[–] [S] 1 point 1 hour ago

Adding some thought to this, it would be great to be able to view scheduled posts on the "me" page with a button right next to "Posts" and "Comments" that says "Scheduled", replacing "Account Age" and taking you right to a page like this: https://piefed.zip/scheduled_posts (replace .zip with your PieFed instance)

Additionally, when scheduling a post through the post workflow, it would be amazing to display the time of the "Next" and "Last" (non–recurring) scheduled post for those with several posts in the queue

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  • [–] 31 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    188k likes? I don't Twitter. Is the echo chamber really that bad or does he just have it set to automatically give him like 150k likes on every post through the backend?

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    Whenever it rains, Valeen Bhat puts on her waders and her signature hot pink raincoat to clear debris from storm drains in Brooklyn. This time of year, there’s a lot.

    Fall is for foliage. But foliage falls. And in New York, leaves wreak havoc by clogging storm drains, which can produce devastating flooding. Ms. Bhat, the owner of Private Picassos in Clinton Hill, learned this the hard way a year ago. On a Thursday in October, a sudden downpour inundated her art studio for children, trapping teachers and students, until firefighters rescued them.

    With global warming, rain is falling faster and harder, and overwhelming the city’s century-old sewers, most of which were not designed for the furious and swift storms now common in New York.

    Since last fall’s deluge, which caused two deaths in the city, Ms. Bhat has been spreading the gospel of leaf clearance. The task is especially crucial in elevated spots, because drains that clog uphill lead to flooding downhill.

    [–] [S] 2 points 16 hours ago

    Thankfully, I haven’t noticed excessive farting in Archie. But I still have questions. Is my cat farting more or less than a small dog, say, a Chihuahua? What do cat farts usually smell like? And at what point is some farting too much farting?

    Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a breaking news reporter at Scientific American. Before joining SciAm, she was a science reporter at Mother Jones, where she received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications in 2024. Mogensen holds a master’s degree in environmental communication and a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences from Stanford University. She is based in New York City.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    It's also why I'm excited about the Steam Machine despite not actually owning or wanting one. It gives a consistent benchmark upon which game developers can be judged, and hopefully further encourages Linux support.

    If reviewers start consistently referencing Steam Machine performance, it'll give developers something to optimize for instead of just optimizing for the latest, fastest hardware.

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

    The numbering is weird, there aren't actually 50 Propositions because you need a certain number of signatures to get something onto the ballots. Only like 10 Propositions actually make it onto the ballot each year.

    Everyone is eligible to receive a mailer that contains the full wording of the proposition, a couple of pages summary with complete "for" and "against" arguments (and rebuttals), as well as a ~2 paragraph summary from a coalition of folks representing the "for" and "against" campaigns.

    On top of that, outside groups like DSA provide "Voter guides" like the above, that you can independently research.

    The ballot itself just has a title. You are not required to read anything to vote, but I'd wager most folks just read the official "for" and "against" blurbs and form an opinion.

    ETA: You can see the official voter guides here, just scroll to the PDFs and choose your preferred language.

    To be honest and blunt, the quick reference opposition arguments were quite weak, which is likely what carried this proposition over the line.

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    The Environmental Protection Agency late last week announced it would end a 20-plus-year effort to develop methods to monitor air pollution from factory farms, effectively shuttering the agency’s stop-and-start attempts to regulate the potentially pollutant-spewing facilities under the Clean Air Act.

    The announcement came just days before the midterm elections and was characterized by the agency as a long-awaited reprieve for farmers, a historically important constituency for Trump and the Republican party.

    When tens of thousands of animals are packed into one place, pollution from their waste is blown from ventilation fans or emanates from giant lagoons of liquid effluent. Livestock facilities emit fine particulate matter, ammonia, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds, all contributing to a toxic mix. Research has shown that emissions from these operations are a major cause of air pollution, causing nearly 12,700 deaths in the United States a year.

    [–] [S] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    You're young enough to perhaps have missed the "now you're cooking with gas" era of propaganda (yes, it originated in the 1930s, but the effects continue to live on).

    People all over the political and socioeconomic spectrum get irrationally defensive if you even hint at the idea of cooking with anything other than gas.

    The gas grid is awful and gas appliances are worse than induction in just about every conceivable metric, but the gas persists, and for folks that already have gas in their kitchen, the attitude is "Why not heat with it too?"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    The advantage of SBCs aren't just the price, it's the uniformity. Before SBCs made it on the scene, the default response when something doesn't work was either:

    "Well, it works on my 12-year-old Thinkpad"

    Or

    "Your system sucks, just buy better hardware"

    Now there's a consistent system to build compatibility for and benchmark against that can help the most people, allowing devs to spend time on things other than hardware, and allowing a "how-to" community to flourish, bringing new users into the fold.

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