It’s a gift link; few people need that.

And in Canada in 1917

4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.

It’s small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.

I’ve seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we’re small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy “block” means “I can’t see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass” makes them much less attractive as a platform.

Depending on tree species, most of the carbon can be above-ground. This is really common in the tropics

It doesn’t have to be that way.

The answer likely varies by model. Check.

Yes, but it’s a system that is designed to sync with the frequency of whatever other electricity is out there, and it shuts of if the main shuts off. Almost all rooftop systems without a battery in the US are set up the same way.

Still, it’s important to check that things you think are disconnected do not have current flowing through them. And this makes it more important.

That Saudi. The plan there seems to be to sell off all the oil, and then have the royal family decamp to a more northern latitude with their harems while the rest of the population cooks to death.

It’s a mix of different battery chemistries; various Lithium-based chemistries predominate, but there are several utility-scale batteries using iron chemistries. This will change over time as some of the heavier battery types become cheaper for stationary energy storage, and as a need for seasonal storage (instead of overnight) starts to be significant.

They seem to be doing ok

Militaries already have drones for human eradication. They’re typically described as “loitering munitions”

Which is why Krugman is using CPI, and not some random category. He’s smart enough to avoid that kind of pitfall.

Wages at the bottom end of the scale haven’t been ok since Reagan decided to break things. Biden hasn’t managed to fix this; he was the moderate candidate who wasn’t willing to break the billionaires. And even if he had been, at no time during his Presidency have we had a Congress which was willing to go back to taxing the wealthiest at rates high enough to redistribute wealth back down the ladder.

The answer to that is under no circumstances to go choose somebody in a party whose core promise is to transfer even more wealth to the richest.

Yep, goods went down in price, services and housing went up in price. Given what people actually buy…it’s been a few percent per year increase in overall prices, which is what your chart from a right-wing think-tank is designed to hide.

Journalism has been utter hell as a place to make a living for the past 20 years. Online platforms broke the local oligopolies on commercial speech and classifieds, and left that money in the hands of a few newly-minted billionaires instead of journalists. I don’t see that as the result of the Biden administration or their policies.

It’s the standard statistics about wages and price levels that we’ve been using for decades. I don’t see any evidence that they’re gamed, though I don’t doubt that there are some people for whom what you describe is true

Total return weakens Israel. Basically because it leaves the country as a fairly narrow strip that’s easily cut apart in an attack.

Getting land in the west Bank returned means significant security concessions from whatever government is left. Last time this was tried it led to Hamas winning an election