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- Comment on 2 days ago:
Plus, if the demand for these AI datacenters were to suddenly decline, utilities could probably buy the excess energy. Or just buy fields outright. It’s public benefit from private up-front investment. Not the worst path to get to the desired outcome.
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 3 days ago:
I mean, that’s high praise for a vacuum. I would be more concerned if it didn’t.
- Comment on The 10 Commandments apparently mentions absolutely nothing about protecting children from abuse. 4 days ago:
Just because it’s not spelled out, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Critique made without a genuine effort to understand the cultural and historical context isn’t worth much.
Very first commandment (as summarized by Jesus) is “Love the Lord your God.” Combine that with the mandate to Adam and Eve to care for God’s creation, and the core tenant of Judaism that loving God implies obedience, and the concept of respecting that of his creation which bears his image becomes immediately obvious.
- Comment on The 10 Commandments apparently mentions absolutely nothing about protecting children from abuse. 4 days ago:
Interesting take, and not entirely wrong either imo. Though, I think the real reason is simply that such a commandment wasn’t necessary, because it was already implied from the very beginning. God gave Adam and Eve the mandate to care for his creation, and in conjunction with the fact that “Love the Lord your God” is the very first commandment (which means to follow his commandments), respecting the people that God created in his image would have absolutely unquestionable in the mind of the ancient Israelites.
The really hard to accept part is how this respect for what God made included the destruction of what is not of him, which included people. It’s a very alien concept to us today in our culture. The important part is that what you read in the Bible (esp. the Old Testament) cannot be taken at face value. Everything is seeped in historical context that often makes things seem at a glance to be the opposite of what they actually are. The translation from Hebrew and Greek compounds this problem.
TL;DR: If you want to take solace in confirmation bias, it’s not hard to do, and to blame you for doing so would be incredibly hypocritical of me. Remaining truly objective is the most grueling exercise in self-awareness and accepting uncomfortable possibilities anyone could ever undertake.
- Comment on Keeping the tally of suicides. Pedestrians vs those in cars 5 days ago:
They’ve actually achieved a higher state of enlightenment by using the superior duodecimal system (a.k.a. base 12).
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 5 days ago:
- Comment on Prisoner peeing on the libs? 6 days ago:
Gosh dang, I was trying to make that a joke but yours is better than anything I thought of.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Christian In Name Only
- Comment on Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database 6 days ago:
Not sure how much legality matters anymore, “normalize” or “desensitize” might be better words here. Ugh. I hate that’s an actual sentence I just typed. And to think there are certainly alternate timelines unimaginably worse than this. My heart breaks for alternate me. 😑
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
OOHHH very true, didn’t think of that. I’ll definitely try to be more considerate next time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not a big enough company for the owners to have vacation homes (only like 8 people so they were still very involved in the day-to-day), but one of them was talking about upgrading their riding mower a lot at the time. They were going to spend like 9 grand to cut their mowing time from 3 hours to 1 hour 45 minutes. All I could think was “lol, why not just restore most of that grass to native grassland and never think about it again?”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If I had the perspective then that I do now, I probably would have at least tried to do similar. At the time though I thought it was my dream job and blamed myself for feeling like I wasn’t meeting expectations. My crippling social anxiety (also just depression?) making it darn near impossible to ask for help… well, that didn’t help either.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The funny(?) thing is it was a small company of like 8 people total including the brothers that founded and own it. They’re not mean or totally heartless people either, the owners just don’t have good business sense.
I did my summer internship there during college a couple years earlier and thought everything went fine, but when they let me go they mentioned out of nowhere that “we had a similar concern while you were interning” even though I don’t recall them ever bringing that up with me prior to that very moment. Just weaseling for any justification they could think of for what they knew was a terrible miscalculation on their part, methinks. Oh well, it only put a minor dent in my self-esteem… 😅😑
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
For real. My last job essentially let me go because my being depressed meant they weren’t confident I could handle the workload of 2.5 people. Of course, they made that out to be my fault. Thanks guys, I’m worse now.
- Comment on Does anyone have any experience with Sync-in for online files? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, copyparty is awesome. However, the one obvious downside is that you lose guaranteed offline support (some clients may allow for it, but it’s not baked in).
- Comment on Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments 3 weeks ago:
Slopturding
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Turdturfing
- Comment on If there is a doctor that only saves killers, and a killer only kills other killers, I wonder who would save/kill more people? 3 weeks ago:
Unnecessary plot twist:
The doctor is the killer!!! 😱😈😑
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 4 weeks ago:
To commandeer their superior grammatical sensibilities?
- Comment on Discord is about to require age verification for everyone 1 month ago:
Yeah, there are certainly options that offer nearly the same level of functionality (or at least, discounting the features most people don’t use), but none that are anywhere close as easy to set up.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Do I have enough ___ stockpiled? No. Hoard more. Rinse and repeat.
- Comment on Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" 1 month ago:
Meme smarter, not harder. 🤌
- Comment on Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention 1 month ago:
On the flip side, if you still need a power cable anyway, it’s usually way cheaper to bundle the media (and optionally control/network) signals into the same cable than using wireless.
Now, with true wireless power (I’m thinking of this video in particular), that proposition can change dramatically.
- Comment on Nametag: Self-hostable personal relationships manager 2 months ago:
For small personal deployments, is SQLite support planned? It’s crazy performant and I have to imagine it would work for up to 500 contacts at the very least, which should cover the majority of deployments. Making Redis optional (otherwise using a basic in-memory KV store of some kind) would also be cool.
- Comment on Off the Rails 2 months ago:
Eh, maybe God just has a sense of humor. After all, platypus.
- Comment on Sleep is God's medicine. Which means God is stepping on the medical industry's cash flow. 2 months ago:
So as someone who actually believes in God (unlike most of the commenters so far)… wat?
- Comment on Music aficionado 2 months ago:
Oh jeez, what the heck? I have no idea, Lemmy seems to be doing something it thinks is smart but is, in fact, not.
- Comment on Entertainment would be a lot less shitty if there is a legally-enforcible International Law that bans the act of cancelling TV Shows and forces all TV Shows to have a decently written ending. 2 months ago:
I see what you’re trying to do, but the real problem is streaming services that prioritize the shareholder and new user signups over existing customers’ experience.
- Comment on Music aficionado 2 months ago:
Shoutout to everynoise.com
- Comment on Christmas, do I need to say more? 2 months ago:
I feel like it just needs a skull with a bow on it amidst the presents. Charred, of course, to fit the color palette. Alternately, you could have the tree growing out of it.
- Comment on Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly. 3 months ago:
If it’s mostly mineral buildup just soaking it in white vinegar for an hour will dissolve it all and make it look and function as if it were new.
