Nice. Where do you get one of those for a reasonable price these days?

My first dog, I got exactly that for $4 from a grocery store as a seasonal thing

However, after our second dog was a fiasco, I got rid of that since we weren’t getting another dog.

Now our third dog has not been swimming. She’s a rescue who still reacts against other dogs so we can’t bring her to a lake or dog park. I want one of these pools again to see if she’d take to it, but she doesn’t like to get wet so odds are not in my favor. I think the same pool was $28 last time I saw one, and I’m not interested in throwing away that much money. Almost all “baby pools” I see now are inflatable, which wouldn’t survive a dogs first use. So are there really no cheap plastic pools anymore?

That’s what I was going to say: German shepherd, Staffy, and maybe something else

Hey there pup

Money cant buy happiness, but money can buy a fuckload of the things you need to give you happiness.

There’s a small bit of truth in that saying so it makes more sense to phrase it from the opposite perspective: “Money cant buy happiness, but money can fix a fuckload of the things that cause unhappiness.”

Medical care doesn’t lead to happiness, but lack of medical care surely causes unhappiness

Or let’s just station a flock of Reapers over where they tend to launch so the response is fast enough to catch the perpetrators

Hopefully it will have a big impact on all of us, and accelerate the way off fossil fuel dependency

And yet, I was reading a similar thread yesterday, where most of the replies were critical and distrusting about one of the richest people giving most of his wealth to charity.

Just like they are not all the same and some will never be satisfied, the same is true of Lemmy

It’s way too late to say “what about …”. We can’t afford to let the yahoos delay us by saying that and it’s too late to try to defend it in fairness. Really the only fair option is for developed countries to invest in renewable energy worldwide: coal might be cheaper in the short term but let’s help you build out solar

I don’t know if you’re attempting to play the fairness card with current emissions while ignoring historical and ignoring per capita but no one’s buying that here.

Assuming everyone is only in it for their own greedy short term gain without care for everyone else

• US can handle it. Sucks for the rest of the world
• China is racing for renewables, EVs, rail. They’re going to beat their own record at transitioning a huge economy with huge people
• India is going to struggle. They already have problems with climate, lack of water, over population, and poverty. They don’t want to obstruct growth by investing in renewable energy, but their own climate, their own people will be among the hardest hit. Now the solution is buying air conditioners for all those people? It may be fair but it’s too late and they can’t afford the cost to their own climate

Yeah that’s gotta stop

They can’t afford either the cost of AC for their population or the additional hit on the environment. I believe they’re also lagging in renewable energy with similar rationalization

While I can see their argument for fairness, it’s too late. They missed their opportunity and trying to follow in the footsteps of earlier developed countries is just going to leave them further behind. You can’t buy yourself out of the problem this way, it only buys more of the problem

I don’t know very much about India but it seems like they really need to start moving their population either toward mountains or underground. I have no idea how you move a billion people or even if the geography would allow that, but it’s a better solution than buying air conditioners for a billion people and powering them with coal

That’s bs. Obviously you’re welcome to choose your own path, regardless of what some guy in a white hat says, but the Catholic Church has been on a [very slow] March toward acceptance for at least the last half century. Any organization can change and evolve, and the current pope is notable for increased acceptance and compassion for all people … maybe not as quickly as most of us prefer but it can and is happening.

They were idiots? I’m older than most of y’all and Catholic School always taught that the Pope is infallible in matters of doctrine. If your friends only listened to the first half, that’s on them

I don’t know how I didn’t know about this at the time. I was in college and I guess I didn’t really watch the news. I was using a precursor to the internet at the time but it was all research and technical collaboration, no news

He’s got a Sharpie and is not afraid to use it on a world map!

The US as well. If we can’t even follow through with keeping Ukraine supplied, at no danger to ourselves, are we really ready to escalate to WWIII over some small European country most Americans can’t find in a map? I like to think I have a good understanding of the situation but I’d have a hard time supporting that. Arming Ukraine is a good investment, strong support for the fundamental idea of NATO even if they are not a member, and it’s finally a conflict with a clear right and wrong where we can be the good guys. Direct military involvement can easily become the end of civilization.

Let me even put it to anyone here from the Balkans. Of course you don’t want an aggressive tyrant to invade. Of course you don’t want the death and destruction, loss of freedom and human rights, from being invaded. But are you really demanding potentially the end of all civilization in your defense?

I believe he has. The President has some emergency spending authority, some amount of any type of aid he can give before congressional authorization but it’s limited in both amount and time. The goal is to allow faster response in emergencies but not usurp congress’ control over budgeting. Congress has approved several packages of aid and the President has executed them. It’s time for another

In particular, the temporary measure to prevent government shutdown specifically did not include more aid to Ukraine. Among the many reasons I hope that’s approved quickly is they do need to approve longer term budgets before the temporary measure runs out, and it would be unfortunate if it turns into another political stunt

Looks like it is a 6 mile line that will demonstrate whether maglev is practical

I’ve had several companies offer to partly cover the cost of a gym or exercise/weightliss/smoking cessation program. Similar idea but much better for covering health improvements for anyone. It’s also not presented as a bonus tied to job performance, but a benefit related to healthcare

Unfortunately there’s that pesky qualification “partly”. In general I haven’t been incented because I still have to pay too much and the inconvenience of the paperwork just makes it … inconvenient

So the article doesn’t give any claimed reasons, seems very biased or at least poorly written.

From some of the gaps in the article and way too much speculation, I think the reasons were:

1. Existing service didn’t meet a bandwidth requirement
2. Scale out requires Starship, which has not flown yet

So I do believe this is our best hope for universal rural broadband, but it’s not a done deal. It’s never been done and the launch rate is beyond current technology, so there is no way to predict. At least traditional providers have known technology, and lots of experience. They suck and will never deliver but they could.