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- Comment on Coal is Extremely Dumb (by Hank Green) 5 days ago:
The online shop thing is just usual YouTube sponsor stuff (though it’s more self-promotion since he runs the store, it’s some charity thing), and he sometimes plays Connections at the end of vlog videos like this.
- Submitted 6 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 6 days ago:
Can you believe that’s how sheep feel all the time?
- Comment on We need to talk about Nigel Farage and Russia. 1 week ago:
It’s not a text, it’s a video. You can download it with yt-dlp if you don’t want to just open the URL for some reason.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
Lots of trees there. That place still looks pretty nice in the summer.
A quick web search had someone say it’s Yaroslavsky District, Moscow and while I’m not entirely convinced (having trouble matching the photo to a map), in the summer it will probably look similar to the photo of Yaroslavsky District on Wikipedia.
- Comment on ✨️ DIVA ✨️ 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Few Years Ago Watching The Environmental ‘The Mobilized News’ Show on ‘Free Speech’ & It had an Episode with John Mankins Saying, Since ‘60s Supposed to have had Solar Energy from Space Solar Panels 2 weeks ago:
Neoliberal greed supplanted so much of the 60s futuristic optimism.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 3 weeks ago:
Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.
I believe there’s some research that confirms your anecdote in that kids with reading comprehension difficulties had a much easier time reading when they were both reading and listening to the text at the same time.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 3 weeks ago:
audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain
This doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. This is an area of ongoing research (because audiobooks have only recently become very popular) so there are surprisingly few studies on the topic, but the general consensus is that they’re not the same thing. For example, while reading you go at your own pace and can easily re-read or skim words or sentences, but you can’t do this when listening to audiobooks.
I’d link you to a nice essay I read(!) on this last year in a Finnish newspaper, but it’s in Finnish so most users here probably won’t get much out of it… Actually what the hell, I’ll link it anyway: www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000011260022.html
- Comment on World-first 560°C Carnot battery unveiled as SPIC launches ultra-high-temperature heat storage 3 weeks ago:
State Power Investment Corp has a pretty unfortunate acronym.
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
Just wait until you hear what happened to the guy standing in front of the tank in the original photo.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 month ago:
The I in LLM stands for “image”.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
That makes more sense. I was thinking printing money only to pay pensions, which honestly seems like something European social democrat parties might actually do.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
Them being born in a certain period is actually very relevant here, because the state pension system as it works in many EU states (and, to my understanding, many other countries like Japan too) allowed boomers specifically to pay in way less than they are getting out. This was then conveniently adjusted so that millenials and the younger half of gen Xers pay in more than they will get out, because their payments are used to finance the pensions of those above them on the ladder.
In most/all of these countries boomers are a massive voting bloc and politicians are consistently either doing nothing about the issue or making it worse. While there are populistic aspects to it, young Europeans have a plenty of valid reasons to hate boomers.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
I imagine you’re not being entirely serious, but I fail to see how that is anything but yet another inventive way of kicking the can down the road so that boomers don’t have to deal with it.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
You’re saying that as if it makes any difference whether I talk about boomers or pensioners. The two are currently synonymous and we live in the present, not in the future. In the future when boomers are dead, if this problem still exists I will be using some other word.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
I see you’re talking about US numbers, but the US doesn’t really have a state pension system in the same way that many other countries doo. Maybe that’s the confusion here.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
Yes, and once boomers start dropping dead, gen Xers will be fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their slice of the state pension ponzi at the cost of everyone below them on the ladder the same as boomers did. That does not change my point at all.
There is no fair and equitable world in which state pensions can continue working the way they work now. The system was built on the expectation of infinite growth with every generation being larger than the last.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
Neither of those are billionaires.
Gerontocracy is fundamentally an issue of the few holding more than their fair share of wealth and power at the expense of others and pulling the ladder up behind them. It is a class issue same as everything else.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
Most billionaires are also boomers. The class war and the war against gerontocracy are one and the same.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 months ago:
Inspired by this post I spent a couple of hours today trying to set this up on my toy server, only to immediately run into what seems to be a bug where <video> tags loading a simple WebM video from right next to index.html broke because the media response got Anubis’s HTML bot check instead of media.
I suppose my use-case was just too complicated.
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- Comment on It really is 2 months ago:
Good guess! I suppose my comment reads like a verbatim quote from one of his videos.
- Comment on It really is 2 months ago:
If there’s complex life on one of the ice shell moons like Titan or Enceladus, it’ll be way weirder than anything in the ocean could ever be.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s kind of ironic that after complaining about prayers with many words, Jesus goes on to tell them to instead use the Lord’s Prayer, which in itself is just an incredibly long-winded way of saying “hi god give me a good and virtuous life”.
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 months ago:
Do not put words in my mouth to present a false dilemma.
Naturally I hope this medication is found to be safe for this purpose after further study. However, these processes are stringent for a reason, because the possibility of it proving to be unsafe after being in widespread use for many years could have disastrous consequences on the health of a large number of people. The history of medicine is full of such cautionary tales.
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 months ago:
Of course such organizations would criticize the study; they are ideologically predisposed to doing so. The broader consensus is still in support of the study. Several other European countries have done their own reviews with pretty much the same findings. Not all of them have resulted in outright bans like in the UK and now NZ, because sometimes adjusting prescription guidelines is enough, depending on how the local medical processes work.
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 months ago:
the cass review is famously idiotic by now.
According to a minority of experts.
also mentioning “big pharma” lol.
Lack of medical regulation is very much a big pharma interest.
I’m not going to bother arguing with you about this because it is clearly an ideological issue for you where you personally consider the (as of yet) difficult to quantify benefits of this medication vastly more important than the numerous possible side effects of messing with the endocrine system of an immature body. Healthcare experts in pretty much every European country caution their use, all for the same reasons as those cited in the Cass report. As such a ban (well, in this case moratorium really) is clearly justifiable.
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 months ago:
This ban, along with similar bans in other countries whose medical system isn’t run by Big Pharma, is being enacted because medical specialists raised concerns about the lack of evidence in support of puberty blockers, as well as their unknown risks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Review
Trusting the experts is a two-way street; you still have to respect their expertise when they say something you disagree with.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
Yes, KDE is a desktop environment. It’s one of the “Windows-like” ones and very customizable, and arguably the most technically advanced one at the moment.
Wayland is the display server, as it is called. It’s basically the back-end component that facilitates actually displaying anything on the screen. It replaced another component called X11, which was released in 1987 and had become a completely unmaintainable mess of technological debt.
Wayland took a very long time to develop and there are still some growing pains, which is why you will occasionally still see people arguing that X11 is better – these days you should probably just ignore anyone who says that though, as the overwhelming majority of users will be much better served by Wayland than by X11.
As for what distros support it, basically every up-to-date distro (latest major version release during or after 2024) using one of the following desktop environments will default to Wayland: KDE, Gnome, COSMIC, Sway, Hyprland. Other DEs don’t yet have stable Wayland support. Notably Linux Mint, a very common recommendation, is not on this list because the Cinnamon DE it uses does not yet support Wayland.
A couple of example distros mentioned in the thread and article would be Bazzite, Fedora and CachyOS. These distros all update swiftly, which is desirable because the Linux desktop is advancing very quickly at the moment. Slower-moving distros like Debian or Ubuntu LTS tend to miss out on a lot of nice new features.