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- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 day ago:
The problem is that we offloaded “world leadership” to a bunch of ultra-rich sociopaths who only care about their own profit maximization. And they then made actual profit obsolete, since the only product they produce now is hype in the service of inflationary speculative assets. From a planetary perspective it looks like the human species is committing suicide.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 day ago:
Don’t fall for the clickbait reporting here. Musk has a history of making comically exaggerated claims. There won’t be a million satellites just like there wasn’t a 4000 km/h train, self-driving tunnel network, intercontinental rocket transport or Mars colony.
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 3 days ago:
Never suggested he didn’t. The average age of Trump voters skews over 50 though.
- Comment on oh ok 3 days ago:
As much as I like to shit on AI, it has gotten rather poetic lately.
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 3 days ago:
If you add that these bullies were given high-paying blue collar jobs, cheap houses, and wives to abuse freely, it’s no longer an analogy. The Trumpist boomers literally had this happen. When this system broke they reacted to it like the selfish, hateful idiots they are.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 4 days ago:
Defunding is perennial and global, even if it’s not a targetted action like in the US. Consider for example that in the last 25 years the number of PhDs doubled while the funding of the National Science Foundation stayed flat. In the EU the situation is better, with funding at least keeping pace with inflation, but national funding depends on the whims of the current ruling party (I’m in the Czech Repoublic btw where we just elected a right-wing billionaire). Even in the best case the average acceptance rate for a grant is 10 or 15%, but in my experience it’s lower.
As for lawyers being in charge, I mean what’s the degree you go get if you want to enter politics? In China it’s engineering. In the West, almost a third of politicians have law degrees even though the fraction of lawyers in society is much less than one percent.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 4 days ago:
Geologist here. It’s really depressing being in the community these days. We’re continually being defunded and we know better than most what a systemic crisis this planet’s ecosystem is in. For some reason we thought it was a good idea to put lawyers in charge of everything instead of experts.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 2 weeks ago:
The point of the chant is that by resisting the genocide we are all Palestinian. We participate because we believe in the self-determination and human rights of all peoples. By resisting Israeli and US aggression and oppression, we are all Palestinian.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 weeks ago:
So for a total novice vould you elaborate on this? Like why a certain build is better for gaming?
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 weeks ago:
So is Mint still the easiest distro? I think I’m switching for good this time.
- Comment on art 4 weeks ago:
Some of the terminology is from Dan Simmons’ Hyperion series.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 1 month ago:
Haiti should have just patiently waited to gain their independence.
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- Comment on Perfect size for brats 3 months ago:
I recently moved to the Czech Republic and found out that their hotdogs are already like this. The meat cylinder goes into a tube. It makes so much more sense than the sandwich!
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 4 months ago:
So instead of a janitor you become a robot technician. No thanks.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 5 months ago:
So the point of the comment was the relative strength of leftists during the era, not whether/how powerful the fascists were
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 5 months ago:
There were huge countervailing forces then. New Deal US. Soviet Union. Socialist parties gaining power the world over. The rise of fascism was limited to a few powerful countries, not systematic like it is today.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 6 months ago:
The US as a country does it to the rest of the world too, not just the immigrants.
- Comment on Metal 6 months ago:
Sometimes I think Lemmy is an echo chamber but then I hear a phrase like_ I used to show hogs._
- Comment on Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that 6 months ago:
So the first sentence is TV and movie streaming replacement is trivial… Can you elaborate for someone who still uses the pirate bay for movies?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 6 months ago:
I don’t want to type stuff into a command line. Like ever. If this is possible then I’m in.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 6 months ago:
This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 7 months ago:
The objections are about its personality? Who cares, as long as it’s good at coding? That’s the only thing it’s actually useful for.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 8 months ago:
Just for the record, I support Palestine action. I condemn the genocide being perpetrated on the Palestinian people by the state of Israel.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 8 months ago:
America is not a monolith. Signal’s developers are very much aware of the risks of operating there and probably already have several escape plans given recent developments. I also think five-eyes probably has access but getting it might be computationally expensive.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 10 months ago:
If we decide to ban smartphones from schools we should ban them from work too. I’m supposed to be writing an article right now and instead I’m here. Then we should ban them from streets so that people have to pay attention to where they are going and the things going on around them. At that point we’d have something like functioning human beings again instead of mindless zombies. We could still have terminals for plugging into the Machine but our time with it should be regulated (like it already is with research clusters) so that we don’t waste energy. There, the whole problem is solved and all it takes is a global butlerian jihad.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 10 months ago:
Just for posterity in case this follows us here, there is a genocide going on in Palestine.
- Comment on Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction 11 months ago:
The problem is global. The US and the global elite are dragging the planet down with it. The most downtrodden victims of US domination are usually abroad anyway. So it feels pointless to worry about where people are because we all need to unite to fight Davos and its appointed imperator.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 11 months ago:
So now we’ll have a whole plethora of social networks for everyone to isolate into their own bubbles essentially because our global leadership is comprised of children who can’t play nicely with each other. Sounds good, sign me up for TurkmeniNet.
