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  • This is not an incorrect point but rfks motives are more likely delegitimization of major journals to make the hacky bullshit journals he cites not seem so quacky

    If this is successful in 5-10 years it will be much less normal to say “at least show me a paper from nature”. Then the confusing landscape of journals that are not well known become even harder to differentiate from the ones he cites

    For reference, when he was citing his antivax bullshit at (I believe it was) his confirmation hearing the article he cited came from a journal of extremely dubious quality. The board of directors were all antivaxxers, one of which being the guy who published the article, and the journal was registered out of a residential home. It was basically the academic journal equivalent of a fanzine with obvious and extreme conflicts of interest in its peer review. The paper itself had glaring methodology issues (shocker).

    If scientists are forced to leave the most reputable publications it just muddies the waters even more for articles that are of very high quality or importance

    The issues you point out are still very relevant and need resolution of course but they can be solved in other ways. Regulation surrounding how government funded research is handled, how government endowment funds for library access to journals are handled, etc could give significant leverage over private publishers without having to start over from scratch. Or you could be more aggressive and force the publishers to be more equitable, but good luck with that in America


  • In addition to this I didn’t even touch upon the resentment towards stupid bullshit outside of defense

    Like I like in Pennsylvania and the amount of tax dollars that are spent propping up fossil fuel industries. Like I want to spend money on developing energy infrastructure, of course. But I want that money to go into putting power lines underground (my power goes out every six weeks minimum and 2-3x a year for over 24hours, sometimes over 72), nuclear, solar, hydroelectric, etc

    But what do I get? Fracking, propping up the coal industry, etc. fucking ridiculous.

    Road quality decreases and yet no public transportation expansion. It’s garbage if you have a car and if you don’t it’s impossible if you’re outside of a city.

    So that stuff too


  • The problem is the adhesive does serve a purpose (mainly vibration/keeping the battery in place). Depends on how much you travel with it and the design overall (I’m not familiar with the steam deck but looking at the ifixit it appears ribbons are fixed to it so having the battery bounce around could be a problem)

    That said you can buy those pull tab strips and could probably use them here. I hate those things but why not? Better than what was there, I guess. Especially bc the off brand ones can be fairly weak adhesive


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    Ehhh I’ve had some nightmare experiences with Samsung, LG (back when they made phones), Xiaomi (edit not Xiaomi, huawei), etc. a lot use pull tabs and when they work they’re perfect but when they’re old or you go just a bit too fast and they break you’re fucked and have to either heat it a ton, drown it in solvent, or slide a thin wire to cut it, all options suck

    Funny enough the new apple phones actually have this weird electro conductive adhesive that’s crazy simple to remove. The pull tabs are now terminals, you connect those to a standard 9v battery with alligator clips or whatever, and after a short bit of time (30 seconds iirc) the adhesive just releases and you can lift the battery out

    There are videos of it on youtube, it’s pretty cool and the one adhesive I can potentially get behind. though I would want to see what people say about it after a few years of actual use. The initial teardown videos when the 16 came out made it look impressive but who knows if it holds up after 5-7 years

    They also don’t use it for laptops so far. They didn’t even use it for all versions of the iphone 16 so it’s not exactly applaud apple time but if they roll that out to replace the nasty adhesives they were using for batteries across their product line it would be a great step in the right direction


  • Isn’t battery adhesive the worst thing ever?

    I remember fixing a few macbooks that had batteries like this. The batteries were gigantic and the adhesive was crazy strong. Dumping acetone behind them with a syringe, heat, and gently prying eventually got them out but it was quite nerve wracking. I guess you can’t dump solvents in a steam deck though

    It’s so dumb. Adhesives make assembly easier but fuck over repairability. The only advantages are even distribution of pressure and vibration dampening, which are notable, but are not worth making the main wear item completely inaccessible and a nightmare to replace for the majority of people who don’t have experience with heat guns and sliding cards/thin metal to cut the stupid fucking adhesive that could’ve been replaced by a screw making the product 0.5mm thicker and 0.1g heavier (if that)


  • I became more aware of how much tax I was paying when I became self employed because instead of paying a bit out of each check like a w2 worker I have to pay it in lump sums quarterly.

    I run a low overhead medical practice so I don’t have a tax cheat llc, I take the standard deduction every year and as a result my taxes are pretty much the same as they ever were. Even though it’s roughly the same amount (slightly more actually, now that I cut out the overhead of medical systems stealing 30-60% of my labor) there’s something psychological about paying the amount in a lump sum

    I think paying taxes is important and I want to do. However I feel conflicted about spending this money because what I feel paying taxes are important for are generally not what my tax dollars fund, and increasingly so. I want to pay and gladly will for community enrichment, better public schools, access to healthcare, infrastructure like roads, power lines, sewers, moving away from fossil fuels, better handling of trash and recycling programs, rehabilitation programs for criminal offenders, mental health programs including interim programs like community supports and mobile programs that exist in between outpatient and inpatient, social welfare programs that give people access to housing, food, electricity, etc

    But instead my taxes pay for these things increasingly less. About 20% of my taxes go to military and defensive spending and while I do think some amount needs to go to this I think it’s absurd. Most countries spend 3-5% on defensive spending. Even China, the second highest after the US, spends 6%.

    So I don’t resent paying taxes but I do resent how much when roughly 1/5th of that goes to defense contractors to launder billions from taxpayer and Israel for genocide. I also resent that my tax burden continually increases despite making roughly $60-70k a year while the services around me continually decrease.








  • In this instance at least the regulatory process is simple though

    Say what you mean, mean what you say.

    We can maybe have some nuance over lifetime being the lifetime of the consumer buying it vs the lifetime of the company although that has to be carefully worded to prevent situations like this. But it’s probably somewhat fair that if your company completely fails the product is done. This should be clear that the company has to completely fail, not a “apple sells lifetime subscription and decides the product isn’t viable so they kill it” situation or “subsidiary company of google fails and google could easily partially refund the lifetime subscription fees as the parent company” situation

    But I would argue it’s not as much about legal complexity here but about regulatory capture. There are really two forces on this issue: businesses looking to keep a lack of regulation and continue utilization of vague misleading language, and consumers that would benefit from regulation against said language.

    The businesses are aligned, obviously have vast resources, can influence propaganda on the matter, and can lobby lawmakers directly.

    The consumers are fragmented because of the propaganda and a lack of education on the issue, they don’t have strong representation among lawmakers, they don’t have resources, etc. they are scattered unless someone decides this specific issue is annoying enough to get up in arms about and make some kind of action network over, gathering people and support. While it is a serious problem there are just so many serious problems facing consumers and Americans right now, so why focus on this?

    And thus, our regulatory bodies yet again fail us


  • That shouldn’t matter

    If we had the most basic of regulatory practices over businesses in this country, especially the tech industry, this practice simply wouldn’t be allowed. Even the bullshit doublespeak “life of the product” version

    Lifetime means lifetime. If you can’t honor that don’t offer it. If you go back on it you should be harshly penalized.

    Looking at you t mobile, rolling stone magazine, filmora, Dropbox, salesforce, mcafee, etc

    This should also include if you remove features from lifetime subscriptions and make them contingent on paid monthly subscriptions (looking at you adobe, Evernote, and probably plex in 3-5 years)



  • If it were up to me copyright would be nonexistent for non commercial use. Who gives a shit if someone makes a fan project of your precious idea

    Commercial use I don’t know but far less than lifetime. Disney has fucked our brains with propaganda here. Creative processes flourish by remixing and making derivative works. That’s literally how Disney got to where they are. Realistically if you can’t make money in the first 10-20 years of release how likely is it that you will ever make money? Should we really stifle artistic freedom for the 0.0001% of creators that make something and take 30 years for it to catch on?

    Not to mention that this doesn’t mean your gravy train is cut off. If people buy your book or cd or whatever after 21 years you still make money. We could even make a compromised law that derivative works are okay but as long as you’re alive commercial use of the original work is protected, eg if someone wants to just sell a copy of your book or use your song in an ad you can demand payment or stop them? Although this is stupid because then you get into the pissing match of what defines the boundary of a derivative work

    And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

    Like what’s at my local theater right now:

    Thunderbolts: milking the marvel IP still

    The accountant 2: never heard of the first one but it deserved a sequel, apparently

    Minecraft: not a sequel or remake, at least, but cash in license nonsense to print money from kids and nostalgia bait the older zoomers that grew up attached to ipads

    Final destination: bloodlines: good thing there’s not already like 8 final destination movies that are progressively shittier

    Lilo and stitch: not the original, a live action remake. Fun fact: the writers guild doesn’t cover animated films so when Disney remakes these classic animated movies as live action they can reuse the same story and screw the original writers

    Mission impossible: the final reckoning: I bet this isn’t the final reckoning

    How to train your dragon: live action remake, probably using the same Disney loophole to fuck over writers

    Interestingly they’re also showing a mystery horror movie Plus some others that to be fair seem like original IP: sinners, shadow force, the last rodeo, ballerina

    Then a bunch of classics like one flew over the cuckoos nest and raiders of the lost ark

    7:4 garbage to original. 64% “we’re out of ideas”.