JubilantJaguar
@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
That’s helpful. These estimates do tend to vary a bit depending on assumptions (type of plane or car, what occupancy etc). The 2t I quoted was slightly high. My point was that there’s no other way to emit 1 tonne in 6 hours.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 days ago:
Apart from the methane problem, all livestock farming takes, by definition, a massive amount more land than arable farming to produce the same amount of food. On a stressed planet of 9 billion people, there simply is not enough land to feed everyone with red meat.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 days ago:
First, well done for taking it seriously and doing your bit.
The point of the post (I think) is simply to illustrate that certain actions are much, much more important than others. Anecdotally, there are still plenty of people out there who believe that, say, turning off a couple of (low-energy) lights, or “recycling” a plastic bag, are somehow major good deeds that allow them to kick their feet up and celebrate with a steak. There’s still way too much ignorance about all this, IMO.
In reality (as you seem to understand), some gestures are far more important than others. Ditching red meat (and dairy) really is a big deal. Everyone who claims to care about this problem should at least consider doing it.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 days ago:
This is a nice articulation of nihilism.
The paradox being that the attitude is both justified and… certain to only make the problem worse.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 days ago:
lasts much longer which is important as a single household
This is an often-overlooked argument for veganism. If you plan carefully, you literally don’t need a fridge.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 days ago:
Roughly true, but you’re eliding a very, very problematic activity into “travel”: aviation.
Per kilometer, flying is pretty carbon intensive (about the same as driving - basically: the extra efficiency of being packed into a tin can is offset by exponentially higher wind resistance at high speed). The problem is that airplanes allow you to burn up massive distances really quickly.
A single transatlantic flight will blow a 2-ton hole in your personal carbon footprint. That’s 10-20% of an average European’s annual footprint - or 100% of a sustainable footprint. For anyone who flies more than once a year (i.e. likely a bunch of people here), cutting down on flying is likely to be the single biggest thing you can do for the climate.
- Comment on How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech 1 week ago:
Pretty convincing arguments. Thanx.
- Comment on How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech 1 week ago:
Tells you that you can take your social media back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.
I generally agree but I still feel it’s important to keep some perspective. Bluesky is not the solution but it’s definitely progress compared to existing corporate platforms (because it has real fundamental differences - several articles posted here went into detail about this).
IMO the best argument against Bluesky is that it will suck up the oxygen for other, better, solutions. That’s a fair theory but it seems to me that there’s plenty of market share to go round right now. Everyone is still on the evil corporate platforms.
RSS still exists and it’s still beautiful.
Agree, I use it every day.
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- Comment on The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, good parallel, didn’t think of that. Perhaps there’s just a limit on how much you can decentralize without things breaking down for either social or technical reasons.
- Comment on The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub. 2 weeks ago:
Very interesting, thanks.
Atproto scales quadratically, […] harms performance AP scales horizontally
Clearly true. But this suggests to me that ATProto might still work well with, say, 5 or 15 "PDS"s. That is still enough IMO to guarantee a high level of pluralism.
In a commercial market, let’s say for telephony or cars or web browsers, we readily accept that there are only a handful of players. Indeed, there’s generally an optimal number, high enough to guarantee competition but low enough that we can keep track of the brands and trust that they won’t go out of business tomorrow.
And nothing is stopping at least one of those few brands from being a “good guy”, akin to Mozilla’s historic role in the web-browser market. It could be run by say, Wikimedia, for example. At least we would know that it would not disappear tomorrow, which is more than can be said for most Lemmy instances.
I agree that there should be enough space for both ATProto and AP to thrive.
- Comment on Bluesky is more open than you think. 2 weeks ago:
Very useful, thanks.
As I see it, Bluesky is fundamentally different from Xitter and it is a major step in the right direction. It is short-sighted to reject it because of some technical imperfections.
The fundamental question IMO is whether there is enough mindshare (i.e. users and attention) to allow ATSocial (AKA partial federation) and ActivityPub (AKA total federation) to both be successful. I’m thinking there is. After all, the vast majority of people are still on ad-fuelled corporate social media, with all its internal contradictions.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 3 weeks ago:
Bubble-dwelling can indeed be a kind of sickness.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 3 weeks ago:
It this was subtle parody then hat’s off, nicely done.
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 4 weeks ago:
This is philosophy, not history or even historiography.
- Comment on Two Approaches to Solving the “Quiet Fediverse” Problem: Conversation Backfilling Mechanisms 4 weeks ago:
This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough. But whether this is a technical problem or a human problem, it is a problem. Silly for people to be denying that IMO.
If servers are going to come and go every 3 months at the whim of individuals, then - IMO - maybe there are are too many servers. Anecdotally, I picked my particular one for this very reason. Seems I anticipated well.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 weeks ago:
Completely. This feels like a major communications fail. It’s a basic technique of fundraising and mobilization: put a big ticking clock on your campaign and people will step up in time.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 1 month ago:
But that’s the point. I don’t want to have to go there to have a good experience. I want to have it here.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 1 month ago:
Maybe we should rename this place too.
This is the best of your ideas.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 1 month ago:
If we do things as you seem to want, then there’s no point even having separate communities. Let’s just have one big bin and every day we can throw 10,000 conversation into it like junk.
The rules are there for a reason.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 1 month ago:
Check the community description, it has a decent definition of “showerthought”. With examples for clarity.
Also this community is actively asking for more mods.
So that explains it.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 1 month ago:
This belongs in !casualconversation@lemmy.world or !shootingthebreeze or whatever, not here. Like 1 in 3 other posts, yes. Literally breaks rules #1 and #2.
The “mods” in this community are asleep at the wheel. Might as well not have them.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 2 months ago:
This post breaks literally rules #1, #2 and #3 of this community. Crazy.
Mods please wake up and DO YOUR JOB.
- Comment on We should be ashamed. 2 months ago:
Breaks rule #2 completely. Not a showerthought.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
THIS IS NOT A SHOWERTHOUGHT. This just an opinion. There already a ton of places to put your banal talking points like this. Why can’t you put them there??
For examples of what a showerthought is, look on the right. Another one was posted 2 minutes after this very post:
“With all due respect” could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is given
That is a showerthought.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 2 months ago:
This is the correct but boring (but correct) answer.
- Comment on Wikipedia sources their information better than most journalists do in their articles. 2 months ago:
Yet another not-a-showerthought.
- Comment on How much longer until we're just the States of America? 2 months ago:
In no way is this a “showerthought”. Seriously. This community is being devalued to worthlessness.
- Comment on We don't need AI 2 months ago:
Come on, this is not a “showerthought”, this is just an opinion. Put it elsewhere.
Moderators, please wake up.