In modern American usage, more or less. “Libertarian” used to be much broader - ancaps cleaved it off of libertarian socialism in the 20th c.
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meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Memes@lemmy.ml•Deposits should be held by the city. The landlord should be forced to prove they deserve it in a court of law.3·3 months agoMeanwhile in America, my old ll tried to tell me I couldn’t have my deposit back because “it’s summer and the bank is on vacation”
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google employees petition for 'job security' ahead of expected cuts9·5 months agoThe petition is being organized by Alphabet Workers Union, the minority union trying to organize Google, its sister companies, and contractors.
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google employees petition for 'job security' ahead of expected cuts7·5 months agoThis is literally a product of their minority union
A common, reasonably evidence based, protein target for bodybuilding is 1-2 g/kg, with the cursed unit of 1g/lb being about the upper limit of what’s useful. That’s probably what this post is referencing.
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete5·1 year agoI love that I can easily correct and annotate bike lanes
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Food and Cooking@beehaw.org•Your Coffee Is About to Change, Whether You’re Ready or Not5·1 year agoAnd at least I’m North America there’s another Maté relative, Yaupon. Both are holly species.
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's Growing On, Beehaw? Weekly Garden Chat2·1 year agoHuh! Mine popped when I planted them in the fall, and haven’t gone dormant at all - they hung out with the garlic being green all winter.
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's Growing On, Beehaw? Weekly Garden Chat5·1 year agoI’m excited that my saffron bulbs overwintered. I’m growing in containers in NYC (7b). We’ll see if they survive the summer!
It is a pill though.
Pops one
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Trump has been unable to post bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say7·1 year agoIn this case the bond is because he’s appealing a civil judgement that’s been reached. This is different from a bail bond. He’s not at risk of jail over this unless he gets in contempt of court.
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”3·1 year agoAt least in my faang office, there’s essentially zero ports to plug into. If you have a desktop, there’s a port, but that’s the exception. I’ve never seen anyone plug a laptop in.
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”4·1 year agoThey mostly don’t even give out desktops to devs these days, everything is in the cloud.
My experience with it on Android had several weird bugs
- Consumed a lot of battery
- Crashed on swapping focus to another app
- Opening the app would get stuck connecting to the game state server (even though the app works fine offline) so I had to use airplane mode to launch the app
These seem resolved now
This is a game I keep coming back to. I love it, and it’s got great replayability. I’m glad the phone version works well now.
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Joe Biden Plans To Slash Bank Overdraft Fees To As Little As $34·1 year agoA lot of us in the US still pay rent in checks. I get them from my bank in books of a hundred, and there’s no upper limit on how big they can be.
Anything that risks bouncing requires getting a fancy check (certified) where they take the money out before issuing the check.
You might enjoy reading some analysis into how capitalism requires the nuclear family in some ways
meteorswarm@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees4·1 year agoIt’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.
I fondly remember my organic chemistry lab professor giving us all a lecture that was something like this:
“I see that you children have learned how good acetone is at cleaning glassware. And you are correct: it is excellent. However, you cannot pour it down the sink and we have to pay for hazardous waste disposal. So use soap, water, and elbow grease instead.”