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Highway congestion is starting to bite. How do we get cars off the road?
  • Adding mass transit, incentives for work-from-home, etc. are all good. Taxing miles driven will reduce miles driven. Just taxing EV miles to make up for lost gas tax revenue probably won't affect miles driven, except for EV drivers. It provides no new reason for GVs to drive less.

  • Minecraft is leaving Reddit
  • But, Brawndo has what plants crave. It has electrolytes.

  • SUBSCRIPTIONS instead of RANDOM MAGAZINES?
  • That's perfect, Arth. Thank you.

  • SUBSCRIPTIONS instead of RANDOM MAGAZINES?
  • You may have missed the "Save" button at the bottom of the settings page. I missed it the first try. :-(

  • Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?
  • I will look at that, but I am not sure it would work smoothly. The interface requires me to "Inquire" after two of the steps.

  • Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws
  • Would you want to be responsible for checking IDs over the internet? No sane company would want to be responsible for getting it wrong.

    Also, would you be willing to send a scan of your drivers license to a porn website? Any website?

  • SUBSCRIPTIONS instead of RANDOM MAGAZINES?
  • Also, say why. I would prefer to see subscriptions because I come here to see what's popped up in those magazines, not what's in some other magazines.

  • SUBSCRIPTIONS instead of RANDOM MAGAZINES?

    Would you prefer the homescreen to feature a list of your subscriptions rather than the current random magazines box? I would.

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    Highway congestion is starting to bite. How do we get cars off the road?
  • This would work, but it would be better if you had to pay for by the miles on your vehicle rather than tolls on any particular road.

  • The real reason the war for independence began.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
    "Oreo was created in 1912 as an imitation of Hydrox."

  • Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?
  • I have to enter data into payroll for when a teacher covers a class for an absent teacher. Usually, there are 5 teachers who I pay for one hour each. Each teacher has an ID number.

    To pay one teacher I have to enter their ID number. Select their job code from a drop down list, tell the database I am adding to it by choosing or entering A in a box. Then I have to pull the date from a drop down list. Then I enter the digit 1 (to pay 1 hour). Then I enter the ID number of the absent teacher. Then I enter the sub request number created by the absent teacher. Then I click "change."

    I have to do this for all 5 teachers that covered the class. One-at-an-effing-time.

    If I had a "dev" handy, I would say, let me enter the ID, date, and job number for the absent teacher. Let me list the 5 substituting teacher id numbers, and the 1 hour should be the default.

    Of course there will never be a 'dev' around because my county purchased the payroll software and no one who is anywhere near using it gets to make the purchasing decisions.

  • Should Cannabis Be Regulated Like Alcohol?
  • I'm sorry, but I CANNOT agree. Coffee smells MUCH BETTER than weed. In fact, I think weed smells terrible. It reminds me of skunks. I would much rather smell coffee.

  • PSA: Mastodon is NOT Twitter and does not aim to be.
  • I've been on Mastodon for little more than a year. People here have been generally polite and give each other the benefit of the doubt. I have yet to see a "flame war" as we used to call it on USENET. But Mastodon (and Kbin and Lemmy) instances will have to decide if they will federate with Meta's new platform. I'm pretty vehemently opposed, but my Mastodon admin seems to think we should wait and see. So here we have Meta, which hasn't joined the fediverse, has already begun fragmenting us. Is that our fault? Maybe. But I don't think we're the problem.

  • #BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag started
  • I have been writing to my county school board to ask them to abandon twitter. It is used by principals, coaches, and others in the county system all the time. I explain that the values of the school system do not align with the values demonstrated by the platform. So far I've heard crickets back. :-(

  • At the dog park
  • That mutt wearing the sign is fine with dogs. It's people that make him anxious. He's lived with me for two years now, and will kiss my hands to greet me but STILL flinches if I reach out to pet him.

  • Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
  • I can't stand searching for a product on Amazon anymore. If I really want to use Amazon, it's much more efficient to find the amazon link using duck duck go.

  • NPR: Over $200 billion in pandemic business loans appear to be fraudulent, a watchdog says
  • What? Haven't you heard about trickle-down economics? Are you saying trickle-down doesn't work?!?!

  • What app do you use for Mastodon?
  • I also like Tusky for Mastodon because you can also use it to open up your Pixelfed account.

  • At the dog park
  • Can you click the link in the OP? I can't seem to figure out how to just add the picture. Sorry.

  • What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points?
  • I don't care for Karma-farming, but I liked having some way to tell if someone was a real community member or a throw-away account. I liked that there were some subreddits that wouldn't let you post if you had low karma because it helped hold back the trolls.

  • What would be the best way to protect a room from unwated visitors in a low-tech fantasy world?
  • You can spread powder on the floor so you could see if someone had stepped in. It wouldn't keep them out unless they didn't want anyone to know they'd been in there.

  • Dogs @kbin.social killick @kbin.social
    At the dog park

    My three mutts say hello to a doodle at the dog park. https://www.flickr.com/gp/47828844@N00/3FP8K819r4

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    How do I navigate to subscribed magazines?

    I'm using kbin on a desktop web browser. I have several magazines I have subscribed to. Is there a way to see clickable list of just my subscriptions? Right now to visit a subscription I am clicking "Magazines" in the top nav bar and then using the search function. This is awkward.

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    Fountain pens @kbin.social killick @kbin.social
    r/fountainpens redditors-- my apologies

    I used to sing the praises of the Hongdian 517s, a stainless steel pen that I liked so much I bought it with two nib widths. I still like using these pens, but the screw caps proved their undoing.

    I would notice that sometimes the screw cap was loose so I would give it an extra twist. Eventually, I stripped the threads and now they won't seal tightly and so they dry out.

    These pens had a lot going for them in my opinion. They had a concave section and thickness that I liked. They came with a piston converter. They had a tough, brushed stainless steel cigar-shaped body that was both austere and cool looking. They were dirt cheap at under $20, and they wrote well. I just wish they had a bushing or something that would prevent Mr. Ham Hands (me) from over tightening.

    So, until the I stripped the threads, I used to suggest people try these pens. I apologize. My only consolation is that you're not out hundreds of dollars on a pen.

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    killick killick @kbin.social

    Reddit refugee. I'm glad there's an ActivityPub alternative. I hope to become a part of this community.

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