Term limits for legislative bodies is, and always has been, a dumb idea.

You need a constitutional amendment to impose age limits on offices.

This is the electorate’s fault; the electorate needs to fix it.

Why is holding on to this job important if everything about it sucks?

Seems like this comment could be asked of basically any post on Lemmy that even tangentially references politics, economics, or tech.

people from the North don’t understand how big mosquitoes can get in the swamp

I take it you’ve never seen a backwoods mosquito from the Boundary Waters or, god help me, Alaska.

It’s just a technological step forward. Thread was designed from the ground up as an IPv6 protocol. Honestly, this kind of move is coming later than would have been ideal, given the massive growth in IoT devices.

decent NUCs are much pricier than old discarded hardware

This can be true for some, but for a lot of labbers the increased energy cost of enterprise hardware will exceed the cost difference of the NUC over the expected life of the equipment. That doesn’t mean it’s an obvious choice to go the other way; it’s just something you should consider.

Tiny little landmass filled to the brim with vainglorious people.

All the downsides of Comancho with absolutely none of the redeming qualities.

Living there and also maps existing.

This is real 5’11" energy bud.

Second smallest continent, behind even Antarctica.

It’s tiny my dude.

Europe’s understanding of the geography outside its tiny landmass is utterly laughable.

Sure, but it’s an additional 70 miles. Not something that would go unnoticed.

Plenty of chemical syntheses are patented. Biological catalysts and precursors are patented every day. No one owns the rights to orbital calculations, because that would be like patenting the concept of a square root — it’s not novel or even complex within the field.

What data do you need to leave your bubble? Issue polling, favorability polling, revealed preference, actual vote share? Americans, by a wide margin, want. Less legal immigration and stricter enforcement of immigration law — including detention and deportation.

It’s the unfortunate reality.

One of my favorite movies of all time. The gun battle in the streets is an all-time great scene.

User base size dictates development resources. If you want Linux mobile to be daily driveable, you do need widespread adoption.

Look at the FUD getting voted to the top. This place is just as bad as Reddit.

Not at all? This is nonsense. The very concept of a standing professional military has been exceedingly rare throughout history and was so during the Revolutionary period as well.

There’s no one in the entire world that likes the current system except for the dealers. OEMs and consumers hate them and would rather move to a direct system. It’s awful. Fuck Tesla, but direct sales are just a superior system and there’s no reason not to move to them now that we no longer have the hurdles which once necessitated the dealership model.

Maybe some tech has increased efficiency (although, when it does that increase is more often than not temporary and short lived), but there is even more “tech” that swarms that space rent seeking any time, money, or other resource saved by that increased efficiency. After the efficiencies degrade, the tech-as-a-scam persists and you end up with less efficient systems than you started with.