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bluGill commented on De minimis exemption ends washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

LeafItAlone · 8 hours ago

It is certainly odd that you have to resort to “get a life” statements in your argument here. Why do you feel the need to control what other people do? Should we all spend our time trying to accumulate 22k Karma on some forum?

bluGill · 5 hours ago

If you personally want to look at all options for any one widget in your life that is fine, I won't judge you for it. Whoever realize that for whatever that widget most people don't. Also realize that for all the different things you need in life there are more options that you have time to examine while also doing those other things in life you must do.

bluGill commented on De minimis exemption ends washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

LeafItAlone · 8 hours ago

>but in most cases you have too many other things to do and a simple set of options lets you get on with life.

What a weird thing to say to someone else.

bluGill · 8 hours ago

If it isn't true get a life. Well I suppose someone reading this is confined to a hospital bed or prison cell and thus has plenty of time with nothing better to do.

bluGill commented on De minimis exemption ends washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

LeafItAlone · 11 hours ago

What a weird argument. Their decision making likely does not match mine. Where does the limitation end?

bluGill · 9 hours ago

They should find 2 or 3 options that are good enough.

Nothing stops you from evaluating all possible options - but in most cases you have too many other things to do and a simple set of options lets you get on with life.

bluGill commented on De minimis exemption ends washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

falcor84 · 18 hours ago

Paying someone to reduce my own ability to choose? How does this work? Do they provide the most value if they offer just a single drop-shipped item that they believe I would want?

Wouldn't I just get better value from an independent review mechanism?

bluGill · 13 hours ago

How many near identical choices do you need? How muc time do you want to spend evaluating all those options. Someone else to narrow it down saves you a lot of effort.

when the differences don't matter or are things you areenot aware of this is more important.

bluGill commented on De minimis exemption ends washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

perihelions · 18 hours ago

What's the moral valence differentiating a "local business" from a local drop-shipper? What really *is* a business selling imported goods—if not a drop-shipper with a storefront?

Bold to hold contempt for free-market capitalism, when it's made your society so staggeringly wealthy, your concern of the day is literally worrying about landfills filling up with surplus wealth. Find some perspective.

bluGill · 18 hours ago

a local business needs to select what to sell. This is a valuable service.

bluGill commented on Synthetic gasoline iere.org/what-is-syntheti... · Posted by u/alexandrehtrb

bluGill · 3 days ago

I can never figure out how to do this in my garrage, these overviews are too high level. Sure it would lively cost me $50 per gallon, but just once I want to mow my lawn on fuel I made myself.

bluGill commented on That boolean should probably be something else ntietz.com/blog/that-bool... · Posted by u/vidyesh

Fraterkes · 3 days ago

I’m not a very experienced programmer, but the first example immediately strikes me as weird. The consideration for choosing types is often to communicate intend to others (and your future self). I think that’s also why code is often broken up into functions, even if the logic does not need to be modular / repeatable: the function signature kind of “summarizes” that bit of code.

Making a boolean a datetime, just in case you ever want to use the data, is not the kind of pattern that makes your code clearer in my opinion. The fact that you only save a binary true/false value tells the person looking at the code a ton about what the program currently is meant to do.

bluGill · 3 days ago

In the case of a database you often can't fix mistakes so overdesign just in case makes sense. Many have been burned.

bluGill commented on Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him electrek.co/2025/08/25/sc... · Posted by u/xbmcuser

garciasn · 4 days ago

I have a lake home in Central MN. There are shit tons of wind turbines near my home.

The recent moves by the feds to limit wind makes no sense. If a farmer wants to lease some small plots of likely unusable planting property to a company that generates electricity via wind who the fuck cares? While the feds can stop land use options as they see fit, the way it’s worded makes it seem as if it’s not a good thing for farmers to use their land as they see fit—something that’s likely intentional.

The oil companies do.

bluGill · 3 days ago

The farmers don't matter here - this is about the small towns and suburbs which gain nothing and so can be mades to care about something that isn't relavant to them.

bluGill commented on Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line thedrive.com/news/toyota-... · Posted by u/computerliker

lupusreal · 4 days ago

TIL Mazda isn't a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota. I thought it was, now I wonder where I got that from.

bluGill · 3 days ago

Ownership changes over time. At one time ford was in control. Which is why I checked - what toyota is doing makes no sense until you see current situations, now there is an obvious expected return on investment (if it works out of course- if it does they will do this to their own factories, if not they will write it off and not lose much.)

bluGill commented on Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles howtogeek.com/desktop-lin... · Posted by u/the-mitr

jrm4 · 4 days ago

One thing that I think this argument sorely misses is an honest discussion of how e.g. bad (or perhaps unliked) decisions get made that have big impacts here.

For example, count me in with those folks who think the "new" GNOME sucks. Now, maybe you disagree and that's fine -- but so often those discussions start and end with "Well it's open source and so because you're not making anything better you can't even talk."

No. Some big players put their thumb on the scale and had a vision and a direction for GNOME and what role it would or should play; someone thought it was a good idea to try to out Steve Jobs Steve Jobs.

THOSE moves need more discussion and transparency in order to REALLY talk about "the Linux Desktop."

bluGill · 4 days ago

Which is one reason a lot of people use kde which doesn't have anyone with their thumb on it.

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