It’s really not. It’s just getting started. The worst predictions, of 4-6 degrees of warming, are more or less off the table. Current trajectory is ~3 degrees of warming which… is civilisationally devastating admittedly, but we have pathways to reduce that. Even the 1.5c target isn’t over yet.
There is a broad range of potential future climates, and this generation decides which one we end up with. It’s not over by a long shot.
This has been on my mind lately. My dad is going through it, his sister has got it pretty bad and I apparently have the predisposed gene to get in my future....
From your other replies it seems like you’re unsure you want kids in any case, but if you do there’s a simple thought experiment here: do you wish your father hadn’t had you? If not, it’s reasonable to think your children would be just as grateful to be alive as you are, sick dad or not.
If you’re a programmer rather than a professional typist, you probably can use it at work. It took a couple of weeks for me to adjust, a couple of months to be fluent, but it would have been longer if I didn’t use it all day every day.
The biggest hurdles for me personally were
I didn’t touch type properly before. I was a fast typist, but my hands roamed freely over the board. I realised that the finger I used to press a key depended on the word where it was used, and that took ages to re-learn.
I bound enter and space to mode shift holds for symbols etc. It works great, but it does mean I sometimes hit enter and send half a slack message instead of typing punctuation.
The British NHS should be replaced with a system of national insurance. I’m a staunch labour voter, but the current system is subject to endless tinkering by the party of the day, and it’s broken.
In the UK, the NHS is one of the only institutions that attracts broad unreserved support, though, so this is about as popular as “all college athletes should be locked in churches and those churches should be burned to the ground” would be in the US.
Fair, but I don’t think they will, and I don’t think people will stop voting for them forever, as much as I’m looking forward to the next general election. Even under Labour, though, the NHS gave great value for money, but middling outcomes.
Respectfully, this is why we can’t have an actual conversation about healthcare in this country. What’s objectively a societal good? Medicine? Sure, but I’m not proposing that we stop practicing medicine. Universal access to healthcare, free at the point of delivery? Also good, and a feature of most healthcare systems in the developed world. The specific funding model where the government runs the entire healthcare system through taxation?
I dunno, seems like it gives good, but not great, results, terrible staff morale, and a permanent state of crisis.
The current steam deck isn’t going to be obsolete just because a newer model comes out. I’m happily playing through the new System Shock right now, and there’s a gazillion things in my steam library that I can install and run any time I like.
At some point there will be a faster, better deck, but this one is going to do me for a while. It is, in that sense, like a gaming PC. The lifetime of it isn’t determined by the manufacturer in the same way, because you can choose when it’s worth paying more for a better experience.
Like a gaming PC the first question you need to ask is “what’s my budget”, and the second “what would I like to be able to play”. When you have those answered, you can decide whether the current sale price offers value for money. There is always going to be more power available for a higher price.
I based my IWNDWYT in lifting and eating healthier, and for a few months it worked, but around a month ago some things happened that made it impossible… And I’ve been failing since. Not drinking was just part of the package, so it’s completely tied with those things that I still can’t do, but I don’t know, it feels...
Will power is an expendable resource. It’s hard enough to give up one thing, let alone everything.
If you quit once, you can do it again. I found when I first quit it was really helpful to do the daily check in and post about whatever I was thinking. It’s not the void of the internet if there are people listening: it’s a community.
Well hello, friend. I’m going on six years sober thanks to /r/SD and it just occurred to me that maybe this place exists and needs some more friendly faces, so I’m going to crack open a bottle of rose lemonade and not drink with you all today
People will find it if they need to. I hope that r/SD continues to function tbh, it’s a great community. If it doesn’t, we’ll be here waiting for the 5th of July regretters.
Edit: I have to commute 1,5 hours oneway to get to work. HomeOffice is allowed 2 times a week. So I am leaving when my son is still in bed and come back when he is in bed again. Thing is, the money is good and the job is kind of a dream job for me....
Write down on a bit of paper "I want to spend more time with my son, I can always find another job", then flip it over and write "I'm going to spend my time on work, I can always have another kid" and see how you feel.
I like the feeling of holding and using a phone in one hand. I am using a Pixel 5 right now but it feels a bit too large for me. I know nobody makes phone that small like the iPhone 4S or the Samsung S3 mini, but is there at least a phone smaller than the Pixel 5? Maybe around the size of a iPhone 12/13 mini?
Like Reddit is? e.g. for Google, or Bing (shudders), you know. Search engines. One of the ways many people around the world interacted with Reddit was looking up solutions, discussions, or similar from a search engine and NOT on Reddit itself. Is that possible in this thread of the fediverse?
This is going to happen a lot, I think, while things shake out. If Beehaw don't trust Lemmy.world to ban toxic users, then defederating makes some sense. I think it's probably self-harming, though, because it'll lead to communities like Technology being replicated on other instances, and those are the big Beehaw draw.
You can always have multiple accounts on multiple instances. A pr0n alt was common on Reddit, and is the only way to get at adult material here. Maybe in the fediverse it'll become common to have a safety alt, and a spicy alt too.
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So I'm about to snooze when all of a sudden before I drift off it feels like I missed a stair in my bed and I start to fall until I'm forcefully woken up by the shock. Like, WTH?! It's not like a dream where you fall off a skyscraper, it's more like before you start to dream when it happens.
So after we've extended the virtual cloud server twice, we're at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity....
Agreed on all points! It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists. What will be interesting is when instances disagree about bans. If you get banned from an instance because - hypothetically - you disagree with the actions of one government or another, it’s not obvious to me that other instances should repeat the ban.
I love it, it's a nice bit of kit, and the few gimmicks it has are useful: scheduled charging for better battery life, digital well being stuff to stop me being glued to my phone.
Battery would be a problem for a super power user, but lasts me all day with commuting, reading the web etc. Camera is not on a par with flagships but I rarely take pictures.
Prior to this I had a Huawei until the battery died on me. I upgrade when I have to, I hate consumer upgrade cycles.
I have zero android ecosystem products.
I'm Android/Linux all the way unless work force me to use a Mac, which happens periodically, as part of the great cycle of life.
Is prompt engineer displacing data scientist as the 'sexiest job of the 21st century'? (www.zdnet.com)
xkcd : Earth Temperature Timeline (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/1732/
If you knew you were going to get Alzheimer’s at 65 would you have kids?
This has been on my mind lately. My dad is going through it, his sister has got it pretty bad and I apparently have the predisposed gene to get in my future....
Ergodox arrived. Yikes! (lemmy.today)
Top is Das Pro 4, bottom is ErgoDox EZ...
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular....
On the fence: should I buy?
in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff
I've been failing
I based my IWNDWYT in lifting and eating healthier, and for a few months it worked, but around a month ago some things happened that made it impossible… And I’ve been failing since. Not drinking was just part of the package, so it’s completely tied with those things that I still can’t do, but I don’t know, it feels...
The Daily Check-In for Sunday, July 2nd: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!
We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!...
Lemmy.world Admin Response to Defederation from Exploding Heads
We're closing this thread. Everything that could be said has been said. Thank you...
Should I quit my job?
Edit: I have to commute 1,5 hours oneway to get to work. HomeOffice is allowed 2 times a week. So I am leaving when my son is still in bed and come back when he is in bed again. Thing is, the money is good and the job is kind of a dream job for me....
Let's get some conversation going and lift this community. So, what's your greatest sporting achievement?
Doesn't matter how minor or unimpressive....
Is there any good small Android phone?
I like the feeling of holding and using a phone in one hand. I am using a Pixel 5 right now but it feels a bit too large for me. I know nobody makes phone that small like the iPhone 4S or the Samsung S3 mini, but is there at least a phone smaller than the Pixel 5? Maybe around the size of a iPhone 12/13 mini?
Is Lemmy Indexable?
Like Reddit is? e.g. for Google, or Bing (shudders), you know. Search engines. One of the ways many people around the world interacted with Reddit was looking up solutions, discussions, or similar from a search engine and NOT on Reddit itself. Is that possible in this thread of the fediverse?
Beehaw.org has announced they will be defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
The post can be found here....
Some people pronounce SQL as "sequel", and some as "squeal"
...But I've only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like "Cecil"? Or "Sizzle"?...
Why the heck does my body feel like it's tripping sometimes when I sleep?
So I'm about to snooze when all of a sudden before I drift off it feels like I missed a stair in my bed and I start to fall until I'm forcefully woken up by the shock. Like, WTH?! It's not like a dream where you fall off a skyscraper, it's more like before you start to dream when it happens.
I see your carpets and raise you: The Toilet Cosy (ibb.co)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7f799431-123f-4b9e-bdd3-b48a7813537e.jpeg
[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!)
So after we've extended the virtual cloud server twice, we're at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity....
what's the asshole mitigation plan?
So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something....
What phone are you using?
So, I thought I'd kick things off here with some community building....