one of the few ethical businesses.

Unfortunately, while they ultimately capitulated to the union at the last minute, they were still pulling union-busting shit like this in the run up. Costco isn’t magically the one moral business, they’re just broadly less openly shitty to their workers than other warehouses (amazon, target, etc.). They’re also a lot better about PR than most of the other big companies, which is why most people never hear about this but everyone has heard about the “don’t change the price of the hotdog” thing.

jjgod is the only one I remember, jjcoin and jjfly might have been ones too? Man I played the -heck- out of that game as a kid…

As far as I’ve seen, use comes with a very slightly increased chance of kidney failure, pancreatitis and a rare form of thyroid cancer. These are known and well studied drugs that are being used to treat different conditions than they previously were, so there’s not some huge lack of information as was implied. Idk what they’re referring to specifically, but that’s everything I’ve been able to find from looking into them recently.

It’s an impossible premise, and it will remain that way for even the speculatively distant future. People riffing off that is not a sign of the moral failing of lemmy, you need to calm down.

Given that the radiation of nuclear waste has frequency way higher than UV, why can’t it be used to feed a photoelectric generator?

You’re probably using one of these right now (albeit indirectly)! They’re called Photovoltaic nuclear batteries and they’re critical to modern encryption. They ensure that encryption keys, which are stored in highly volatile memory (memory where if power is ever lost the contents are immediately erased), never lose power unless the memory modules are physically disconnected.

The reason they’re not used more extensively is that they just don’t produce very much power - the high-energy electromagnetic radiations are very difficult to harness constructively (things like gamma and X-rays) and as a result we have to do some weird physics stuff to convert them. PVN batteries convert particle radiation, beta radiation from tritium decay specifically, into usable photons via a thin coating of phosphorus on the glass, instead of them being captured directly.

(this is a wild oversimplification just to be clear)

Found the horse.

Duh? It’s also true in the US every year. In fact looking around I can’t find a single country where it’s not true.

The headline is trying to convey that cars are a bigger real threat to the population than the perception of violent crime would have you believe, but the social interest in addressing car deaths vs. anti-crime measures are wildly out of alignment with the actual harm caused by the respective issues.

More black bars than New Orleans…

“IVE GOUT IT” also fits

A modern horse is a mechanism through which time and money is converted into poop and exasperation.

Death toll in the jail article is ~1029 yearly, if its explicitly stated I didn’t see it. That was calculated from the figures given (total pop 735k * death rate of 1.4/1000) (That number is wrong, as stated in the article the actual rate is likely to be slightly higher because they had to exclude a great many sources from their sample due to bad or questionable data).

It should be noted that those deaths aren’t divided by cause: police muders, inmate violence, deaths from pre-existing conditions, lightning strikes, deaths from conditions exacerbated by the quality of care available in the prision, dying from old age, fatal infections from rusty stairs, deaths from food poisoning, fatal allergic reactions to bee-stings, suicides etc. are all lumped together because they’re all relevant to the conclusions of the study, but aren’t necessarily relevant here.

I split the tabs into multiple windows by category, personally (tho firefox’s tab grouping is pretty great too). And it’s more about it being present - bookmarks are fine, but if I am not actively reminded of something I likely will just forget about it entirely. Bookmarks aren’t visible all the time, so they just get forgotten.

Those… look it’s NOT hard to find data to show the death toll for the US, so why did you go with such horrible examples?

There is no widely agreed on figure for the number of people that have been killed so far in the war on terror as the Bush Administration has defined it to include the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and operations elsewhere. According to Joshua Goldstein, an international relations professor at the American University, the global war on terror has seen fewer war deaths than any other decade in the past century.

Like beyond how rough the numbers are: the wiki pages all include the total death counts, but those are both coalition wars and the total deaths are not broken down at all. This data exists, you can find it, but you can’t find it there so why use it?

Similarly, the paper on jail deaths very much does not answer the question, as it is an analytical study on the impact of jail conditions on mortality and explicitly does not address the causal conditions of those deaths:

[…] health and mortality data for people who are incarcerated or in police custody have been shown to be “incomplete…incorrect… [and] anachronistic,”42 and jail data may underestimate deaths or contain inaccuracies related to causes of death. Finally, the associations found in the study do not suggest causality.

It is not hard to show what you want to show. By instead providing such poor quality sources, you undermine the credibility of your point to a spectacular degree. Like. Just use real numbers? Hell, it’s not hard to find very reasonable estimates on death tolls from imperialism itself. But notoriously vague values from sources that explicitly clarify their own imprecision is just a terrible way to approach this.

“Belgian” the breed of draught horses, I suppose that was a bit unclear. They’re the only genre of horse I nominally get along with - in temperament they are extremely large, on the whole they are quite calmly amiable and they just enjoy doing their job in a way that I always found very reassuring as a child.

Also made the very wise decision, as a group, to not mind the cold - which is good, because if the damn things decide they don’t want to do something (like go outside for walkies) there is no power in heaven or earth that can convince them to do it. “Obstinate” does not even begin to describe them.

… the counterpoint to that is, if they do decide to do something (like, say, go into the next meadow because it looks softer or they heard a rumor there might be girls or they got the vaguest notion that you don’t want them to go over there) you cannot prevent it. Growing up we had electric fences to keep the coyotes out of various places (wouldn’t kill, but it would ruin several hours of your day if you leaned on one ask me how I know) and a Belgain will casually stroll through them legitimately without noticing.

Tethers? snapped. Fences? Get fucked, find me a post that can withstand two tons of casual and completely innocent leaning for more than a minute. Ditch? All Terrain Legs. Property lines? Extremely conveniently they are Too Stupid To Understand. This gets doubly frustrating when you are the one to have to go out and splice the fences back together because Daisy saw some hitherto unmolested patch of dirt that sung out to them to be defiled with horse poop and stomping.

Ah yes - subjecting ideological refugeess to arbitrary purity tests, a true classic.

I don’t have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at least. Maybe someone slipped them to me when I wasn’t looking) so I can’t say what happened. I can say that that is remarkably rapid, far faster than is required under the Newborns act, so I suspect there were either some complciating factors or an abnormal degree of urgency on the part of the hospital billing department that I cannot address. Unfortunately anecdotes that rely on PHI are difficult to diagnose while maintaining privacy of the person in question. They may simply have been forcing all the adminsitrative stress asap so she could focus on the whole “nicu baby” thing.

Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it’s a big country. Sure would be nice if it could be arranged though…

Yeah it gets a little bit… psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be assigned a caseworker who will then enroll them in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven’t checked today…), and regardless they will receive necessary care until they’re discharged. But hey, it’s the US, none of this shit is actually guaranteed!

At least in the US, the mother’s health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.

Your feelings are more important than everyone else’s because…?