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  • I'm going to go a different direction and argue that the RS232 has always been the most androgynous and third-sex of the connectors because:

    • the female connector is most frequently the one that's a cable
    • the male connector is most frequently directly connected to an appliance
    • the male has the pin prongs, but is almost always recessed.
    • the female connector has the the prong holes, but almost always juts out.

    Who's connecting to who? Who's the top and who's the bottom? Who wears the pants? No one knows.

  • Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds
  • Eh, I think you might think heat pumps are more complicated than they are. I think they're about as complicated as a furnace. At the end of the day, in both your just pumping a gas from one place to another, changing the state of the gas, and then running that past air to heat or cool it.

  • The dreaded ring (by Pedro Arizpe)
  • Sure, my work uses discord, and I know friends that use it. But my family doesn't. Plus, if you do sales, or job searching, or anything that involves talking to people for work who don't directly work for your company then Discord is a little awkward. A phone or zoom call is better.

  • The dreaded ring (by Pedro Arizpe)
  • I can see why you'd fear phone calls then. In my family I get a call from my dad about once a week to ask about my day. Usually the family texts more in the mornings, and more phone calls in the evening. Plus for a while I had to pick up the phone anytime someone called for work reasons. You just get used to it after a while.

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  • China has a bad ratio of young people to old people. They have a lot of people, but as the population ages there will be fewer working people supporting more retired people. It's not just about money either. There are a finite number of nurses or caretakers in a country at any given time, so it will mean higher ratio of people needing care to those able to give it. It's a complex issue that almost every country is going to be dealing with more in the future, but China will probably feel it more than average.

  • Is it bad Lemmy etiquette to “pollute” the All feed of a niche instance?
  • I would say that it's too early for anyone to know what a more solidified etiquette will be. So for now just do whatever you want so long as you pay attention to any changes in public opinion or rule changes.

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  • I don't believe he actually said that. Ukraine has suspended elections for the duration of the war. This is not necessarily a problem, and there is historical precedent for it in other democratic countries like Britain during World War Two. It will become a problem if elections are not reinstated after the war or if the war drags out for a very long time. Other than that this is just a weird way to frame a mostly non-issue.

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