Depends on what the tariffs are about. If there’s a tariff on a specific category of finished consumer goods, an import of the materials/ parts in combination with a local assembly might indeed reduce or avoid the taxes you have to pay.

Not to forget these crazy machines that’ll give you free money if you smash in one of those weird plastic thingys from your purse. Absolutely bonkers!

I’m not really sure what use 4,000 liters of water would be when somebody is having a stroke.

They send a firetruck if someone is having a stroke? Isn’t there a dedicated ambulance for such cases? A ladder truck might make sense to get patients out of a big building but other than that that? Or do they have just one single vehicle that they use for all purposes?

I agree that the US have way too many way too big trucks but this…

Ambulances and firetrucks in Europe and Asia are smaller than most american pickup trucks.

… is just wrong. I live in Germany and even small villages with only volunteer firefighters have full blown trucks way above 10 tons.

Most fire departments have something like this:

MAN TGM 18.330 Tank with 4,000 litres of water 18 tons total weight

More specialized departments close to industrial facilities, airports can be also much bigger. This one is currently the biggest weighting 52 tons.

So your alternative would be that ambulances should no longer use cars? From my perspective all kind of emergency services such as fire department, law enforcement, ambulances should be the very last cars we get rid of as a society. They have to be fast and they need to transport a lot of stuff and people.

Should have made it more challenging

I wanted to use the heart-shaped walnut picture to cheer him up. Share some love when you nut your bros. <3

Ding ding ding - congratulations, you got it. :) You’re officially the winner #7b!

These nuts are indeed not really popular but I found them in a regular supermarket in Germany a couple of years ago. As someone mentioned they’re typically almost impossible to crack, so each nut already had a small canal sawed into the side and the box came with a metal lever that exactly fits into said canal. With that preparation it was quite easy to open them.

You can also buy them online prepared that way. E.g. here: https://mypilinut.com/de/products/noix-de-pili-en-coque-seau-xxl-2900g (I don’t know this shop, it was just the first result on Google, so no clue if it’s a fair price).

There you go - challenge #7b just for you:

Ding ding ding - we’ve got our winner for today. Thank you very much for participation. :)

Know nut November Day #7 - What nut is this?

If it’s published under GPL which I think is the case, everyone is free to use it commercially and sell it. If someone is willing to pay for it, is a different story. ;)

Voting for a party you dislike or not voting out of spite is not a good form of protest IMO. At the very least vote 3rd party. With the current election system in the US, that’s still a stupid choice from my perspective but at least it makes your disagreement somewhat visible.

In the statistics, not voting at all feeds in the same bucket as lazyness or carelessness.

Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.

Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.

If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.

That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).

Why do you think his whole neighborhood is on ketamines?

If you don’t see any insects on the leaves or the soil, I’d just give it some time. Water it every 2-4 weeks. If it’s a large pot of soil do it every 4 weeks with ~0,5 liters, in a smaller pot do it more often with a smaller quantity.

In general, it’s better to water rarely, so the top layer of soil is dry most of the time. That way, you’re making the life harder for small flys to lay eggs and nurish from the roots.

If it keeps losing leaves, don’t panic. Mine had a severe sunburn once and dropped all the leaves. After some weeks it started to recover and grew new leaves.

I would say, the worst thing you can do is overwater. Mine is in a pretty huge pot (80 liters) and I give it (round about) 1,7 liters of water every 6 weeks in summer and 2-3 months in winter. That way the plant has to grow deep roots to the very bottom to reach the bottom and the top layers are rather dry.

If I drive home from the supermarkt with some baby leafs in the trunk, does that qualify as a human-car-salad? And would that be still be legal or count as attempted (self-)cannibalism?

Maybe it got cold on the way home or reacts to the change of light / temperature between the store and your place. I would recommend to not water it too much and don’t use too much fertilizer. I have one that already survives for more than 10 years and it’s still pretty healthy despite that I don’t pamper it at all.

Somehow, I feel a sudden and uncontrollable urge to toss my credit card into that pool.