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foone ,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

I saw this voltmeter at the electronics flea market. Look at that massive probe! It looks like you need to check your back blast before using it.
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?

foone OP ,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@Keab42 nope! It's huge and I have no need for it.

PeterKratz ,
@PeterKratz@chaos.social avatar

@foone Probably much more, I have one that is for the lower two digit KV range and it is much shorter.

rbreich ,
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest companies was 344-to-1 last year.

In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.

This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable.

They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.

fmhilton ,
@fmhilton@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@rbreich And they've rigged the system so that they never get fired when things go wrong-everyone else does!

Paxil ,
@Paxil@mastodon.social avatar

@rbreich In the context of rational procreation it seems enigmatic.

notjustbikes ,
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BootedUp ,
@BootedUp@universeodon.com avatar

@notjustbikes Malware warning.

lopta ,
@lopta@mastodon.social avatar

@notjustbikes I wonder what proportion of bicycles (or frames) sold in the U.S. are made in China.

GottaLaff ,
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Donald 's 'Glitch' During NRA Speech Raises Questions

“Trump sparked commentary on social media after he stopped speaking for more than 30 seconds during a speech.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-glitch-nra-speech-1902257

CarlataOld ,
@CarlataOld@mas.to avatar

@GottaLaff

Eh, that was for drama.

MaksiSanctum ,
@MaksiSanctum@med-mastodon.com avatar

@GottaLaff Again?

GossiTheDog ,
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has apparently crashed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-69035051

awoodland ,

@GossiTheDog I'm waiting for someone to tell me it's their diversity policies.

Paxxi ,
@Paxxi@hachyderm.io avatar

@GossiTheDog it's definitely stuxnet for helicopters

arstechnica ,
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

New research shows gas stove emissions contribute to 19,000 deaths annually

California is considering a law that would require warning labels on gas stoves.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/05/new-research-shows-gas-stove-emissions-contribute-to-19000-deaths-annually/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mmalc ,

@arstechnica
To bring a point up to top-level, for those who assert that "all people need is a hood over the stove”: It doesn’t necessarily vent very well:

"Pollutant capture efficiency (CE) ranged from <15% to >98%, varying across hoods and with airflow and burner position for each hood.”

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es3001079

And of course that's only if people switch them on.

mlanger ,
@mlanger@mastodon.world avatar

@arstechnica

California and its warning labels. 🙄

apps ,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

#Fedilab is 7 years old, thank you for your trust and your help!

kergozh ,
@kergozh@frikiverse.zone avatar

@apps thanks to you

mdkcore ,
@mdkcore@hachyderm.io avatar

@apps congrats and thanks for it!

w7voa ,
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As President Biden speaks to the Morehouse College commencement ceremony in Atlanta someone is holding aloft behind him a flag of the DRCongo while one graduating student has turned his back and draped himself in the Palestinian flag.

Vaniaji ,
@Vaniaji@toad.social avatar

@w7voa Niger will be sorry they are partnering with Russia… I feel for the civilians…

rvkennedy ,
@rvkennedy@mastodon.social avatar

@w7voa they're only making plans for Niger...

davidho ,
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Does watching polo make me an elitist?

Video of bunch of people on penny-farthings playing polo

leipoa ,
@leipoa@det.social avatar

@davidho Absolutely delightful!

t36s ,
@t36s@social.ordinal.garden avatar

@davidho This polo seems different somehow. I think you're fine.

GottaLaff ,
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Via Lisa Rubin:

What is supposed to be a holding room for a former president’s security has, at their own admission, become a de facto campaign HQ . . . in a government building.

Olivia Nuzzi:

The campaign has moved its operational headquarters from West Palm Beach to a holding room inside Manhattan criminal court.

TheNovemberMan ,
@TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com avatar

@GottaLaff 🙄 Why the fuck is this ok?

PamelaBarroway ,
@PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social avatar

@GottaLaff Man, I really hate this timeline. This is not legal, right? They should just arrest all these asshats ... preferably on the same day the jury convicts TFG. Then they can all do their collective campaigning from the hoosgow.

HauntedOwlbear , (edited )
@HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe avatar

I have finally dragged on clothes, so welcome to !

I share my tee, you show me your tee/shirt/outfit, everyone looks awesome and cute, it's great.

Today's shirt is Ashenspire's Three Months to the Gutter tee, art by Hagiophobic.

They're an avant-garde red/anarchist black metal (RABM) band, and Hostile Architecture is one of my favourite albums of the last few years. Equal parts beautiful and brutal, and upholding the rule that all metal bands with saxophones are good.

If you're near London in the UK, they're playing at Desertfest at the Electric Ballroom this afternoon at 14:30.

Listen to them: https://ashenspire.bandcamp.com/music

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  • ely_peddler ,
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    @HauntedOwlbear sorry I could have posted a link ... but then you wouldn't have had the fun of tracking them down. They're brilliant. I saw them on the first night of the tour that the t-shirt is from. (just realised I forgot to alt text the pics... tusky edit to the rescue).

    HauntedOwlbear OP ,
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    @ely_peddler I do enjoy a little quest!

    GossiTheDog ,
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    One of the things which baffles me the most about being an adult is nobody but me thinks they are rich.

    I think it’s presumably an us vs them thing, ie people want to believe The Others are rich.

    developing_agent ,
    @developing_agent@mastodon.social avatar

    @GossiTheDog

    I am not yet Rich. I have more than before but other people still have more than me.

    Rich is a club that I can one day join, but only if I beat everyone else trying to get there.

    I need to make sure that conditions are as favorable as possible for my future Rich Self.

    grumpybozo ,
    @grumpybozo@toad.social avatar

    @GossiTheDog @pasquires You’re objectively correct, if and only if you insist upon a rich/poor dichotomy.
    However, I think if one must put people into discrete boxes that way, there have to be at least 3. There’s a distinct difference between needing to labor for a paycheck and not and those of us who need to do so will mostly never feel wealthy. Those of us who have been actually poor do feel it, at least sometimes.

    ewolff , German
    @ewolff@mastodon.social avatar

    Funktionale Programmierung leichter erklärbar als objektorientierte?

    katharina_buholzer ,
    @katharina_buholzer@mastodon.social avatar

    @ewolff ohne referenz auf den Quellpost/Artikel und den Highlighted Comment nicht beantwortbar.

    ewolff OP ,
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    georgetakei ,
    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar

    Out of the mouths of babes!

    Crystal_Fish_Caves ,
    @Crystal_Fish_Caves@universeodon.com avatar

    @georgetakei tell him about the 'Y2K' hysteria.

    ...and what a nothing burger that turned out to be. He will learn to be wary of media hype.

    dan ,
    @dan@friendsofdesoto.social avatar

    @georgetakei obviously two thousand. How could it be anything else?

    christianselig ,
    @christianselig@mastodon.social avatar

    SwiftUI noob question: I understand why my ViewModel is being initialized twice, but why is it not being deinitialized?

    It's created, then a second later when appState.show is changed, the view is recomputed, and view, and its ViewModel, are created anew. Cool! But why is the old one not deinitialized? What's holding onto it?

    Sample code: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/d88b1a4d1989b973689ae62d4691162f

    tjadejong ,
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    rockbart ,
    @rockbart@fosstodon.org avatar

    @christianselig I would guess that State stores a shadow copy. As an experiment I replaced the boolean show by an integer that is incremented each second. With the second state chnage, the view model becomes deinitialized.

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