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@ Kurt @lemmy.one

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Dad, husband, and mechanical engineer based in beautiful New Jersey. On Reddit I'm u/engibineer.

  • where do the instances actually reside?

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  • I'm running a Pixelfed instance off of an old PC in my house. Eventually I 'd like to set up a personal Lemmy instance as well.

  • Increasing taxes to solve inequality is based on fundamentally wrong assumptions.

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  • Where? I'm not a fan of her, but Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax proposal is just a way to capture some more revenue (to do the things I mentioned) on a more progressive basis. There aren't really any claims here about fixing inequality.

  • Increasing taxes to solve inequality is based on fundamentally wrong assumptions.

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  • Take another shower. Taxes aren't used to fix inequality. They're used to fund infrastructure and services that we all need. They're also used sometimes to redistribute income, but the idea isn't to solve inequality. The idea is to get some income, in one form or another, to people who cannot or should not work, like the sick, children, the elderly, and anyone else excluded from the workforce. This non-working population needs income as much as the working population does and it doesn't make sense to force them to get it in inefficient and harmful ways. Taxation to solve inequality is a myth that isn't happening.

  • You get $500M tax free, excluding lawyers & CPAs, what are your first 5 purchases and why?

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  • Well, I'd definitely get the lawyers and CPAs to make sure that bag is secure and protect my family's privacy as much as possible. After that...

    • I'd hire a high-end architect to renovate my home.
    • I'd hire a personal trainer to help my family get really fit.
    • I'd buy a big vacation for our extended families.
    • Buy a less family-friendly vacation for our friends.
    • Hire a therapist so I don't go insane.
    • There's a small, vacant movie theater in my town. I'd buy it and get it up and running again.

  • Fixing my drain required breaking laws, pissing off IRC users, breaking tools…

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  • Lol wtf

  • [OC] Hey.

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  • Lol I had that one on cassette.

  • pics @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one
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    Hey.

  • cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one
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    Hey.

  • My beautiful dog

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  • Good dog.

  • Is there a Decentralised Spotify / Music Platform Alternative?

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  • AntennaPod is pretty great. Apparently it's compatible with a synchronizing service called gpodder, which I believe you can run yourself.

  • What anime world would you rather not live in?

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  • Blame!

  • Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers)

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  • You're kind of talking about different things. Copyright should of course be abolished along with all private property. I don't rule out compensation to your estate for organs harvested after death and there should definitely be a public bounty/reward system to encourage the living to donate.

    You shouldn't be able to opt out, or at least it should be very difficult to do so, because when you are dead what you have a say in that affects the living should be very limited, because those organs won't matter to you anymore, and because those organs might matter very much to living people. Whether you trust society or not doesn't matter anymore when you are dead.

  • Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers)

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  • Because living people who are sick might need those organs, which would otherwise just go to waste in your corpse. Also, it good to have a steady supply of organs from the deceased in order to avoid perverse and exploitative market situations.

  • Show me a better flag design

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  • Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers)

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  • Hmmm okay, but it has to be difficult to opt-out, kind of like how conscientious objectors have to go through a whole process to get out of military service.

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    A little jumping spider.

  • Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers)

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  • No. Organ "donation" after death should be compulsory. For living donors there should be a publicly funded bounty system where you either take the money or not. Donors and recipients don't get to be picky.

  • Would you explore space if given the chance? Why or why not?

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  • Unlikely. Too lonely out there.

  • Homebrew insulin or diy 3D printed meat?

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  • Really? I've only seen good reviews of the stuff as served by restaurants.

  • Homebrew insulin or diy 3D printed meat?

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  • It was Eva Saxl. She had fled the Nazis from Czechoslovakia only to find herself under Japanese occupation in Shanghai. From the Wikipedia article, it seems like she extracted the insulin from water buffalo pancreas. I'm not sure if that counts as homebrewing. When I think of homebrew insulin, I think of actually manufacturing it by fermenting specialized yeast as opposed to harvesting it from animals. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but it isn't really the same.

  • Homebrew insulin or diy 3D printed meat?

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  • Oh that sounds fascinating. I'll have to search for that.

  • Homebrew insulin or diy 3D printed meat?

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  • There's not really a problem with meat either. You don't have to eat it and if you do, you don't have to feel bad about eating animals.

    That said, there is kind of a problem with insulin manufacturing in that it's kind of centralized and distribution can be difficult, especially in remote areas with unreliable electricity. If insulin manufacturing could be done at the garage or shipping container scale in the places where it's needed, it would help a lot of people.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one

    Homebrew insulin or diy 3D printed meat?

  • cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one
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    "Can I eat this, yet?"

  • cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one

    A fawn waiting for its mother

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Hey, I just got my Pixelfed instance up and running and I was able to post from it to !pics@lemmy.world. Hurray!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one

    What does defederating from Meta's Threads.net actually accomplish?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one

    Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum!

    jellyfin.org /posts/new-forum/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one

    Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum!

    jellyfin.org /posts/new-forum/
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Cash is backwards

  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one

    Can we get a three day weekend ffs?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    CrimeDad @lemmy.one

    Running Lemmy on Yunohost

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Confused mommy robin?

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
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    Membership requirements for community creation and moderation

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule?