aleph
@aleph@lemm.ee
- Comment on Baltimore bridge blown up in controlled demolition 4 days ago:
Grace Ocean and Synergy filed a petition on April 1 in Maryland federal court to limit their liability from the crash. If the court grants it, the companies’ liability could be limited to the present value of the ship, which they estimated to be $42.5 million, according to the petition. Source
Which would leave the tax payer footing the bill for the remaining $1.46B cost of reconstruction. Classic.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
That’s true if you’re only talking about what was once called ‘natural philosophy’, but there are still many areas where philosophy and physics don’t really overlap - ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, language, existentialism, etc.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 week ago:
It’s probably worth mentioning that an “arranged marriage” can mean anything from when two families agree to marry off their children without their children’s consent, to when families play match-maker and set their children up on dates but their children get the final say.
I’m India, for example, you get both, with the former being more common in conservative rural areas and the latter more common in urban and middle-class areas. So it’s not a one-size-fits-all situation.
- Comment on Siphonophorae are natures little horrors. 2 weeks ago:
I read that in Werner Herzog’s voice.
Shout out to Encounters at the End of the World, for those who haven’t seen it.
- Comment on Since 2016 the general publics knowledge about narcissism and manipulation has increased significantly. 2 weeks ago:
Not nearly enough, evidently.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
More features, bug fixes, and better compatibility with the lastest version of Android.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
Yup, it’s been some time since there was a coherent team development effort being made on it. Until they get their act together, maybe using Obtanium would work?
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
They’re right in that right-of-centre views are relatively rare on Lemmy, for sure.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Hexbear are not right-wing in the slightest. They’re basically Lemmygrad with even more shitposting.
- Comment on How to hide comments that mention a specific word ? (on lemmy of course) 4 weeks ago:
Boost does this too. I don’t think any Lemmy client offers this functionality for comments specifically, though.
- Comment on How is the US able to instantly stop an attack from Iran but powerless when Israel attacks hospitals? 4 weeks ago:
Two volunteer doctors working with Doctors Without Borders were killed by a direct hit by an Israeli airstrike on Al Awda hospital back in November, so that’s at least one example.
- Comment on Over 1,600 Scientists and Professionals Sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ Declaration 5 weeks ago:
Analysis of recent scientific publications finds widespread agreement among climate scientists that human activity is the primary cause of climate change.
As it very clearly states in the article you linked, there reason why some skepticism still exists is political, not scientific.
Conservatives are much more likely be skeptical of climate change because media outlets like FOX news and Republican politicians give credence to their natural bias that everything is fine and there is no pressing need to adjust their lifestyles or personal convictions regarding the environment.
The problem with trying to “both sides” everything is that there aren’t always two reasonable and equitable positions to take Quite often, one side is just plain wrong.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 5 weeks ago:
There are multiple videos showing how the M3 MacBooks struggle with 8GB of RAM compared to 16GB when it comes to 3D rendering and 4K editing, though.
Sure, 8GB gets the job done but why are Apple selling “professional” grade laptops in this price range that clearly require additional memory to reach peak performance?
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 5 weeks ago:
That’s no justification for selling a >$1,000 MacBook Pro with only 8GB of RAM, though. It’s specifically marketed as a professional-class machine.
- Comment on Over 1,600 Scientists and Professionals Sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ Declaration 5 weeks ago:
I have already have enough interactions with this particular individual enough to know that they’re much less interested in having an actual discussion than they are with sealioning and moving the goalposts once their terrible takes have been proven wrong.
P.S. you might want to raise the standard of your moderating if you want people to take your community seriously.
- Comment on Over 1,600 Scientists and Professionals Sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ Declaration 5 weeks ago:
Seriously. Breitbart, the NY Post, The Epoch Times… Wew, lad.
OP is either going out of their way to be misinformed on every possible subject under the sun, or they’re just trying to increase engagement by getting a rise out of people.
- Comment on Face masks made ‘little to no difference’ in preventing spread of COVID: study 5 weeks ago:
These are hard facts, not speculation. If you had spent the countless hours following the pandemic over the past three years like I did, you would know this.
Also, trying to convince the American public to do anything even mildly inconvenient that goes beyond their immediate self-interest for the sake of the wider community is the most widely ineffective way of going about a public health crisis that you could possibly suggest.
- Comment on Face masks made ‘little to no difference’ in preventing spread of COVID: study 5 weeks ago:
So basically completely ignore the facts that
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the form of coronavirus at the beginning of the pandemic was significantly more dangerous than it is now,
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that the population back didn’t have the degree of immunity it does now thanks to widespread vaccination and previous infection
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we know significantly more about the virus and the ways that it can be treated and prevented now than we did at the beginning of the pandemic
Congratulations, your genius plan would have overloaded the healthcare system even more than it did and millions more people would have died. Masterful gambit, sir.
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- Comment on Face masks made ‘little to no difference’ in preventing spread of COVID: study 5 weeks ago:
The metastudy that th is (old) article is based on drew widespread criticism from experts and researchers back when it was first published, and its conclusions were widely misinterpreted by antivaxxers and matimaskers, as you have also done.
If you’re interested in reading more about its flawed methodology and also some good evidence that masks do indeed help to reduce the spread of airborne pathogens, here’s some homework for you:
- Comment on Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban. He says limits should be left to the states 5 weeks ago:
I guess I might think that too if I mistakenly believed that an embryo with no functioning organs or the capacity to feel anything was the same as actual, breathing baby, both morally and physically.
The thing is, though, it isn’t.
- Comment on Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban. He says limits should be left to the states 5 weeks ago:
Only if you’re really fuzzy on the details.
- Comment on Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban. He says limits should be left to the states 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I agree completely! Murdering babies certainly is a nasty business, all round.
Not sure what that has to do with unborn fetuses, but we do agree on something at least.
- Comment on Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban. He says limits should be left to the states 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, equating the termination of unborn festuses to the enslavement of grown, conscious men, women, and children. Such a reasonable opinion, my good sir.
- Comment on FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability 5 weeks ago:
Lol omg. I tried long pressing everywhere except the page number icon, which I only tapped, and nothing happened. I’m clearly having one of those days.
That’s cool, though. I haven’t been able to find any FOSS app that has this feature before.
- Comment on FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability 5 weeks ago:
I just figured that out, thanks!
From what I can see, there’s no way to rearrange the order of pages, though, right?
- Comment on FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability 5 weeks ago:
Darn, for a minute there I thought this app might allow you to add pages to existing documents like Noteboc.
So few document scanners offer this, but it’s super useful.
- Comment on ‘I Didn’t Do That’: Biden Throws More Gasoline On ‘Transgender Visibility’ Day Outcry After Speaking To Press 1 month ago:
- Comment on ‘I Didn’t Do That’: Biden Throws More Gasoline On ‘Transgender Visibility’ Day Outcry After Speaking To Press 1 month ago:
“President Biden is right. He did nothing in conflict with the ‘tenets’ of Easter, which he celebrated yesterday,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said. “Nor did he choose the dates of March 31 for Transgender Day of Visibility, which has been set since 2009 – including in 2020 and 2021 when FOX itself commented on Transgender Day of Visibility itself.”
End of story.
What a fuss about nothing.
- Comment on Has anyone had success with debloating their Phones? 1 month ago:
I used UAD on my S21 and it’s been fine. You can’t actually uninstall the unwanted packages but at least you can disable them. Can’t say I’ve noticed any particular improvement in performance, buts it’s nice to know that my phone isn’t running a bunch of unnecessary services.
Be careful disabling Bixby if you intend to use features like Samsung Routines, though. I seem to recall doing that and breaking functionality, so I just went back and re-enabled it.