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  • I couldn't find a source for this, but I heard that we were convinced to think of dandelions as weeds by the makers of a herbicide so that we would accept the collateral damage.

  • What item did you "buy for life?"
  • I've had a set of those circulating through the family for well over a decade. But, they don't sound all that great.

    Fort the same budget, I'd recommend instead to buy a higher quality pair of bookshelf speakers that you would actually enjoy using fort the rest of your life.

    I also made a YSK post recently to explain how to objectively identify good speakers.

  • Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?
  • I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!

    Here is the manual.

    There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.

  • How does everyone feel about Google Pixel phones?
  • Bootloader unlocked, while persevering access to hardware security features by 3rd party operating systems like GrapheneOS.

    They also provide 5 years of security updates for new devices.

    Nothing else competes.

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  • What we need is a Constitutional Amendment that bars convicted felons from higher office

    This would be dangerous, allowing inconvenient politicians to be excluded from office through framing or selective enforcement of the law.

    What we really need is a population capable of making better decisions.

  • YSK: Loudspeaker quality can be more reliably estimated with a set of objective measurements called a Spinorama than by reading subjective reviews
    www.avsforum.com How to Choose a Loudspeaker -- What the Science Shows

    Choosing a loudspeaker may be the biggest challenge for music and home theater lovers. There are countless brands from which to choose, and even more claims and counter-claims. Since the room has such a profound impact on the sound of a loudspeaker at lower frequencies, and it is impossible to...

    How to Choose a Loudspeaker -- What the Science Shows

    Why: You can find better sound for less money if you learn how to read a Spinorama.

    To learn how this scientific method was developed and why it is so much better than subjective reviews, I highly recommend listing to this talk by Dr. Floyd Toole.

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    Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham want a new agency to regulate tech | CNN Business
  • No, it doesn't. "Prevent harm online" is the same justification given for the EARN IT act. Only this new agency won't be accountable to the people when it conjures the same deeply unpopular legislation.

    Also, the FTC is already tasked with enforcing the points under the Competition heading.

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  • Scribus is certainly powerful. You can also use python scripting to automate edits, so maybe you could even use regular expressions in a script to automatically insert hyperlinks.

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?
  • Signal is certainly not. It's open source, and verifiably end-to-end encrypted. The only information that they have about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last connected to the service.

    Telegram is not so privacy friendly, with a major problem being that it's not end-to-end encrypted by default.

  • Johnson and Johnson hold millions of lives hostage: restricting the distribution of life saving generic drug

    “Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson & Johnson knows. They must drop their efforts to enforce the secondary patents.”

    "Tell Johnson and Johnson that evergreening their patent on bedaquiline, which will deny millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of their corporate credo: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain… Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en And tell them wherever else you can. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell the Internet. This must not be allowed to happen.

    Big thanks to TB expert Dr. Carole Mitnick and MSF’s Christophe Perrin for helping me to understand the complexities of drug patents!"

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    Johnson and Johnson attempts to sacrifice millions of lives by restricting life saving tuberculosis drug

    "Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson & Johnson knows. They must drop their efforts to enforce the secondary patents."

    "Tell Johnson and Johnson that evergreening their patent on bedaquiline, which will deny millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of their corporate credo: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain... Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en And tell them wherever else you can. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell the Internet. This must not be allowed to happen.

    Big thanks to TB expert Dr. Carole Mitnick and MSF's Christophe Perrin for helping me to understand the complexities of drug patents!"

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    I'll pay 15x more for Sync if it's Open-Sourced

    I want Sync to succeed for the benefit of the community. Open-source guarantees that the community will always retain that benefit.

    I wonder. Is this sentiment common among members of the Lemmy community?

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