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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I’m assuming you have a lot of flush-mount ceiling fixtures (aka boob lights)? My experience with them is that they’re very effective LED bulb killers.

    The only two that have lasted are in my range hood for light above my stove. Those experience extreme heat and yet they are fine.

    They only experience heat when you’re cooking, and are able to vent that heat to a large volume of air (assuming they’re not enclosed, or only enclosed by a thin sheet of plastic). The rest of the time they’re probably powered off and at ambient temperatures. Compare that to enclosed flush-mount fixtures, in which bulbs stay on for large portions of the day, trapping lots of heat in a small space for long periods of time. That’s a perfect recipe for killing LED bulbs.

    If your house was built prior to LED bulbs being so widespread, it might be worthwhile to consider new fixtures that were actually designed with LED bulbs in mind.

    Also, don’t buy no-name bulbs off Amazon. Chinese factories crank out shitty bulbs that are designed and built as cheaply as possible, and they will fail quickly.


  • There’s something so delicious about the fact that the party of supposedly tough, heterosexual-and-don’t-you-dare-say-otherwise manly-men is represented by a guy who’s covered in spray tan and spends literally hours arranging what little hair he has left, and another guy whose smoky eye game is on point.

    And yes, cishet men can wear makeup too, but come on—makeup on anybody who owns a penis is decidedly off-brand for today’s Republican Party.





  • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.worldtoFirefox@lemmy.mlMozilla Monitor is shady
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    7 months ago

    Well shit, I just paid for a full year of Mozilla Monitor a couple weeks ago.

    Does anyone have recommendations for other info removal services?

    EDIT: If anyone else is a paid Mozilla Monitor customer, I encourage you to send Mozilla feedback about this partnership: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/mozilla-account/form

    EDIT 2: Mozilla’s response to my message: “We did assess OneRep’s data removal service to confirm it acts according to privacy principles that we advocate at Mozilla. We were aware of the past affiliations with the entities named in the article and were assured they had ended prior to our work together. We’re now looking into this further.”

    It seems like Mozilla should have had access to more information during their due diligence process than Krebs would have had as a third party. This is very concerning.











  • Biden can’t just expand the size of the court by himself. Congress has to give him the authority to do so.

    The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans, so any court expansion plan is dead in the water. Even if the Democrats controlled the House, they only have 51 (out of 100) seats in the Senate. There are two Democratic members of the Senate who are basically Republican-lite (Manchin of WV and Sinema of AZ, who is technically an independent). Those two would kill any bill that allowed any sort of progressive change.

    If you don’t like it, then you need to do everything you can to fight for Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress.

    TL;DR: Blame Congress, not Biden.