aubeynarf

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I think it’s possible media’s attention to scandal has made you cynical.

Most politicians do not do shady, illegal shit. Most “elites” (do you mean billionaires?) do not torture and rape people. Most law enforcement officers are just trying to do their job.

My perspective is from the USA. I understand many other places internationally have a culture of corruption and naked power structures.

So, maybe a good question so answers can be in context is, where are you from?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Fifth Element

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Implicit in “profit so much that money becomes trivial” is that they think this tax rate should apply to very high profit businesses/individuals.

In fact the US’ top tax rate was 90% for almost a decade and over 70% for 40 years - during a time many would consider “golden years”.

They could have worded their statement better though.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

I think she is undeniably a better choice for the presidency than Donald Trump, that’s for sure

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

It’s like far-left rhetoric (especially the kind that seems to come from people who have never seen how e.g. spoilers work or who have never had to find a compromise) isn’t actually that popular, so you see pushback from the instance that dominates the user population, especially with it having users who aren’t “ideologically aligned” with a specific instance and who may have a perspective outside the bubble. I don’t know, just a theory.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

in places that have large open lot retail developments, it’s very likely you could just install the solar panels on undeveloped land a few miles away.

why would you complicate both efforts by trying to intertwine them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

reaches out? performs outreach?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Surge suppressors do not drop extra voltage to ground. They selectively short out surges between whatever two conductors have a high potential between them.

No ground conductor means there cannot be a high potential between it and anything else!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

brass arm with green glass shade mounted above, with a low wattage incandescent bulb (like 25w).

Or something like this https://www.rejuvenation.com/products/regis-picture-light-cp/?pkey=cpicture-lights&position=0

Paint the wall Urban Bronze

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. The eq should be the inverse of the room/speaker response; it’s irrelevant if the gains add to zero.

And, most music has way more energy in certain (generally lower) bands, so it’s not like making the numbers sum to zero results in the same total energy.

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