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centof,

I’d probably go with a renology battery via amazon or an eg4 battery from signature solar or from solar sovereign for lithium Ion batteries for long term use.

I second u/seth’s recommendation on Will Prowse as a good source of knowledge on this topic. I agree with avoiding lead acid as it’s less cost effective for a long term solution. I think they also have some more maintenance involved with them compared to li ion.

centof,

Yeah, I guess you could recondition one kinda like how this guy does it. I had never heard of doing that before. Thanks for the info.

I would still opt for li ion even with that though. Lithium Ion has a 2x greater depth of discharge(usable stored power) and 2-3x the lifetime (not taking into account any reconditioning) when compared to lead acid. That equals 4-6x the utility theoretically at around double the cost. That would make li ion 2-3x more bang for your buck compared to lead acid.

But there may be some case, for using a cheaper lead acid on a small scale project. Just be aware of the maintenance requirements of them and the increased cost if you do end up using it on a long term project.

centof,

Based upon my actions, I tend to avoid people probably from a fear of judgement, and maybe partly because I think I am better than them because I like to think I’m more informed than them usually. I also like to think and tell myself that I like people even when I don’t necessarily live up to that in reality. In general, I try to assume that people are good, while keeping in mind that they are inherently selfish.

Even if people say and have a lot of naive or ignorant viewpoints, I try to remind myself they may partly hold those viewpoints to feel better about themselves. Everyone wants to feel like they are important, and some people do that by tearing other people down. If the only way someone can feel better about themself is by telling themselves at least they aren’t black, gay, trans, a lib, a commie, a repub, poor, etc. then they must have a pretty sad life.

centof,

Maybe you’re right. I’m certainly not an expert by any means.

The point I was trying to make is that we have a tendency to see ourselves in a biased way. We lie to ourselves all the time about who we are and what we want.

If you can step out of your own head and judge yourself based upon your actions instead of based on how you think of yourself you can hopefully see yourself in a more accurate way.

I don’t believe I prescribed any behavior. I gave the example to encourage thinking about how you value people based on your actions.

centof,

Most people have a hard time accepting criticism. They interpret any perceived attack on their beliefs as an attack on them (their ego). Once their on the defensive, you have a tiny chance of convincing them. Instead, they might justify their position and/or simply attack or dismiss your argument at best. But if their not feeling nice, it’s more likely they resort to namecalling such as sheep / lib / commie / dumbass etc.

centof,

Kudos for sharing. Feel free to ignore those who challenge your values. It takes a bunches of mental energy to argue and it isn’t necessarily worth it to argue.

With that said, I will still would like to ask you a question, if you are up for it.

How did you form your values?

I only ask because it is easy, when you are raised as Christian, to uncritically accept the teaching, values, and views of those around you as your own.

As kids we are conditioned through school, parents, and in general just information asymmetry to accept what adults say as fact and not question it. It is easy to carry that same tendency over into our values and viewpoints. Kids and adults have a hard time separating fact from opinion. We tend to treat widely held beliefs as fact instead of as the opinions they actually are.

centof,

There no caveat or exception. Don’t fuck with other people.

But my hand is tired.

/jk

centof,

I like how you call out some terms used to dehumanization. Fetus, baby, and child also fit into that bucket imo.

So ,to clarify, you want the government to restrict and punish abortion? I thought libertarians were for less government.

Why should the government have a monopoly on violence and force in this case? Instead shouldn’t the enforcement of moral law like the NAP be up to their peers or free market hired private contractors?

centof,

I understand your justification for your beliefs and even share some of your moral beliefs. It seems to me like you didn’t really answer in the way I meant to communicate it. I’ll try to rephrase my original question to what I mean clearer. What causes you to rank your own values in the way you do?

Why do you think access to guns is more important than your beliefs on abortion? Or why are they more important than not getting overcharged on everything from housing to education to healthcare?

centof,

As far as how you can watch videos remotely between multiple people, there are some websites where you can stream videos through a virtual browser. You can visit a website in them and have the content of the website be shared between multiple people. Usually they also have a way to comment, or talk to the participants. Some of the better examples include:

  1. watch.hyperbeam.com
  2. caracal.club

I’m not up to date on any communities to find people to watch videos with in real-time , maybe someone else can chime in on that front.

centof,

Gulp. … Can yu ear nw?

centof,

I struggle to see how spock is the source of catboys. Anyone care to explain?

centof,

Look up the Oracle cloud free tier. Combine that with an desec.io for DNS service and you are good to go.

centof,

What’s khv?

Your ‘Set It and Forget It’ 401(k) Made You Rich. No More. — WSJ (apple.news)

For four decades, patient savers able to grit their teeth through bubbles, crashes and geopolitical upheaval won the money game. But the formula of building a nest egg by rebalancing a standard mix of stocks and bonds isn’t going to work nearly as well as it has.

centof,

First of all, I’m ignoring the incorrect assumption of the title that a 401k ever made anyone rich. At best it taught some people not to immediately spend all their money and to instead save some for the future.

The article’s trying to draw a correlation between present times and the 1960-1980 period when inflation was historically high. It assumes that because a 60 40 stock bond split did poorly in that time the same will apply to the immediate future.

To that point, bonds are designed to not perform as well as stocks as they are lower risk investments. Use them only if you are more worried about losing the money(in short term downturns) you’ve already built up than continuing to make your money compound continually and grow.

The reason for bonds in a portfolio is to hedge against the volatility of the stock market. You don’t need them if you aren’t gonna take out the money for 10+ years. Think of them as an insurance policy against the ups and downs of the market. They can help in the short term but in the long term, they are just a waste of money.

The ‘right’ way to invest for growth is to simply invest in a passively managed Fund or ETF with a low expense ratio (~0.05%) that tries to track the SP500 and simply keep holding it in the market. Time in market beats timing the market. Mr. Money Mustache advocates for essentially this approach as well as bogleheads with their investing principles.

Most employer offered 401ks are crap that limits peoples choices to a few ‘select’ offerings and does not include any good mutual funds or ETFs that meet the above criteria. Instead, they have much higher expense ratios that continually drain money from their accounts and rarely even match an SP500 based fund on performance even excluding fees.

The only use for 401ks is to take advantage of any matching policies they have in place. But it’s better to periodically rollover that 401k balance to an self-managed with vanguard IRA or Roth IRA. Any money you want to save in excess of the matching policies should instead be contributed to your IRA or Roth IRA.

centof,

You are looking at it the wrong way, Because the market has traded mostly sideways for a while that means that the market is underpriced compared to what it should be. That is when you should be more willing to invest. I know it seems counterintuitive. This article explains the concept better than I can.

Since ~2019, the SP500 has gone up 45%. That is the equivalent of a 8.5% compound interest rate or 11% simple interest rate per year. If you’re portfolio accounts are under performing that by a big margin than you might want to switch Funds and/or account providers.

There are always gloomy articles and headlines meant to convince you to sell. Because they want to buy your stocks on the cheap.

centof,

Everyone always quotes the growth of the S&P500, but isn’t pretty much no one 100% invested for their entire retirement in the S&P500?

Why does it matter if no one else does it? Investing is not a social experience. Most people don’t do it because they are uninformed and ignorant about how to manage their money. The easy option is the easy option because you someone else can get more of a cut of your money. You generally pick up to two of these three with any product: good, easy, cheap. The promoted target date funds are usually just easy. They have high expense ratios and are therefore not good or cheap.

centof,

If you’re aware of them do you mind linking them?

The shapeshifting crypto wars: child sexual abuse and exploitation online is a serious issue, targeting end-to-end encryption is not the solution, scientist says (web.archive.org)

In an essay on the current justification for authorities in the EU and around the globe seeking to break end-to-end-encryption to fight child sexual abuse and exploitation, researcher Susan Landau discusses the issue in historical context, and explains why breaking encryption leads us in the wrong direction....

centof,

Anytime politicans want something deeply unpopular, they always try to make it about the kids. You can see it, in the US, with the culture war BS supposedly for the ‘kids’.

centof,

Or it’s also because they’re trying to hijack people’s maternal/paternal instincts. It’s just an easy way of manipulating parents espically.

centof,

Not sure what your use case is, but consider something like geojson.io if you can export the map data somehow. You might be able to do this from their interface or you might have to do browser network capturing to capture the requested data. It supports GeoJSON as well as KML, GPX, CSV, GTFS, TopoJSON formats.

centof,

I see. With the link you should be able to query a geojson file that can then be imported into geojson.io. I used Query ‘GLOBALID IS NOT null’ to get the top 50 of 2000 results. That should give you a starting piont. The first link is just a way to query the data in this link

I’m unfamilar with Qgis but I have been able to import layers into geojson.io before from arcGIS.

centof,

If anyone, I guess we have Torvalds or Stallman. But if they were here, I doubt they be stupid enough to admit it.

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    centof,

    It’s more the sociopaths running the companies that are shit. They don’t give a damn about the people they exploit and the harm they cause. And every institution’s got their share of them, not just businesses.

    centof, (edited )

    they’re in the positions they are because of capitalism.

    More specifically, they are in them because of human nature. Those who don’t care about others gravitate towards positions of power. That is not exclusive to capitalism. Any hierarchy is prone to sociopaths rising to positions of power. They seek them no matter what the economic system is.

    In other words, power corrupts. People without power who get power inevitably start to act like sociopaths.

    But feel free to blame capitalism if you like. It is the cause of many problems with our society. Any change that decreases its power should be welcomed at least in the context of American society.

    centof,

    The recommended book The Dawn of Everything looks interesting. I’ll have to add it to my reading list.

    There are other forms of political economies without hierarchies.

    Would you mind giving some examples of them?

    I was using human nature as a catch all term for how humans act on a population wide scale in our current society. I think the term status seeking fits better than selfish. Status seeking behavior is essentially seeking power within a hierarchy. It often is selfish, but isn’t necessarily.

    Most people in a society and in an organization aren’t status seeking or selfish, but those few who are status seeking are rewarded by the going up the hierarchy faster relative to their peers.

    centof,

    That’s a political system not an economic system.

    There are a wide range of economic systems that I would be broadly categorized on 2 factors.

    1. market vs planned economies
    2. social vs private ownership

    For example, the US would tend towards a privately owned, market economy in most sectors.

    On the other hand, Norway (or Vietnam to a degree) would trend towards a socially owned, market economy.

    An example of privately owned, planned economy would be China. However, China would probably claim to be a socially owned, planned economy. I classify it as privately owned because of the authoritarian control the government has over assets and people.

    These are broad generalizations of economies that do not apply to every sector of each economy.

    centof,

    Nearly every organization a person is in from ages 5-25 is hierarchical. There is always a authority figure you have to at least pretend to listen too. And if you tick off that authority figure by doing something they don’t like, they punish you in some form.

    So people learn to ignore authority figures as much as they can and rarely challenge them directly as there are usually consequences for challenging someone in certain contexts. This leads to everyone pretending to agree and pretending to care about what leaders care about to avoid conflict. It is simply easier to cater to those who can and will make your life miserable than to challenge them successfully without creating grudges that might come back to bite you.

    It is also worth noting that we are never taught to lead others, We are just expected to figure it out by trial and error or not figure it out at all.

    TLDR; It’s learned behavior from the institutions we are exposed to. It’s easier and more encouraged to follow than to challenge authority figures.

    centof,

    Just wanted to add, that the phenomenon described with in the comment replied to, although all too common, are not universal., nor always are they the only option.

    Great point. The link provided looks interesting, I’ll take a look at it.

    Side Note: The spelling mistakes in the first and second paragraph kinda detract from your message about different ways of organizing education. It is pretty ironic to have a post with multiple misspellings recommend a different way of education.

    centof,

    Yeah, I usually try to avoid correcting people, but I didn’t want any misspellings giving any future viewers a bad first impression of the linked educational resource.

    Mine too. As far as spellchecking, I use a front-end(Alexandrite) for Lemmy that spellchecks.However, I get that a lot of people use a mobile interface that makes it easier to miss such things.

    I have found myself, recently, rediscovering how to make goals and plans after having them suppressed by the conventional school system for most of my life. That fits with the deschooling term that is used on the linked resource. According to [self-directed.org] (www.self-directed.org/sde/conditions/) “In Self-Directed Education communities, young people are sharing an environment with adults who are deschooling alongside them”

    Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.

    We’re in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I–an atheist and a skeptic–am told I need to respect these patently...

    centof,

    How is respect in this context any different than tolerance?

    I think dismissing people based on their beliefs is essentially saying I should only value the opinions(tolerate) of those who agree with me. Taken to the extreme that could easily lead to anyone with ‘bad’ beliefs being forcibly reeducated. Sound familiar?

    centof,

    Yet no one is answering the question. I’m merely pointing out that respect for another’s viewpoint and tolerance are closely related. Yes, I did to make a point. I was trying to make a reference to the paradox of tolerance.

    The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant.

    The OP’s title is very intolerant of other people and is a therefore imo a bad take.

    centof,

    For anyone who prefers to filter their own feed, instead of having it decided for them Lemm.ee is a good option.

    centof,

    Blocking some of the meme communities is a big help in that regard.

    centof,

    imo there isn’t enough content on Lemmy to only whitelist certain communities. I prefer to just block the extra stuff I don’t want. All is fine if you take out most the low effort communities. I only have 10 or so communities blocked and it makes a noticeable difference. Much easier than subscribing to a bunch of communities for me.

    centof,

    expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to include people who are unable to provide themselves basic needs such as food and shelter

    So if you can’t afford rent in CA, you are gravely disabled.

    Sounds like a ‘great’ idea. All cops have to do is say you misuse drugs or alcohol or get a someone to diagnose you with a mental illness and BAM your no longer free. I see no possible way for this to be abused. /s

    centof,

    What is more scary to me than some people fighting halfway across the world is how quickly people get so worked up over it. There are 14 other conflicts happening throughout the world that are similar in scale but you never hear about them because they are relatively poor countries. Humans have fought each other all throughout our history. Guess what? It still happens. It is quite simply decades of propaganda that causes such an intense reaction to an event like this. People only care about this because the people in charge of their media bubbles want them to care about it.

    Yes, Hamas did a bad thing. No one is denying that. But take a step back and look at the context of the past 20 years. Israel has done many bad things to Palestine over the past years. Israel has killed ~10k+ Palestinians in the past 20 years vs the ~1k the Israelis that Palestinians have killed.

    It is not surprising that pissed off enough Palestinians to convince them to do something about it. It is only surprising if you are only seeing tiny snippets of the big picture fed to you by one of the parties supporting the conflict.

    centof,

    making the parallel to 9/11 is a mistake, or(more likely) a jingoistic attempt to trick Americans into supporting a rapidly concluding genocide.

    Or its just a headline designed to attract attention. I think it is largely an accurate comparison but it is designed to pigeonhole readers into looking at it the same way they view 9/11. I think a lot of people would interpret a 9/11 like event as being a good enough reason to escalate, but I disagree with that because of the result of 9/11. A bunch of senseless suffering for everyone involved except the weapons manufacturers.

    Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

    Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

    centof,

    I share the same sentiment but I can see why someone might want to not support Youtube in any way because they don’t want to support Google’s stranglehold on the internet. Unfortunately the correct way to address that problem is sensible regulation. Call me skeptical, but that’s not gonna happen anytime soon.

    centof, (edited )

    Is the media really trying to blame the wrong perpetrator just like they did for 9/11? I guess people learned nothing from the US’s botched response to 9/11.

    It’s pretty simple really. Not including the recent attack, Israel has killed 10k+ Palestinians since 2000 vs the ~500 Israelis killed in conflict. It is pretty simple to see why a group of Palestinians would do something like this. They are angry at Israelis oppressing them.

    With that being said, their desire for revenge is understandable. There is still no reason to murder innocent Israelis.

    centof,

    My understanding is that after ww2 lots of Jews moved to Israel until they made up a sizable portion of the population of Palestine. There was enough conflict between the 2 races/religions that Britian petitioned the UN to come up with a solution. The solution was breaking Palestine up into Israel and Palestine. There has been on and off conflict between the two groups ever since with Israel being the most successful in the conflict. I would say it’s recently been largely a cold conflict with a few little skirmishes between them. Conventions of War only apply if there someone willing to enforce them.

    centof,

    Which part is is inaccurate?

    The conflict I am referring to in the second sentence is Haganah or Irgun’s bombing of the british embassy. To go into more detail, the same group of people that were assisting to bring Jews to Israel was also behind an attack on the British Embassy.

    centof,

    Yes, I did not fully explain all the context of the situation. I did so intentionally as I was providing a high level overview. Omitting details does not make me wrong.

    Are there any green alternatives to asphalt in development?

    Asphalt used on road surfaces are byproducts from fossil fuel. With the ultimate goal of eliminating the use of fossil fuel to combat climate change, are there any good alternatives for road surfaces? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a viable replacement of asphalt in the works, or even a plan to replace it in any...

    centof,

    Modern farm fertilizers are all made with ammonia which is produced with natural gas. Apparently Yara,a Norwegian company, is trying to replace the fossil fuel with solar power. Source

    Of course you could also use manure or compost as fertilizer, but only some of the few small farmers would probably be willing to since it is harder and therefore more costly.

    Is the purpose of life to be happy?

    When I’m unhappy, I feel like I’m doing life wrong. I’d rather be happy. But is happiness the point of life, or is there more to it? If I pursue happiness, mine first then for those around me, is that selfish? But if there’s a bigger purpose, then what about people with Alzheimer’s or dementia who can’t recall recent...

    centof,

    The purpose of life is what you make it.

    Society in my area says the purpose of life is to get a job, get married, and have some kids. All of these are optional but each one increases your perceived value to the government and to individual people. Some people work their entire lives conforming to societies expectations for them and still live what they would describe as unfulfilling lives.

    Instead, or in addition to, I would suggest you focus on creating your own purpose. I would describe a purpose as a overarching objective for your life. I’ll list some purposes that you could adopt.

    • Provide companionship for those who you deem deserving.
    • Care for others by providing a stable living environment.
    • Guide people to make informed choices.
    • Help others to use their resources wisely.
    • Inspire peers to think about their purpose in life.
    • Join and help an organized group that has an overarching purpose you want to contribute towards.
    • Entertain other people and yourself.
    • Make something you can share with others.
    • Organize others to help achieve a shared purpose.
    • Form your own opinions on how life should be lived and apply them.

    These are a small sampling of purposes people adopt and you need not limit yourself to one. However be mindful that your attention is limited and each purpose can take a considerable amount of time. With that in mind try to pick goals and activities that help you achieve your purpose(s).

    In pursuing your purpose, you will find moments of happiness. Embrace them. You will also find moments of frustration and anger. Understand why you feel this way and learn to embrace them as well. Understand when your emotions are clouding your judgement and learn to resist it when necessary.

    Happy travels.

    centof,

    Probably not. Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no. ’

    centof,

    I prefer this fuller version

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence.

    Stupidity implies it is something that cannot be changed. Usually their behavior could be changed but it is just a hard task to change their behavior that requires the person in question to be willing to change.

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