Isn’t this along the same lines as arguments against reducing carbon emissions (the climate naturally changes anyway, and species should be allowed to adapt on their own) or against reducing pollution (shit happen, deal with it)?
Spend a bit of time witnessing the impact invasive species can have. A formerly vibrant piece of nature goes quiet, monotonous, and ecologically deprived. Sure it still looks green, but it’s comparatively dead.
Keep in mind too that the beekeeping craze has been particularly strong here in North America, where honeybees are not native.
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Maybe not, but it definitely put the hammer and sickle symbol on everything.
DataGrip is the one JetBrains IDE I can’t work without and continue to pay for. I’d love to find a pure OSS alternative, but there’s nothing else like it.
I’m a socialist, generally vote for socialist or at least left-leaning candidates, support socialist policies and agree with the premise that record profits are basically unpaid wages.
But, seeing the hammer and sickle pop up in my Lemmy feed makes me really uncomfortable. I grew up under communism, and a good chunk of my family was killed and oppressed by people in uniforms with that symbol. To me it represents all that can go horribly wrong when socialism is stripped of empathy and compassion and married with violence and intolerance.
For me, it’s a bit like seeing a swastika. Really hard to get behind it, even though I know the symbol predates the NSDAP.
Is there really no better alternative for symbolising modern socialism?
Alkaline batteries lose voltage as they drain, so 1.5V is at full charge but it drops down to about 1.2V very quickly and then stays at 1.0V - 1.2V for most of the alkaline battery’s operating life.
NiMH batteries tend to consistently stay at their nominal voltage (1.2V) through their entire charge.
So in other words, if you have devices that really expect exactly 1.5V per battery, they would only work with alkalines at the very top of their charge. Nowadays most non-garbage circuits should be designed to work just fine with anything above 1V per battery.
Half the posts on Mastodon are about how Twitter is doomed… so I guess it’s a kind of doom scrolling?
This is basically just a skeuomorph.