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ephemeral_gibbon, to cars in Why do you need light bars?

It’s not even just aftermarket stuff. The manufacturers cheat the tests by having the spots tested for brightness dimmer than the rest.

The higher bumper heights are also a problem there, as even with a legal cutoff they blind an oncoming sedan at 20m

ephemeral_gibbon, to android in It's time to stop thinking plastic phones can't be premium

Nah, it’s mostly because all the tech reviewers trashed phones with plastic backs saying they felt cheap. If you look at any of those reviews they always talk about the premium feel.

It also changed from aluminium to glass backs mostly for wireless charging.

Plastic backs are better, but the tech reviewers did a lot of damage there. If they’d tried to influence people and explained why particular made sense instead of trashing it we may have more plastic phones.

ephemeral_gibbon, to climate in Leaded fuel still used in small private planes in UK (2022)

If they aren’t absolutely essential for some important societal function the aircraft should just be grounded rather than be allowed to fly on leaded. No one’s toy or joy ride should be giving thousands of people lead poisoning

ephemeral_gibbon, to leftymemes in Reminder...

But ranked choice is easy to implement and in practice if everyone would put a candidate second they aren’t likely to be knocked out in the first round. There are very limited practical examples where it doesn’t provide the optimal outcome.

It also seems to have some level of support and momentum in the US and it seems to me like it’d be better not to get caught in the weeds fighting over which new voting system should be implemented there.

ephemeral_gibbon, to unitedkingdom in Water firms ask for bill rises of between 24% and 91%

Buying the shares is cheap if the company is worth nothing /goes bankrupt from fines for their environmental breaches

ephemeral_gibbon, to unitedkingdom in Water firms ask for bill rises of between 24% and 91%

Fining the shit out of them for their many many environmental breaches. Then when they’re bankrupt, re-nationalise them for cheap.

ephemeral_gibbon, to australia in Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us?

That’s 5-10 years in which it’s really hard to enforce though, as you can’t just have some cat trapping and taking to the pound program. So people would still let them outside you’d have the same problem at the end of your phase out period

ephemeral_gibbon, to australia in Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers

Make it so that interest on money borrowed against residential real estate can’t be declared as a business loss then. That’ll also make speculating housing investment funds a bad idea

ephemeral_gibbon, to environment in Electric garbage truck trialled in regional Australia drives 'like a limousine'

Renewables are cheaper and faster to build. In Australia with the renewable resources we have nuclear just doesn’t make sense to start building today.

ephemeral_gibbon, to environment in Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls

It’s a damn gold plated skeleton though. A skeleton of transmission and storage is cheaper and a really good complement to renewables

ephemeral_gibbon, to asklemmy in To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why?

Yep, I was talking to my grandpa about what invention his parents thought was the most significant in their lifetime, and they had said the radio. They had lived through both world wars which had brought about many many inventions and that was the one they thought was most significant.

Up to that time news was incredibly slow and you couldn’t put what was going on on the other side of the country without a massive delay, let alone the world.

ephemeral_gibbon, to australia in Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies

Oh absolutely, but an improvement is still good. Pokies are absolutely shit and should be ripped out, but it’ll be harder to get that to happen.

ephemeral_gibbon, to australia in Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies

It’s both, stopping one doesn’t mean you can’t stop the othet

ephemeral_gibbon, to australia in Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies

Nah, get rid of cash for the pokies. It alone won’t help with harm reduction but the pokies are one of the most common ways to launder money in this country. People use the resources taxes buy and should be paying their fair share.

We also need cashless gaming cards with default and settable hard limits with restrictions on when you can change it to help combat the addictions.

ephemeral_gibbon, to privacy in Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

I mean, that seems like a really sceptical way to live. Often things get shilled because people are just happy with the service and think the business is doing things well. I am a kagi user and have brought it up to some others, including outside of lemmy, because I find it produces better search results than ddg etc. And it’s a definite step up from google in privacy

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