Glancing at that still in the thumbnail, it also looks like she doesn’t have a driveway.

I don’t know if that’d be the situation that the woman has, but I’ve been in old neighborhoods in the US with housing built before about WW2 or so, and they don’t have off-street parking, as they predate the automobile becoming very common.

That was the enrichment facility, but Iran won’t have kept the output it generated prior to it being bombed there.

If companies are going to place increasing reliance on review due to having lower-quality submissions, then they should probably evaluate employees weighting review quality (say, oh, rate of bugs subsequently discovered in reviewed commits or something like that).

I never really got into the Assassin’s Creed series, but I did enjoy Saboteur, which I understand is somewhat similar, albeit getting a little long in the tooth these days. I don’t think that there are going to be any new games in that series, though. Users might consider taking a glance at it.

On another note…the live service elements going in also highlights one major concern I have with games purchased on platforms like Steam or on console download services or whatever. Publishers can push updates. So, normally you sell a game once, and there’s no future revenue from it. But…if you go out of business or just want to sell the rights, you can sell it to someone else, who now has the ability to push updates to the software to the computers of people who own the game, and can include, say, ads, data-harvesting, live-service stuff, microtransactions, or whatever else might generate money.

Traditionally, that’s not how games worked. A player buys a game on physical media, he can always use that game. It won’t be worse in the future.

To expand on what @Sergio@piefed.social said, each user has a home instance. Yours is ani.social. Sergio’s is piefed.social. Mine is lemmy.today.

If you use the bang reference like that (!FunnyPanels@ani.social), then the link will automatically be modified for users reading your comment to direct to the version of the community for every user on their home instance, which is normally what one wants.

So when viewing your comment, I’ll get a link to “https://lemmy.today/c/FunnyPanels@ani.social”. Sergio will get “https://piefed.social/c/FunnyPanels@ani.social”. You’ll get “https://ani.social/c/FunnyPanels”. An Mbin user would get something like “https://fedia.io/m/FunnyPanels@ani.social”.

If one just puts “https://ani.social/c/FunnyPanels”, then when I click on it, I’ll be viewing the community via ani.social, rather than view my home instance.

IIRC PieFed will convert URLs for users using a PieFed home instance, but (a) that doesn’t work for people with Mbin and Lemmy home instances and (b) I’m not super-enthusiastic about that approach, as sometimes I do want to link directly to a community on a specific home instance, especially when troubleshooting or similar (maybe PieFed provides a mechanism to do so, but if so, I’m not aware of it).

Yeah, there’s some nuclear power plant here in the US that uses sewage for cooling. It’s out in the middle of the desert, Arizona or New Mexico or something, somewhere where it’d be a pain to bring in a bunch more water.

searches

Arizona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station

The Palo Verde Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located near Tonopah, Arizona[5] about 45 miles (72 km) west of downtown Phoenix. Palo Verde generates the second most electricity of any power plant in the United States per year, and is the second largest power plant by net generation as of 2021.[6] Palo Verde has the third-highest rated capacity of any U.S power plant. It is a critical asset to the Southwest, generating approximately 32 million megawatt-hours annually.

At its location in the Arizona desert, Palo Verde is the only nuclear generating facility in the world that is not located adjacent to a large body of above-ground water. The facility evaporates water from the treated sewage of several nearby municipalities to meet its cooling needs. Up to 26 billion US gallons (~100,000,000 m³) of treated water are evaporated each year.[12][13] This water represents about 25% of the annual overdraft of the Arizona Department of Water Resources Phoenix Active Management Area.[14] At the nuclear plant site, the wastewater is further treated and stored in an 85-acre (34 ha) reservoir and a 45-acre (18 ha) reservoir for use in the plant’s wet cooling towers.

New York City is a port city. It has an effectively infinite supply of salt water, which you can use for evaporative cooling, albeit with some extra complications.

EDIT: Hell, you can use the waste energy from an evaporative cooler to drive a distiller to generate fresh water from some of the evaporated salt water, if you want. Microsoft is doing that combined datacenter-nuclear-power-plant thing. IIRC, if I’m not combining two different cases of an AI datacenter using full output of a power plant, they have the entire output of a nuclear power plant never touching the grid (and thus avoiding any transmission cost overhead and as a bonus, avoiding regulatory requirements attached to transmission and distribution from power generation):

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/re-opened-three-mile-island-will-power-ai-data-centers-under-new-deal/

Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal

Microsoft would claim all of the nuclear plant’s power generation for at least 20 years.

From past reading, desalination from reverse osmosis has wound up being somewhat cheaper than via using distillation, but combined generation-distillation using waste heat is a thing. IIRC Spain has some company that does combined generation-distillation facilities.

And in a case like that, you have the waste heat from generation and the waste heat from use all in one spot, so you’ve got a lot of water vapor to condense.

EDIT2: Yeah, apparently distillation used to be ahead for desalination, but reverse osmosis processes improved, and currently hold the lead:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359431124026292

As desalination is a process of removing dissolved solids such as salts and minerals from water, there are two main types of technology commonly used in the industry: thermal-based and membrane-based [22]. The thermal-based desalination processes, such as multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) and multiple-effect distillation (MED) were once predominantly used in the water sector until membrane-based desalination technology, such as reverse osmosis (RO), matured and offered lower operating costs [23]. Hence, RO is the most used desalination process today, producing between 61 % and 69 % of the total global desalinated water, followed by MSF (between 17 % and 26 %) and MED (between 7 % and 8 %) [9], [16], [19], [20], [24].

I’ve seen a variety of people running stats dashboards of various sorts. Some spring up, others go down. A couple:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats

https://lestat.org/ doesn’t have all instances, but can be a useful dashboard for major instances.

EDIT: Lemmyverse.net walks the Threadiverse to update its index and gathers various interesting types of information:

https://lemmyverse.net/inspect

https://lemmyverse.net/inspect/version-chart

They also let you download their data, if you want to do your own analysis.

EDIT2: https://fedidb.com/

If you can use Termux, you can use the command-line lftp, which supports SFTP; I use this on Linux, so I’m familiar with it.

$ pkg install lftp
$ lftp sftp://foo.com

I also use rsync in Termux after being exasperated over the lack of a reasonable F-Droid graphical client for that.

I wound up using some non-open-source graphical SCP or SFTP client out of the Google Play Store using Aurora Store’s anonymous login at one point, which worked but wasn’t what I wanted to use.

But it’s not even overwhelming politics (though I can understand people being tired of politics, as a separate concern). I’m pretty sure that @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net or @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com or a few other users I’ve run into could probably carry on a constructive discussion about left-wing politics. I occasionally see, on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, good-faith, well-meaning left-wing users who are actually trying to go talk about left-wing issues on lemmygrad.ml or lemmy.ml and are off trying to have a serious conversation. Usually auth-left-versus-non-auth-left, but that’s just what gets submitted to MeanwhileOnGrad, and I imagine that there is probably other conversation elsewhere. It’s just that the “capitalism bad” comments that I’m talking about aren’t from those users and don’t fall into that category. They’re just the largest source of low-effort comment stuff that I see.

Relative to Reddit, probably the number of users. More users means more posts, more comments, more expertise on various areas, and more niche communities that become viable.

Somewhere down the list:

• Extremely determined negativity. There are a lot of…I don’t know how to describe it. People who actively try to take the absolute, most utterly-pessimistic read on anything possible, to the point of having to make crazy assumptions to keep some kind of negative perspective on the thing. I don’t know if it’s people suffering from depression — which I understand can produce that effect — or doomerism or what, but it’s exasperating. I haven’t run into that sort of phenomenon, certainly not to anything like that degree, on other social media environments that I’ve used.

• The low-effort “capitalism bad” venting comments. I’m not really into far-left views, but that’s not what irks me. I’ve seen people on here who you can at least talk to about left-wing positions. Like, some random user who is interested in, I don’t know, adopting universal basic income and wants to talk about different proposals. But about 99% of the comments I see that contain the word “capitalism” don’t amount to that. They’re just venting. They aren’t constructive. They don’t reference any material. They aren’t proposing any improvement or ideas or anything. All they want to do is to vent. I mean, it’s like someone wanting to complain about their ex or how their sports team lost or something like that. And not only that, but a substantial percentage of those comments are complaining about something that has little to do with capitalism. Instead, it’s virtually anything to do with the political or economic world that they don’t like relative to some sort of idealized paradigm that they hold. You could use that “everything I don’t like is woke” meme about the right, swap “woke” and “capitalism”, and I swear, it’d apply to a lot of the comments. And I get that, yeah, one purpose of talking to people is to vent, and so you’d expect that occasionally when people talk to each other, sometimes they’re gonna vent. That’s human nature. But holy cow, as low-effort venting goes, the “capitalism bad” comments show up as a high proportion here.

  Occasionally I do talk about things, write larger comments about communal ownership. Like…okay, I know that on at least a couple of occasions, I’ve talked about the fact you’ve had communal ownership work at small scale, like families, say, or that there have been smaller organizations that have practiced communal ownership of property, and that maybe it’d be interesting to try working up in scale from smaller organizations to try and identify where any issues might crop up. And I have never had anyone actually respond with discussion when I do write something like that. No engagement. Like, it’s not as if people have some raging unmet desire to talk about any of that. They just want to complain.

  I don’t even see people who are writing “capitalism bad” comments engage in discussion with each other. Like, this isn’t Marx and a bunch of activists in a London cafe throwing around ideas with each other. It’s just one-off complaints, leaf comments in the thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamenei_family

Assuming that Mojtaba Khamenei meets with an untimely demise in the near future, apparently there are two other sons after this: Mostafa Khamenei and Masoud Khamenei.

Fair enough.

Going off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/7f0896b7-0026-4651-8aef-d3a02f569927.png

And Trump’s still got almost three-quarters of his second term to go.

Number,Name,Assassination Attempts
7,Andrew Jackson,1
16,Abraham Lincoln,5
20,James A. Garfield,1
25,William McKinley,1
26,Theodore Roosevelt,1
27,William Howard Taft,2
31,Herbert Hoover,1
32,Franklin D. Roosevelt,1
33,Harry S. Truman,2
35,John F. Kennedy,2
37,Richard Nixon,2
38,Gerald Ford,3
40,Ronald Reagan,1
41,George H. W. Bush,1
42,Bill Clinton,5
43,George W. Bush,2
44,Barack Obama,13
45,Donald Trump,16
46,Joe Biden,2

if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
  pacman::p_load(
              ggdark,
              ggplot2
          )

  df <- read.csv("assassination-attempts.csv")

  ggplot() +
      aes(x=Number, y=df$Assassination.Attempts) +
      dark_theme_light() +
      geom_col(data=df) +
      geom_text(aes(x=df$Number,label=df$Name,angle=90,y=.1,hjust=0)) +
      labs(x="Presidential Number", y="Number of Assassination Attempts")

  ggsave("assassination-attempts.png",
         plot=last_plot(),
         width=16,
         height=9,
         type="cairo-png",
         dpi="retina")

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I mean, it’s politicking.

There is a segment of the population that considers Trump to sound authentic, not pretentious, academic, or egg-heady. He sounds like the people they talk to.

What I’m less concerned about is Trump in particular doing it and more about it becoming the new norm. If politicians decide that it works, the world might see a lot more insults, dishonesty, and such.

My hope was “Trump leaves office, this gets toned down”. But…it might not. And it might spread to other places, if they find that it works in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/democrats-tone-cursing-casual-trump/

Democrats try a new tone: Less scripted, more cursing, Trumpier insults

Party leaders are swearing more, recording more direct-to-camera videos and trying to project an authenticity many voters have come to associate with Trump.

There are gentler forms of this. For example, I remember an interview with a senior British translator (this was pre-Brexit) working at the European Commission who said that they’d made a conscious decision not to codify an “EU English”, because they were concerned about the political impact of European Union politicians sounding different from the public — more distant, elite. “Sound like the people who you want votes from” isn’t new. But…I’d hoped that we could keep a higher bar than something like Trump’s stuff.

But, well, we live in a new era in terms of media, where social media is how a lot of people communicate. It’s gonna have effects. Fifty years from now, I suppose we’ll see what norms have been established.

Do any of you expect that there’s going to be substantial drops in RAM prices within the next year?

I would not bet on prices dropping substantially in 2026. I don’t have the ability to first-hand assess the situation, but what I’ve seen from articles suggests that you’re most-likely looking at sometime in 2028 before memory prices start really coming down.

I am confident that memory prices will come down. From what I’ve read, it (normally) takes about 4-5 years to build a new factory from scratch. That’s probably an outer bound, since as long as memory manufacturers can get capital (which hasn’t been a problem; lots of companies want to give them money for memory), they can build out production.

Micron announced a second facility in Boise, Idaho in mid-2025, and said that it would start producing in 2027 (though from what I’ve read, it normally takes additional time to come up to scale).

https://boisedev.com/news/2025/06/12/micron-boise-second/

The company said production output is scheduled to start in 2027.

If you use that as as a baseline, maybe three-ish years if a company can build where they already have facilities.

What you might do is, if you have four DIMM slots and can live with just upgrading two, just upgrade two. Then in 2028 or whenever, upgrade the other two slots.

I’d also add that prices probably won’t get down quite as low as they were about a year or so back, because memory manufacturers were losing money then (well, unless cost of production drops, which does happen to some degree over time).

Also, there’s going to be a lot of pent-up demand by that time, so I’d guess that prices will more-likely come down slowly than quickly. A bunch of businesses will have extended their upgrade cycle, and they’re going to want new hardware. Various hardware devices that may be deferred (maybe the Steam Machine 2, for example) will start being manufactured. Individuals are going to want to do upgrades that they’ve been waiting in exasperation to do, just like you. So I’d expect prices to slowly walk down, with people willing to pay more getting an earlier spot in the line.

Are there scenarios where they come down quickly in 2026? Well…major wars/disasters/etc that cause demand to drop more than supply. If everyone in the AI industry decides that the future is down some path other than needing a lot of HBM (which I don’t think is going to happen in 2026, though maybe it’ll happen down the road). If investors by-and-large decide that AI providing major returns is all way, way out much further than expected, and that more research needs to be funded before memory purchases do, which I wouldn’t bet on. I can’t think of many ways in which demand for DRAM would suddenly unexpectedly collapse or supply suddenly unexpectedly explode.

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He just wants to appeal to the collection of people who do like that sort of thing being said.

I remember an incident a bit back where the White House Press Secretary said “your mom” to a journalist’s question, followed up by Trump’s communications director saying the same thing. Those are not people who are going to let that idly slip, much less at the same time — their full-time job is using speech to politically influence people.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-trump-putin-meeting-budapest-b2847669.html

Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.

When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.

millionaire communes

It’s not as exotic a status as it once was. About ten percent of America is composed of millionaires.

https://apnews.com/article/wealth-retirement-millionaire-stocks-homes-inflation-8bc8bf04552feac2625afd6752faa29e

Inflation, ballooning home values and a decades-long push into stock markets by average investors have lifted millions into millionairehood. A June report from Swiss bank UBS found about one-tenth of American adults are members of the seven-digit club, with 1,000 freshly minted millionaires added daily last year.