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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t know, I have a couple of tracks that I love, but could never get them in FLAC. I listen to them on a very high volume and always feel like there are bits that would feel smoother if they were lossless. I am unable to confirm or deny that.
- Comment on Bees 1 week ago:
Use DuckDuckGo!
- Comment on Your memory will live forever in textbooks. 1 week ago:
Only through the weak minded
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 2 weeks ago:
Please remind me how long it takes to build new nuclear plants?
- Comment on U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users 2 weeks ago:
Damn, I was looking forward to the Jesus API
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Complete wipe? Certainly not. Reverting our society in standards of living and numbers? Heavily and quickly. People as a species may survive, but will pale in comparison to what we as a society are and can do now. Unless we get cheap fusion power distributed all over the world in the next 20 years, we are gone.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Communism isn’t cringe, wtf are you talking about. And yes, if we want to discuss communism, we need to take into account that it was suggested to start with socialism beforehand.
Social democracy has jack all to do with socialism, if we want to keep being pedantic. And social democracy does not fare all that well in poorer countries, even after massive EU funds. Which is the real cringe.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I understood the situation too bleakly, but my impression was, that we are losing topsoil (used to grow almost all our food), biodiversity is plummeting (which can trigger chain reaction of massive die-offs), the ice is melting (blue ocean event, likely irreversible) causing billions of people to lose their homes, and depleting aquifies (drinking water). Hotter climate will cause runaway effects, that will multiply all of this, which could lead to decimating most of life in the oceans (food for majority of people), meaning more hungry people inland, politically already unstable, now without soil, water, and getting severe droughts and much more acidic rain. There are possibilities of new diseases appearing from the thawing permafrost, as well as newly mutated ones.
Everything will be made worse by the current trends in politics, but I suspect those politics are trending because some people are aware where are we heading.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Right now I don’t see how our current society can survive. We are doing nothing at all to stop burning fossil fuels (renewables go up, but so does fossil burning), the richest find more and more absurd ways to waste energy (bitcoin, LLMs), everywhere more and more people go poor even in developed nations (prices skyrocketing, mainly food and rent), and we are just starting to see that climate is starting to change, and not to our optimistic scenarios.
I don’t think we are going to make it.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
But everyone knows that. Nobody even remotely suggested anything close to it.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Given the state of our climate, I would say it’s very closely ahead of us, and we are not going to make it. Which is a shame, we are so close.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not happening now under any social democracy.
Socialism is supposed to be a transformative period, leading to communism. I have no idea why people write the !=.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
It’s like saying we are too stupid to survive.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Are they though? I just feel like we aren’t solving the issues we ought to.
First, nobody gets hungry ever again.
Then, everybody gets roof over their head.
After that, we can start discussing the next steps.
And yes, we need to do this globally, with nobody left behind.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Though to be honest, tankies spouting #1 and #2 get heavily downvoted. I don’t even see them anymore, guess my instance defederated them, but they were never strong positions here.
Perhaps it’s the defederation, but my experience here does not resemble yours.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
First two sound like tankies, but communism definitely could work :P
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Because that’s what you seek, and I want to understand you and help you if I can, perhaps even provide a nuanced opinion on such view.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Can you expand more on those idiotic positions?
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
What ‘right of centre’ views do you seek?
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
I wrote more comments here to express my confusion with OP and their goal.
The more I read the more I think the problem is from their inability to explain themselves, or perhaps lack of any cohesive want in the first place. Philosophy is fine, controversy is fine, nuance is great, but I get none of the above from OP. It is possible they are young and searching themselves, yet to understand how the world and online discussions work.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Then what in the hell do you want?
I thought you want diverse opinions and nuanced debate, but when you want to just engage in opposing comments and not prefacing statements with ‘I understand X, but wanna discuss Y here’, the result is just trolling, detrimental to your proposed goals.
I have yet to understand what exactly do you want, or what is missing here.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Also, I’ve spent time on Reddit, it was only bad faith arguments in controversial. Like bots pushing propaganda bad.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Then express yourself to let them know what you stand for, and what do you expect from them.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
But why? This has everything to do with philosophy, and nothing to do with most posts on Lemmy.
- Comment on Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF • Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF - Episode 3 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know many anime watchers, and everyone around me loved it. One colleague had issues at first, I told him to get past the third ep, and he finished it that day.
I remember my first time. It was midnight, I knew I had to go sleep, but thought I check out first episode for the heck of it. The animation is beautiful, score is very captivating, so I decided to forego sleep a bit more. It was very lighthearted, kind of silly but in a good way, very unlike most anime I’ve seen before. Then I finished the series at 4AM absolutely emotionally rocked, I never cried so much in my life, and I have been through some shit.
It’s totally because the core feels very personal to me, and it gives me hope I’ve never felt or could imagine before. But everything other is absolutely top tier, too. I love Shaft, saw most of their stuff way back when, and this is definitely one of their most timeless pieces, because it’s so stylized. OST is kind of hard to listen to randomly, but fits the anime perfectly. And the story… it just feels right, and complete. Without any spoilers, definitely one of the very few complex story element implementations done correctly.
Unrelated to this, don’t ever watch anything beyond the anime, or first two movies. Anything after that never happened, is not related to this story, and Madoka is finished and done after the 12th episode.
- Comment on Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF • Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF - Episode 3 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I don’t have it, and haven’t read it.
Only watched the anime, both series, which I love so much, one of my top all time picks (first will always be Madoka though). Absolutely top music score, I would listen to the OST during work, when I still could listen to anything. I also want to see where the story moves forward, but haven’t yet found the time :(
- Comment on Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF • Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF - Episode 3 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, I have heard about some new S&W anime, though I was hoping it would continue the manga, not readapting it.
Such a shame, I might give it a try, but I have the original and it’s so good, why do we need to redo that…
- Comment on Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF • Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF - Episode 3 discussion 4 weeks ago:
What is going on? Is this something new?
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
It’s fun though. It has its age, but still there’s nothing like it.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
League of Legends is so bland and uninteresting.
Just play Dota. It’s the original, far more complex (you can eat trees!), and actually mess with the enemies way more than just dealing chip damage.