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HB25 provides a means for enforcement of the law under the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The Department would be required to establish a publicly available email address and online form for the reporting of violations. residents could also report what they believe to be violations by telephone or mail.

I wonder what the job of an ADEM Chemtrail Investigator will be like

If they have to put in all this effort to port their mods to Microsoft’s new code, what about also porting them to an open source alternative

Maybe if my handwriting was that nice I would feel less embarrassed to leave petty insult letters

Seems to be broken in the same way, on Firefox but not Chromium

I tried playing it in VLC and it works there, I guess this is some kind of compatibility issue between your particular video and the web player (specifically the web player on lemmy.dbzer0?), since other videos don’t seem to have this issue. One minute into the video the clock in the upper left shows 2:24 which is around 4 seconds short of where it should be. Edit: Also it seems this is only on Firefox.

Audio seems desynced by a few seconds for me

Parents make a whole host of medical decisions for their kids that they don’t formally consent to

Just pounding on consent gets you in the same circle as the anti-vaxers

Frankly I somewhat sympathize with those people because physical/medical autonomy is a topic that deserves respect. The only reason ignoring their choices is justified is because vaccines vault over a high bar of being important for public health and avoiding the clear and significant harm of disease. Also because that’s again choices parents are making on behalf of their children in defiance of what is medically justifiable.

I see a desire to make false equivalency between two very different procedures, because they both have “circumcision” in the name.

They aren’t equivalent, but the difference is severity of harm, not the type of harm. Both procedures are intended and have the effect of inhibiting normal sexual function. If you want to only argue against FGM and draw the line at supporting a circumcision ban, that’s fine because the former is especially horrible and deserves special attention, I just think most arguments for this position are a little bit incoherent.

I used to before I got my ereader. IMO the way to do it somewhat comfortably is, get an app that lets you display epub files in dark mode (light text on black background), and turn the brightness down until the text is visible but doesn’t strain your eyes. Unfortunately PDFs do not play nice with any reader software so you’re going to want to look for other formats, or convert them and put up with conversion artifacts.

The headline says “roguelite”, the Berlin Interpretation is safe for now

I think the point is that it’s not a great comparison because the main argument against circumcision is that it’s permanent and babies can’t consent to it, I don’t think many people try to say that no one should ever be allowed to get a circumcision.

This is my main issue with the idea of the paid tool OP is selling, if it isn’t open source there isn’t an easy way to confirm that no malicious transformations were applied to the file.

Are you a programmer? My general experience as a programmer has been that being judicious in what you spend time and energy thinking about is one of the most important things to do. The amount of languages, frameworks, and libraries all with their own syntax, documentation and quirks vastly exceeds the capacity of any one person to durably memorize, and there are compelling reasons to want to use a wide range of them on an infrequent basis and not specialize. Strategies to avoid getting lost in the weeds and find shorter paths to your actual goals were important before LLMs and they are now even more important.

Also, personally, my memory sucks, not everyone is dealing with the same constraints and because of that there is no single right approach.

Godot is also weighing the possibility of moving the project to another platform where there might be less incentive for users to “farm” legitimacy as a software developer with AI-generated code contributions. But moving to a less popular platform could run the risk of alienating legitimate contributors.

I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other

Probably just their best shot at engagement farming imo, it doesn’t make any sense but it sounds like something that might make people mad.

I for one would really prefer not to spend brain space on things like Excel scripting syntax. I haven’t actually tried current frontier models but every LLM I’ve used isn’t good enough to actually get good results vibe coding without applying some of your own programming knowledge, so I think you’d still want to learn regardless.

Mobile home owner here. I’m pretty sure that most of their bad reputation as an investment is because most of them do not come with the land, but if they do come with the land, then as an asset they will behave more like other real estate. The main thing that is valuable about a home is that it confers the legal right and practical ability to live in that location, but mobile homes placed on rented land categorically do not.

To address the other points (warning: c/dull_mens_club style content ahead):

To give an example of a repair task related to custom appliances: The water heater broke, and replacing it was complicated by the differences between normal and mobile home water heaters; the latter are smaller, and the cold water intake pipe is on the bottom rather than the top. I had to downgrade to a slightly smaller, mobile home approved tank because the previous one was a regular water heater too large to be up to code as it is placed in a small contained closet and there are clearance requirements. The floor underneath it also needed some repairs, which were fairly simple. All of the plumbing, electrical wiring, and joists underneath the floor can be accessed from the crawlspace by cutting through the wrap material and insulation with a utility knife, and then stapled/taped up when done, which is a little awkward given the lack of space, but everything is accessible without that much difficulty. The cost of the whole replacement was mostly the tank itself, which was more expensive than a comparable non-mobile-home water heater, but only by $100 or so.

Overall, the thing is a really simple single story structure, and compared to what I saw my parents go through trying to maintain an old farmhouse it seems like easy mode.

Its entire model relied on centralized servers, subscriptions, and proprietary software to authenticate vehicles and manage battery exchanges.

I would otherwise be excited about the idea of getting an electric car but the way they are steeped in bullshit like this makes me end up planning to only drive old cars indefinitely.

Thanks to diligent reporting from two independent outlets, Drop Site and Reason, we now have a much better sense of Epstein’s relationship with the foreign policy elite of the US and Israel. It seems that Epstein was not a CIA or Mossad asset—not because he didn’t have it in him, but because that was too lowly a role. Rather, he was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played a major role in shaping Western policy, which brought him in contact with spy agencies and diplomats.

It’s a pretty interesting claim that Epstein was too big to be a spy. This article references two main other articles to support this idea. That makes it seem strange to me that he got caught at all.