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- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 1 week ago:
I remember calling someone in another country was super expensive but you could predial some super long numbers which made it cheaper somehow
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
You realize most people live paycheck to paycheck? Nobody wants to tell their kids they’re going to be homeless.
People have to realize the alternative is having their kids growing up in a fascist regime, where they can be murdered on the streets without consequences simply because some “regime official” is having a bad day.
I am not saying its easy but it won’t get easier when people don’t act now. In the end stage people trying to resist the regime will be insta killed or worse. Now you still can talk to like minded people and organize. Tell them you want to strike but are afraid of the consequences, maybe they will offer help.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
As far as I understood it’s supposed to be a one day strike but repeating every friday which is a great way to build up the necessary momentum.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
I am happy to hear it’s supposed to be a regular thing. This can lead to great momentum. Reminds me of fridays for future which became a huge worldwide movement (sadly disrupted and essentially killed by Covid).
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
Yeah, I guess they have to start somehow.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
But even in Europe you can get backlash for it especially in a very small business. That’s why it only really works when its organised and everyone is participating.
- Comment on Deep Time 1 week ago:
What about this?
- Comment on Real and True 1 week ago:
#7 is pretty common for radiologists
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
I guess the sunken cost fallacy does its part as well
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Eeh didn’t you pay attention in economy 101? If you generate more supply than demand that’s a you problem. The free market will take care.
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 weeks ago:
Who am I to know who I am?
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 2 weeks ago:
Or…I could just continue not using google.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
The rumor is he had PR people (which he fired at some point) probably doing stuff like this for him with exactly this goal to make him look like Tony Stark or a pretty cool dude who wants to advance science.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 weeks ago:
The only thing I can think of:
- Comment on The Road to Quantum Teleportation 4 weeks ago:
But this is about quantum entanglement isn’t it?
- Comment on The Road to Quantum Teleportation 4 weeks ago:
And just to be clear, this cannot be used to move information faster than the speed of light, ever.
Why not?
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
More like civil war
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 5 weeks ago:
It’s some 20 years ago I played it but I don’t remember it as being futuristic at all? Seemed like a normal city to me or what am I missing?
- Comment on Ska ftw 5 weeks ago:
world is broken let’s act accordingly
- Comment on Ska ftw 5 weeks ago:
Metal: world is broken and so are we.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
(in our current socioeconomic system)
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
…due to our socioeconomic system.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
PokemonFamilyFriendlyWorkingConditionsAndFreeDaycare?
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 1 month ago:
Having small children it’s even more obvious to me how the environment in the first 2 years shapes you. Just look at learning how to speak. Every baby is able to produce every vocal sounds but later in life will only be able to produce the ones it learned in early life.
And speaking itself is even more obvious. Just by being in a certain environment a baby learns to speak a certain language which also shapes how we think and feel.
And this only are the observable things. The environment also shapes the formation of the babys ego and all the other badic psychological functions.
And all this happens without us remembering it (because there is no independent psychological entity before. It is when and how the “I” is formed which then can have memories).
On the other hand though it became also obvious that babies already have different personalities (or rather tendencies), so I guess it really is 50/50 when it comes to nurture vs nature.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 1 month ago:
Awesome. These days I had this thought about what if after we die we experience everything we did to other people out of their perspective. But this is much better.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 1 month ago:
I am pretty sure you can only get enlightened as a human being, so being reborn as something else definitely won’t help.
- Comment on Viruses are millennia-old nanobots from ancient aliens that went astray over time with their corrupted replication-programming 1 month ago:
I can recommend you this book which reminds me of this idea.
- Comment on Construction magic 1 month ago:
I was asking myself this as there were several construction sites in my area with cranes appearing and disappearing all the time until I did catch them!
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
Wait there are new games coming out still? I thought everyone was just working on their pile of shame.
