TankovayaDiviziya
@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 hours ago:
It is easy to very feel disillusioned with the world, but it is important to remember that there are still good people all around willing to fight the good fight. And it is also important to remember that technology is not inherently bad, it is a neutral object, but people could use it for either good or bad purposes.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 17 hours ago:
Well, aren’t we all stubborn when it comes to doing new things?
My guess is that it will be younger people who will go to Lemmy (like Reddit before had been).
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 17 hours ago:
It takes time, bud.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 3 days ago:
You do realise that poorer people tend to have more children, especially in developing countries? But even then, these countries are gradually developing and their population growth is also slowing down thanks to more education and growing economy. The more educated people are, the more likely they will think first and plan before having a family. Educated people also have higher social mobility with higher disposable income, and likely try to enjoy more themselves than settle down as quickly as possible. So economic factor is a consideration with the slow down on population growth, but not the way you think it does.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 3 days ago:
Just because there are outliers, it does not mean the whole trend is represented by it. That is to say, the population growth is already slowing down and may even decline after it plateaus. Education and access to contraception works.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 4 days ago:
The overall human population is actually slowing down and expected to plateau by 2050. Who would have thought that the more educated the population is, the less likely they are going to have tons of babies.
It is now the opposite, actually. Governments now want people to have more babies! But seriously, in this economy? And the future of the earth is not even certain it will be habitable for our descendants!
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 4 days ago:
It is suspension of disbelief, that somehow, there was only one practical solution to defeat Thanos. And they do not involve Thor going after his head, or Thanos educating the population of the universe about family planning and contraception.
ThanosWasRight is just a meme. Thanos could have gone for the latter option but his faux concern about overpopulation is a cover for his egomania.
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- Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' 1 week ago:
Normally, I see any news on government blocking social media for any stated reasons as typically a cover for censorship. But with how Facebook and other social media morphed into something else, I could not care less if they are blocked.
- Comment on If you think that you are always right remember you could actually be stupid and not know it 1 week ago:
I am of different opinion that these folks know they are wrong, but are too egotistic to admit it.
I was taught at an early age to accept mistakes, learn from it and move on. Now I have grown older, I realised that not many people know this, and society also stigmatises someone making mistakes. I think some people refuse to admit to be wrong because either they are too egotistic to accept and learn, or doubling down assertively on the wrong belief as a defensive mechanism from potential public humiliation.
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 2 weeks ago:
It makes sense. They were dealing with lots of protests during the 1960’s and 70’s. They definitely don’t want more dissidents.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 3 weeks ago:
Say what you will about Will Smith, but his movie iRobot made a good point about this 17 years ago.
(damn I’m old)
- Comment on Hate crimes 3 weeks ago:
Commenter said that white people are closeted racists.
As a left leaning poc, I see these stupid comments that only white people are racists; men are all mysoginists; cisgenders are hateful, etc. Instead of actually building bridges, these morons engage in the same hateful rhetoric that bigoted individuals from traditionally privileged groups do. You don’t fight fire with fire. No wonder we are seeing right wing counter culture.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 3 weeks ago:
“Vote with your wallets” is a common expression among Americans after all.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 3 weeks ago:
TFW when I rarely use Amazon anyway.
- Comment on Hate crimes 4 weeks ago:
This is why the far-right is on the rise because of stupid takes like this.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
It probably depends what you’re looking for, but I find DDG to have fewer up-to-date results than Google.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
Leta acts as a proxy to Google and Brave search
Great! As much as I love DDG, Google is unfortunately still superior and I had no choice but to suck it up and use the latter from time to time. If I could use Google by way of proxy to preserve privacy, then this is great news!
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 4 weeks ago:
You would get unsolicited advise for just about anywhere, not just job advise.
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 4 weeks ago:
My parents thought having a degree alone will land you a job. By the time I graduated, the paradigm had shifted and interviewers are asking if I had any previous work experience to prove that I have good work ethic. Problem is, growing up, my parents never allowed me to work so I never had anything to show for. Even after graduation, they advised me getting any jobs “underneath” me. It took awhile before I went against my parents advise and finally getting a job related to my degree. The trails of bad advise did not even stop at job-seeking but that will be another long story.
In any case, I realised that my parents are a bunch of insecure nouveau riche (they grew up poor and I can sense they have hint of elitism now that they moved up the socioeconomic ladder) who did not set me up for life well. I told myself I won’t listen to them and rail against them giving me any more advise. I think they realised their mistakes a bit too late now.
- Comment on Pardon???? 4 weeks ago:
The pandemic had been a bane to my personal life. But on the one hand, it forced me to stay with my folks for a little while and it proved to be smart in hindsight because I made huge savings before finally moving out of home.
- Comment on Pardon???? 4 weeks ago:
It is only going to get worse kiddo, if you think 5 years is a long time ago.
Sincerely,
A millenial
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 4 weeks ago:
I totally forgot it exists, meaning I thought it was already dead.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 5 weeks ago:
That is what I noticed. Everything these days require app to get shopping vouchers, book tickets, go in to your local gym, pay in store (we are being weaned off from using cash) etc.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 1 month ago:
Can you fix my boiler?
- Comment on the definitive proof that you weren't your parent's favorite 1 month ago:
What’s that?
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 1 month ago:
Remember kids, this is why you still need money. This is literally how the Soviet Union collapsed and why China today became a state capitalist.
- Comment on French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI 1 month ago:
Serious question and not trying to be funny, but how is AI going to solve climate change? We already know the answer, but the world is too greedy to do anything about it. As a matter of fact, AI will worsen climate change since more power is needed for it to write couple of sentences.
- Comment on The extremely rich would rather not have another Einstein unless they knew they could control them and it wouldn't hurt the bottom line. 1 month ago:
“Socialise the cost. Privatise the profit.”
Much of the research comes from the public sector, especially universities. But business tycoons act like they are the ones who invented something from scratch and took all the risk to commercialise the idea.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
I use m4a format simply because my downloader uses that format. But I think m4a sound quality is better than mp3.