AskBeehaw MNByChoice • 1 week ago • 100%

I like a certain unremarkable car from the recent past. As they are repairable currently, can one just buy all of the parts new and put it together? Are there any parts that aren't sold new? Have you done this? Are there any tools to help one get all of the parts? Any communities?

Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro MNByChoice • 2 weeks ago • 100%

"The Mighty Ducks" did a good job featuring Minnesota. "D2" did a shit job. Even called Minneapolis a "po dunk town". I think the writers had nit watched the first movies.

No Stupid Questions MNByChoice • 1 month ago • 95%

The lines are long. The food is expensive. Everyone in the group wants to eat something different. The food taste is a gamble. There are few places to eat. Does everyone stick together and wait in all of the lines? Split up and meet at some location? Eat on the way to the festival and just hang out?

Asklemmy MNByChoice • 2 months ago • 92%

It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day. What if we just cut out the rest? Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.

Atheism MNByChoice • 2 months ago • 100%

www.pewresearch.org

In the USA, 3.1% claim Atheist, 4% Agnostic, and a total of 22.8% "Unaffiliated". In [Minnesota](https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/database/state/minnesota/), 3% claim to be Atheist, 4% Agnostic, with a total of 20% Unaffiliated. Posted as I often feel there are few Atheists in the USA. Turns out Atheists are under noticed.

Ask Lemmy MNByChoice • 3 months ago • 91%

I keep getting a red banner saying “Toastify is awesome” when updating. What does it mean, and what should I do differently?

Ask Lemmy MNByChoice • 3 months ago • 98%

How would one actually calculate the full "fruit of labor" in work that includes several people doing different tasks? How to calculate between people doing the same task producing physical items seems easy. Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want. It also seems looking at the difference between having the role, and not. However some skills are mandatory, just less involved. Feel free to simplify, but different tasks is a must.

Unpopular Opinion MNByChoice • 4 months ago • 88%

I don't like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it. I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don't have my secure 24 digit password with me. I won't subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice. Edit: They don't even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.

Sysadmin MNByChoice • 4 months ago • 77%

Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.) Are there any email clients or servers that allow new email to land somewhere other than the inbox? Or allow my view to start elsewhere? I declare email bankruptcy daily.... Send whiskey. Edit: I was unclear. I have filtering, but those all happen after the mail is in the Inbox. I get a quarter second of crazy emails and previews and things moving, then they are gone. (Outlook sucks.) I don't even want to see that shit. Not at all.

Today, I was playing with an immediate annuity calculator. For about $106K (USA Dollar), one can get a 10 year Immediate annuity that pays about $1K per month. For $1 million, 9 people could be covered for 10 years. For $1 billion, 9,400. Every American could be covered for the next 10 years for ~$35 trillion. Rolled out over 10 years, it could be $3.5 trillion per year. I am better able to reason about annuities, than government spending, so this started to put the costs in perspective for me. The costs also stop being as "squishy". UBI would be life changing for many. Those with lots of income already would be paying about 30% back to the IRS. There are lots of optimizations. For 60% more, the term could be doubled to 20 years, cutting the annual rollout cost by 20%. I bet costs could be improved when purchasing $1 trillion of anything. Annuity rates are also not great right now, so there a likely better structures. Thoughts?

Oregon MNByChoice • 5 months ago • 100%

prospect.org

> Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.

Asklemmy MNByChoice • 7 months ago • 97%

Pretty sure I will be asking a lawyer, but I want to learn more words and concepts first. A possible new job wants to own any intellectual property I create and wants me to declare anything I want to keep as my own. This seems normal in my industry as they will be paying me to do some thinking. Issue is that I have a number of ideas I have been developing. I am going to float some of them as products in my own time, though this may be years from now. Most of these are outside the current market for the company as far as I know. How is this typically handled? I presume I don't need to have copyrights or trademarks prior and can just list tentative titles. I am also a little unclear on the spread between "intellectual property" and "an idea I am playing with". Thoughts? Concepts to investigate? Edit: I did Internet search this, but I have not found working keywords.

Fuck Cars MNByChoice • 7 months ago • 89%

Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier. > The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day. Thank you to [@urlyman@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/users/urlyman) for pointing this out. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240218142310/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-america-why-would-you-walk-1079183.html

Not The Onion MNByChoice • 7 months ago • 98%

> "I don't know if you saw this study the other day, but what this study clearly shows, is when people have the ability to come downtown to an office and don't, when they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket diddling on their laptop ... if they do that for a few months, you become a loser! It's a study. We're not losers, are we?"

Game Development MNByChoice • 8 months ago • 79%

bottomfeeder.substack.com

The great Jeff Vogel discusses the Unity event.

Ask Lemmy MNByChoice • 8 months ago • 95%

There is evidence that standing is better for the human body than sitting. For work we have standing desks for computer work and such. Some aim to stand 8+ hours a day. What about for other activities? How do the unemployed, retired, and homemarkers get in enough standing? Are there good ways to stand while reading a book, or sipping a coffee and enjoying the dawn?

Asklemmy MNByChoice • 9 months ago • 84%

While looking for uses for old disposable AA batteries, I ran across the Batteriser from 2015. Clearly, it was a flop of some sort, as I am posting in 2024. What happened? Are there any iterations that do work? https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/02/technology/make-battery-last-longer-batteriser/index.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteroo_Boost Also, are there any uses for old batteries?

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. MNByChoice • 9 months ago • 98%

www.berkeleyside.org

On Tuesday, Jan. 2, a federal appeals court declined to rehear the case of Berkeley’s ban on new natural gas hookups, which was struck down by a panel of judges in April 2023.

Technology MNByChoice • 10 months ago • 100%

> Last week's spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between "Effective Altruism" (doomers) and "Effective Accelerationism" (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama.

Costco MNByChoice • 11 months ago • 100%

Does anyone know when Costco will be getting the boxes of Chex for making Chex mix? (Has the three varieties needed in one box.)

Asklemmy MNByChoice • 12 months ago • 92%

Pretend the $20 million is guaranteed, and if anything will increase slightly over time. What problems could be significantly improved for $20 million? (I am dreaming of winning the $1.55 billion Powerball drawling. Then taking the lumpsum, posting taxes, investing, and spending 4% each and every year. I understand that the actual may be more, or less than the started amount.)

Asklemmy MNByChoice • 1 year ago • 47%

I have started to receive junk mail (actual junk mail) for a car I do not own. I do not know what state it is registered in, but do know the make, model, and year of the car. How do I check if there really is an unknown car registered to me? I assume it could be in any of the 50 states.

Asklemmy MNByChoice • 1 year ago • 80%

There are a lot of news articles about "back to the office", but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let's provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible. I would like my work computer to do Windows updates lightning quick in the office. It currently takes weeks, in or out of the office. Stopping in for a day makes no difference, so there is no point. Now, if there was a point, I would go in. What would get you in the office?