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  • I think a better way to phrase it is that Jesus is very anit-exploitation of others.

    I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that Jesus is anti-private ownership of the means of production of goods and service. Capitalism can and has been done without it. Unfortunately people are scum and the free market tends to reward those who are able to successfully exploit others.

  • How to build fire protective battery charger enclosure?
  • Y'know - I think stacking cinder blocks and some pavers on top would actually work just fine. Just angle the cinder blocks so the ones at the bottom have the holes poking out (and into the enclosure) and that should provide enough airflow to keep it from getting too hot in there.

    Heck, you could probably angle them all that way except for the top ones. I haven't seen videos of battery fires, but unless they're like really really flammable, the fire shouldn't burn out from around the several inches of concrete that surrounds it.

    Remember fire burns up so the pavers and concrete blocks at the top will be what are actually blocking the most.

  • Is a toddler wearing a shirt and a diaper inappropriate?

    Over the weekend my wife snapped a few pictures of our 22mo running around splashing in a lake wearing nothing except a shirt and a swim diaper. My wife was quite taken aback when she uploaded the photo to Facebook, and had the picture removed for nudity / inappropriate content. We all rolled our eyes and figured this was just an overtrained AI being an overtrained AI, but it's got me wondering - is this attire getting to the point at this age where it really is inappropriate, and I'm just too fuzzed out from taking care of babies to notice? Curious to hear ya'lls thoughts.

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    What if cars grew from use - like animals. A lot of people with big/small vehicles today would be flipped around.
  • And then there's those of us who stick 8-foot boards diagonally through their Honda Civics so a couple inches are sticking out the front passenger and rear driver windows.

    Coincidentally, by far the most use my dad's pickup truck bed gets is when I borrow it from him to really load up at Home Depot.

  • Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?
  • It probably is that popular among this crowd. There's options to self-host your own Bitwarden instance IIRC.

    I've started migrating away from LastPass and am using Bitwarden for new projects personally. LastPass is way better than nothing, but I wouldn't recommend LastPass over Bitwarden these days.

  • readwrite.com China Imposes Export Curbs on High-Tech Metals Amidst Trade Tensions with the US

    China will be imposing regulations on the export of gallium and germanium, which are metals that are used in the production of computer chips.

    China Imposes Export Curbs on High-Tech Metals Amidst Trade Tensions with the US

    According to a recent announcement, China will be imposing new regulations on the export of gallium and germanium, both of which are metals that are utilized in the production of computer chips and solar cells and are therefore vitally important. This action is seen as an escalation of the trade dispute that the United States and China are currently engaged in, and the trade dispute has been going on for a long time. The restrictions will begin to take effect on August 1, and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has stated that their purpose is to “safeguard national security.” Despite this, the specifics of these limitations have not yet been made available to the public at this time.

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    Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure to inform you that

    5 months, 27 days old, and out of nowhere she's suddenly letting "Dadadadada"'s loose all over the place! She's not even doing any mamama's yet! I've been on cloud 9 all evening. My wife is utterly devastated.

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    United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml mjgood91 @lemmy.world
    Supreme Court rejects independent state legislature theory

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state constitutions can protect voting rights in federal elections and state courts can enforce those provisions, in a key opinion that should safeguard the integrity of the 2024 election.

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    U ducting in the middle of room...how do I hide this
  • Build some vertical storage shelves underneath it! Make them run all the way up to where the U is, then drywall over the U or something so it isn't sticking out. Maybe even make a bigger covered space on top of the top shelf. Make the thing go all the way from the floor up to where the U meets, maybe some of those real dark aged bronze type metal supports that seem to be popular as finishes these days.

  • Vapor barrier when repairing only a section of drywall?
  • If it were me and everything else was fine every-wise, I'd try to match with what's already there. Go with what works and sit back with the peace of mind that you won't have to rip open your drywall a third time.

  • What are ya'll doing for Father's day?

    This year my wife and I have 2 under 2. We're both pretty fried right now, and other than getting together a bit in the afternoon with some family I don't think we'll be doing much of anything. That's plenty ok with me, but I still like living vicariously through other dad's weekend plans!

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    How can Lemmy avoid the bots?
  • Yeah, I do agree Beehaw won't be able to grow significantly if they keep doing things the way they're doing them right now. At present point, they're going to likely remain a more niche community long-term with how they're operating. Who knows though, maybe this is what they want. Lemmy would have to do something different though without a herculean moderation effort.

  • How can Lemmy avoid the bots?
  • I reckon it'd depend significantly on the instance. Beehaw has a signup form reviewed by humans - measures like this are by no means perfect, but coupled with other bot detection software could help. If an instance developed a real issue with bots, other more strict instances could potentially ban up votes and comments from accounts on it.

    At the very least, tracking instances that account interaction came from should be quite doable, so users part of more strict instances could filter out upvotes and comments from less strict instances if desired.

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  • I'm pretty positive my parents haven't grout sealed their shower since they bought their house, so it's been at least, oh..... 27 years for them?

    I mean, not that I recommend going this long, as now as their dutiful and caring adult child I'll likely be the one taking it upon myself to completely regrout the whole thing, but goes to show how long you could go with things probably being mostly okay.

  • Why aren't there more admin level graphical tools available for Linux? Or if there are, what are they?
  • What kinds of "various" admin level tasks are we talking about here?

    A lot of desktop distros do have these kinds of tools in place. You can create and edit users and groups, set file permissions, create folders and files, download and update packages on your system, view disk usage, etc, etc. Shoot, specialized distros like gparted can be used to partition disks, or live boot a system to repair it.

    But for a lot of things, building a GUI for the interface just takes so dang long to do, and takes so much more time and effort to get right than building out text commands, that it just really doesn't make sense to make it as big of a focus.

  • How is lemmyworld so stable?
  • I bet you could do it if your instance didn't pull in a lot of traffic.

    If it did..... I reckon that you might be able to pull it off to a certain extent so long as your internet package was good enough, but if you got hit with a Reddit-level flood of incoming users, your network almost certainly wouldn't be able to keep up.

    Even if it could, if you were consistently eating through all the upload bandwidth, I reckon you'd draw the eyes of your ISP and they might send you a letter kindly and respectfully telling you that if you don't upgrade to a commercial line they're not renewing your contract.

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  • Anytime you have to do significant demolition work involving an older home, if you are even remotely unsure of whether there are asbestos or lead paint in any of the building materials.

    Or if you are doing demolition work on concrete in a closed location.

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