UnpopularCrow

joined 2 years ago
[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m skeptical of this list. I’ve lived in Colorado and Maryland and there is no way Maryland is healthier than Colorado.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

That was the intent. Take a look at the judge who made the decision.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Haven’t tested it against meta glasses. Essentially it requires the MAC address of the device and pings the shit out of it. May or may not work against the glasses.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://github.com/crypt0b0y/BLUETOOTH-DOS-ATTACK-SCRIPT

Requires Linux. But a raspberry pi should do the trick.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was fortunate. I was offered a research position from an EU country so it comes with a work visa.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I am one of the US scientists who is moving to the EU due to the US’s anti science policies. I, of course, cannot speak for all US scientists, but China is an unlikely draw for most of the scientists I know. While the US is descending into fascism, China is already there. I’m not sure how many people I know are eager to live in that type of system in exchange for funding. I know a few who are heading to the EU and Canada. Those who are in dire straights due to funding issues are switching to industry positions or changing fields altogether. People from China or Hong Kong who are in research positions in the US, I would expect are more likely to go to China though.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I agree it won’t happen. But it is a simple solution.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The majority of problems in the US could be fixed with one simple solution: eliminate lobbying completely. I know some small causes would suffer, but it would overwhelmingly be a good thing. The vast majority of people in congress right now are there because money is involved. They are not there to help or represent their district or state or country. They are there to get rich and it works. If there was no money in politics, more of the people trying to get elected would actually represent the people. It wouldn’t solve everything, but it would be a heck of a start.

https://ballotpedia.org/Changes_in_Net_Worth_of_U.S._Senators_and_Representatives_(Personal_Gain_Index)

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Holy. The comments on the article are a dumpster fire. No surprise since it’s Breitbart but still a mess.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Yea, most developed nations are struggling with birth rate. Certainly Finland is one of them.

I was replying to your comment that Finland doesn’t tax their wealthiest. They do tax their wealthy via income. Finland ranks as one of the best countries when considering income inequality.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/income-inequality-by-country

One consequence of multi-party systems is you’ll find out that every country has a minority of racists. Some nations are higher (~40% approval of trump in the United States is an example). Germany’s AFD party currently has 20%.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I think you might be thinking of Japan. While Finland does have a low birth rate, it is similar to a few other European countries. Japan and China both have lower birth rates.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/birth-rate-by-country

Finland has a progressive tax. If anything, they do a better job taxing the wealthy than the vast majority of other western countries.

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/Finland/Individual/Taxes-on-personal-income

I’ve spent a significant amount of time in Finland, and while there is some xenophobia and racism (like everywhere else) it isn’t “extreme”. There are many countries far worse than Finland.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

‘Kevin Kellenbarger, 69, a three-time Trump voter who retired from a printing company, said his Christian faith led him to the Republican Party. The Lancaster, Ohio, resident thinks the president’s immigration crackdown is necessary, though he expressed dissatisfaction at the recent killing of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.’

“I don’t like anybody getting killed, but it wasn’t Trump’s fault,” Kellenbarger said, adding that President Joe Biden, a Democrat, "let millions of people in. They have to be taken out.”

A lot to unpack in that ‘christian’s’ statement.

 

NCAR is not only one of the leaders in climate science, but is an exceptionally important institution for space weather and upper atmosphere modeling. This will be an enormous loss for the scientific community. As someone in the atmospheric and space science community, this decision will have devastating consequences for decades to come.

 

If you just ignore climate change, it goes away.

 

I have a question that I’m hoping someone will be able to help with. I plan on moving with my Finnish partner next year to Finland. I should have permanent residency upon arrival. I will already also have a full time position in Finland that will not be associated with my freelancing. However, I am hoping to do work as a freelancer as well. Specifically, I would like to continue bug bounty hunting. How does taxation work? I’m aware that I will have to pay taxes on any income made but my partner is concerned that I may have to pay social security regardless whether I earn additional income or not.

So for example, if I make 10,000 euro over the course of the year doing freelance work, that will be added as a second job but on the same tax card right? And therefore my taxes will increase based on my overall income. Is this correct? And I also assume I would be required to pay social security on the secondary income.

As a second example, if I make 0 euro over the course of the year, I understand that I would need to still declare the zero on my taxes, but would I be responsible for any additional taxes despite no additional income? Would some baseline threshold social security still apply?

Sorry for the likely stupid question, but I want to understand what to expect and not get any surprises during tax season.

Thanks to anyone who is able to help!

 

Not only is Trump leveling science funding at NASA, like he did with the National Science Foundation, but look closely at the budget. Beginning next year at 800 million and by 2030, 3.5 billion (nearly 20% of its budget), NASA is required to work towards “Commercial Moon and Mars Infrastructure and Transportation”. The ultimate subsidy for the commercial space sector.

They also eliminated STEM engagement program, which provided funding for the next generation of scientists to participate in NASA opportunities. I can’t wait for all this greatness Trump has been preaching to arrive.

 

I'm curious what everyone thinks about DuckDuckGo's current settings. I have my browser settings set to delete history, cache and cookies on closing. This creates an issue when using duckduckgo as my primary search engine. Their 'default' settings (available right below the searchbar) seem far from privacy focused. AI Chat is on by default and used 'sometimes', as well as 'advertisting' and 'location' settings that are on by default. This requires me to have to change the settings every time I load my browser due to any settings I save being deleted by my browser setup. I don't want to install a duckduckgo extension. How do others deal with this? I know you can 'save anonymously' your settings in the cloud, but I'm not eager to do that.

 

I will always choose the handicap stall because I like the space between myself and the next stall. It seems like the US bathroom system encourages games of battle shits and I’m not willing to play. I’ve only had one instance where I walked out and a person who actually needed it was waiting. I felt terrible, but it was only once out of hundreds. Does anyone else do this?

 

EDIT: See @AnimePhantasm comment below! My friend called the election board and they confirmed what @AnimePhantasm and @fmstrat commented! This was Virginia reusing last year’s envelopes.

OP I am an absentee voter in Blacksburg just next door. Shine a light on the blacked out part. I am 99% sure this is legit, they just crossed out the witness requirement. I can see the word witness under the sharpie in your picture. Virgina doesnt have to do that witness thing anymore. We did at the last general election, so I am guessing they just reused the same envelopes. You should call and ask your elections office before alerting the news. They are hardworking folks whose jobs are already 100 times harder then they used to be. Stirring up reports of election fraud where it isn't happening makes us just as bad as them.

 

I have a 40 lb Samoyed who is a specific type of aggressive chewer. It isn’t so much she destroys any toy I give her because of how hard she chews, but rather she is like a sniper. She finds the weak point in a toy and carefully chews it until the toy is destroyed. I had to stop giving her stuffed toys as she stripes the fur off of them and eats it. While nylon bones work, she will go through them in a few days. And I don’t want to give her toys so hard they will wreck her teeth.

The problem is when I go to pet stores, all the toys labeled for “aggressive chewers”, she finds the weak spot and destroys the toy within one day (sometimes within an hour).

I just recently got a tuffy ring and I was hopeful but she is chewing the ends and eating the fabric off of it.

Does anyone else have a dog like this and if so, what toys have worked for you?

 

These are just polls, so vote!

Hopefully these trends will inspire people in states that have been consistently red that a flip this election is possible!

 
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