A plastic is just a material made from polymers, you are the one adding artificial limitations on what polymers can be used. The belts in tires use both nylon and polyester which are both plastics by anyone's definition. So even by your strict definition, tires are made up, at least in part, by plastic.

It's absolutely not stupid to turn your back on family because of politics.

It's not a sports team, it's conscious decisions that affect the law and how we are governed.

Yes people have to prove themselves, what the fuck are you talking about about? You can't just engineer a skyscraper because you say you are really good at it. The FE exists for a reason.

If you want to be really pedantic, water is created and destroyed all the time, it's just a relatively stable process. Water is destroyed in the upper atmosphere and by lightning, and is created in volcanic eruptions and combustion. (Among many other ways)

This is like when Papa John would come shoot a commercial at one of his franchisee's stores.

I would say the fact that he isn't a P.E. is enough for me.

If he was some mastermind engineer like he claims, he could easily pass the FE without even needing to study.

Everyone else in the world needs to prove their credentials, why doesn't he?

Why? I read the article and I'm not exactly sure what these proposed rebates are for or what qualifies a car or person to be eligible for them.

I didn't even see in the article anything that said Tesla would be excluded, other than a non-quote of maybe. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious.

They help with discovery for users making it easy to find curated lists of people to follow.

This is pretty rude to be honest and I can't believe rhetoric like this gets voted up.

This trivializes all parties, steers people in wrong directions and generally is just actual unwarranted or wanted, fake medical advice.

Because people are using it

What do you think the millions of people flocking to a new service as refugees would do?

Do you think George Takei or Flavor Flav care about federation and instances, or did they just see that Bluesky works similar to twitter and make accounts.

Most of the people joining are going to use the default recommended instance because those people aren't joining out of technical interest.

Google could pay chrome billions just like they pay mozillla and apple..

Besides it's not like that's really true anyway, chrome would make tons of money independently, it would just sell user data to Google or other parties instead of Google getting it for free. Chrome 'doesn't make any money' because it doesn't need to on paper, the same way a parking lot doesn't make any money for a grocery store, but if a third party owned the lot, the grocery store would just pay them to use it, or the individual people using the lot would.

Chrome is the biggest browser and successfully collects data on billions of people, additionally, chrome development would absolutely be supported by all of the companies that build chromium based browsers like Microsoft, opera, brave, etc.

That's not true on every plane.

Typically for doors that don't open inward first, they have interlocks.

For example, the over wing doors on a 737ng don't open inward, they are actually spring loaded on a hinge and swing directly outward, there is a locking pawl that engages and disengages automatically under specific circumstances, requiring the squat switches on the landing gear to be engaged and the throttles to be in an idle position.

But basically no broker is going to give you a million in margin on a 200k account, and you don't get margin called on mortgages (typically) the way you do with margin accounts.

Why does it need to be sold to another big company, why can't they just break Google up so chrome becomes its own business?

When you mortgage a home as an investment property, you are leveraging your money 5-1 (on a 20% down payment)

If rent covers 90% of the mortgage, you still make an absolutely huge profit amortized over the loan.

If you consider the tax incentives (interest write off, depreciation, capital gains deferment, pass through deduction) the gap in the rent can be covered.

Consider paying 50k down on a 250k house, the. Paying an additional 15 percent over the life of the loan (around 40k) to cover for gaps in rent.

Over the life of the loan you turned 90 grand into 250 grand (and a house is an appreciating asset, so it will likely be worth more than 250 by the end of it all)

Deduct depreciation (value of the home minus land value over 27.5 years) and carry over losses can even make up for the gap of rent you pay entirely over time.

For real open source projects, it's a lot of the time not nerds working for free.

All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).

And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.

There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.

This isn't inherently bad, but it's not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.

I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren't working for free.

https://atproto.com/guides/applications

You can use atproto to build other federated applications.

Just because one implementation of atproto (bluesky) doesn't have feature parity, doesn't mean it's a fake federated protocol.

'actual fediverse' and 'bluesky fediverse' doesn't make sense as a comparison.

It's more like, ActivityPub vs ATProto.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

Bluesky is just one implementation of the protocol, that implementation happens to have a lot of steam, but it's not fake or anything.

That's a great start to an explanation, but first, you are assuming that people know how email works, and second, unlike email, federated social media has discovery, feeds, and in general content that gets pushed to you. How all of that works can be complicated and if you join a small instance, you may not realize how much content you are missing because of it.

My experience has been that in general, bluesky has already moved onto the phase of just regular content, instead of content about itself, at leasty feed. There are still posts for things like starter packs and stuff that pop up, but mostly it's just normal news and hot takes and stuff.

Honestly, the fediverse stuff like lemmy and mastodon really has 'i don't even know who you are' vibes. People on bluesky don't really seem to care about any of it.