HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on New Housebuilding in the UK Held Back by Pollution from Factory Farms 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but the current polluters don’t have a vested interest in fixing their problem to allow for new housing.
A mandate to require new development to meet a standard on sewage would be more productive than an outright ban.
- Comment on New Housebuilding in the UK Held Back by Pollution from Factory Farms 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Factory farming is causing issues and the solution is to ban building homes?
- Comment on Nicaragua OKs reform to boost powers of president, wife 5 weeks ago:
WTF?
Also, co-president to an unelected position?
- Comment on China's record-high college graduates face economic uncertainty 5 weeks ago:
I’m not surprised. The fallout from the property collapse is still going through China and the national government has planned out a next phase for development to focus on fewer industries.
- Comment on Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of 5 weeks ago:
Is Bluesky decentralized in any meaningful way? If the company dies, could the service live on?
- Comment on 'Agriculture is dying': French farmers protest EU-Mercosur deal 5 weeks ago:
I’m not that surprised. French farmers hate competition.
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 1 month ago:
There would be no merit at all.
I’m sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.
If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn’t as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 1 month ago:
Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 1 month ago:
I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.
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- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 1 month ago:
It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.
- Comment on Somebody has a case of the Mondays... 1 month ago:
There is significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.
- Comment on Bradward Boimler is actually a deceased USS Pegasus Ensign. Prove me wrong! 1 month ago:
William Boimler got sent back in time by Riker to ensure the Pegasus Incident occurred according to schedule.
- Comment on Is there any reason to use the "new" sorting option on Lemmy, except to filter spam? 1 month ago:
Now, not really. In the future, I expect subscribed new to be more important as content becomes more abundant and there might be a point where you could miss out on posts that didn’t see the kind of engagement to make it on your stream.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 1 month ago:
But do you need to slow it down all the way? Can’t you just slow it down enough to get the ball in an elliptical orbit where the trash ball gets very close to the ball of plasma?
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 1 month ago:
But does it matter what speed the garbage is going at when it hits the sun?
- Comment on Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis? 2 months ago:
A lot of American municipalities have banned a lot of the cheap and small apartments that could house working people. Offer it as an option; it seems better than sleeping on the streets.
- Comment on Distribution 2 months ago:
I’m saying boo-urns.
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 2 months ago:
The only state this would be viable in is California. As the state won’t invest in desalinization to provide water for coastal areas, I doubt it will desalinate and pump the water up.
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 2 months ago:
There are two types of early voting.
For in person voting, the local election board opens up fewer voting locations before the election. If approved, you can vote there and then instead. A lot of states eliminated any requirements to early voting after Covid.
For mail-in voting, the ballot gets mailed through USPS to voters. The ballots are usually supplied with an envelope with a way to verify identity, usually with signature. From there, the voter has the option to either mail the ballot back or directly deliver it to specific drop boxes.
- Comment on Is my reaction weird? 2 months ago:
Natural reaction, but also it is good that you weren’t trying to be a creep in that situation.
- Comment on Wagon Train to the Stars 2 months ago:
It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.
- Comment on Why didn't the Discovery show-runners believe in the Federation? 2 months ago:
The idea of a Federation collapse went back to Gene Roddenberry, who wrote the basics of a story of a Federation starship that got pushed forward through time to a post-Federation future with the goal of rebuilding the Federation.
The first iteration of that idea was Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda. Kevin Sorbo ruined that series.
They did better with the idea the second time around.
- Comment on Femboy or FEM-boy 2 months ago:
Posts like this make me sick.
Goddamn doctors shoving finite element models down our throats like every little problem requires a 3D mesh and complicated boundary conditions.
Not all our problems are that complicated.
- Comment on Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC - "we try to find a middle ground" 2 months ago:
The best idea seems to be incorporating old DLC into the base game at a certain point while maintaining a higher price floor for the base game. That way, you can sell a more complete base game and maintenance between different versions becomes streamlined.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 2 months ago:
It sounds like a combination of Covid years being bad for student development combined with school districts on shoestring budgets not having enough teachers on hand done they can’t get enough teachers to take a vow of poverty.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 2 months ago:
Depends on the job, but it would be a red flag for my career as projects usually last for at least a year.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You’re like that kinky statistician, you need more than standard deviancy.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 2 months ago:
the tech space is very much innovate or die
Is it still? The VC funding has started drying up and every tech company has started worrying about profitability now. I think the old innovate or die mantra has played itself out.
And IBM & Motorola diminished in part because they stuck to older industries where cost became as important as innovation and didn’t lower their cost.