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divya, to random
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Imagine claiming there is an "exodus" when California is the MOST POPULATED STATE IN THE US. Second place, Texas has 10 million FEWER residents.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-14/california-exodus-left-a-gaping-population-hole

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@divya I think as long as more housing gets built, people will move into it. We're a looong way from a housing "glut".

For a long time, we had a hot economy but NIMBY's had a stranglehold on construction--so basically, more people wanted to live in urban centers of CA than were legally allowed to.

Economic opportunity is not such a draw now so its not surprising that fewer people will put up with 50 mile commutes of ridiculous rents or cramped sublets.

But I think if new housing actually makes room for them, plenty of people will still want to be here even in a lukewarm economy.

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@divya Some personal experience: I volunteer for food distribution sometimes (with Second Harvest of Silicon Valley).

Surprisingly, when the economy is down, we get fewer people.

My best guess is that when jobs are scarce, they migrate to cheaper regions.

14mission, to random
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Anyone in the seeing any tonight? Can't see anything from but if I could see it from on top of a mountain, I'd head right up (just as soon as this homebrew cider wears off).

14mission,
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@BrikoX The constitution doesn't give congress authority over words.

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@BrikoX I see your point here.

And I see their point. If there are laws referencing antisemitism, the scope of those laws would be expanded w/o rewriting them.

So if employers are legally required to prevent racist speech in a workplace, and antisemitism is included in racism (which it should be), then if we talk politics at lunch and someone criticizes Israel, HR would be required to treat that as inappropriate speech for the workplace if they heard about it.

Assuming that the bill passed and was held up by courts.

Does this sort of thing actually happen? I mean, where a law redefines an English word (that's not specifically a legal term), affecting the scope of other laws?

Usually in practice "clarifying" laws are written more like "for purposes of X, Y means Z", not just directly "Y = Z", as though they owned the dictionary (and as though languages were defined by dictionaries).

Courts definitely have that power. The supreme court has declared that tomatoes are vegetables, for example.

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    14mission,
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    @divya What happens?

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    While babies in Gaza are starving to death or are getting incinerated or buried under piles of rubble, American university presidents are complaining that “tents are violence”

    14mission,
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    @thomasfuchs Etymology is fun and interesting but doesn't really tell you what words mean.

    For example, this thing I'm wearing on the the upper half of my body, which has sleeves and a picture of Snoopy on it, is not a skirt.

    TheDinosaurDave, to random
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    To any of the palaeontologists on here.
    If humans disappeared, assuming no evidence of us is left, but all the animals in our zoos, reserves, and other places like that, get free and breed and diversify.
    How do you think that palaeontologists 1m years from now would explain the extinction like event and nigh magical spread of animals all of the world. Like kangaroo fossils suddenly appearing in North America, etc.
    How would you explain it? What kind of evidence would you look for?

    14mission,
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    @TheDinosaurDave I doubt zoo animals would survive, but plenty of species have traveled with us around the globe, some brought on purpose an others accidentally. I think future civilizations would notice the sudden arrival lots and lots of Eurasian species in North America from the fossil record.

    Lots and lots of things we think of as just part of the natural American environment are transplants, like blackberries, bees, and lots of common birds (the "European Starling" is an obvious one).

    A few go the other way. There are now raccoons in Germany, for example.

    There's a thought experiment called the "Silurian Hypothesis" (named for a Dr Who plotline), which turns the question on it's head. and asks "If, millions of years ago, the Earth had a civilization of lizard people, how would we know?".

    sysop408, to random
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    Does anyone else get angry at their box of spare computer cables and power adapters?

    14mission,
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    @sysop408 I found out my local thrift store has a huge bin of cables. So that made me a little more comfortable getting rid of some. They don't charge much, and they have a ton of them, so it's almost like having a lending library of cables.

    14mission, to random
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    Last run of 's original fleet is today! https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2024/news20240311

    I am probably not going to make this myself, but I went to the "last regularly scheduled run" a few months ago, and it was a fun fairwell party. Cool to hang out and ride with a couple hundred folks who are into transit and/or heritage.

    xs4me2, to random
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    'Bizarre' Finding Changes the Way We Think About Human Evolution

    https://www.newsweek.com/bizarre-finding-human-evolution-1890982

    14mission,
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    @xs4me2 Have to say, this article seems a bit messed up.

    They claim hominids'/hominins' (not sure of the distinction here) use of technology allowed more species differentiation. Until it didn't? Technology allows one species (like us) to adapt to almost any niche without differentiation.

    I have a feeling the point of the original source got a bit mangled in Newsweek's simplification for the masses.

    14mission, to random
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    So here's some practical use of this microscope, inspecting record player styli. The red one is brand new. The next one was in my parents' basement for several decades. Under the microscope--it's nasty! But the stylus tip is OK. The 3rd one was on my record player, and does not look nearly so conical. This is probably why things sound terrible.

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    divya, to random
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    14mission,
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    @divya Eggland's best? Crap, I've been buying them for years. Ok, I'll pick another brand.

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    14mission,
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    @divya I work immediately to the left of this picture.

    I just posted the link (thanks!) on an internal channel for our facility, and suggested that the company should bug the city to do the right thing, especially since they're letting contaminated water flow right past us.

    They always say we have a corporate culture that supports speaking up, so for once I'll try it!

    gombang, to random
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    Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/16/bernie-sanders-senate-test-vote-military-aid-israel

    > Sanders’ effort to make US military assistance conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails in US Senate

    14mission,
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    @gombang anyone got a handy link to a table of which senators voted which way?

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    @gombang Ok, found it on Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/which-senators-voted-bernie-sanders-resolution-israel-human-rights-violations-2024-1?op=1

    Here are the 11 senators who don't have their heads up their asses and voted for Sander's resolution:

    Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky

    Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico

    Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon

    Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont

    Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

    Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts

    Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler of California

    Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico

    Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii

    Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont

    Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

    But: it was 11 for, and 71 against, right? Some abstained. So we still want a breakdown of the remainder between jerks and cowards. I'll keep digging.

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    @gombang Had to go to the US senate's own web page.

    https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00008.htm

    Tabling a motion means to just stop talking about it, I guess? So yes to table means voting no on the resolution.

    So here's the 17 who had something better to do than vote on this:

    Barrasso (R-WY)
    Blackburn (R-TN)
    Boozman (R-AR)
    Coons (D-DE)
    Daines (R-MT)
    Grassley (R-IA)
    Hagerty (R-TN)
    Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
    Kennedy (R-LA)
    Romney (R-UT)
    Rounds (R-SD)
    Rubio (R-FL)
    Schatz (D-HI)
    Schmitt (R-MO)
    Sullivan (R-AK)
    Tuberville (R-AL)
    Wicker (R-MS)

    14mission,
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    @gombang And here's how my senators voted:

    California:
    Butler (D-CA), Nay (=don't stop talking about this)
    Padilla (D-CA), Yea (=yeah, let's talk about something more fun)

    Padilla I voted for, so I'm disappointed by his vote.

    Butler was appointed by Gov Newsom after Feinstein's death, and is a bit of an unknown since she never actually ran for office, but this bodes well.

    14mission,
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    @gombang Even over here we often feel more like spectators than actually empowered, but you do what you can.

    This issue is a prime example. The almost completely one-sided response of our government seems to represent the American public of 30 years ago, not today.

    rlmcneary2, to random

    "The tech worker layoffs are best understood as an all-out war on tech worker morale" - Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

    We are living in the golden age of anxiety.

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

    14mission,
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    @rlmcneary2 @pluralistic The "gig economy" is worse that I thought--I did not realize gig employers track who is more desperate for work, and offer them less $$ for jobs.

    14mission, to vinyl
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    Looking for a new for my
    (the "modern" kind this time, not an Edison cylinder!). Wondering if there are fediverse ppl who talk about this sort of thing?

    Usually for hobby topics I end up having to go to FB to find people. I'd rather not since FB sucks (both ethically and practically).

    14mission,
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    @icastico @vinylrecords I didn't even know that Mastodon had groups! Thanks!

    14mission,
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    I have an old Garrard turntable. It's been pretty nice but the cartridge seems to be broken. Since I play pretty much every kind of record (78/45/LP), I'm looking for advice for a replacement that makes it easy to play both 78's and microgrove records, and works with a standard 0.5" mount.

    I've seen a few cartridges that have a stylus that flips over for different needles for 78 or LP. Are those any good? (It's a little hard to find ones for 0.5" mount, but there's a few).




    @vinylrecords

    skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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    I’m at a ‘instant film’ outdoor gathering

    A Polaroid peel apart film photo of me looking into my camera

    14mission,
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    @skinnylatte is there going to be another one of these?

    DrH, to modeltrains
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    N-gauge train shed. 1:160 scale.

    Re-built, Repaired, and Re-painted.

    The colour of the painting was matched to how it was originally painted by my Grandfather, just in my more realistic style.

    #ScaleModel #PaintingMiniatures #ModelTrains

    Interior view of the train shed. Showing the scattering of items along the platform.
    Front view of the train shed.
    Rear view of the train shed.

    14mission,
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    @DrH I have that kit and really ought to build it!

    The stone molding in the inside is a neat touch.

    Very nice build and paint job there!

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