oroboros
@oroboros@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Work until you die! Sing along kids! 1 year ago:
Beautiful 🥲
- Comment on I feel stupid asking this 1 year ago:
I think this is very interesting, and you should go pester ones like Stephen Fry on mastadon to come have a play with lemmy
Just as a homage to Stephen Fry in particular, here’s a fantastic audiobook version of hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy on archive.org
Mythos is also awesome
- Comment on 'We don't have teachers' | This Austin private school lets AI teach core subjects 1 year ago:
Alpha private school leaders believe
they will make lots of money
- Comment on Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest 1 year ago:
I don’t think anyone is mad at her, people are looking at this and seeing naked corrupt authoritarianism.
So to explain my confusion, not wanting things to progress is something I don’t understand, so when you said progressive I then thought you were saying Greta is doing good.
Fundementally, being against progression means you are regressive. I think being static isn’t something well defined, because it doesn’t seem feasible, it would required being entirely insular, i.e. solipsistic, which is mad.
If you don’t mind me asking, why do you want things to regress? In recent times ( bar the rise of the far right ideologies causing a fair bit of war and death), it’s statistically been one of the most peaceful periods in history, bar some notable regions, really Europe’s stopped brutally annihilating each other. Arguably, this has been due to global cooperation on an economic and cultural level, it could be nuclear weapons as well, but cooperation is good, so I would personally roll with it.
Would you prefer to go back to a time when countries where more insular and thus more likely to end up in war with each other? Or what other benefits do you see in being regressive?
- Comment on Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest 1 year ago:
I think I maybe mistook the tone of your comment.
I think Greta is in a position to make a difference and amazingly in a non violent way. So when you said you far left activitist etc… It came across as the typical brain washed drivel you get from people who have been taken over and are being driven by snake oil salesmen that appear to have taken over general public discourse globally.
You’re response, saying you think far left as progressive makes me think I was harsh in thinking this as I do think Greta is progressive, which I think is idionatically correct, however I don’t think Greta’s stance or activism is far anything so that is where my confusion came from.
- Comment on Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest 1 year ago:
What the fuck does far left mean to you
- Comment on Amazon, Tripadvisor and other companies team up to battle fake reviews while FTC seeks to ban them 1 year ago:
- Comment on [HN] Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI "Actors" in Crowd Scene 1 year ago:
It’s like pirating people. You wouldn’t pirate a movie!
- Comment on Solar and wind energy could fulfill energy demand 10-fold, Oxford study finds 1 year ago:
Nice, sounds even better!
- Comment on Solar and wind energy could fulfill energy demand 10-fold, Oxford study finds 1 year ago:
newatlas.com/…/highest-density-lithium-battery
Tesla battery apparently have a density of 244-296 Wh/Kg, so does that mean 1000 metic tonnes of of batteries at 289.6 Wh would be enough to provide annual storage here? That doesn’t seem infeasible or unreasonable for something potentially so beneficial.
- Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off 1 year ago:
If only I had some money to transfer somewhere :(
- Comment on Female 1 year ago:
I think most people would vacate the area if you started discussing your resent of science. I’m guessing you’re some sort of religious fundamentalist?
- Comment on Good faith=cringe 1 year ago:
- Comment on Exclusive: UK regulator to push for probe into Amazon, Microsoft cloud dominance 1 year ago:
UK government want to see all your data. Is this just a shot across the bows, because it’s comes off incredibly stupid given the context of what a cloud environment provides, i.e. massive amounts of easily accessed very expensive hardware, and there is boutique options out there…
- Comment on Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program 1 year ago:
I found khan academy to be really good. My daughter handled the JavaScript module pretty well at the age of 9. If your son is already familiar with the concept of programming and can read well enough, I’d be pretty sure he’d enjoy this
- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 1 year ago:
.net core now has all the framework stuff and all runs great on Linux. C# is a really nice language.
- Comment on "New long-term plan" to "put the brakes on anti-car measures:" Sunak vows to stop 20mph zones and review LTNs 1 year ago:
No, just completely devoid of morals. He’s positioning himself to have something to battle labour with. Conservative voters are very easily triggered by suggesting someone might be taking something from them. Doesn’t matter how stupid it is, conservatives are incredibly easily led, selfish idiots.
- Comment on ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content 1 year ago:
I wonder how many children will be saved. Surely they’ve calculated this, given the high cost of freedom of information/speech being severely restricted.
- Comment on Russia seeks to rejoin UN's human rights council 1 year ago:
This is a great book archive.org/details/opensocietyitsen0000popp, Karl Popper is the philosopher who described the paradox of intolerance. So applicable today, but unfortunately has been used so much it began to become a meme in itself and lost meaning… He also shred Plato’s republic as proto fascist doctrine, brilliant read/listen
- Comment on Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users 1 year ago:
And the same day stirred up a shit storm about watering down climate commitments, surely coincidence…
www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66857551
Unfortunately they are likely looking to both destroy free communication and the climate, and not just using it as a ruse… They’re psychotic.
- Comment on Shoplifting an epidemic, says John Lewis boss 1 year ago:
If only record profits were just a bit more, then they’d share!
- Comment on Experts welcome new task force set up to stop rich and powerful from silencing journalists, but say it’s not enough 1 year ago:
Interesting acronym that is used for this, SLAPPs (Strategic legal actions against public participation). Almost like whoever came up with the term is having a laugh.
I’m sure the UK government can be fully trusted to implement this task force in an effect way.
Another interesting part of the article
Earlier this year, openDemocracy revealed how the UK government helped Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late Wagner leader, to bypass sanctions and launch a legal attack on British journalist Eliot Higgins of investigative website Bellingcat in the London courts.
