Thank you for sharing, I had not seen that. Fucking hell. Nature is scary.

The cruelty is the point.

Don’t like Mastodon, huh?

Well duh. Kind of missing the point though.

What if I hire a dozen people to randomly, individually go and pick all the fruit and bring it to me, and then I make a profit reselling what they collect?

Tragedy of the commons

🎶 the love bug is a little old car that we can ride together 🎵

Scoring interactions is toxic.

Hmm, maybe… but if this is what you think, then why use Lemmy at all? This is basically a core function of the platform. If you just want conversation, there are other platforms that are built for that.

Forced positivity is toxic positivity.

Removing an interaction choice from users can only result in lower quality user interaction.

Removing the capacity for downvotes harms the community.

To prepare for use, the barrel holder was required to be removed from the slab-plate and then all 306 empty shells were removed. Then it was proposed to install new cartridges in the barrels. Having reloaded the trunks of one module, the technicians had to do the same procedure with three others.

You have to disassemble, unload, service, reload and then reassemble each barrel. Working on this thing would’ve been awful and rearming the system would’ve taken forever. On top of that, it was basically useless:

Thus, shooting from the XM215 MBG installation led to very specific results. Light bullets with insufficient speed immediately after leaving the trunks fell under the air flow from the rotor. This combination of factors led to the fact that the bullets flew in a downward trajectory and fell to the ground closer than expected by the calculations. In addition, depending on the height of the helicopter, by the time of the fall they could lose most of the already small energy. Because of this, the effective aimed fire range was limited to only a few meters, after which the behavior of the bullets became unpredictable.

And a hazard to your own troops:

Tests have also shown that the XM215 Multiple Barrel Gun system can pose a danger to its own soldiers on the ground. In certain cases, when shooting from a low altitude, uncontrollably falling bullets could hit not only the enemy, but also their fighters. This problem was also aggravated by the characteristics of piloting helicopters at low altitudes: even small movements of the helicopter could lead to new risks.

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You could always try Red Star OS

Of course English is spoken in other countries, and other countries have high numbers of internet users, but it does not follow that English is a commonly used language for internet users in other countries. Most Chinese are probably speaking Chinese, most Indians are probably speaking Hindi.

The IPv6 graph you linked shows that adoption is still less than 50%, and I’m not clear on their methodology… does “users that access Google” mean users with Google accounts? or individual users that use google.com? or does it include all of their cloud services? do web servers linking content from Google Ads count? does this data represent mostly end users, or also infrastructure connections?

These graphs do not give an indication of how many users per country there are. There are in fact statistics on that which expectedly show China and India on top.

Well sure, but people from those countries are far less likely to be speaking English, which is why I said:

It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.

The prevalence of internet use in countries with primary languages other than English has no bearing on this statement.

The point of using the IP address statistics is to show that the vast majority of websites on the Internet were created in the US for the US market, and that is still true today.

On a side note, the distribution of addresses is unbalanced but it isn’t “bad”. It is a consequence of a system growing over time. Communications infrastructure cannot pop into existence everywhere all at once, and realistically not many people outside the US had any interest in the internet in 1983.

I would love to see a more recent source if you have one.

Regardless, possession of IP addresses doesn’t change all that much. In the early days a company could buy an entire Class A (1.X.X.X) address space comprising 16million+ addresses for their private use. There are still many companies holding large blocks of addresses, and most of those companies are in the US, and they don’t just give up those addresses.

The point being, there’s significant resistance to redistributing addresses once they’ve been allocated. They don’t change hands terribly often (and keep in mind we’re talking about actual internet addresses, not local network addresses that are being dynamically assigned and NATed across router domains).

This is why:

The US has more allocated IPv4 addresses and more users per allocated IPv4 address than any other country, by wide margins - and IPv6 adoption is not that widespread yet. It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.

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Might be worth a look yourself:

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I bet GeForce didn’t do the data collection they want, and it was too much trouble to try and shoehorn it in, so they built a new app. I bet there’s user data collection in there related to their AI business.

I think you need to do something more to keep the panel from pulling out of its channel again. You should do what others have said, remove the door, pull the panel out, clean out all the old adhesive and caulk, and replace the panel, but you should also add something to keep the panel from leaning down away from the wall again.

A simple fix would be to screw something like this bumper into the ceiling at the end of the top channel, right at the corner of the panel so that it can’t slip out. If the ceiling is just sheet rock there then use an anchor as well.

This might not be the prettiest fix, but because the door is hanging off this panel you shouldn’t trust it to hold with adhesive only, and definitely not just silicone caulk (which is not an adhesive). Moving the door will flex the adhesive and eventually work it free again.

Run a bead of silicone around the seam. It will be more than enough to hold the glass in place.

I don’t think so, the shower door is hanging from the side of that glass panel. Silicone caulk is not an adhesive, it’s just a sealant. Opening and closing the door will break it free again.

He could care less

That means he does care… at least a little.