frightful_hobgoblin
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- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 2 days ago:
It’s more realistic when the boycotters have a specific demand, e.g. getting the company to divest from Israel.
Then the boycott just has to do them more damage than quitting Israel would.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 days ago:
Honey can expire if not stored right.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 3 days ago:
Ok, I will pass this on to them.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 3 days ago:
That $5 million isn’t for you
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- Comment on Towards a World Wide Web powered by generative AI. 1 week ago:
Haha this is like bait for lemmings
- Comment on Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months, Scientists Suggest 1 week ago:
Ok cool
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 2 weeks ago:
Is there an anti-golf comm?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This you, OP?
- Comment on Onesimus was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston by teaching the variolation method of inoculation 4 months ago:
- Onesimus was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston by teaching the variolation method of inoculationen.wikipedia.org ↗Submitted 4 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Am I The Asshole? How judging other people’s dirty laundry became the internet’s favourite pastime. 5 months ago:
was in 1990s tv too
- Comment on Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets 5 months ago:
Yeah but it won’t taste the way it used to
- Comment on Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets 5 months ago:
Yes, July the 19th was a sad day
- Comment on It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised ones 5 months ago:
The exponential relationship is between speed and energy, rather than height and speed.
- Comment on It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised ones 5 months ago:
They use steel more effectively, but use other resources like wind, land, labor, and electronics less effectively, and all of which are harder to recycle
Wind is a renewable resource. Saying wind is not easy to recycle is incoherent.
As for less labour-efficient, I’d’ve thought that’s part of solarpunk: being less capital-intensive/more labour-intensive.
- It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised onessolar.lowtechmagazine.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 7 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 6 comments
- Comment on Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else 7 months ago:
It’s about fragility
- Comment on The dictionary is more useful than Urban Dictionary 7 months ago:
Because you can use it in both the country and the city
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Depends on culture and stuff.
depends on income level tbh (because that influences amount of space and number of beds)
- Comment on Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks 8 months ago:
they invented those too afaik
- Comment on Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? 8 months ago:
this is the most blatant overblown reaction ever.
correct take
- Comment on Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? 8 months ago:
she begin asking a series of pointed questions: “What would you do if you found out that I was gone?”, “What would you do if the CCTV on our street is broken by chance?”, “What would you tell my mother if I went missing?”, “If I was actually kidnapped, would you kill the guy for me?”
Yeah these sound like tests.
- Comment on If you're thinking about something and reach a conclusion that's super outside the mainstream, you could be right, but also could mean you should reinspect your assumptions. 8 months ago:
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
When people speak of the ideas that revolutionise society, they do but express that fact that within the old society the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.
When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie. The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge.
- Comment on Just... a little...... farther 8 months ago:
what a good little bit of art
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 8 months ago:
The new testament stories were written well over a hundred years after
Not right. These were written 20 to 30 years after: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle (“Fourteen of the 27 books in the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to Paul. Seven of the Pauline epistles are undisputed by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder.”)
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 8 months ago:
What do you think of what Ehrman says here at 1h45m25s that the mythicist theory isn’t taken seriously by the academy because it’s mostly pushed by people who seem eager to dunk on religion: invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=GzjYmpwbHEA&listen=1
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 8 months ago:
But at what cost???