Hamartia
@Hamartia@lemmy.world
- Comment on A Coup Is In Progress In America 2 months ago:
A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.
- Comment on UK government scraps plan to ban sale of gas boilers by 2035 | Green building 2 months ago:
Oh sorry it’s not politically expedient to save the environment. All we understand is the orthodoxy of neo-liberal economic dogma where increasing inequality is the goal. So what we can offer you is a third runway at Heathrow.
- Comment on Let's all make fun of this stupid astrapotherium. 3 months ago:
Oh look, here comes FlyingSquid.
- Comment on Better Offline: The Invisible War 3 months ago:
I could swear I heard that whole ACER laptop angle a couple of months ago on someone else’s podcast. I don’t want to say verbatim but I was having severe dejayvu. It wasn’t a Doctorow podcast that much I’m sure.
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
Any chemical that can exist as a solid, a liquid and a gas at the same time isn’t safe to put into our bodies!
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
Yeah. It’s not an entirely salient point. It does, however, underline the ubiquitous nature of fluorine.
The biggest source of Flourine in the environment is just the normal weathering of rocks that contain it. The biggest of the anthropogenic sources include brick production, phosphate fertiliser application and coal burning.
The minor amount added to drinking water really wouldn’t be the biggest issue if it was as toxic as it’s made out to be.
- Comment on Dinosaurs Still Live 5 months ago:
Mulleted stinkbird thank you.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
Extra points for not lifting the spagetti pile when you’re hovering.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 5 months ago:
Not sure if the future tense ‘will’ is appropriate here
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 6 months ago:
This is the point. Whether ice is likely to form is a very important aspect of weather.
Is it going snow instead of rain. Are the roads going to be treacherous. Will my water supply stop flowing.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 6 months ago:
𝕴𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖙!
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 6 months ago:
They’ve still got a good reputation for news. So good that after a few combative interviews with Tory MPs (back when they were in power a few years ago) the Culture Secretary wanted to sell the channel off.
Don’t get me wrong they can still produce the occasional good comedy or documentary but they used to do so consistently.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 6 months ago:
You won’t get any disagreement from me on the corrosive effects of advertising.
I do think that Channel 4 used to regularly produce greater content than it can now. But that probably is more to do with advertising revenue being leeched away to online platforms and the growth of its direct competitors.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 6 months ago:
Well the distinction here is that TV license paying citizens of the UK don’t get the ads.
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 6 months ago:
These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 6 months ago:
In the UK the BBC only has advertisements for its own content, nothing else. As bad as its got since Tony Blair and David Cameron both undermined its independence and quality, at least there are no ad breaks in its shows.