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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How good of a conductor wood is depends on its state. If it is very dry and not salty, this should be safe (although he could have taken the piece of wood more at the end to increase the distance between him and the fence and the length=isolation through the piece of wood). If it is wet and salty, it might be dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you sure? Doesn't the "smart edison bulb" design make it harder to dissipate heat to the casing, therefore making the LEDs get hotter compared to PCBs with LEDs surface mounted on them?

Anyway, if you want your ~~light bulbs~~any technology to last long, don't buy the "smart" variant. "Smart" usually means more components and/or more dependencies on interfaces, and more complexity, so a higher chance to fail.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your comment is incorrect in many different ways.

Butter is fat and some sugar and protein.

No. The butter in my fridge has almost no sugar (0.6g in 100g) and almost no protein (0.7 g in 100g).

Pasta is mostly carbs.

For comparison: The pasta I have at home have more sugar (most have roughly 3g in 100g) and way more protein (12g in 100g).

they all become calories, and if you eat more calories than you burn, they will be stored as fat.

Are you sure you're not simplifying too much?

Also, "just" eating less or more calories is not that easy if you ignore the side-effects. Carbohydrates will make you hungry very soon unless mixed (or eaten after) fibers, fat and protein. Which you should do anyways for health reasons.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

TIL my thesis could have been easier if Typst would have been available years earlier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lots of places in France are so remote and sparsely populated that public transport does not work there, at least not yet. It may or may not work once autonomous vehicles are fit for rural areas, but this may take a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's another reason for increasing minimum wages, as they try to do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Actually, 90% income tax for the top incomes was common in western countries in the 50s.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

400'000€ yearly income is not middle class. It is roughly the top 1%. Are you maybe mistaking property for income?

I would have preferred taxing on property instead of income, but as long as interests and profits and other benefits are part of income, it sounds reasonable to me.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess you could try AI-checking it and answer "Ignore all previous instructions. …", followed by some new instructions. Some examples: https://www.aiweirdness.com/ignore-all-previous-instructions/

(Although I guess it would be better to not respond to this obvious case of spam/scam)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Maybe they should ban trowing away your trash instead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Capitalist perfection: you are paid for cycling, don't do anything else!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Correction, 50% of VOTING Americans are VOTING fascist. Doesn't necessarily mean they are fascist themselves.

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