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DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
  • I think that revoking a citizen's citizenship should only be decidable by the supreme court, and there needs to be a new trial for every single time the DOJ tries to revoke the citizenship of a citizen.

    I think that because that means every triaé must be taken very seriously, and there cannot be summary revocations.

  • First electric passenger plane lands at JFK in milestone flight. Travels 110 km costing $8 in fuel.
  • I think it is more specifically electric planes as large as commercial airline passenger planes are impossible. It has a lot to do with battery mass to energy content ratio. Kerosine is about 46.4 MJ (megajoules) per kilogram. Lithium-air batteries, for example, only have about 6.12 MJ/kg.

    So, that means you need 7 times as much battery (in mass) to have the same energy content of kerosine fuel. Naively, we can maybe say that means electric planes only have 1/6 of the range of an equivalent kerosine plane.[^]

    Interestingly, lithium-air batteries theoretically have the largest possible energy density for any battery at 40.1 MJ/kg.

    ^ The calculations are really basic and probably only slightly reflect reality (since there are many other important factors. For example, Hydrogen has a lot more energy per kilogram than kerosine, but because it is much less dense, it has much less energy per m^3 than kerosine. This has made hydrogen gas very impractical for either internal-combustion engines, or planes), but I think it gives an idea of what the problem is.

  • What are your advices to cool homes without AC ?
  • Passive or Active Ventilation. The idea is to encourage air to pass through the home, which helps with removing heat from inside. Passive Ventilation would be opening windows, using wind catchers, etc. This depends on the design of your home, among other things that you probably don't really have control over. Active ventilation is the same idea, but you use strategically placed fans to induce good airflow. For example, if you have two windows that are opposite to each other, you can place a fan at one window to intake air, and a fan at the other window as exhaust.

  • By Limiting Nationwide Injunctions, Supreme Court Declares 'Open Season on All Our Rights'
  • It's stupid. Sure, one could argue that nationwide injunctions are overreach, but they are necessary to limit the otherwise unlimited executive order power. The real overreach that needs to be removed is the executive order power. Nationwide injunctions would not be as necessary if laws were actually created and voted on by congress.

  • The damage Trump has done to the US dollar will make America and Americans poorer for generations
  • The graph is clearly labelled. The graph IS greatly exaggerating the level of change, on purpose. Otherwise, the graph would just be a flat horizontal line.

    The graph isn't the misleading part. It is the comment on top of the graph, which claims that the graph is evidence for what they are saying, which is incorrectly reading the graph: the US Dollar depreciated by around 11%, the graph says, not 20%. Plus, it does seem that they are using the scary appearance of the graph (OMG downward spiral!) to elicit fear.

  • Societies grappling with a ‘silent but growing’ prison crisis | UN News
  • I think prisons have to be reformed in almost every country, including my own (Canada). Prison should fill one or both of these roles:

    1. Isolate criminals from society,
    2. Limit freedom as a deterrent for crime. Generally agree that imprisoned people should have the opportunity to rehabilitate.

    My point that i want to make is that the punishment should not exceed simply limiting freedom. Prison should protect prisoners from violence. Prison should allow prisoners to live fulfilling lives while there in prison. Prison rape should not be a fact of life in prison. Prison should not dehumanise prisoners. Prison should guard all rights of prisoners (apart from freedom of movement). Prisoners can't be forced to do work or even follow a routine. Etc.

    Unfortanutely, it seems things are so fucked up that not many have time to seriously fight for prisoner's rights (including me).

  • ‘No Kings’ was biggest protest in U.S. history: data analyst
  • I think the statistic of 3.5 is more of a symptom rather than the cause of a regime's fall. For 3.5% to protest means that:

    1. Anger has reached a high level in the general population (a lot lot higher than 3.5%),
    2. The state of affairs is dire enough and hopeless enough that the trust that the system can improve on its own is very very low.

    Probably other reasons.

  • Nevada Governor Lombardo vetoes bill which would have established maximum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals
  • The article fucked it up. The bill (first version) says: "Section 8 of this bill establishes the maximum ratios for the number of patients that may be assigned to a direct care nurse at one time in certain hospitals in a county ... ".

  • Thoughts about private voting
  • I am not sure how PieFed does it. I hope someone more familiar with the actual protocol can shed some light.

    What is important here is whether private votes from the same profile are associated with the same voter ID. PieFed accounts have two subaccounts, a public posting account, and a private voting account. When voting on a Lemmy post, the anonymous voting profile is used. There are multiple ways to do this:

    1. (the way your post assumes) Assign a unique ID x to every voting profile, and every vote by the same ID x gets tagged with x. This is easily traceable, like you said. Even if auto-upvoting of one's own posts is not done, one can still gather a lot of information about the voter.

    2. Do the same as 1, but, do not tag the vote directly with the voter's ID x. Instead, encrypt/hash the ID x so that the voter ID tag is different for every vote, but could be decrypted by the hosting instance to get the original ID x.

    From my understanding, it is 2. 2 is better for privacy, with a caveat. Admins would still have the ability to deanonymise private voting IDs.

  • Old treatment just dropped.
  • It is true, it seems, that Nicotine treats ADHD. There is at least one study that showed nicotine patches (18h and 24h ones) provide a mild to moderate relief for ADHD in people that do not use nicotine otherwise (e.g. nonsmokers). So, it doesn't just treat the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.

    Cigarette smoke is known to contain a clinically significant amount of MAO inhibiters that are not nicotine. MAO inhibiters are regularly used to treat depression and anxiety, and theoretically could treat ADHD since MAOI's generally prevent breakdown of dopamine. There is some nuance here.*

    • For example, there are different types of MAO (monoamine oxidase - an enzyme that breaks down monoamines. Dopamine is an example of a monoamine), like MAO-A vs MAO-B, which break down different monoamines, and MAOI's (MAO Inhibitors) differ on whether they inhibit A, B or both. Furthermore, there are reversible vs irreversible MAOI.
  • Ex-deputy in California repays $3,500 in cash he stole from homeless man
  • Aside from the deputy's fucked up actions, this man had to save $3500 for dental work, money that could have helped in many other crucial ways, like renting a home. It is fucked up that urgent dental care is not free or at least much cheaper.

  • This survey is nuts. Here are some quotes: > 4. Pierre Poilievre will lock up the worst criminals for life. Do you want safer streets?* Yes – Jail, not bail! No – I want dangerous criminals terrorizing my streets

    > 7. The Carney Trudeau Liberals have FAILED our military. Pierre Poilievre and Canada First Conservatives will strengthen it. Do you want a stronger military?* Yes - Warrior culture—NOT woke culture. No – Woke culture is more important

    The * just means its a required field, if you are wondering.

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    [Question] Are there disadvantages to PR that FPTP doesn't have?

    I am genuinely curious. Some of my passing thoughts are below, if some context is needed.

    I strongly believe that PR is a much better and fairer system than FPTP, and I hope it passes in Canada at least at the federal level.

    The question. Are there any real disadvantages to PR compared to FPTP?

    PR is obviously not a peefect system, and it has downsides compared to other forms of representation, such as Direct Democracy. But i cant find any real downsides when compared to FPTP.

    I heard about:

    1. PR allows extremist ideas to be represented. This is maybe true, but I think it is blown out of proportion It is also probably not a negative. Allowing their representation means that these ideas can be challenged in public, rather than simply censored. It also could reduce feelings of not being represented among the public, feelings which might be a strong contributing force to the rise of authoritarianism.

    2. PR could effectively freeze government by not allowing anything to pass. This could be a negative, but in many cases it isn't. In case the majority is the extremist party, PR allows a sort of damage control.

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