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How does the archive.org exemption work? When is it voted on next?

Amazon did. They kept the price the same, added commercials, then offered to remove the commercials for an additional $4/month.

The name comes from the name of the person who first proposed the Julian Calendar, Julius Caesar.

Other instances hosted outside of Russia but available from inside Russia can still federated with them, though, right?

It’s what our politicians claim the system is for. It’s obviously not, but that’s the claim.

Prisoners shouldn’t need to pay to talk with their families. We claim that our system is intended for rehabilitation. What could possibly lead to better outcomes than the ability to keep in touch with your family; to be made to feel human while serving your sentence? The US justice system is a fucking joke and for-profit prison shareholders are the only ones laughing.

Incarceration should have no profit motive, regardless of whether that profit motive benefits a for-profit company and its shareholders or the local Sheriff’s department.

How did you get your education and/or first experience with project management? I’m finding myself being pushed into a project management role and am finding it to be a difficult transition. I’m not unhappy about the transition and it is coming with increased pay, but I need to learn skills that will help me in the role.

The party of small government a d free market economics wants to make it illegal for an investment firm to consider the tangible risks presented by climate change when making investment decisions. They are trying to say that preferentially investing in companies that have plans to mitigate the impacts of climate change on their business model is an anti-trust violation.

This is so absurd on so many levels.

Thank you, this was really interesting. I was trying to look up more information on “stabilimorphs” but google pulls up nothing on the term. I’m wondering what causes them to continue mutating in such a stable way. Are they simply that well adapted that they’ve fallen into a stable configuration that has no instability in any of the many dimensions available or is there something else that is maintaining their physical configuration while mutations continue to occur?

Viruses have smuggled enough DNA into our DNA that 8% of the human genome is thought to derive from these events. Maybe that’s not the primary source of evolution, but it is a source of evolution.

Does anyone know of a good /r/askscience-like community on Lemmy? I’ve got lots of questions about horseshoe crabs.

I’ve never read much about horseshoe crabs before. I knew they were interesting, but they’re fascinating! Here’s a good summary of some of what we know about them: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/horseshoe-crabs-living-fossils

Interestingly, because their environment is replete with bacteria and their circulatory system makes them particularly prone to infection, they have developed a zero-tolerance immune system. It kills anything it finds that is abnormal.

I wonder how much impact their immune system has on their stagnant evolution. Does killing all intruders reduce the likelihood of mutations by disallowing viruses and the mutations that they bring? Does their immune system know what their DNA should look like and immediately kill any mutations that it finds?

I’m curious about a bunch of things here.

• What country are you from?
• What does it mean for parents to be required to support their children for life?
• What does it mean for kids to be required to support their parents for life? Support in what way?
• What happens if the family doesn’t get along with one another? Support in what way?
• What repercussions are there if someone chooses not to fulfill their familial obligations?
• What happens if someone is financially unable to fulfill their familial obligations?

I’d rather just buy loose leaf and use a washable strainer. It’s generally less expensive and higher quality too.

Loose leaf is excessively packaged? Normally when I buy loose leaf I just get a tin that’s full of tea and nothing else.

I’m fairly sure that the admins of lemmy.world said that we could expect a big spike in active users after the upgrade to 1.19 due to a change in how active users are calculated. I can’t seem to find the post now, though.

That’s true. They may not be factoring in government benefits. Things like universal health care.

Wow, how many students are they expecting? I assume they’ll be pulling from a lot of the surrounding area.

Many people here are talking about under-funding of education in the US. If you look at expenditure per student vs GDP per capita, the US is actually doing fairly well when compared to the rest of the world. Our problems aren’t funding related (though I wouldn’t argue against more funding). Our problems are allocation and priority related.

See here for data: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country

Interesting. I didn’t realize that dividend rates are so much lower than rate of return. Why are they so much lower? Does that mean that your money is only growing at 2-2.5% in an index fund or does that mean that your investment is growing at the same time as you are taking out a portion of your returns as a dividend?

I’m just starting to learn about investing as I try to shift some of my savings towards long-term investments. I think I need to find a fee-based financial planner to get me pointed in the right direction.

A very conservative rate of return on investments would be 5% per year. With $2.8M, 5% is $140,000/year. So, someone with $2.8M invested would, conservatively, earn $149K per year without touching the principal.