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Subtracty@lemmy.worldtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025English7·3 months agoWe shouldn’t be forced to replace tech this frequently. If you are comfortable shelling out money for the next big thing that is on you. The rest of us want functioning products that last.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Fears grow that Signal leaks make Pete Hegseth top espionage target3·3 months agoEven if they do get rid of him, won’t he be a vulnerability for years to come? Because of the position he was given, certainly not earned, he is privy to not only the details of current military strikes but also secret goals for future military projects. Right? I assume most people who have these jobs have a modicum of self-respect and patriotic duty. But couldn’t he just leak that important info to anyone even after he is fired?
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto /r/50501 Mirror@50501.chat•They are trying to keep women from voting.English1·3 months agoThat makes sense. Especially considering that they don’t expect another fair election anyway.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•BREAKING: Pete Hegseth Reportedly Shared Attack Details With Wife and Brother in Second Signal Chat31·3 months ago“Can’t meet you guys at the bar for drinks we are about to bomb Yemen. Don’t wait up, my boy JD and I are going to get blackout drunk and try to drift a motorcade vehicle around the lincoln memorial.” Or something to that effect.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto /r/50501 Mirror@50501.chat•They are trying to keep women from voting.English212·3 months agoI know that this is a big problem for many reasons. But won’t this hurt Republicans more than Democrats?
Speaking specifically about married women who have taken there husbands name. I remember a lot of focus in the recent elections was on suburban women in swing states like Pennsylvania. I know these assholes don’t give a shit about the opinions of women, but plenty of them turned out and cast their vote for Trump.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This travel site is the Google Maps helper you never knew you needed7·3 months agoThis site is fantastic. As I recall, you can do a whole string of destinations and it finds every possible route. Great for getting around Europe when I was on a tight budget.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto Spaceflight@sh.itjust.works•[Eric Berger] Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”English332·3 months agoAnyone can be an astronaut if they suck the right old guys dick. Groundbreaking levels of participation award handouts.
Astronaut - deriving from ancient Greek astron (star) nautes (sailor). They were useless cargo. No one in history has been called a sailor for taking an 11 minute cruise on a ship that they took no part in sailing.
Why Australia? Good place to work, or just a better place in general?
Not OP, but some of the older guys I work around are excited for the rollback of safety standards. I don’t get it. We are the ones on the ground next to the heavy equipment, interacting with caustic chemicals and high voltage.
We are exactly the people who get hurt when management relaxes safety standards because there is no one to enforce the rules. I’m so tired of being the ‘soft’ millenial that cares about safety. Fuck me for wanting to live a long and happy life I guess.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto Ocean Conservation & Tidalpunk@slrpnk.net•Trump opens massive marine protected area to commercial fishing39·3 months agoThere will be nothing good and beautiful in this world when he is done with it.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump Administration Says It Will Take Over Renovation of Penn StationEnglish71·3 months agoFrom a man who was notorious for not paying his contractors on NYC properties?
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?1·3 months agoProject scheduling programs. Primavera, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject. All of them are uniquely awful in their own way, and yet I still have to pay for them in order to work in my field.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto Videos@lemmy.world•[Angela Collier] women in space but it sucks23·3 months agoI really like her delivery. I tend to get heated about these things, and I think that kind of tone turns people off when talking about the injustice in stunts like this. Her level headed statements really drive the point home. And I want to be more like that because articulating why this isn’t inspiring is important. Science communication is becoming so popular these days, but a lot of people are just trying to capitalize on the trend and not actually care about the science.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto [Moved to Piefed] Television@lemm.ee•The Sandman: Season 2 | Date Announcement | Netflix (Volume 1 - July 3rd. Volume 2 - July 24th)English6·3 months agoWell, that’s a shame. Loved so many of these actors and this adaptation. But I’m not going to show financial support for Gaiman in any way.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto News Summary@hilariouschaos.com•US Senator flies to El Salvador to help wrongly deported manEnglish10·3 months agoWhy does this feel like the congressman who went to investigate Jonestown. I’m nervous for him, but proud of him for physically doing something about this.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Parents of daughter who died of measles meets with RFK Jr. to blame everyone but themselves.English21·3 months agoPunchable faces (aside from the child of course)
I didn’t reflect on all of this until my 20’s. I coach girls from around 8-18 years old, and the standards for interacting with kids nowadays means you have to take a lot of abuse training courses. That coupled with watching the girls I coach try to navigate social media and coming of age made me realise how abnormal my own upbringing was.
Its crazy how protective I feel about these kids that aren’t even my own. But looking back on the dangers lurking in the corners, I know how important it is to keep kids in the loop. Not to scare them, or try to keep them isolated. But safety starts with communicating freely with the safe adults in your life. I think things are trending towards more quality information about sex being readily available. Most (non religious) parents seem to realize they need to raise confident kids that they have an open dialogue about important things with.
My mom peaked in my room and left me with the American Girl book about hygiene and female anatomy. I don’t think it said anything about sex. Just had to navigate that part of life armed with (mis)information from whispered conversations with friends over sleepovers.
I think back on how many experiences I had growing up that could have gone wrong. This was all happening just as AIM chatrooms and chat roullette were popular. And there were so many creeps that my friends and I talked to because we were curious. No normal adult was giving us the information, but plenty of adults online were happy to talk and ask for favors in return. Shivers down my fucking spine.
I am so thankful that I was too nervous to do anything and usually ended conversations quickly. But the risk of genuine harm was right there, and our parents had no idea. We laughed whenever we saw a penis appear on chat roullete and clicked away, but we were not mature enough to know how fucked up it was. It was our parents’ job to guard us from that. Not by putting blinders on us. But by affording us the respect of an important conversation.
I am so passionate about people having this discussion with their kids. Kids are curious. The fact that the subject is taboo makes it even more exciting for kids. It is such a crucial moment in the transition to adulthood. Ignoring the conversation endangers them by making the subject seem exotic and inticing.
Have the conversation with your kids or someone else will. And you will have no control over how and when that happens.
Subtracty@lemmy.worldto [Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•What's a food you love, but can completely understand other people hating?English3·3 months agoNever ate liver and onions until I was married. My own mother was grossed out when I told her I ate liver. But it is so flavorful! I’m sad I missed out as a kid because my parents thought it was gross. I promised myself I will not do the same to my kids.
Imagining Donald and Melania attempting to kill one another while singing about how much the love each other is hilarious.
With all the bad news, at least we can laugh at the fact that these rich assholes absolutely despise one another.