Letto

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[–] Letto@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have a feeling it has more to do with low production cost than anything else sadly :/

milleNNialS Are kiLLiNg cAblE

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 204 points 2 years ago (37 children)

What's so messed up to me is that the implants I design, inactive pieces of metal, are required to be operable for the life of our longest living patient PLUS 20 YEARS. Yet somehow as soon as electronics are involved they can get away with this. How long until pacemakers or insulin pumps need a license to continue functioning?

This is why I have an issue with privatized medicine.

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'll definitely give them a listen!

I also need to recommend, as you seem to be a brid of my feather, using audible and a kindle together to trade off between daytime story listening and nighttime reading in bed. I know Amazon is evil, and there are a lot of issues in particular with audible's payment structure towards indie authors, but God damn do they offer a compelling service. I picked up a new-gen Paperwhite last prime day and my bedtime routine and travel bag has been irrepreably changed.

I'd love to hear more about what you've been listing to!

Edit: I didn't make it clear above but Amazon will track your progress between the audiobook and the Kindle book and sync them.

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd like to add the audiobooks are quite good for those who listen! They're a very fun series (I've "only" been through the first 6, quite a few more after I checked.)

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

Huh. Seek help.

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately the only cameras that still use 35mm for sale on the market are point and shoots and leicas as far as I know. There is definitely a great variety of tested and we'll maintained cameras for sale online.

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Color film was, and still is, considerably more expensive than black and white. Probably just what they had in their camera!

Also most news papers didn't swap to color photography until the late 90s, so if it's a reporter it's likely they had black and white film

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

"Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science."

Definitionally, anything that prescribes the way things are to be distributed is political. There has been a desensitization to the word politics with an ever present right using words loosely adjacent to their true meaning, but capitalism is inherently political. Now it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem with western democracies kinda being formed around it, but that doesn't make it any less true. I sincerely doubt anyone would argue communism or socialism aren't political because they are economic theories.

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago

Oftentimes they do not as it is quite expensive to make many kinds of "grey water" safe enough to be basically touched by golfers all the time. Being in the center of the desert with high water costs, it made sense in Arizona.

Regardless, keeping that much grass alive for such a small number of people to enjoy feels like a misalignment in priories of a local water authority to me. With the general trend towards water insecurities the world over I'm a bit upset with golf courses.

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Exact opposite! I know the language was flowery there but I basically never eat Huel/Soylent anymore

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

In my experience none of them taste great, but if you make them part of your daily flow you get over it pretty quickly. I've heard good things about the newer pre-mixed and flavored ones, but I got to a good place with my nutrition a few years ago and stopped using pretty much all meal replacements.

[–] Letto@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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