Money doesn’t buy happiness but it can help someone who is struggling to meet their basic needs not get stuck in a depressive state. Plus, it can be used in exchange for goods and services that show efficacy against depression.
This has become so non-stop that I had to do some research on logical fallacies because I was quite sure that there was a formal name for what we’re seeing from anti-electoralists and accelerationists (the Venn diagram is pretty much a circle). And I was right.
In this thread there’s actually two (at least).
False Dilemma (aka false dichotomy): “You can either support genocide by voting for Biden (or Trump) or oppose it by voting third-party (or not voting).” This is just ridiculous levels of oversimplification with an implicit nested False Equivalency fallacy (“both sides are the same”).
Denying the Correlative (what I had to look up): “Vote third-party.” In the first-past-the-post, two-party system, there are only two choices that can have an impact. According to the data, voting third-party is nothing but a spoiler for the candidate of the major parties that one prefers. The choice is Biden ⊕ Trump. This fallacy is basically the inverse of the False Dilemma, which makes it all the more impressive to see the two used alongside one another.
Blendo was a robot made by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to compete in Robot Wars before MythBusters. Its “weapon” was a horizontal flywheel. After two matches, they were given a newly-created award of co-champion on the condition that they did not participate in any more matches.
The sheer amount of energy stored in and dumped from the flywheel obliterated their competition and posed a very real human safety risk.
I’m a cis-het white guy so, don’t exactly have direct personal experience. However, having studied a bit on the subject in university in the 00s and have tried to better learn (and unlearn things from growing up in a small town).
Here’s based upon what I know:
It is not just the frequency of conservative Christianity in POC communities. It is also being a member of another group with a history being targeted for violent repression. So, it’s not just the societal institutional racism at play. It’s also the societal institutional homophobia, and the conservative christian homophobia, and the homophobia from any other root cause in their POC community, and the other risks that gay men are subjected to just by existing.
I know you’ve got a ban but, hopefully you can see this.
I find it concerning that I no can no longer tell which group is supposed to be the one telling the other to shut up about the toppings
This is actually a rather good reflection of the reality, though maybe not the way that you intend. Anti-electoralism, accelerationism, and right-wing politcs, by the data on outcomes are equivalent. It is hard to tell, at this time, whether an individual supporting the former two is genuinely a believer, a state actor, or other political operative.
Fighting the good fight against accelerationism, authoritarianism, and bad faith. I don’t have the emotional energy to do so with any consistency at this time - the 21st century has been very draining. Make sure that you take time for self-care. @pugjesus you too.
Hey now. It’s all about perspective. If you think about it in terms of geological history or the history of the universe, the discovery pretty much just happened.
Pretty sure that the kilt was invented by an Englishman so that scots working in his factories would be less likely to get clothing caught in the machinery and maimed. I say this as a kilt-loving descendent of scots.
EDIT: To be clear, I was referring to a Small Kilt, whose intention is attributed to an English mill owner named Rallinson circa 1720. Not the Great Kilt, which to my knowledge is Scottish in origin.
A Great Kilt (invented by Scots, as far as am aware) definitely. I should have been more specific. I was referring to the Small Kilt (which is what I most often hear people referring to as a kilt), which comes from the 18th century.
Should have been more precise, I think. I most frequently hear “kilt” referring to the Small Kilt which comes from the 18th century, not the Great Kilt.
I would argue: Anti-work is everyone having the choice if living like a king and eating Doritos and nobody doing hard work, if they don’t want to.
Some people enjoy and get great satisfaction from hard work. Most people are inclined to do some form of work (including creative) rather than be completely idle. They should be allowed to do so, if they wish.
It’s cool. The neolibs allowed (and encouraged) heights of commodification of education so egregious that much of a generation has been robbed of levels of literacy that were considered “normal” in previous generations.
A new version of the BiBi Wiper malware is now deleting the disk partition table to make data restoration harder, extending the downtime for targeted victims.
Shared libraries/dynamically-linked libraries, along with faster storage solve a lot of the historical optimization issues. Modern compilers and OSes general take care of that, if the right flags are used. With very few AAA games using in-house engines, it’s even less work for the studio, supposing the game engine developers are doing their jobs.
That said, you do still have a bit of a point. Proper QA requires running the software on all supported platforms, so, there is a need for additional hardware, if not offloading QA to customers via “Early Access”. Adding to that, there are new CPU architectures in the wild (or soon to be) that weren’t there 5 years ago and may not yet be well-supported with the toolchains.
Gaben is absolutely correct on practice though, it’s a distribution problem. EA, Epic, and the rest trying to force their storefront launchers and invasive DRM that makes the experience worse for the end users drives people to pirate more.
Every time I visit Ireland I’m straight to the local shop to get locally butchered, prepared meals at 3 trays for €10. Each tray is two portions. I’m always losing weight with each visit - good quality and price is just so much better.
The laws of Conservation of Mass and Thermodynamics say “no”. Regenerative agriculture can be very good for the land over time but cannot provide the same outputs without similar inputs, without depleting soil. You can’t take energy and matter from one place forever without replacing it.
Personally, I think a multi-pronged approach would be best:
reduce conventional meat consumption and production (replace with vegetable matter to both improve population health and reduce ecological strain)
increase investment in "lab meat"
increase investment in basic research related to animal husbandry with focus on adapting livestock to better suit their environments and domestication of novel livestock (ex. bison which are only semi-domesticated).
when google bought datasets from reddit (lemmy.world)
we love google (and LLMs)
"You're fooling yourself, we're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...." (midwest.social)
In one of the US’s hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar (www.theguardian.com)
In Fort Mohave, Arizona, even Republican voters are fighting gas power plants as utilities try to lock in fossil fuels...
The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/70425187-6d2b-4c3b-907f-c71de53919db.png...
This amazing news anchor surprised his colleagues by coming out on air (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Why are we wasting our server bandwidth on shit takes? (midwest.social)
We are Boring. You will be assimilated or something. Resistance is futile, but whatever. (lemmy.world)
[Physics] Does gravity have 'elasticity'? If a solid sun-sized object zooms across space at the speed of light, then abruptly stops, does it take gravity some time to 'settle' around it?
Is it a stable/static effect no matter what, or is it a bit more stretchy/bouncy depending on how the object is behaving?...
We should've been listening to the Scots (lemmy.world)
OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game (www.theatlantic.com)
That's all it is. (lemmy.world)
PoliticalCompass.exe (midwest.social)
New BiBi Wiper version also destroys the disk partition table (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A new version of the BiBi Wiper malware is now deleting the disk partition table to make data restoration harder, extending the downtime for targeted victims.
Oh no. (lemmy.world)
Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a 'unified Reich' (apnews.com)
Trump has a very long history of using this kind of thing to say what the campaign is thinking about doing....
The PC games market grew a lot more than the console games market last year, says research firm (www.pcgamer.com)
OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (www.tomsguide.com)
The lunch rush is dead as Americans live for the weekend, office workers are pinching lunchtime pennies (www.nbcnews.com)
Is 'regenerative farming' the climate-friendly solution to meat production (www.npr.org)
Transcript (and errors in it) are mine, as NPR is mainly a broadcast outlet....