully insulated, like a CD or HYSA if you need it even more liquid. If you need wealth in 10+ years, just ride it out. Keep putting that piece of your paycheck in the infinite money glitch machine.

I live in California and am required to water a lawn as a renter with my drinking water. Turf grass may not need drinking water, but I'd guess the portion of water used for grass that is recycled is not particularly high.

You may also be surprised about what makes water "drinking water". There's a water project in San Diego that is aiming to close the water loop by purifying all wastewater using RO and UV, to the point that it is lab-quality pure water. It's illegal to add minerals to it and pump it into the municipal water supply. They have to discharge it into a river first and let it have a certain "residence time" in an open air reservoir. The water we drink here isn't much more than lake water, and far less clean than the water that can be made by recycling wastewater.

No ethical consumption under capitalism. Can believe workers should be paid by the business owner and not by patron tips and believe that going to a world cup match to watch your country play your favorite sport is no worse than shopping at a big box store or paying your landlord.

on homophonic · c/memes · 1 pts · 106d

I don't see how you can watch the same Scott Manly video and have that takeaway. Rockets blow up on pads. It's not Bezos's evil doing. It's not going to change anything about the industry. He's not in trouble.

Musk did far worse to "protected" wetlands in Texas and what happened?

An elephant and a donkey fight in a puppet show and the crowd cheers for one or the other because one of them is going to decide how good your future is. And when people start to notice their life is getting harder for working people most of the time, they're told they can stop the decline by cheering louder for the puppet that's not currently in power.

The reality today is one of those puppets is going to be in control. Would you like the one that tries to clean the wounds and put on bandaids or the one that keeps playing with knives?

You can sit at the puppet show quietly, but whether or not you cheer, they're going to pick a winner. If you want to leave this circus you better hope the puppet that is open to the idea of changing how we pick a winner starts winning a lot.

Plus they also allow a user to present an age bracket of "over 18" despite defining users as under 18. I think they just did a bad job of clearly scoping it. It should be clear that it's a tool for a parent to use and that it's merely requiring that software implement age signaling all the way from OS to website to application. A default OS configuration should have no age defined and nothing should require an age to be defined. But if a parent does define an age then that signal should be honored.

Yeah I think the charitable way to read the law is that it requires OS, applications, etc to implement a standardized system for setting, requesting, and receiving age bracket data of a user. It doesn't require anyone to use it. By defining user as under 18 for the purpose of this section it means nothing in the section applies to users over 18.

I get protesting about this because implementation is not trivial and there's no time to do so. But creating a standard and all OS's, websites, and relavent applications adopting that standard isn't a bad thing (unrelated apps like text editors should clearly be exempt). It would make it way harder for kids to circumvent parental controls on a device.

on Why don't they get this? · c/memes · 4 pts · 119d

40% of US cornfields are used for energy today. If these fields were turned into solar farms with natural meadows under them, not only would we actually recover more energy per acre than corn ethanol, but we would start restoring the American prairie that has been nearly erased from the continent.

It uses far less materials to build arrays in a field than over a parking lot. The panels don't need to be mounted as high. There doesn't need to be as much safety margin and protection of the panels because people won't be underneath them.

The bigger problem is getting the power from solar farms to where it is needed, but this is also not as big a problem as anti-electrification lobby wants you to believe.

on once in a rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 7 pts · 121d

The US used to have recessions multiple times a decade. So it was pretty rare that a economic downturn would be very severe. Like simmering pot of water with lots of small bubbles. Now they do everything they can't to keep the economy hot. When there's a downturn its BIG. The size you'd maybe see once in a lifetime before. That same simmering pot with thick, hot chemical cheese product that build up a big ol bubble that finally bursts and coats your face with hot sticky queso.

on Zeno's paradox · c/comicstrips · 7 pts · 121d

Yes but the point was that it couldn't be proved using the construction that he defined. You can prove it easily with a different construction, such as defining the hand moves 1 meter per second and the object is 1 meter away, therefore takes 1 second to reach. But they couldn't yet deal with this alternate definition that still followed all the existing mathematical rules they had at the time. A finite distance could be divided in half, creating two smaller finite distances, but they had no concept of infinity or convergence, so they had no tools to deal with a recursive division.

on Oh yeah · c/womensstuff · 29 pts · 121d

They paused the entire women's race, so it wasn't like it was just her who got "punished". They probably should have noticed the gap was decreasing way sooner and intervened before it got so bad that a headline like this can come out.

Without all the details this seems really bad. Even with more details than the headline it seems awful that she had to stop and then ended up losing the race by a lot. It almost seems like she stopped while the race continued behind her. But with all the details, it seems like she may have lost the race due to her strategy. She was pushing way too hard early on and the women who paced themselves better ended up passing her later in the race.