*fewer.

This is the comic Salvatore based his skit on.

*since 2020.

If my cowboy math is correct (assuming two parents and two children), that comes out to about 292 people per year or 876 since 2020.

With a population the size of the United States (330 million), that means that, for a given year, 0.00009% (rounded up) of that population dies as a result of a family annihilation. For comparison, around 40,000 people (including around 1,000 children) die in vehicle accidents annually in the US.

Not that family annihilations aren't horrible. They are. But, from a purely statistical perspective, there are much more frequent horrible things that we don't talk about as much, for a variety of reasons.

If you own anything with "white" LEDs, I have some bad news for you...

I see someone else has discovered the gold mine that is SkyCorp Home Video.

In Iowa, at least, the state had a pre-existing fiber network that got expanded to a shit-ton of rural communities and local (often municipal) ISPs. It's more expensive than what you'd get in the cities, but much better bang for buck than Starlink.

The only people still struggling to get service are those who live way, way outside those communities -- the kind of people for whom "neighbor" means somebody who lives a significant fraction of a mile away. And, outside of comfortably wealthy individuals, those people are a dying breed, at least in Iowa.

If Iowa of all places can pull something like that off, I figure it's not out of reach of any state (or nation, for that matter) whose inhabitants give a nano-fuck about access to technology.

It definitely could be both.

[gestures vaguely]

We also use it for engine displacement.

Memes, uh, find a way.

I'm noticing that in some of the communities I followed on Reddit that have moved to Lemmy. It's a number of the big-name posters who really kept the community active who've moved, and the others are trickling in after them...

Talks about Perseverance.

Image is of Spirit or Opportunity.

Personally, as much as I loved Reddit, I think there needs to be a move away from centralized platforms that can keep pulling this shit time after time. Hopefully there's a way to ensure the contents of r/flashlight are archived for posterity, but I don't think I'd be terribly inconvenienced if it was, for instance, permanently locked.

The community is the people, not the place, and I'm happy to be seeing familiar faces here already.

Like, in general?

One of the biggest factors is heat. Lithium batteries don't like high temps.

Also, they really hate sitting at 100% SoC, though I'm not sure if that contributes to the swelling. 80% SoC is commonly cited as a healthier place for lithium batteries to sit when "fully charged," and, for that reason, some laptops (and other devices) allow you to limit the maximum SoC to 80% if your laptop sits plugged in most of the time.

Pure poetry.

Yes.

Not with that attitude.

As we've seen over the past decade (well, past few decades, tbh), changing the word only moves the objectionable meaning onto the new word. The goal is to address the meaning, but it feels like so much energy is being spent on addressing the words themselves that the meaning never gets dealt with...

...which I guess is understandable for those who have given up hope of the meaning being addressed, but then why spend the effort on the word?

Unsuccessfully ignoring the implications.

I've been thinking about going 26800 in my D4SV2s but haven't pulled the trigger. Which supplier did you get these from?

/c/flashlight sends its regards