Not so sure about the last part. It takes ehhh about 3kg of c02 to produce 1 Watt for a year. Carbon footprint to build a laptop is about 200kg or so, but you’re not offsetting one of those you’re offsetting the raspberry PI you WOULD have bought which is just a small fraction of that. After a year or 2 you’ve almost certainly burned through your c02 savings if it’s on all the time.
You’re missing out, Facebook marketplace is THE place to buy local secondhand goods for dirt cheap without getting scammed. You do need an account but you don’t need to install anything, and the payments are not done through FB
Back when I lived in a (quite nice) apartment building I was constantly surprised at the things people threw out. Perfectly good furniture but also stuff like perfectly functional printers, artwork, computer cases…
I’ve been in one car accident in my life (my fault) and it shook me up, I remember searching “how long until self driving cars.” But I got over it, next day I was back behind the wheel. As other people have said, it’s a necessary life skill for most people in North America and it does get much easier with experience and time.
Edit: one thing that helped me is to identify what I did wrong and how i could avoid it happening again. I have a motto of sorts, “never make the same mistake twice.” You can apply that to close calls as well. In your case, you say you struggle with multitasking, but that isn’t something that is out of your control. Especially while you’re still a beginner, avoid listening to music (and DEFINITELY keep your phone down) and keep your eyes on the road. And if you’re driving with other people, they will be totally cool with you telling them, “sorry I can’t talk, I need to focus on driving.” As time goes on driving will get much easier and you can probably allow for some (limited) distractions like music, etc
I get that in a perfect society you shouldn’t need to learn to drive, but that ignores the fact that if you want to be able to function in society most people in NA need to be able to drive (unless you live in one of the handful of cities with excellent mass transit). It’s a bit like saying nobody should be forced to work for a living and then being homeless.
Whatever, agree to disagree then. You’re not going to convince me that someone who once shoved his wife in an argument-or “attacked her verbally”-is a “wife beater”.
Beat: “to strike repeatedly: : to hit repeatedly so as to inflict pain”
You’re the one playing semantic games not me. I didn’t see anything about betraying trust or undermining security. Slapping or shoving someone and beating them are very different things. They are both very bad in a domestic setting but one is clearly worse than the other.
Nah that’s pretty weird I’ve not heard of that before. I’ve snagged a fair number and still got them as far as I can tell.
Sure, when using the throwing a punch example. But there is a big difference between someone shoving or slapping their partner and someone beating their partner. Both are obviously bad, but only one of them would be an example of “beating your spouse”, and obviously that is much worse.
No not really. If I throw a punch at you that is an act of physical violence. But if I miss or the punch doesn’t hurt you at all, I have not inflicted physical harm. That’s why assault and battery are different charges even though both are violent crimes.
I’m not so sure eating out a restaurant that doesn’t use disposable utensils/dishes is really wasteful at all. The only difference i can think of is if you drove a long distance to get there. But it might actually be more efficient from an energy consumption perspective. You might have to heat up your oven just for a meal for a few people but they are going be cooking up a lot of stuff at once. I’d say the much bigger factors are a) are you wasting good and b) what kind of food are you eating.
Yes, I am not trying to downplay the seriousness of any physical violence, or ignore the fact police officers are more likely to be domestic abusers. However, the post title does say “beat their spouses” which to me implies, at the very least, the intent to harm and actually inflicting physical harm, neither of which are implied in physical violence.
That isn’t really true.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-posts-claiming-40-110000305.html?guccounter=1
The Neidig study stated in its abstract, “Survey results revealed that approximately 40 percent of the participating officers reported marital conflicts involving physical aggression during the previous year.” However, that “physical aggression” included violence perpetrated by the officers’ spouses. The results for violence perpetrated in the relationship in general was 41% for male officers and 40% for female officers. Importantly, Neidig’s results for violence specifically perpetrated by the officers against their spouses were much lower: 28% for male and 27% for female.
So 28% is the number, really, and “physical violence” is not necessarily the same thing as “beating their spouse.” That could mean shoving them, or pulling their arm or something. One criticism of the original study is how vaguely it defines “physical violence”.
I know I will be labeled as a bootlicker, and I swear I’m not, I just don’t like misinformation and on lemmy all the misinformation is leftist. On PCM on reddit I spend my time calling out conservative BS.
Can you actually get a degree in rocket science? I feel like the closest would be aerospace engineering.
I’m really just here for the memes and tech/science stuff, and the occasional interesting discussion
I see a big red circle, but without any big red arrows I don’t know if I should pay attention to the circle or not
Huh? I’m literally talking about like anxiety memes, adhd, autism, etc. Just not topics I find interesting.
Nah no way does the average ewaste tier laptop use less power than a raspberry pi for any given task. The power consumption floor for a laptop may be lower than the rpi ceiling but that’s not a fair comparison