IamtheMorgz @ IamtheMorgz @lemmy.world

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And it's very messed up he didn't get that help. However, he's still responsible for his actions and needs to be held accountable for them. He knew it was wrong or he wouldn't have asked for help in the first place. 15 is old enough to understand what it means to kill someone.

If you're an alcoholic, and you're trying to get help, but you drive drunk on the way to therapy and kill someone, you're still responsible.

The sentiment that your mental health crisis somehow absolves you of your actions is dangerous for society. I'm pretty far left politically but I've been seeing this more and more from that side of the aisle and it's concerning. Arguably everyone who kills has something mentally wrong with them!

I'm sure that will make people feel super safe while ubering.

Too bad those of modest means can't afford their own generators. But screw them right? Should probably have been born richer.

I hate mine. Got the glitch that ruins the camera and the only way to fix it is to send it off for a few weeks. Happened after only having the phone about 10 months. Can't go that long without my phone so I'm just dealing with it by only taking wide angle photos, but it's a real bummer. I usually keep a phone for at least 3 years but I'll be ditching this around July after less than 2. I love their computers but I'll never buy a phone from them again.

You can turn off emergency alerts though. And you can't get them back after they've been dismissed from your phone.

I work for the state. For the last decade or more, the pension has been a pittance (1% per year of service, takes 10 to vest). Better than absolutely nothing but still not enough even when you add it to SS. I put back what I can, but realistically I don't think I'll ever be able to afford to retire even with the pension.

While I don't disagree that it's going to be too late, I do think SMRs are likely to go the distance, at least abroad.

The reality is that we aren't going to hit 90% carbon free by 2030 without a huge social and political shift. There's just no way that is happening in 6 years. I really hate being a downer about it but I think we need to face the facts on it.

The storage capacity is the hard part. Batteries aren't really a viable option (we don't really have good enough batteries, limits on how many can be made with current resources, etc).

Dams would be good (pump water uphill when electricity is cheap and release when you need the energy back), but dams are not a viable option everywhere and also have a high environmental impact and are arguably not the safest thing for a community.

I read somewhere recently about the idea of putting smaller batteries in individual homes, basically distributing the power ahead of time to a certain number of places so they are not taking from the grid in peak times, but it would be hugely expensive still, and I also question if we have the ability to make so many batteries, much less get enough people to install them.

To be fair, Plant Vogtle just turned on Unit 3 earlier this year and Unit 4 should be coming soon.

Double ditto. My mortgage is less than rent anyway, and my costs will go down if valuation does (lower taxes). I don't even like where I live right now (I bought what I could afford and got in with a low interest rate, but it's a poorer neighborhood) but I'd be so happy to see my friends who've been struggling manage to have something for themselves.

So freaking expensive. But honestly I love mine. Sometimes I travel for work and I'm gone all week. Come home and there's still no smell. Worth it.

OoO this would be fun to try to do the whole song...

Aside from the fact that this isn't true for people giving up their citizenship (in the US at least), it's especially not true around the world. Lots of people are born stateless or made stateless during conflict or upheaval.

Cruise ships are more about the amenities on board. Not sure how many amenities you could get on an airship because of the weight. So it would be a two days boring as hell trip and most people aren't going to give up the vacay time to sit around and do nothing.

Whoa, don't call her a cunt. She doesn't have the depth or the warmth.

I actually don't think that is true. Caitlin Dougherty on YouTube has a video on it though. It's pushed by funeral directors because it's a big money maker for them.

I feel like this is the kind of thing everyone overlooks in these kinds of scenarios. Thousands of people are going to be working on the problem. Okay, all our current electronics are fried, but that doesn't mean we can't make new ones. All our power plants and water treatment facilities suddenly don't work... Well, people still have jobs at those places so someone is going to try to fix it. And I think most people sort of know and understand that, at least over the short term. Society doesn't fall apart after every disaster.

And if it did, you're probably wrong about how you'd respond or you're not being creative and therefore are doing what everyone else will do and the resources will dry up and you won't be one of the lucky few that makes it.

I have mint too and haven't had much trouble with bandwidth. But to be fair I don't use my phone for very much while not on wifi, mostly just streaming music and Google maps.

I have a small house I purchased in a neighborhood full of renters. I bought during the low interest pandemic times, too, so my mortgage is less than most people's rent. If I won the lottery tomorrow I would definitely sell my house for a better one (I make about 30% more now than when I bought, and the only reason I won't move now is because of the interest rate). So many people have told me that I need to rent this place out rather than sell it. But I don't have the ability to be the kind of landlord you described and therefore I know I shouldn't be a landlord at all.

I grew up on a road called Gay. I think my whole childhood would be cancelled.