yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 8 hours ago:
I just read it from the Wikipedia page. Their site doesn’t have a lot of info other than a white paper
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 day ago:
You overstate your case, several firms are already at various stages. Wright Electric is working on a >500km range passenger craft for easyJet right now. That won’t be able to fill every role, but a worthwhile number of them to be sure.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 day ago:
Battery electric aeroplanes aren’t as far off as you might think, but you’re technically correct that they don’t currently exist.
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2011-11-12 3 days ago:
Wait, 2011? When did Dresden Codak do this joke?
- Comment on It was a surprise for sure 4 days ago:
They do that, it’s nothing
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 4 days ago:
I only said it is necessary - not whether it was present.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 5 days ago:
Both. Any time radicals get their own safe space, they use it to create an echo chamber. You need open dialogue and town square areas on the internet that have a good mix of people and quality, politically impartial moderation.
- Comment on If only 6 days ago:
Come on though, if you had to see people dressed like this every day you might snap too
- Comment on Nuclear fusion would be a clean-energy game changer. How close is it to being a reality? 1 week ago:
Oh shit lmfao
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 1 week ago:
Goth is when frown
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
I’m sure there must be. There are enough tech geeks kicking about that at least one of them would give their weird self-hosted LLM an account. Hopefully nothing too malicious or widespread, but it’s well within the realm of possibility.
- Comment on More than 60 Labour MPs urge Starmer to back under-16s social media ban 1 week ago:
I like the sound of a form of social media that has no anonymity (but only for those in power such as mods and admins, anonymity being a proven handicap that levels the playing field for younger people) and integrates directly with a real community. No matter what we do, it’s important to remember that we’re tinkering with the actual fabric of society, and the more we try to control and limit people, the weaker that fabric will become. Better moderation and more oversight of people in positions of power is always going to be preferable to limiting expression and demanding more from the most vulnerable people in society.
- Comment on Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal 1 week ago:
Captain Dathon, his references unheeded
- Comment on Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal 1 week ago:
Locked in for Breentry
- Comment on Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal 1 week ago:
Squidward, staring from his window 🇬🇧
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
I dunno, I can only think of sad and useless examples like Patty Hearst.
I guess Smedley Butler. Hard to find examples of prominent leaders though. Social dominators really prefer authoritarian followers over us obstreperous thinky-feely types.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
I honestly feel a little privileged to have witnessed it.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
I have an actual degree in psychology that I am currently using exclusively to label Trump as having a personality disorder, thank you very much.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
A narcissist excels at vaguely indicating how great things might be if they got their way.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
It would be the least convincing yet most welcome heel-face turn of the century tbh
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That can’t be my problem, you know? It’s just me and this dirty ass air fryer on a mission.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
He thinks we are a problem. We had better prove him right.
- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 1 week ago:
Authoritarian followers love to justify violence. It’s just what they do.
- Comment on If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience... 1 week ago:
Exactly, everyone feels like they sound weird. Except me, I do just sound weird.
- Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975? 1 week ago:
not to be argumentative
Genuinely makes me happy to see friendly touches like this.
- Comment on NHS ADHD spending over budget by £164m as unregulated clinics boom 2 weeks ago:
People with ADHD are a massively under-reported casualty of the war on drugs. Can’t cope with the demands of modern life? Too bad, the enemy wants your meds!
We had to go with a private diagnosis for my son because the schools won’t play ball. Even now they’re stonewalling the assessor who just needs their input to make the diagnosis official. Our boy has always been at his best in the classroom due to being the biggest extrovert in the family, so he hasn’t struggled with lessons enough yet to warrant any of their vanishingly thin SEND provision.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a tried and true method. Mine can’t really listen to anything long winded that isn’t terribly exciting, or somehow related to Minecraft.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Do you have any kids’ media literacy edu content you like?
- Comment on Good News: Study Shows That Most Men Are Not Toxic 2 weeks ago:
We have only had the concept for, depending on when you start the clock, either the 80s or the 00s. It’d be interesting to have a longitudinal study to track how society is shaping up over time.
Side-eyes at the methodology here though. Some odd choices on display. “Anti-LGBT moderate”? I think you’re spot on about the motivated choices.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 weeks ago:
I was treating the exercise as “certainties we held a decade or more ago”.