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- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 23 hours ago:
Its not just intelligence it’s also emotion / trust.
Dumb people don’t distrust scientists without a culture telling them they’re the victims of an elite, and the strongman will save and protect them by attacking their enemies.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 day ago:
If you like novels I highly recommend Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson. It has a moment where Galileo realizes you could “weigh” time, in his experiments with objects rolling down an inclined plane.
- Comment on VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed 1 day ago:
I was curious and found this support.burnerapp.com/…/273-plans-and-pricing
Looks like the cheapest is
- $6.99/Monthly
- $47.99/Yearly
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 1 day ago:
Fuuuuck. This sucks
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 1 day ago:
What did it revert from?
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 2 days ago:
The one on the right, yeah? droid-life.com/…/Android-16-New-Volume-Sliders-76…
Weird!
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 3 days ago:
Wait what.
Can you show a picture?
- Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support 5 days ago:
Plugin or add on? I guess I’ll have to search it
- Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support 5 days ago:
How?
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 5 days ago:
I like podcasts
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 1 week ago:
Same. I like that it is hard to go viral. It feels more like people talking and less like influencers( although there are some.)
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 1 week ago:
That’s fine. The friction of typing in the person’s name to harass them from the screenshot does deter some people, it turns out.
- Comment on VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed 1 week ago:
What happened with hushed? Did they cancel your lines or change them to monthly?
- Comment on VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed 1 week ago:
I just learned about one but I forget what it was called. It was like a Google voice replacement.
I’ll have to try and find itin Lemmy and then edit my comment.
- Comment on Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption 1 week ago:
I guess it is going to award contracts to AI companies.
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 1 week ago:
IRC rules! I just made a new channel to discuss degoogling – come by and say hi! web.libera.chat/##degoogle
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 1 week ago:
Isn’t this jack Dorsey’s bullshit?
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
There are laws. They are called the right of way. I will not argue further with someone who is unable to incorporate new information.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Go for it
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
You are framing the situation such that the jaywalker is endangering themselves and other road users by ignoring the rules of the road that keep everyone safe. “Jaywalking” does not refer to pedestrians as a whole, only the people committing the act of jaywalking.
This is simply miskaken. At the time the term was invented, the streets were for pedestrians. There were natually no laws or norms saying people shouldnt walk in the street. Car companies waged a campaign to kick pedestrians out. If we can’t agree on this basic fact, I am not sure how to continue the discussion.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Why do you think it’s not?
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Oh I remember that now. IIRC it was in rock creek which the locals do, even if it is not healthy. Not a good look for the secretary of health.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
The words people use influences public opinion and the bottom line of corporations such as Ford and Google.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
The time is 1900. There are no traffic laws. A car almost runs into a dude.
If you say, “that car is dangerous” you are correct, and society tends towards making laws that protect pedestrians.
If you say “that person is jaywalking” you are framing the situation such that the car has more of a right to be there than the person. Maybe you think that cars are modern. “The wave of the future.” This is the incorrect framing. We have seen how much of a mistake this was.
Some places like the Netherlands have been undoing the damage, rectifying the error in urban design.
We are downtown because that was the context in which the term “jaywalking” was invented. To kick pedestrians out of their own downtown.
We’re talking about the supposed use of the word “jaywalking” implying that all pedestrians are to blame for collisions
Maybe that’s what you’re talking about. The rest of us are talking about how “jaywalking” was coined to make a normal behavior (people walking around their city) seem wrong. That is why so many people are telling you to listen to what they’re saying.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Why would you want to call it sideloading when you’re not loading from the side? It’s just doing what Google wants you to do.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Doctor can mean different things to different people.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Installing software without a store was just called installing software.
Sideloading is when you download from the side, e.g. downloading software from a separate device instead of from the internet or physical media.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
It’s a bad comparison because some people do take the medicine to get the side effects. For example taking benadryl to fall asleep.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
- You could blame the pedestrian, but it would be incorrect. A pedestrian is more vulnerable and harmless than a vehicle, and arguably has more of a reason to be traveling through the downdown of a city on foot than the vehicle does.
When cars began taking over streets making it dangerous for the people there, and auto makers lobbied to make cities more car centric, it made the cities way worse.
Imagine for a moment if in the model t days, the dangerous vehicle was held responsible and regulated instead of the people walking. We would have walkable cities today and cars wouldn’t be allowed to take over.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
I did not know pasturized breastmilk was a commodity product.
