Saleh
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Is that aspect taught in school properly?
Because i mostly remember the teachers telling me to shut up (at best) if i questioned the veracity of what they were teaching. I also got thrown out of math class for saying the method of the teacher is more complicated than what is needed.
Exams are designed so that you regurgitate mostly what you have been told. Maybe you get lucky to have a good teacher in the humanities who is open to individual thoughts and teaches how to think about things critically. Most of the time it is “here is the official and only correct interpretation of event X, place Y, article Z…”
School for the largest part leaves no space to teach about ambiguity and evolving knowledge. Even if the curriculum allows for it, the class size usually doesn’t.
Which brings me back to my thesis. People criticizing the changed status of Pluto are feeling betrayed by school.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Well, someone said this was knowledge important to have in general education, so people learned it in school.
Now people are told what they learned in school is either wrong, or not important, so they shouldn’t concern themselves with it.
This raises some important implications about education and its purposes and the role of schooling in manufacturing consent in Democracies, the question of how much an individual should trust the state and so on.
If you cannot express or understand these properly or if they contradict other core ideological believes of you, ending up with arguing about Pluto rather than these issues, is normal.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 1 day ago:
You joke, but western governments regularly pull the “our surveillance is good because we aren’t an authoritarian regime” trope.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 2 days ago:
Wildfires and floods support each other.
As the green burns down it can help less with water retention and slowing down the surface runoff or stabilizing slopes through the roots.
As the floodings uproot trees or kill them in stagnant areas with prolonged suffocation of the roots, the dead trees dry quicker and become more susceptible to fire.
Climate catastrophe is fun.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 days ago:
We could increase the training requirements and oversight. We could design road-networks in a way that makes speeding more difficult and enact stricter speed limits.
Whenever these measures are taking in an area they greatly reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 days ago:
There is no legitimate reason why trains or cars should be more dangerous modes of transport than flights. It is just that the lobbies for cars and capitalist train operations successfully desensitized everyone to it, so “deadly car crash” is just shrugged away. In the US we see similar attempts to make planes less safe and just accept the numbers of people killed in preventable events.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests 3 days ago:
Because the company being complicit in serious crimes against humanity and war crimes is a work related issue. You know like your boss demanding you to be an accomplice in a crime is a work related issue. If we lived in a world where there would be a rule of law thousands of Microsoft Employees would face life imprisonment for being complicit in mass murder.
Calling this out is definitely work related.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 3 days ago:
On that level you often only have two, one or sometimes no candidate.
There is no need to enforce a more complicated system that needs to be explained to everyone, risks more people accidentally voting different than they wanted or invalidating their vote by misunderstanding the rules.
I have helped with elections in Germany where the parliament has two votes. One for the local candidate FPTP and one for a party, where the parties proportional rates are then assembled in the parliament. I had to explain people the votes and what they do all the time. Because the two votes are on one paper it is a mess to count, as you can’t just stack them easily because of the possible combinations.
When it gets to state and national levels having proportional systems for parliaments and ranked choice for single candidates i am all for it. But there is no point in pushing for a more complicated system for smaller elections.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 3 days ago:
FPTP is fine in many small scale applications. How should a town of 5,000 people elect their mayor otherwise?
- Comment on ‘It’s real y’all’: People are sharing their tariff receipts, and my wallet is not ready for what’s coming 6 days ago:
Depending on how much money you throw at it and how much support you get by the government in dealing with regulatory processes, moving existing complex plants could take 2-5 years. Add another 1-2 years if you start from scratch. However when starting from scratch you have to do the same in other places too, so the relative time loss gets smaller.
Fact is some megacorporations already announced that they want to invest into manufacturing in the US because of tariffs. It will not offset the broader impact but help Trump sell his tariffs as a success.
- Comment on Lemmy feels less anonymous than Reddit, because there are less users and its easier to be remembered. Similar to a small town where everyone knows each other. 1 week ago:
Even without usernames. There is some people i recognize by topic, opinion and the way they express themselves.
- Comment on Love this 1 week ago:
Henry Kissinger…
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
Fuck Microsoft. They enshittify everything and they support a genocide by helping to select targets to murder. No game is worth supporting this.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 1 week ago:
If you already have a PC, no matter how old and shoddy, you will be able to run games on it and become a PC gamer. There was no investment hurdle in 2020, while you need a console to become a console gamer, so you need to buy one first. Most people do have a PC for non gaming uses anyways.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 1 week ago:
AFAIK they would remain tied to your old account. The instances copy everything off each other. So if reddthat.com would go down, your comment would still show as EndlessNightmare@reddthath.com If you were to make a new account on a different instance it would not have your posts and comments “attached” to it.
This could be an issue if you rely on reputation for something that is tied to your account. In that sense having some mechanism to proof the old account to be owned by you would be good.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 1 week ago:
You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren’t summed up by default in lemmy anyways.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 1 week ago:
I think the jump is more Covid related than having to do with any of the other consoles.
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 1 week ago:
Loans for consumer products should be outlawed. Nothing good ever comes out of them.
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 1 week ago:
Sweden is one of the main exporters of Neoliberalism outside of its own borders.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 week ago:
Yeah, but Palantir is based on using AI in Saudi Arabia to execute people for being gay. Proof? The computer said so.
And in any other country it boils down to variations of that principle. Justify oppression, discrimination, torture and murder by the “impartial” decision of the computer algorithm fine tuned to make exactly that decision.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 week ago:
I have a question. Everyone keeps speaking of the “tech” sector. Does that only refer to IT or does it cover engineers as well? Because in Europe it seems they keep struggling to get enough people with IT knowledge into engineering projects.
- Comment on Sad I'm no longer a Catholic, seeing how rad the new Pope is 2 weeks ago:
You joke with the kebab but a catholic priest got charged two days ago with the claim that he smuggled hash into a prison in Germany inside a kebab.
www1.wdr.de/…/katholischer-seelsorger-drogenschmu…
A Catholic prison chaplain allegedly tried to smuggle drug sachets wrapped in kebabs into Heinsberg Prison in 2022.
From August, the Catholic prison chaplain will have to answer to the Geilenkirchen district court. The case concerns over 140 grams of hashish that was hidden in several kebabs by unknown persons in a fast food restaurant. He wanted to bring them to a group lesson with the prisoners. Not the first smuggling operation
The man had already attracted attention twice before because he had tried to smuggle in cell phones and charging cables, for example. The drugs alone - according to the public prosecutor’s office - had a black market price of 2,000 euros. The former Catholic priest is facing a prison sentence of at least one year.
He was “irrevocably released” by the Aachen diocese after the incident.
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- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
If corporate enshittification is the reason for you to skip on the switch, giving any more money to Microsoft doesn’t make sense either.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is kept from taking additional education if they want to, like you did. But the general education should be from school and school education needs to define the standard of what everyone should know or should at least have known at some point so he or she can refresh upon it.
If you make it mandatory to make academic education contain every subject like school did, you will end up with programs taking 20 years instead of 5 years to graduate.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 2 weeks ago:
That is a very broad generalization. First of all inflation is not just some co-product of economic activity. It has specific reasons. An economy is not stagnant because the oil price sinks after geopolitical tensions ease. An economy is not stagnant because businesses are kept from price gouging in cartels or monopoly situations.
Also “stagnant” is not inherently bad. The reason why we need economic growth is because the super rich are siphoning off more and more wealth, so economic growth is the only thing keeping poor people from revolting. A zero growth or even degrowth economy could serve the people very well, if wealth wouldn’t be hoarded away by select few.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 2 weeks ago:
Why? Idiots thinking they know more than they do won’t be stopped by this. Also if we wanted to round humanities and liberal arts by making it mandatory to pass analysis, linear algebra, organic chemistry and classical physics would just lead to much more people not graduating anything.
School is for a general education. Academia is for specialization.
- Comment on Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration 2 weeks ago:
Ethics? Trump? The companies stock price has almost quadroupled over the past year. Since Trumps election it nearly doubled.
Everyone who knows the company knows that it serves to aid authoritarian regimes in oppressing its people. It is known that Palantir serves Israel in its genocide and oppression of the Palestinian people. The entire purpose of this company is to help oppress. Palantir is having ties with the ICE since at least 2014.
It is evil through and through and it is laughable to claim that Trump would be the reason why the company would have gone to far.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 2 weeks ago:
LMAO
- Comment on OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company 2 weeks ago:
A maximum of 10,000% profit is “nonprofit”? Any country that allows for something like this is a joke.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 2 weeks ago:
He could just take another form of transportation. There is no public records of cars driven or train tickets purchased.
He could even fly with normal airlines so there would be no public record of his flight.