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I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home? by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 102 points 2 months ago

Use the water pressure to power a turbine generator, then use the electricity from that generator to run a window AC unit

Trump World Reportedly Flirts With a Return to Mandatory Military Service by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 128 points 2 months ago

Can we do mandatory civil service instead

Like that would actually help people, building infrastructure, national parks, gaining skills and trades, maybe helping reduce obesity

think of the shareholders by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 94 points 7 months ago

Bro I’m gonna retire next fucking year YEET THAT CAREER the whole idea of working to make someone else money is DUMB buh bye

Prince Andrew ‘tormented’ as Jeffrey Epstein documents set to be made public by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 121 points 8 months ago

Why are there so many pedos among the rich

Big one by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 95 points 9 months ago

Our taxes fund more public health dollars per capita than almost anywhere else in the world. Medicare and Medicaid spending is higher than DOD budget, and that’s before you include medical research funded by NIH and DOD or VA spending.

The issue is that our prices are out of control because of regulatory capture and downstream inability of the government to negotiate lower prices.

What we need are price controls.

Map countries where using VPNs is against the law by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 138 points 9 months ago

Taiwan is not part of China

Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7 by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago

Can we yet dispense with the fiction that hamas is fighting some just war?

Hiding behind civilians and intentionally using their deaths as propaganda is terrible.

Also, free palestine, fuck hamas, fuck likud, fuck Iran, and fuck Russia.

The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 113 points 10 months ago

Because the media want him to run. Trump brings ratings. They are not incentivized to care about educating anyone; entertainment pays the bills.

Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US? by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago

Yeah my favorite is people who say things like “I’m the 1940s USA/Canada/aus/etc fought fascism, what happened”?

No, they fought GERMANY. tons of those soldiers came back home and became John Birchers or klansmen or Christofascist evangelicals any other kind of fascist.

Shooting nazis does not an anti fascist make, perplexingly.

The End of Airbnb in New York by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 147 points 1 year ago

Smart. People can still rent out an extra room, but can’t squat on an apartment solely for Airbnb.

That’s how airbnbs were when I’ve used them in the past, things like a place where you can sleep on someone’s couch, or a house with a spare room you can crash in. Those kinds of arrangements were way cheaper than hotels and very appealing.

Japan may seek to dissolve Moonies church in wake of Shinzo Abe killing by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago

USA should have done this to Scientology after they infiltrated the CIA or whatever it was.

At some point you have to be able to do so, despite religious protections. Otherwise “we are a religion” is a “get out of jail” card.

If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off. by Bye in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago

If I’m getting my work done, they have no reason to complain.