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- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 2 months ago:
don’t speak like the french
- Comment on Coyote 2 months ago:
What the fuck
- Comment on Corn 🌽 2 months ago:
Which person decided to domesticate that thing. Just like “hey I found this weird looking grass fruit wanna enslave it” and chief’s like “hell yeah of course I wanna enslave it!” and then they just ate increasingly beady grass for a few thousand years
- Comment on What if? 2 months ago:
What in the hell is a “Caramel Ribbon Cursetard”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It’s really right in front of us!
- Comment on big bro jupiter 3 months ago:
Well, its mass certainly contributed to it losing heat more efficiently. But Mercury (much smaller than Mars) and Ganymede (around the same size as Mars) both have a magnetic field, so there are a lot of other factors at play. Something to do with a change in the chemical composition of Mars’ mantle, I’m not so familiar with it though.
- Comment on big bro jupiter 3 months ago:
Venus was habitable for about 3 billion years, until about 700 million years ago… it stopped being habitable because of Jupiter.
Considering there’s a good chance Jupiter obliterated an entire planet of living organisms… yea it’s not as nice as it seems
- Comment on ecologists be like 3 months ago:
Violence solves all of our problems
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Really now? I thought most steel had way more carbon & chromium than that. I guess I underestimate how little is needed to make iron no longer mushy.
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy!
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
Tax/fine Google more and give the profits to competitors like Mozilla (as long as those competitors use the funds for Firefox)
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
It would be a pain for developers, but firefox and chrome using a gig of ram to view webpages and play videos is horrendous even with isolated design.
That can’t be helped. Hard to explain well without knowing how much CS you’re familiar with, but basically in order to guarantee security/user safety you have to sandbox each tab (basically running an entirely separate program for each tab), all separately running their own interpreters for javascript/typescript, HTML, CSS, all of which are very resource intensive (mainly javascript/typescript). There’s not really any getting around this, no matter how well you design your browser.
Now, theoretically, with the growing popularity/advances in WebAssembly, and increase in usage of frameworks/graphics APIs like WebGPU, you could completely get rid of what we think of as “sandboxing” and completely get rid of the extremely slow javascript and html/css, in favor of completely using safe, compiled Rust programs. There’s active research using versions of WASM which only accept completely safe code (mainly safe Rust code) so using memory bugs generated from user error to access data in different tabs becomes impossible (aside from potential unaddressed bugs in Rust itself obviously) and you don’t need to sandbox each tab. Then you could potentially have browsers with thousands of tabs perform perfectly fine, assuming each of the websites is programmed competently.
But that’s not going to happen, because billions of users rely on HTML/CSS and JS, and it’s not pretty to transition away from. Getting rid of it would be like getting rid of pointy shoes, or getting rid of US Customary Units in the US, it’s just not happening no matter how much benefit it would bring.
- Comment on On Bears 3 months ago:
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Well for the most part if we want to have a less context-dependent measure, with some caveats – “left” is advocates of a socialist (or communist if you wish to separate them) economic system and social equality, and “right” is advocates of a capitalist or fascist economic system and social hierarchy. Around the center would be where social democrats/capitalists who want strong social safety are, or in other words people who want a mixed-economy/regulated capitalism and are for the most part socially progressive.
Also it’s hard to tell what you mean by “pure libs” but in most of the world that implies extremely free-market capitalist and pro-discrimination under the guise of “free speech” – very to the right. They’re usually called “libertarians” or “ancaps” in the US.
If by “pure lib” you mean a principled American “liberal” then there’s not really much to differentiate that from a social democrat – in practice America’s liberal politicians are either social democrats, or corrupt politicians who suck up to corporate money and stand in the way of social democrats – the latter definitely not being centrists. Same goes for “social liberals”.
Either way there is no chance that democratic socialists are as extremist as national conservatives. Democratic socialists are barely left of social democrats, so much so that social democrats label themselves democratic socialists all the time. The ideology is dependent upon reforming a fundamentally capitalistic system in an attempt to achieve socialism, while more lefty ideologies are focused on forcing the ruling/regressive capitalist class to comply (and some just outright skip to purging all the aristocracy who are anti-worker).
An accurate-ish description may be “socialist” and “syndicalist” vaguely can be anywhere on the left, so 5.5 to 10; “communist” and similar adjectives like “ararcho-communist” encompass 9 to 10; “anarchist” contains ideologies between center and fully left, so 5 to 10 (although most anarchist ideology is very far to the left, a lot of them are communists); “democratic socialist” is 5.5 to 7; “social democrat” is 5; the American “left” is mostly anywhere between 4 and 6 nowadays, although a decade ago it’d be more like 3 to 4.5, with actual social democrats being considered fringe or “extremists”. US “conservativism” (or “conservatism”, pick your poison on the spelling) is pretty much entirely “sounds kinda like fascism” to “fascism” at this point, so 1.5 to 2.5, with some politicians in the faction maybe squeaking it out to 3 or 3.5. Full-blown Nazis are 1. Libertarians/classical liberals are harder to classify in this sort of system, as in practice they’re usually as right-wing and reggressive as American conservatives, but their ideology is theoretically supposed to be more like a 3.5. Ancaps are just straight up 1 to 2.5 though, a complete lack of law applying to corporations & companies in general, being anti-government funding except when it’s military or police (except some of the farthest right of them believe even those should be completely private). They’re on par with fascist in terms of the scale from left to right.
Generally, the American public (or rather, the white majority) hovers at 3 to 4, with younger people being more like 4 to 7.
What’s fucked is most people think of prominent historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela as at a similar position in a political spectrum as American liberals, when in reality they were literally full-blown revolutionary socialists/marxists and belonged to communist organizations. And figures like Gandhi and Orwell were openly reformist socialists. I mean it’s intentional rightwashing by the government to get rid of any and all semblance of left ideology from now-near-legendary people, and it’s not surprising at all, but it’s still fucked. This is the framework of thinking Americans have when they try to categorize ideologies on a left-to-right spectrum; the most leftist historical figures they know that aren’t Stalin or Mao or something are all rightwashed into oblivion, portrayed to be liberal in the American sense, which tricks people into believing the farthest left you can go before you cross the centrist line is Bill Clinton or something.
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
I can’t think of many things you encounter every day that just use straight iron. Only alloys that use iron
- Comment on He really wants to kill that platform lol 3 months ago:
I’m gonna let you know right know, Lemmy isn’t the place for alt-right nutters who had disgusting enough views to get banned from Reddit of all places for being too “right-wing” by their standards. Half of Lemmy is communists and the other half is mostly centrists that at least agree we should have basic social welfare.
Lemmy isn’t exactly politically extremist, but even the relatively right-wing-friendly Lemmy instances (like world) look communist compared to Reddit
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
The calorie used to be the base unit, until we released in the 19th century “wait, heat isn’t a gas” and threw out caloric theory, and made the Joule. Now the calorie is defined as 4.184 Joules.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
of an approximation of a Roman foot in metric*
The Roman foot was between approximately 0.96 and 0.99 British imperial/US customary feet. The modern foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters, by international agreement.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
Trap is a slur, especially used often by weebs. Describing gender non-conforming characters who look feminine as “traps”, including many canonically non-binary characters, is pretty fucked up when you think about it. To them, “traps” and genderqueer people in general are sex objects, not characters with respectable identities. Most of the weebs that throw that word around are also the ones to do trans erasure, like denying that a character is transgender or otherwise gender non-conforming, instead treating any character implied not to be AFAB as a man; and then often ironically going crazy defending it as “not gay” because that’d be bad – there’s a reason “traps aren’t gay” is a meme, and it’s an unironically defended position by these people. They convince themselves it’s not gay by reducing queer people & characters down to sex objects, things to masturbate to, rather than people. If you don’t see them as a person, it’s not gay or immoral, is how they process it. Obviously they won’t say that explicitly if you ask them though.
Now, I’m not saying everyone who’s ever used the word “trap” is a bigot or anything. People use words without realizing the way others see it, and the impact it has. I used it in my weeb phase. But undeniably, “trap” is a slur used to objectify queer people, and it always has been – it originated in 4channers & internet weirdos getting mad over trans people being at gaming events, posting pictures and labelling them “traps” (“they’re trying to trick you into thinking they’re a woman to have sex with them, when they’re really not a woman”). It’s no different than other slurs for queer people (like “fag”). It’s harmful and shouldn’t be used.
- Comment on Science is Magic 3 months ago:
Philosophy is the way we try to assign (semantic) meaning to science/scientific observations.
Does the universe really exist outside of our minds? Is the position of matter actually the position we view it at? What is consciousness? I mean it depends on what you mean by existing, or being in a state, or consciousness. When you break language down far enough it becomes clear that it’s not objective, and it’s entirely suited to each person’s unique subjective understanding and interpretation with the context. Language is definitions all the way down. It doesn’t make sense to use human language to describe the real world objectively, yet we try anyways.
At least, that’s how I feel about philosophy as a linguist and someone who really likes theoretical universe stuff.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
r/TrueUnpopularOpinion, r/TrueOffMyChest, r/GoodAnimemes (that sub was made after r/Animemes mods stated that “trap” was a slur which made a bunch of manchildren angry, so you can immediately guess how much of a hellhole it is)
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
4 out of 330 is quite a lot. Are they tech youtubers or something?
- Comment on Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These 3 months ago:
Drug addiction is a disorder most often caused by some sort of pressure to do drugs. It’s almost never a path someone chooses to take just because. And, obviously, it takes extremely long and an extremely good set of circumstances to escape, you can’t just choose not to have a drug addiction suddenly. “Having a drug addiction some time in the past is his fault so it’s not dystopic that he can’t get basic healthcare” is an extremely ignorant take.
Should diabetes treatment not be accessible to all because a lot of diabetes is partially caused by lifestyle either? Or rather, is your argument that in a capitalist world, which can’t exist without an underclass and people too poor to afford many basic necessities, it’s fine that people who can’t afford healthcare just get fucked and rack up a bunch of debt from the hospital & (in the case of the US) can’t get treatment from doctors/specialists for anything that isn’t immediately life-threatening?
I just want to gauge the line for how much healthcare inaccessibility/insecurity there needs to be, or who can be excluded, for you to accept that it’s dystopic.
- Comment on I still crie evrytiem 3 months ago:
Is there not a comedygraveyard community on Lemmy? !comedygraveyard@lemmy.world
- Comment on What fresh hell is this? 3 months ago:
How dare they
- Comment on And they don't fold well either 3 months ago:
Latex pillow. They do NOT lose shape/consistency at all. Trust me, I bought a latex pillow and I pretty much always use the latex pillow now. I use the larger memory foam pillow when I want a harder/thicker pillow, but otherwise I prefer the latex pillow since I don’t have to worry about constantly fluffing it up or anything. I still flip it around sometimes to get to the cold side of course, but not as much for other pillows. Some people want “ergonomically-shaped” pillows, which have a bump for neck/spine support, and those kinds of latex pillows exist too.
A lot of people swear by buckwheat pillows too. What I can say about them is they’re firm and heavy, they stay cold, they have a smell, and they whisper statistics into your ear when you’re trying to sleep. They’re probably better if you want more neck support.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 3 months ago:
The term AGI has been used for over 2 decades and AI never specifically implied something with human intelligence (maybe in the 40s-50s when it was just being invented, but not after that). “AI” has always refered to things like Siri and the YouTube algorithm and pathfinding AIs and trackers for anti-air systems and whatever else.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 3 months ago:
I mean… it’s pretty compatible with leftist ideologies. Especially a moneyless form of socialism/communism
- Comment on Take a gander at this 4 months ago:
I’d like to pretend I were amused by a pampered white guy doing pampered white guy things and posting “everyone you criticize is hitler!1!!” memes, but it’s hard to do so when I realize I’m talking to someone who actually thinks sexism against women and racism against minorities isn’t real and that straight white men are the “real victims” of racism and feminism.
- Comment on Take a gander at this 4 months ago:
Respectfully, you’re delusional