Avid Amoeba
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Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Europe@feddit.org•EU Continues Exporting Banned Pesticides to Global South Despite Pledge to End TradeEnglish
6·14 hours agoUnbelievable
Why? Syngenta gotta make money and the EU is only responsible to its own citizens and firms. So they banned paraquat use in 2007 to protect its citizens, while letting Syngenta continue making it.
Nothing could possibly go wrong. /s
But with blackjack and hookers!
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine
4·20 hours agoUnfortunately good N95 protection isn’t trivially cheap so it really sucks that people often on min wage have to supply their own or get coughed on.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine
10·1 day agoMask up with a reputable, well-fitting N95 in crowded places. I have survived many bus rides with actively secreting people next to me without getting sick since I learned to do it a few years ago. My fav is Moldex 2600 but there are many others.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•Voter fury emerges over skyrocketing electricity bills as AI stokes demand — and fears of a stock market bubble
5·2 days agoAnd electricity prices permeate thru a whole lot of other prices as oil does. So this is inflationary. How much, I don’t know.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Android@lemdro.id•Which smartphone batteries can handle the most charge cycles?English
11·2 days agodeleted by creator
Internally, and for their shareholders’ benefit alone.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approvedEnglish
24·2 days agoThat’s the only way the 1% could eliminate poverty. If it were at all possible.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Europe@feddit.org•Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15English
5·2 days agoDon’t slander me like this. I’m suggesting holding parents liable. 😄
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Europe and Canada Are Finally Saying No to the U.S. F-35 Stealth Fighter, Motivated By a Desire For “Strategic Autonomy”
9·2 days agoI hope you’re right and I do think that’s likely what’s happening but I’m not certain.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here’s why
11·2 days agoThat’s not what I’m talking about. I’m saying that any diffetrnce in treatment must be clear and well signed. Not based on personal judgment and interpretation of one signage or another. And I do think we have to be separated from vehicle traffic in physical ways. Fuck vehicular cycling (just coming off of NJB’s video) 😄
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here’s why
11·2 days agoI know but I think this should happen for all vehicles. If we want lower speeds on back roads, we should speed limit or even better, narrow them instead of sprinkling stop signs that some people treat as yields.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Europe and Canada Are Finally Saying No to the U.S. F-35 Stealth Fighter, Motivated By a Desire For “Strategic Autonomy”
23·2 days agoI think as of now RCAF still wants them and the deal isn’t off yet. I imagine it’s also a card that’s used in the negotiations with the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up staying with the F35s.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Europe@feddit.org•Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15English
13·2 days agoThe parents can.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•The leadership clock is already ticking. Who replaces Poilievre?
6·3 days agoFuck. I was just about to fall asleep.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI RaceEnglish
51·3 days agoThere’s research that shows the process of accumulating so much wealth both selects and creates sociopaths. This is why they’re very overrepresented in the upper class. Sure, not all of them are. Maybe you’d be the exception. I also think I’d be the exception but I’m not too confident. :D
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Facing problems using Bazzite for software development
4·3 days agoDear sir/madam, NVIDIA 550 is available in the Debian stable repo itself so no need for third party repos and therefore no significant risk of breakage. If that driver works well enough you’re good. Ubuntu LTS has NVIDIA 580 in its official repo. I’m running in on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as I write. Then of course if you’re on Debian and NVIDIA 550 does not work for you, you could grab the official driver installer from NVIDIA which would very likely work fine on Debian stable, and it won’t break on its own via Debian updates since Debian stable doesn’t ship major version changes of its packages between releases. You’d likely have to uninstall, then reinstall every few years when you upgrade to the next stable Debian release, but that’s best practice for anything that was installed outside of Debian’s repo.
There’s always a possibility for unintended fuckups but these methods are fairly safe and stable. Using 3rd party repos is significantly more risky to break things one of those days as you innocently
apt upgrade.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI RaceEnglish
51·3 days agoThe only important indicator. Everything else is window dressing.







It’s also the only durable way to force the political system to represent workers instead of more moneyed interests that can dump lumper sums into political campaigns. Voting in elections alone is simply not enough, as demonstrated by various examples here and abroad, unfortunatrly.