clearedtoland

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[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I don’t even want to imagine the environmental studies and hurdles they’ll have to jump through to artificially alter an areas day/night cycle. There’s a laundry list of environmental concerns that I’m sure any homeowner or eco-activist worth their salt would jump on. Not to mention glare and impacts to air traffic, on and on.

Would make my solar panels pretty darn effective though. Would probably be great for SAD in winter too. Clever idea. Not sure I can get behind it though.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Whenever I have to brave the Google abyss, I usually use Startpage. Obviously uBlock Origin but if I can avoid being bombarded by devious and distracting ads altogether, I’d rather that.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True but I see this more as a critical thinking problem - which is pervasive in our society and worsened by the tech bubbles. People should want to seek out information that both argues for and against a topic.

The way our education systems work now, at least in the US, that method of thinking only begins around college and varies widely by academic pedigree.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

The few people on ours are local real estate agents and severe weather alerts lol

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

**long neglected because of monetary incentivization (aka corporate greed), a bias towards subscriptions and microtransactions.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yup. I quit everything but Reddit several years back without a second thought in all that time because I lived in a big metropolitan city.

Now I live in a small suburb where all the towns and businesses post to FB, neighbors have tradeposts and active interest groups on there, the schools and Police post info there too. My wife has connected to “friends” we otherwise wouldn’t exchange info with.

All that has had me wanting to create a new account - just to connect. I was completely ignorant to the role it plays outside of big cities beforehand. Nextdoor is a really crappy alternative.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

But…there’s fabric above it and around it so it’s clearly not underwear sticking out.

I mean, I get it. You should totally be comfortable in the clothes you’re wearing. I don’t think I’d see it if I hadn’t read about it though.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Pffft food coupons. It’s $5 off the purchase of your next device within 15 days of issue.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m going to retract that claim. I think it came in one of my tech newsletters but since I can’t find it, I don’t want to mislead anyone. Maybe I’m mixing it up with another tech product.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seen it. Covered it.

🎶 we are Farmers!

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I’m trying to find it but I know there’s an article out there showing they lose something like $1k per unit.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So it’s like cooking recipes but for programming. I hope they at least add some useless background info about their Nana using DOS or what have you.

 

Anyone have resources for finding book summary pdfs? I have Blinkist already.

I am interested in Shortform but they never run any discounts. Their summaries are fantastic.

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