bluGill

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Final Question. E-Bike or Electric scooter? in c/micromobility@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Scooter, as it can easially get on a bus with you. bike and transit is a poor mix and this doesn't sound like a bikeable trip.

Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA emissions deadline isn't relaxed in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

They had all of Bidens presidency. They should have a plan in place already. If they can show the court the plan is reasonable and they have been working on it for a while and are making progress then fine I'll wait. But they need to show they were seriously trying.

Final Question. E-Bike or Electric scooter? in c/micromobility@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

A scooter is great if you are taking transit for all long trips, but your walk from your front door to the transit stop is a little too long (or the walk from the transit stop to where you are going it too long.). A ebike is great if you are not taking transit it all, but I wouldn't want to get them on transit (I have a very low opinion on those front of bus bike racks - they might be full when you want them). Those are very different trip modes. The scooter is for trips where you could walk but it is bit far, while the ebike is for trips you wouldn't walk at all. Those are two different things and so we cannot give a correct answer.

RFK Jr Rejected by Libertarians After They Loudly Booed, Heckled Trump in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social -1 points 5 months ago

Sounds like every other party.

Deflation Never Happens, Except Right Now in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Don't forget to account for the rent if you don't finance a house.

Deflation Never Happens, Except Right Now in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

The other thing missing is you need to live somewhere now. You also have other considerations - if you are starting a family you typically will need to have a place for the family to live and that forces you to buy now. This is why most deflation arguments fail - people need to live, so they will buy food, and shelter (including clothing). People will replace their broken down car. People will buy toys if they can afford it.

Even if you can buy the house for $200k next year, you don't know that the price will go down - I've seen prices go down and then go back up more than once in my life. Maybe you get unlucky, but maybe you bought the bottom, you have no idea what inflation/deflation will do in 5 years and only educated guesses for next year.

Deflation Never Happens, Except Right Now in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Apple II sold for $1298 in 1977. You can buy a mac mini for $599 today. Deflation is real in some markets and we are just fine.

Why cancer-causing pollution from oil refineries is falling: In an environmental success story, refineries have reduced their emissions of benzene due to federal regulations and oversight. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

People have no options because everyone collectively hasn't created them. Sure a few people vote for transit, bike lanes and the like, but not many. (and the poor are not better than anyone else at this) . There are options - you can move closer to work, get a different job that is closer to where you live, get a bike, carpool, ride transit.... Those all bad options for most people but they exist and so they choose them.

Why cancer-causing pollution from oil refineries is falling: In an environmental success story, refineries have reduced their emissions of benzene due to federal regulations and oversight. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why are you blaming the minimum wage worker? It is everybody with a car which is the vast majority of the adult population. Poor, middle class, rich - all of them care about gas prices and scream when they go up.

Why cancer-causing pollution from oil refineries is falling: In an environmental success story, refineries have reduced their emissions of benzene due to federal regulations and oversight. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social -5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Blame everyone. My brother-in-law works for a refinery. They get beat up in the news and by politicians all the time, but when they need something it always happens - even in California. Which shouldn't surprise - people say they want things like clean air until they discover it means gas prices go up (or they can't drive their car at all) and suddenly they don't care are all.

Political consultant indicted for AI robocalls with fake Biden voice made to New Hampshire voters in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] bluGill@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In short he was proven wrong - we do have the regulations already and they got him.

(AI probably needs more regulation)

The demise of Red Lobster is a perfect case study in how to kill a business in c/news@lemmy.world
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Have you ever mocked your logger in a test, or wished you could? That is something like (kbin.social)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by bluGill@kbin.social to c/programming@kbin.social
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Have you ever mocked your logger in a test, or wished you could? That is something like

TEST(some test name)

    mockLogger logger

    logger.expect_call(log("some string"))

    DoSomething(logger)

#programming

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arrgh, just hit report and submitted for spam, then realized I meant to report the post below the one I reported. Sorry about that, I don't see any undo. (kbin.social)
 

arrgh, just hit report and submitted for spam, then realized I meant to report the post below the one I reported. Sorry about that, I don't see any undo.

#kbinMeta

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#sourdough bread bowls ready for the soup (media.kbin.social)
 
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A hobo ask the lumberyard for a scrap and carved this (media.kbin.social)
 
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New in box from 1998 (media.kbin.social)
 
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@ernest I'm trying to reply to a federated toot and the add comment button changes to "sending" for a while then comes back without posting anything. (kbin.social)
 

@ernest I'm trying to reply to a federated toot and the add comment button changes to "sending" for a while then comes back without posting anything.

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/3447135/Maybe-someone-well-intentioned-once-thought-we-could-make-Portland-into

Anything more I can do? this problem has happened before but I can't figure out when/why

#kbinMeta

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Congratulations and "Thank You" are not synonyms. When you congratulate me for a purchase you are saying that despite all the difficulties of making a purchase I managed to anyway. (that is either you (kbin.social)
 

Congratulations and "Thank You" are not synonyms. When you congratulate me for a purchase you are saying that despite all the difficulties of making a purchase I managed to anyway. (that is either you know your purchase process sucks, or you know I'm a cheapskate who would never spend money). When you say thank you, you are acknowledging that there are a lot of different things I could buy instead, and many different vendors i could choose, but you appropriate that I choose you anyway. In almost all cases you want the later, so why does everyone say congratulations?

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Liberal adults can disagree and have a long argument about the topic without call either other idiots, or waling away determined to never talk to the other again. (kbin.social)
 

Liberal adults can disagree and have a long argument about the topic without call either other idiots, or waling away determined to never talk to the other again.

Many people think they are liberal but are unable to do that, thus proving they are not,.

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