Banks and corporations change computers every 3-5 years because accounting love to lease rather to buy

3-5 years is a pretty standard depreciation schedule for IT equipment like computers, peripheral accessories etc.

Computers and laptops (using Straight-line method): 31.67% with a useful life of 3 years.

Computers and laptops (using Written Down Value method): 63.16% with a useful life of 3 years

It really has nothing to do with leasing vs. buying.

Did they do what McDonald’s did and switch from beef tallow to vegetable oil?

I miss the old McDonald’s fries but I like that their less terrible for you, but yet they’re still not vegetarian/vegan.

Are the warrants legitimate? Are any of the claims made by DHS or ICE to be trusted? This is a legitimate question because I don’t follow boxing and just assume at this point that anything ICE/DHS says is lies.

It’s entirely possible that this is because of the 3,000/day quota they were set. If they deport them rather than just let them leave then they can credit that as a ‘deportation’.

maybe a small park a 15 minute walk away

This is really dependent on where you live in the US. I just checked and the house I grew up in was within a 15 minute or less walk of 7 parks and 15 minutes isn’t really that far to walk. Especially in the US.

Honestly that quote sounds a lot like my childhood in Minnesota in the late 80s and early 90s.

Some of that might be rosy retrospection but I wonder how much this has changed in the US over the years.

Nah, Wisconsin has weather that requires more cautious driving a big chunk of the year.

A lot of the higher end states from the US in the graph are in southern parts of the country which are largely red politically which likely means reduced safety regulations, and have more consistent road conditions and weather through the year.

I support this regardless of the US administration and I’m American. I think everybody should try to shop small and local wherever they are. I’ll always prefer to put my money into the local economy when and where I’m able.

That makes sense but if you isolate it down to only the immigrant populations that data lends itself to the theory of ethnic background, or really genetic background, being a better indicator.

The Netherlands has an immigrant population of about 4.8 million out of ~17.8 while the US has about 53.3 million out of ~340.1 million and that’s only counting foreign born.

In the end, I still speculate that ethnic/genetic background is a better indicator than country as this graph shows.

Anecdotally, I’m an American male who is 6’ 1" and my ancestral ethnicity is mostly German with a bit of Swiss. Growing up my friends were the same, mostly having German or Scandinavian ancestry, and I was the short one in the friend group. My friends all ranged from 6’ 2" up to 6’ 9".

I figured it would be hard to determine statistically, but figured it was worth mentioning for consideration.

The UK has a population that’s 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that’s 74% Dutch.

The 5 largest ethnic groups in the United States are White (Non-Hispanic) (58.2%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (12%), Two+ (Hispanic) (6.84%), Other (Hispanic) (6.11%), and Asian (Non-Hispanic) (5.75%).

There are lots of factors that can influence height but about 80% of an individual’s height is determined by genetics and certain populations, like those in the Dinaric Alps (including parts of Eastern Europe), are predisposed to taller statures.

For example, Uganda is generally considered the most ethnically diverse country and the average male height there is 5’ 6.4" which is really close to the global average. Correlation by itself doesn’t equal causation but it’s a good place to start.

Eh, fuck this whole family.

Why? What is the point of this comment or wishing bad things on these children, or this woman? Why support this behavior of targeting immigrants at all?

I’ve never used Torguard but I’m guessing it’s probably pretty good too? The only ones I hear about a lot are the big ones (NordVPN and the like) and I’m always leery of the really large, common and corporate used VPN services.

I ended up on Mullvad 7-8 years ago because of the recommendation of a SysAdmin I worked with at the time.

Ok, so I understand that but how does this fit in:

Ethnic diversity is higher in US than in Indonesia.

In the US, a country with greater ethnic diversity than Indonesia, the height is close to the global average, whereas in Indonesia it is significantly below. Correlation ≠ Causation but that statement does more to support the idea that ethnic diversity plays a role than it does to dispute it.

If anything it says with increasing diversity height gets closer to global average which seems pretty reasonable.

Same here. With increasing diversity (e.g. the US) height gets closer to global average versus a country with less diversity (“diversity is higher in US than in Indonesia”) where the average height is likely more representative of strictly ethnic Indonesians.

Again, I understand Correlation ≠ Causation but that’s why I posted my comment as a question rather than a statement. That maybe this graph is skewed because it fails to account for that diversity and instead of going by country it would make more sense to go by ethnic background?

Isn’t global male height supposed to be about 5’ 7" on average? The closest to that on the graph is the US, which has a very diverse population.

I’m still not understanding your original comment “Not necessarily. Ethnic diversity is higher in US than in Indonesia.”

It seems like you’re saying ethnic diversity isn’t necessarily a consideration in why the heights of the UK and US are where they are but then support the theory with the next sentence pointing out the ethnic diversity of the US.

I did indeed but I’m glad you saw it because you put exactly how I’ve felt about Lemmy into words.

Mullvad does this nicely with lockdown mode. It’s also really inexpensive and you can pay anonymously so the only record they have is your customer ID number.

I’m confused. Wouldn’t that support the theory?

If lower in ethnic diversity and native Indonesians are naturally short then Indonesia would be shorter on average. Whereas the US, being such a melting pot, would have a greater range of heights bringing the overall average down, right?

I wonder how this correlates with ethnic diversity in the population?

Is the Netherlands average high because of a lack there and are the UK and US lower because of greater ethnic diversity in the population?

If your views are more moderate and nuanced, not so much. Context and intent does not seem to matter here.

This is so accurate I thought it worth acknowledging and repeating.