I see that you also downvoted my post about veganism and the cost of breeding cattle in term of water. I see a pattern there.
You listed the same example several times, in quotes
What are you talking about? It's the same article about the rio grande. It's not supposed to be multiple examples.
not sourced links
Paste it in any search engine, it's the first result.
fear mongering on the level of a conspiracy theorist
I see your true colors now.
Your advice of moving to the mountains, taken en masse, would just result in cities existing there...with the same source of water.
Ridiculous, I'm not talking to the masses.
You brought nothing to the table, you saw a post about veganism and then you went full conspiracy theorist mode. Instead of discussing the case you just went for the downvote button. I'm not wasting more time with you.
Americans’ belief in God, the devil and other spiritual entities has fallen to a new low, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday. Seventy-four percent of Americans said they believe in God…
You are talking about "demon" on an atheist magazine, what else did you expect? Why don't you rephrase for clarity? Because otherwise I see no discussion possible.
They are expanding and are going to continue expanding regardless of how their power needs are met.
And this is exactly the problem we should focus on. They should not be allowed to expand like that. Either we are in a situation of emergence or we are not. Just stop them, make the political decision to stop them.
I would much rather we switch 100% to wind, solar, geothermal rather than ditching the internet.
Run the numbers, everything we don't do now to reduce the CO2 emissions will be paid a hundred times more later. Megafires, megadraught, etc.
It's totally useless as long as you don't shut down plants that are running on coal. Otherwise it's just adding up with other sources of CO2.
Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it's determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24 states, including "major expansions" in 14 states. The growth includes its first data center in Nevada, a new office in Georgia, and multi-facility expansions in places like Texas and Virginia. This is on top of known projects like its future New York City campus.
This plant is used to power up an expansion of google, which means it's just adding up CO2 to what we already emit. It's creating a fake impression that we are reducing our carbon footprint.
There is a simple solution: shut down the datacenter. No more power needed, no more water needed. The problem is not about CO2, it's about us refusing to let go our previous way of life.
I quite value content from targetted instances, but most of the "general" instances seem to be memes, posts on boosting lemmy, memes, reddit, memes bot posts, memes, reddit, memes, discussion on lemmy mobile applications, memes reddit, memes, and people talking about how the lemmy changed their lives oh and memes....
In the end it will be all about federating with the right communities and not about federating everyone anymore.
A lot of people who are defending "federate everyone" do it in the name of "fear of missing" and want the numbers at all cost. They are borderline addict to infinite content, but they are a danger to quality posting. You cannot mass post AND care about the quality of what you post. It takes time to find a good article to post.
Even here we will soon read about what Elon Musk had for breakfast and will post it in "tech". Some people want content, whatever the quality of what they read, even the title is enough for them. And sadly the current vote system works in their favor.
My guess is many of us will leave kbin for a more tight, content focused community. Also better tools will come up anyway.
This thread is closed, but I'm going to make a final reply before I ban you and your associate from our organization for your inflammatory, incorrect, and downright rude comments. Actions have consequences. Any time anyone asks us why we don't support AppImage, I'm going to point them to this thread, and how it was you, personally, who irrevocably burned all bridges with our development team.
And then he harassed the OBS team claiming that "users want appimages"
First, most of the people I saw discussing it support flatpak, not packages. They support flatpak like they support a football team. example here: "Mostly because they're uneducated fools".
It's all about reputation. There are people I trust, like Steam and there are perfect strangers from the internet. Who do you trust the most between "debian VS mastakilla_51"?
Wake me up when a flatpak app is thought with clear boundaries and doesn't just request access to my whole home directory. Until then I much prefer to have a team of packager maintaining a reputation, dedicated to their job and producing fine, reliable apps.
The Audacity fiasco was a perfect example of that. The apps was bought by someone, then telemetry was introduced into the flatpak and no one saw it. Instead, the distro maintainers noticed it and deactivated the telemetry. This is how we saw the thing.
Be very careful of what you lose when you say goodbye to distro packages, don't take it for granted. If you walk the flatpak way you will have access to a mountain of unverified software built by a random person of the internet having access to your full homedir. It's like installing freewares on Windows, you end up with a lot of crap on your computer. A packages repo is not like freewares for Windows.
Yes, I know, you think flatpaks come with sandboxing. It does not, because most of these packages use /home as the sandbox anyway and people click yes. Pick some flatpaks and see the access level their require. Most of the time it's /home. This is a terrible trend and I wished more of the flatpak supporters mentioned it when they praise the tool. Some people don't care. I do.
Cryptocurrency does nothing to help you since it gives a very strong incentive to criminal to scan your homedir. Scammers will use shiny software, flatpak it, add their "secret sauce" and publish it. If you had to install a cryptowallet, would you install the one from the debian repo of the one from mastakilla_51?
Until this whole jungle is sorted out: thanks, but no thanks.
Annnnd we are back at square one. flatpak is just another distro, with the limitations of a distro. You are basically asking for a unique distro to rule them all.
Several hundred "experienced" Wagner fighters have arrived in the Central African Republic to secure a referendum on 30 July, a Russian private security company said Sunday....
Turkey is grappling with forest fires as temperatures continue to soar. Agricultural lands and settlements were evacuated across several provinces at the weekend. Sixteen of Sunday’s fires have been brought under control. Efforts to contain three remaining blazes, located in south Turkey’s Mersin, earthquake-stricken Hatay,...
The Turkish government has faced criticism in recent years for failing to invest in systems that could detect and respond to fires early, as well as condemnation for increasing fire risk by handing out permits for non-forestry activities such as mining, energy production, and tourism within forested areas.
On-the-ground teams do not have access to sufficient resources and equipment to enable early intervention, forestry policy experts claim, attributing major 2020 and 2021 fires in Turkey to a lack of adequate government funding for prevention and fire fighting.
Whatever you think you are saving by purchasing cheap chinese products, you pay it back years later through the effect of global warming.
The appointment of the American economist, who consults for companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Pfizer, had been the subject of much criticism.
How could they consider her in the first place? This is subject to so much suspicion. Is the EU so poor in talents that we have to recruit in the USA for such critical positions?
I sorta hate this request as it seems invasive but I was thinking about folks in the future and even myself now and I was thinking I would love to see what folks that I have subscribed to have blocked. I don't subscribe to a person unless Im really impressed by what they post or their discourse so its like a trusted list of...
Blocklists will become the norm. We cannot manually block everything in /all. It was working for the first few weeks but not anymore.
Take for example the left and the right, both will have their respective blocklists and will publish them extensively. Now publishing your own blocklist will mean that you have a horse in the race.
Right now, we are frequently posting contents and interacting with the communities in order to make Fediverse more alive and more "social" as social media. But really, compared to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, we probably don't even exist....
Recently, Reddit announced that they may be discontinuing awards/coins on September 12. However I'm skeptical and I think this may be just a deceptive announcement for them to make a quick buck from awards/coins. What are your opinions on this?
Wikimedia Foundation joins the fediverse (wikimedia.social)
AAA pulls back from offering insurance in Florida, following Farmers (www.cbsnews.com)
More insurance companies are fleeing the state because of the growing threat from natural disasters.
70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities', study finds (www.gamingbible.com)
A new study has found that 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities'.
Belief in God, the devil falls to new low: Gallup (thehill.com)
Americans’ belief in God, the devil and other spiritual entities has fallen to a new low, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday. Seventy-four percent of Americans said they believe in God…
I just wanted to leave this here (www.reddit.com)
Yep, this is what the future of awards on Reddit looks like
'Breakthrough' geothermal tech produces 3.5 megawatts of carbon-free power | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
An energy company called Fervo says it has achieved a breakthrough in geothermal technology.
Does anyone else feel the general lemmy instances are noise?
I quite value content from targetted instances, but most of the "general" instances seem to be memes, posts on boosting lemmy, memes, reddit, memes bot posts, memes, reddit, memes, discussion on lemmy mobile applications, memes reddit, memes, and people talking about how the lemmy changed their lives oh and memes....
[Question] Why does everyone seem to dislike containerized packages?
TLDR at bottom....
Wagner fighters arrive in Central African Republic: Russian security group (www.news24.com)
Several hundred "experienced" Wagner fighters have arrived in the Central African Republic to secure a referendum on 30 July, a Russian private security company said Sunday....
Heatwave triggers forest fire catastrophe in Turkey (medyanews.net)
Turkey is grappling with forest fires as temperatures continue to soar. Agricultural lands and settlements were evacuated across several provinces at the weekend. Sixteen of Sunday’s fires have been brought under control. Efforts to contain three remaining blazes, located in south Turkey’s Mersin, earthquake-stricken Hatay,...
Fiona Scott Morton ends up turning down top EU post (www.lemonde.fr)
The appointment of the American economist, who consults for companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Pfizer, had been the subject of much criticism.
View users block lists.
I sorta hate this request as it seems invasive but I was thinking about folks in the future and even myself now and I was thinking I would love to see what folks that I have subscribed to have blocked. I don't subscribe to a person unless Im really impressed by what they post or their discourse so its like a trusted list of...
The Fediverse needs a popular agent
Right now, we are frequently posting contents and interacting with the communities in order to make Fediverse more alive and more "social" as social media. But really, compared to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, we probably don't even exist....
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Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames (www.engadget.com)
Before this week, Bluesky did not have an automated system in place to prevent people from including the n-word in their handle..
Reddit may be tricking users to buy awards/coins
Recently, Reddit announced that they may be discontinuing awards/coins on September 12. However I'm skeptical and I think this may be just a deceptive announcement for them to make a quick buck from awards/coins. What are your opinions on this?