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- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 3 days ago:
downvote proponents are just saying, “Yeah, well my way is better. Lemmy is only for people who do it my way.”
If anything you’re the one being obtuse and saying your way is better and that people must adapt to your way. Downvotes are the default behaviour of the software and the “reddit-like” experience of Lemmy
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 3 days ago:
Looks like your comment is receiving downvotes just fine…
Maybe this thread is a lesson in how downvotes have a purpose and why instances turning them off is silly puritanical nonsense that serves to aid bad content more than anything else it purports to achieve.
- Comment on Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes 5 weeks ago:
There’s around 30 million homes in the UK. So this would cover 40% of homes in the whole country!
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 1 month ago:
Nuclear energy is a con
It’s just a cover for making their bombs
And it sends people to an early grave
So we want the power of the wind and the wavesHarness the wind
Harness the waves
We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste
Solar power - yet another alternative
Think of the boundless energy the sun has to give
Then there’s hydro-electricity with turbines and dams
And we can cut our consumption with conservation programmesHarness the wind
The sun the waves
We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste
The civil atomic energy programmes is nothing but an elaborate cover-up for the real use of nuclear power namely the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
We call for an end to the nuclear power programmes and properly funded research into renewable sources of energyHarness the wind
The sun the waves
We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste - Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 1 month ago:
I think this song epitomises what rafoix replied with
Safety rules - corners cut
Just to keep the profits up
Money saved - profits rise
But consequence is someone diesVictim of a chemical spillage
Safety regulations breached
Critical concentrations reached
Money is saved but a live is lost
Loved ones left to count the costTanker crashing the village
Death could from the spillage
No escape from the fumes
Peoples’ homes become their tombsIn the face of corporate greed
Ecodefence is what we need
Read and act upon this text
Or you become the next victim of a chemical spillage - Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 months ago:
To clarify, when knowone says “that’s not a fun time” they don’t mean “oh it tastes bad”. They mean it’s really not a fun time, avoid going anywhere near giant hogweed!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
NSFL (if you’re squeemish):
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 months ago:
How to harvest, dry, and make tea with nettles:
If you have arthritis or hayfever they’ve been shown to help with that. Science has confirmed the old wives tales traditional herbal remedy works for this one. Not as effectively as modern medicine of course but if it’s all you can afford, or whatever, then something is better than nothing.
- Comment on Speak American 8 months ago:
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 9 months ago:
- Comment on The after party 9 months ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Under_the_Sign_of_the_Black_Mark
This is from Bathory’s third album artwork, if only it was from the previous album, it’s called “The Return…”
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 9 months ago:
Shares of the vote in general elections since 1832 received by Conservatives[note 1] (blue), Liberals/Liberal Democrats[note 2] (orange), Labour (red) and others (grey)[1][2][3]
The Conservatives forming from a split in the Liberal party doesn’t mean they’re the same thing.
Labour and Liberal Democrats are two very different parties. Or at least they used to be, until New Labour became a thing…
Our politics are bad, FPTP is bad, but we’re not a 2 party system entirely. The Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, and Reform all manage to have a say in politics and how things are done. They all influence Labour and the Conservatives.
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 10 months ago:
I can see the Labour Party coming to power in the next election - maybe, maybe not - who knows? But it doesn’t really make a difference who’s in power - the State remains the same, the structure is still there, they just tinker with it a little here and there.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 10 months ago:
Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor, yeah
- Comment on Canadians could face detention if denied U.S. entry, Ottawa warns 10 months ago:
The cruelty is the point
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 10 months ago:
I think you’re forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professionally environments are to adopt it.
Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.
Don’t let perfect get in the way of good!
- Comment on here, have another insult to life itself 10 months ago:
Monetise or propagandise?
Both. It’s probably both.
