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- Comment on Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project 3 days ago:
Don’t get me wrong I still think it’s dumb
- Comment on Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project 3 days ago:
It’s putting e not the best idea but it’s considerably less stupid than those, considering they managed to actually build one
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 2 weeks ago:
Just look around what they produce
Exactly, a thin wrapper around results from public research, almost nothing novel or valuable
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 2 weeks ago:
Companies do hardly any real or worthwhile r&d, they do product design and marketing.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 2 weeks ago:
This is already the only way scientists make a living
- Comment on Erdogan: ‘Israel is a terrorist state’ 2 weeks ago:
Even a broken clock etc etc
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
Germany is cheating, you only need to be like 20 to get most of this list
- Comment on I love the future. 2 months ago:
I agree it’s a huge concern and I also absolutely don’t trust the CDU, and especially Merz, as far as I can throw them. However I’m just saying that the situation is not identical to the USA, there are some points of difference.
- Comment on I love the future. 2 months ago:
The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the
SDPCDU broke that and started working with AfD.I’m also very worried about that, but it’s another point of difference - there were historically enormous protests (tens to hundreds of thousands per city, well over a million total, more than a percent of Germany’s total population) several times recently because CDU looked like it was slightly cooperating with them with an informal and unbinding agreement about immigration. These protests had the support of the churches, the sports leagues. Various senior government figures support outright banning the AfD. It would not be as easy for them as in the USA, where everyone immediately capitulates.
- Comment on I love the future. 2 months ago:
Let’s be clear here, the right extremist party got over 20% which is really bad for sure, but the mid-right party rules out working with them in a coalition no matter what. That’s rather different from where the rest of the republicans and many democrats fall over themselves to do whatever the lunatic fringe says. Further, the American billionaires are strong influencers of these trends in other countries. The core of the disease is the USA even when there are symptoms everywhere.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Oh yeah then explain this *gestures broadly at everything*
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 2 months ago:
garbage in garbage out
Yes
if you ask good questions
It’s way too late for that, the garbage already went in in the training stages, now you get garbage out
- Comment on Giving the neighbors a laugh 2 months ago:
Lmao at the slogan “EasyToys home delivery service. We always come.”
- Comment on Is there really a difference between my understanding the phrase "go for a walk" and my dog understanding the phrase "go for a walk"? 2 months ago:
No other animal has even come close to creating such a close co-existence with humans.
Horses are at least close
- Comment on Subscribe now for your life saving warnings! 2 months ago:
Their confidence intervals overlap…
- Comment on Lost in translation 2 months ago:
This is getting so tired. Take it up with Facebook.
- Comment on US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo 2 months ago:
Washington has long leveraged aid as a tool of its foreign policy, saying it cares about development and drawing a contrast with China, which is primarily concerned about seeking natural resources.
Lmao. “Our noble investment into development, their barbaric seeking of natural resources”.
- Comment on UFO sightings 3 months ago:
every bird is a UFO if…
Not all birds fly
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 4 months ago:
Yes, of course it depends on the person, their ideas and feelings and beliefs about sex will have a big impact. But I want to be clear that I’m not arguing it’s not at all damaging, just that people really underestimate the way other jobs are damaging and the centuries of work that has gone into improving labour standards so that they are less bad.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 4 months ago:
Working in a business environment is connected to our souls and will damage us inside, it’s not different in kind, and if it’s different in intensity it is because of the lack of protection and the level of abuse which people get away with.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
The mac comes with 256 GB though, and 256 > 1
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
Support for M1 and M2 is pretty good now but M3 is not quite there yet and it’ll probably be years before everything works nicely on M4, sadly
- Comment on Spoopy Science Costumes 5 months ago:
It is, to within 5%
- Comment on Clever, clever 5 months ago:
Wow, I guess cryptography is just fraudulent, who knew
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 5 months ago:
Don’t worry, people here yell at you for not using profane language because “you can swear on the internet”, they’re a weird bunch.
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 5 months ago:
Sure, I agree
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 5 months ago:
Agreed with the privacy concerns but
So, 15s saved per person. Which is handy, but 25 seconds fits squarely in the “blazing fast” category anyway.
This is huge when there are five 787s worth of people in line for ten passport control machines, it’s the difference between waiting half an hour in line or five minutes.
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 5 months ago:
It is the standard means of passport control in Europe and UK, just with the passport added, but all by machine. Once they are convinced the biometrics are good enough they’ll do this too to speed things up.
- Comment on OH SHI- 5 months ago:
*structural biologists
The crystallographer is sitting in the beamline control room at the synchrotron swearing about how this person mounts their crystals right against the metal pin
- Comment on Proud globohomo 6 months ago:
“just”