trolling at that time was ~~an~~ a art form

But are their actions causing public outrage at: a) the causes and purveyors of climate change, or b) the people protesting climate change?

I don't think the "any attention is good attention" adage applies to something as politically polarized as climate change.

Cat litter should work as well for acrylic paint as it does for latex paint.

Begrudgingly given in.

Good fully wireless ear buds are truly an amazing convenience, but I value having flexibility and redundancy in my hardware more than having a slightly sleeker form factor. Thay includes things like removable battery, SD card slot, etc. Unfortunately, the market has spoken, and keeping those features limits you to a more and more niche selection every year. By now the tradeoff just isn't worth it to me.

As far as USB dongles, I seem to have enough problems with USB-C ports becoming loose or flaky for charging that I avoid using them except when necessary. Wireless chargers abound in my house.

Don't forget hundreds and hundreds of fast food napkins that make it impossible to find anything else in there.

Hey thanks for the reply! I'll admit that paper lost me pretty quickly, so I am probably missing a subtle point. But it feels deeply unintuitive since frequency and wavelength are just two different ways of describing the same physical quantity.

So if I have a given source of photons, how the heck does the color of photons delivering most cumulative power change whether I choose to describe that color based on its wavelength or it's frequency?

Is there an analogue to something like sound energy or is this quantum physics weirdness?

(These are semi rhetorical questions... I'm not expecting you to explain unless you really feel like it 😀)

I'm pretty sure I got ambushed by ghouls here in Fallout 4

Lmao you proposed using public radio to remind people to use public transport alongside traffic reports. If the radio says "there's a 45 minute backup from O'Hare to downtown, but the CTA is running 1:15" it doesn't exactly make the case for public transit, and tacking on "but spending that extra 30 minutes on the train will help support a better system eventually" will change exactly zero minds.

Look, the topic of this post was how traffic reports are reinforcing that driving is the only viable way to get around. Traffic reports are at best a symptom, not a cause, more realistically they are a relic of the time before we all had smart phones. Railing against anything that reminds you of cars is not the path to systematic change.

I doom scroll far less. I comment more and have better discussion.

Same here. I had like a single-digit comment count on Reddit because it seemed like anything I had to say was either chucked straight into the garbage bin of buried threads that never took off, or lost in a sea of thousands of similar comments. I've posted more here in a few weeks than 10+ years on Reddit. It feels like there is at least ROOM for conversations here instead of just bickering or meme comment chains.

Along those same lines, I feel like there is an interpretation of being proud to be American that (used to?) align with what is meant when people refer to "pride of ownership" of a house or neighborhood. The desire to maintain and improve the standard of your neighborhood as something to inspire pride, not just "herp derp I am proud of where I was born".

people sort out the best content and comments by voting

Which is exactly what will happen with "duplicate" communities.

If you are trying to make the point that I should deal with multiple duplicates posts on Lemmy in the same way I deal with multiple news outlets, then your point is equivalent to say that Lemmy is useless.

Lmao hyperbole much? My point is that you presumably don't go complaining to the aether about the fact that your news feed is cluttered by CNN, WaPo, Vox, CNBC, etc all reporting on the Crimean bridge being blown up. You read multiple articles for perspective, or focus on the outlet you feel is more valuable and filter out the rest.

Lemmy is a platform for people to create and join communities freely, not a too-down service to actively collate and condense topics. If that makes it useless to you, then maybe you're looking for a different platform honestly.

It has nothing to do with legality. Simply, no memes and articles cluttering up the feed on the porn account, and no tits smutting up the daily driver. 🤷‍♂️