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peto , to Technology in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

If it isn't on your shelves (or server) it isn't your library, it's someone else's access.

Jaysyn , to World News in Brazil counts cost of worst-ever floods with little hope of waters receding soon
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It's almost like the climate scientists weren't lying these past 40 years.

BestBouclettes ,

Yeah but share prices are higher than ever!

cloud_herder ,

Fucking ouch to read.

statist43 ,

This is too real.

Mongostein ,

No no, the fires are paid arsonists and the floods are people getting paid to leave their taps on.

… 🙄

rockerface , to Today I Learned in TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god
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It's amazing to put into perspective how long both bronze and stone ages really took, especially compared to modernity. Human brains are not good at imagining large quantities or intervals, so it was all kinda smushed up into a folder labeled "past" in my head

ogeist ,

To give some numbers, the last period of the stone age (Neolithic) lasted around 2000 years and the bronze age around 1600 years. No wonder they "forgot" what the stone age tools were.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Someone pointed a temperature gun (for Covid testing) at me and for a brief moment, I forgot what they were.

When they're uncovered 100 years from now, they'll think we shot lasers at each other.

Notyou ,
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When they're uncovered 100 years from now, they'll think we shot lasers at each other.

Don't we though?
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dumbass ,
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Yeah but they're lazers, totally different.

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
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leminal.space

lol, I love that instance name

dumbass ,
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Yeah in saw someone else using this instance and knew in had to join it.

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
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Can relate: I signed up for my instance purely because of the name lol

dumbass ,
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Yeah that was the first one I signed up with, purely because of the name.

PrimeMinisterKeyes , (edited )

Sidney Harris taught me otherwise.
EDIT: I just saw he turned 91 yesterday. Happy Birthday, Mr. Harris!

ConfusedPossum ,

Kurzgesagt did this video where they crammed all of Earth's history in an hour. Basically you look at a barren wasteland for most of the time until life finally goes macroscopic and then all of humanity happens in less than a second

I sat through the whole thing and it's still incomprehensible

samus12345 ,
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It's gotten so fast that we now see significant changes in our lifetimes - cultural, technology, climate. For most of human history, it took many generations for any real change to occur.

Japan might be the record holder for fastest significant change, though. Feudalism to a modern industrial economy in a few decades.

TachyonTele ,

Japan did it twice. They closed their borders between bouts of rapid modernizations.

KevonLooney ,

Please. The USSR industrialization speed run is unsurpassed. Peasants to the first artificial satellite in 40 years. Also, parts of Russia are still completely undeveloped today!

pearsaltchocolatebar , to Not The Onion in Diesel the escaped pet donkey found living with elk after five years.

Those elk just hired a body guard.

Assman ,
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Probably saw him fuck up a coyote and said, let's stick with this guy

TransplantedSconie , to World News in Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London
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me not knowing the breed looks them up via DDG

So she was basically mauled by the Demon Dogs from Ghostbusters.

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  • Dogs_cant_look_up ,

    "So i went and Ducked it"

    Eh? Eh?

    EtherWhack ,
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    just one... single... Slip

    Geth ,

    People can just say "I looked it up" or "searched", so if they specify the search engine, I assume they are trying to make a passing statement.

    Linkerbaan ,
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    He looked it up via Demon Dogs from Ghostbusters

    Gonzako ,

    I ducked it up

    boatsnhos931 ,

    I just binged the shit out of it

    Ironfacebuster ,

    I Bing'd it and it told me to download Microsoft Edge

    minibyte , to Technology in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

    🏴‍☠️

    Damage ,

    Arr!! (stack)

    CaptainSpaceman ,

    Yarr harr fiddle dee dee!

    cybervseas , to World News in UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter

    Isn't that the charter that…also acknowledges the statehood of Israel?

    Dangdoggo ,
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    Lmfao oh my lord.... It absolutely is.

    Lath ,

    Symbolically, that's part of the point.

    originalucifer , to World News in ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters?
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    SA is an experiment in what religious nutjobs would do with unlimited money. its going as well as we all expected.

    Aurenkin , to World News in ‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription

    Such a tough and heartbreaking situation. Of course I'm pretty sure most of us would like to think we'd step up if our country was brutally attacked but I honestly have no idea what I'd do. Facing seemingly endless meat waves would be hell by itself let alone thermobaric bombs and drones.

    state_electrician ,

    Fuck my country. My loyalty is to my family.

    ArcaneGadget ,

    No fucking way. I ain't gonna' die fighting for the inflated egos, of the morons in charge of the world powers and their ass-lickers. I'd gather up my loved ones and leave in a heartbeat, if my country started forced conscription. I'm not enough of a nationalist to die "for king and fatherland", no matter how much i like this little country.

    Irremarkable ,
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    You don't have to be patriotic to end up stepping up. When you see the shit Russia did to the Ukrainians in the areas they annex in 2014, it's easy to see why people wouldn't want that to happen to their family, and why they'd be willing to step up.

    Repelle ,

    There have been times in my life when I would have fled, and times in my life when I would have fought. Never for the idea of country, but certainly for the people in the country. I’m a middle aged American woman and having no family anymore, I have considered fighting for the families of Ukraine. Though not too seriously and I don’t even know if they’d take me

    HappycamperNZ ,

    (Completely different country here, no present risk.) The unfortunate reality for me is that I have three kids who might be called up if the shit hits the fan, and I've had 30 odd years longer on this planet.

    If its not me, it's my kids.

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    I'm too old and too sick to ever be called up to fight unless it's hopeless. But I have a 14-year-old daughter and I see no reason for the modern U.S. military to keep its "women can't be drafted" policy in such a situation. I can't lose her. My biggest fear, one I have nightmares about, is outliving her. Even if I was super patriotic, I don't think I'd risk her being forced to fight. I would flee.

    PugJesus ,
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    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    Maybe so, and this may be callous of me, but I would not sacrifice my daughter over them. I don't know whether or not you are a parent, but I don't think many parents would be willing to sacrifice their children because others wanted them sacrificed.

    PugJesus ,
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    How many other sons and daughters are worth your's? Ten? A hundred? A thousand? Does it matter if they're children, or legal adults? Does it matter if they die quickly, or held, raped for a month, and then tortured to death?

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    Are you a parent? Because otherwise, I don't think you really understand why I feel this way.

    PugJesus ,
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    Do you lack empathy for other parents and other children? Do you expect them to die to save you and your's, or will you just expect enough of them to die to stall for the duration of your lifetimes? How direct does your contribution to the deaths of others have to be? If your daughter was held hostage, would you go to the camps every day and pull the lever on the gas chambers, or would that be 'too much'?

    My mother loves me, and I know she'd die to save my dumb ass. She'd kill a few people at the least too. But I also know she would be deeply ashamed of me if I was bound by common morality to assist in the prevention of a great evil, and chose instead to flee - not just spur of the moment, but continually, every day of my life, until either the evil was successful in its genocide or until other people paid the price on my behalf.

    Could you look your daughter in the eyes, and tell her a hundred children raped to death were the price to not risk her life? Not even a guaranteed trade, just not to risk her life? What other risks to her life are unacceptable?

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    I'll take that as a no.

    The need to protect your offspring doesn't just transcend species, it transcends kingdoms.

    There are trees that will protect their offspring.

    I'm sorry, but trying to reason or shame me into abandoning my parental need to protect my offspring that goes back literally billions of years is not something you're going to be able to do. There is a long, long history of parents begging their children not to go to war.

    PugJesus ,
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    The need to protect your offspring doesn’t just transcend species, it transcends kingdoms.

    Cool, the need to reproduce also transcends kingdoms, but I wouldn't be making moral arguments for reproducing at any cost either.

    I’m sorry, but trying to reason or shame me into abandoning my parental need to protect my offspring that goes back literally billions of years is not something you’re going to be able to do. There is a long, long history of parents begging their children not to go to war.

    There's also a long, long history of parents shaming or even killing their own children for not going to war for a just cause. This idea of a child being worth committing any evil to save is very modern. You can claim that it's something that you could never fight, that it's some biological imperative that takes precedence over everything else, but history, and fuck, recent examples for that matter, very clearly points to that being nothing but an excuse.

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    I don't remember making a moral argument. When did I do that? Can you please quote it?

    PugJesus ,
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    I don’t remember making a moral argument. When did I do that? Can you please quote it?

    If your argument isn't that saving your child under these circumstances is moral, what you're saying then, is that you recognize full well that what you're proposing, since it is seemingly entirely without limits, is unforgivably evil, but you're 100% okay with it anyway and have no interest in examining or questioning it.

    FlyingSquid Mod , (edited )
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    You are getting dangerously close to violating civility rules.

    You do not get to tell me it is my duty to send my child to die in a war any more than you get to tell me that it's my duty to sacrifice my child to appease the volcano god no matter what moral argument you are making.

    And you also do not get to call anyone here evil. You have been here long enough to know that.

    I'm sorry that you think I'm evil, but that does not give you the right to call me or anyone else evil.

    Edit: Also, I seriously doubt you never do anything out of self-interest and only spend your life altruistically, which is what you are essentially berating me for not doing.

    Also, I would suggest that I do not have the moral right to sacrifice anyone's life but my own, related to me or not.

    PugJesus ,
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    You are getting dangerously close to violating civility rules.

    For correctly pointing out that your argument is entirely without limits? Civility is when someone doesn't say something that makes you think about your deeply held positions, and the less you have to think, the more civil it is.

    You do not get to tell me it is my duty to send my child to die in a war any more than you get to tell me that it’s my duty to sacrifice my child to appease the volcano god no matter what moral argument you are making.

    Cute, that you equate stopping genocide with superstition. Funny enough, the very example you use, the historical 'sacrifice your child to the gods' ALSO goes against your claim of doing quite literally anything for your child being the irrepressible urge of billions of years of evolution that you can't help instead of a very modern phenomenon.

    And you also do not get to call anyone here evil. You have been here long enough to know that.

    Oh, I don't get to have opinions on morality, now? I'm sorry. Please forgive me for judging anyone as evil. I'll remember to say nice things about the Nazis next time too. After all, they were just preserving a future for their children. I mean, what if their children had the risk of going hungry and dying in the future? Isn't cleansing the land of foreigners to preserve plentiful estates for them worth removing that risk?

    I’m sorry that you think I’m evil, but that does not give you the right to call me or anyone else evil.

    So now I can't call anyone evil. Wow. I'll remember that the next time I'm discussing genocide.

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    You can get as angry at me as you like, but no, you do not get to call people names. This is stated in the sidebar.

    Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect!

    But you are welcome to think I am an evil person. However, since we seem to be in agreement on virtually every other issue, that should probably be cause for you to reflect on your own positions.

    An evil person can't only be evil on one position after all, and you wouldn't want to fall for a confirmation bias.

    PugJesus ,
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    You can get as angry at me as you like, but no, you do not get to call people names. This is stated in the sidebar.

    Here's what I said

    If your argument isn’t that saving your child under these circumstances is moral, what you’re saying then, is that you recognize full well that what you’re proposing, since it is seemingly entirely without limits, is unforgivably evil, but you’re 100% okay with it anyway and have no interest in examining or questioning it.

    Is saying that an argument or position is evil now unacceptable, so long as someone holds that position or argument?

    An evil person can’t only be evil on one position after all,

    Fucking what

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    I am not going to argue with you over two different comment chains. Please pick one.

    PugJesus ,
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    : Also, I seriously doubt you never do anything out of self-interest and only spend your life altruistically, which is what you are essentially berating me for not doing.

    Because... I say that... there should be SOME kind of moral limit to what you would do to prevent risk from someone close to you?

    Because I say that, I'm demanding you live your life 100% altruistically?

    Also, I would suggest that I do not have the moral right to sacrifice anyone’s life but my own, related to me or not.

    And where does inaction fit into that paradigm?

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    Sorry... I have no idea what you mean by 'inaction.' I told you the action I would take- I would flee before my daughter was an adult.

    But you also seem to have some idea in your head that if my daughter were an adult, I would tie her down and put her in the basement if she wanted to go back and fight rather than let her make her own decisions.

    But no, I will not allow my underage daughter to fight in a war and I will do anything I can to stop my greatest fear from happening. If you have the ability to overcome your greatest fear, good for you. I do not claim to have anywhere near that level of bravery. And if lacking bravery is evil, I guess I'm evil. But it's an inherent evil I have no control over. Wouldn't that make it a mental illness rather than an ethical violation?

    PugJesus ,
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    Sorry… I have no idea what you mean by ‘inaction.’ I told you the action I would take- I would flee before my daughter was an adult.

    And you don't see how fleeing necessarily implies inaction on matters of the preservation or sacrifice of the lives of others?

    But you also seem to have some idea in your head that if my daughter were an adult, I would tie her down and put her in the basement if she wanted to go back and fight rather than let her make her own decisions.

    Perhaps you can point out where I said that.

    But no, I will not allow my underage daughter to fight in a war and I will do anything I can to stop my greatest fear from happening.

    Here's what you said originally:

    I’m too old and too sick to ever be called up to fight unless it’s hopeless. But I have a 14-year-old daughter and I see no reason for the modern U.S. military to keep its “women can’t be drafted” policy in such a situation. I can’t lose her. My biggest fear, one I have nightmares about, is outliving her. Even if I was super patriotic, I don’t think I’d risk her being forced to fight. I would flee.

    In order for both claims to grok, your original statement would need to have implied that the US military abolishing its "women can't be drafted" policy to ALSO add a "And we're drafting underage kids now" despite nothing else suggesting that, AND that risking her being forced to fight and the fear of outliving her is only valid so long as she's underage AND unwilling, despite nothing else suggesting that, AND that argument being put forth being entirely irrelevant to the subject of the article, which is of people of conscription age fleeing, AND that argument being irrelevant to the comment you were originally responding to, being about someone's conscription-eligible kids being called up and them fleeing because of that.

    If you have the ability to overcome your greatest fear, good for you. I do not claim to have anywhere near that level of bravery. And if lacking bravery is evil, I guess I’m evil. But it’s an inherent evil I have no control over. Wouldn’t that make it a mental illness rather than an ethical violation?

    Oh, please. That argument can easily posit that, since we live in a deterministic universe, nothing is an ethical violation, because we have no control over our own actions.

    Also, since you wanted it all in one comment chain with regards to your incivility and 'calling people evil' claim:

    Here's what I said

    If your argument isn’t that saving your child under these circumstances is moral, what you’re saying then, is that you recognize full well that what you’re proposing, since it is seemingly entirely without limits, is unforgivably evil, but you’re 100% okay with it anyway and have no interest in examining or questioning it.

    Is saying that an argument or position is evil now unacceptable, so long as someone holds that position or argument?

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    I couldn't force my adult daughter to flee with me, so I think it would be obvious that I was talking about her as a child.

    Look, I get that you currently think that I support genocide because, as a parent whose biggest fear in life is his child dying would do anything to stop that from happening, but I think you need to take a step back and a deep breath and think about what I'm saying here and what you expect of me.

    Let's say your biggest fear in the world was being in the room with a dog and someone started telling you that if you didn't get in a room with a dog, you held an evil genocide-supporting position? How does that make any sense? It's not a political opinion, it's not a choice to be terrified of dogs, and expecting everyone to overcome the thing that terrifies them the most is somehow something achievable by most people.

    I can't not be terrified of something that terrifies me. I can't not do whatever is in my power to stop the thing that terrifies me from happening. Good for you if you can, I don't have that sort of bravery and I would suggest that most people do not have that sort of bravery or there wouldn't be things like therapy for irrational phobias.

    You quoted my original comment. You must have read that it was my biggest fear and the one that I have nightmares about. And yet you're berating me for not being able to overcome something that most people are not able to overcome as if I'm some sort of unusual case here. If I'm like most flawed humans, guilty.

    Re your quote- I said you were coming close to violating civility rules, not that you were violating them. Can you really claim you're responding to me in a civil manner even if you aren't using insults?

    PugJesus , (edited )
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    I couldn’t force my adult daughter to flee with me, so I think it would be obvious that I was talking about her as a child.

    You couldn't 'force' your daughter to flee with you now, at 14, if the state was trying to keep her for conscription purposes, as the only way you can 'force' her now is either by physical force (which would not be viable over fleeing an entire country unless you live a very short trunk ride to the border) or by the coercive apparatus of the state (ie filing a missing persons' report if she runs off).

    Look, I get that you currently think that I support genocide because, as a parent whose biggest fear in life is his child dying would do anything to stop that from happening, but I think you need to take a step back and a deep breath and think about what I’m saying here and what you expect of me.

    I expect that "Literally anything and everything" be off the table as an acceptable sacrifice.

    Let’s say your biggest fear in the world was being in the room with a dog and someone started telling you that if you didn’t get in a room with a dog, you held an evil genocide-supporting position?

    It's good that you bring up fear of dogs - I have very severe arachnophobia. I can't stay in the same room as a spider, no matter how harmless. I can't even look at a spider, real, photographed, or drawn, without panicking. If I said that ANY cost was worth me not having to go into a room full of spiders from floor to ceiling, and someone pointed out "What about an actual and serious risk of genocide being committed because you didn't", for me to hold that any cost was worth me not going into that room would be evil and in support of genocide, without a doubt.

    I can’t not be terrified of something that terrifies me.

    This is true.

    I can’t not do whatever is in my power to stop the thing that terrifies me from happening.

    So by your argument, if someone feared being poor, more than anything in the world, they would be helpless to stop themselves from stepping on anyone and causing any amount of mass deaths in pursuit of remaining rich, and it would not be alright for anyone to call them evil for that?

    After all, preservation of one's own wellbeing transcends not only species but kingdoms.

    Good for you if you can, I don’t have that sort of bravery and I would suggest that most people do not have that sort of bravery or there wouldn’t be things like therapy for irrational phobias.

    I would say most people don't make apologia for their phobias.

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    So by your argument, if someone feared being poor, more than anything in the world, they would be helpless to stop themselves from stepping on anyone and causing any amount of mass deaths in pursuit of remaining rich, and it would not be alright for anyone to call them evil for that?

    I'm sorry, I can't take you seriously after this analogy.

    Feel free to believe I'm an evil person who supports genocide because I won't allow my underage daughter to die in a war. That's fine. Just bear that in mind when you agree with me on any other position I hold on any other issue that you are agreeing with someone who also is an evil genocide supporter, so you might want to think about whether or not it's a good idea after all.

    Anyway, you implying you're not being uncivil is just silly and I think we should just end this before you end up taking a break from this community.

    PugJesus ,
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    I’m sorry, I can’t take you seriously after this analogy.

    Because it casts doubt on whether a fear-based justification for immoral behavior is valid?

    Feel free to believe I’m an evil person who supports genocide because I won’t allow my underage daughter to die in a war. That’s fine.

    In the discussion you literally posited that any cost, including genocide, was worth not letting your daughter (implicitly, as I clearly outlined, not when she was underaged) die in a war. I don't know what you call that except conditional support for genocide. Most people, I think, would have some sort of moral issue with the cost being 'literal genocide'.

    Just bear that in mind when you agree with me on any other position I hold on any other issue that you are agreeing with someone who also is an evil genocide supporter, so you might want to think about whether or not it’s a good idea after all.

    The fuck? That's some "Hitler liked dogs too - are you SURE you like dogs?"

    Even if your positions were 99% evil and 1% good, that doesn't make the 1% good no longer worth agreeing with. And in all likelihood, it's probably closer to the reverse. I don't know why you feel that people can't defend evil positions unless their entire worldview is evil.

    Anyway, you implying you’re not being uncivil is just silly and I think we should just end this before you end up taking a break from this community.

    Uh-huh. It's just silly, because you made the accusation that I called you and not the position you were defending evil, and after it was pointed out that I quite clearly stated that the position you were defending was evil, you lost the ground you were making threats on. But ban me if you like. It would be terrible if someone thought that allowing genocide was evil.

    FlyingSquid Mod ,
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    Okay, I'd say you had enough warnings that you were not being civil. You have been here far more than long enough to know why your behavior is not acceptable. I'll give you some time to cool off.

    barsquid ,

    I'm not fighting for this shithole country unless I am fighting against MAGAs instead of for MAGAs.

    angstylittlecatboy ,

    I personally think that's the only likely scenario where there'd be war on American soil.

    cyborganism , to Technology in How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

    With the size of housing units they build in condo buildings these days, who the fuck has any room to store appliances?

    Plus, we live in an era where we produce too much shit anyway and it's damaging the environment. So by sharing stuff like this, it means we need to produce less.

    alvvayson ,

    Indeed, also it's much nicer to use a shared high quality tool than to buy an el-cheapo disposable tool.

    Even something simple like a crowbar. I once borrowed a (shorter) professional crowbar after struggling with a (larger) cheap one. The thing I was trying to pry came out like butter.

    Even though physics dictates that a shorter lever should be inferior, it just had a much better design and grip.

    Better for our wallet, sanity and environment.

    lolcatnip ,

    Yeah but was it any good for killing head crabs?

    henfredemars ,

    This is an outstanding idea for an apartment community. It addresses space issues, cost concerns, and largely prevents abuse from the get-go because you know where all your borrowers live.

    Magister ,
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    In great Montreal area it's more and more enormous, condo 1000sqft+, thousands of them, that people cannot buy because they are too expensive, I don't understand the system

    cyborganism ,

    *cough* Maestria *cough*

    cyborganism ,

    Yeah they built these big ass luxury condo towers downtown and most of them are empty. I know because I can see in them from my office building.

    Some argue this allows richer people to move out of smaller units therefore freeing them for others. But instead you have international investors coming in to buy them up as a real tax haven. Or the rich will simply buy them but keep the old ones and rent them at a premium. It doesn't help at all.

    freebee ,

    You don't have a tax for owning "abandoned" housing (inhabited by noone)? There should be.

    cyborganism ,

    There's a tax for foreign ownership now,I think..

    ANIMATEK , to World News in Indian farm worker in Italy ‘left to die on road’ with severed arm

    Holy fuciking shit what's wrong with people

    possiblylinux127 ,
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    Indifference

    ChocoboRocket ,

    Indifference is just a tool they use - the root cause is Greed.

    They hate immigrants, but love slave labour. Then use immigrants "taking jobs" (what the farm owners actually want, because slaves are very profitable and locals would never do that work at that wage) to rile up the population to vote for Conservative governments, who often don't change the influx of immigrants but who does love to lower taxes and turn a blind eye to labour abuses.

    girlfreddy OP ,
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    Rinse and repeat for every other Westernized nation in the world.

    Canada and the US are exactly the same. And nobody in either gov't is doing anything to change it.

    possiblylinux127 ,
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    I disagree. Look at Adolf Eichmann. He was part of the leadership that organized the holocaust. What is kind of terrifying is that he was pretty much a desk worker. When he first appeared to the public during his trial the public assumed he would be this terrible human being. However, just by looking at him you wouldn't think it was a criminal or mass murder. He was a generic guy who should've had basic morals but didn't.

    ChocoboRocket , (edited )

    I am not sure what point you are trying to make, or how it relates to my comment/the article?

    Even if we're talking about someone who simply lacks basic or any morals, that would make them even more susceptible to Greed.

    Especially when using a system specifically designed to provide them with vulnerable people who are mostly hidden from public and given less wages and rights, don't know local laws, and are incredibly desperate.

    What a convenient coincidence, heartless Greed finds itself flush with unlimited desperate workers. Again.

    SOMETHINGSWRONG , (edited )

    The cruelest part of late stage capitalism is that these immigrants would probably have enjoyed a better life back home.

    Sure many are refugees escaping violence or truly desperate conditions.

    But many are also normal-ass people that were sold the lie of the Western/American dream. People that struggle to learn English in adulthood (much harder than as a child), have no specialized degree or skill, and no family in the states.

    People that could have joined the normal working class at home with less debt, less stress, and less discrimination and led mostly normal lives in their own culture.

    Sure the Western consumer has nice electronics and Nike shoes, etc. But everyone seems to be in denial about the impending collapse of the entire economy and how dire the lives of the workers are right now.

    It’s going to be a rough century and it’s only getting started.

    BigBlackBuck ,

    Profits over people every time.

    Empricorn , to World News in Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit

    You know, a rational thing for any empathetic human to do.

    qprimed ,

    I am beginning to think the lizard people are actually real. please help.

    makuus , (edited )

    With how well the “every accusation is a confession” adage seems to hold up, I’m pretty darned sure that lizard people are real at this point.

    ours ,

    It's sadly more boring than that. Not lizard people, just sociopaths.

    I was trying to find a word for a government ruled by sociopaths but I guess "fascism" fits fine.

    lennybird , to World News in How Zionism became a synonym for violence and oppression
    @lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

    The best thing to come out of all this is the veil finally being removed and a global conversation of separating antisemitism from anti-Israeli nationalism. It's been so tiring seeing Israel conflate the two for decades.

    Having a wanton disregard for civilian life, shutting down news agencies... They've become the very thing they fought against nearly a century ago.

    JASN_DE ,

    It's been so tiring seeing Israel conflate the two for decades.

    But it worked really well for them.

    Tryptaminev ,

    Because the Zionists and the Antisemites and other Fascists are allies in doing so. They love the idea of ethnostates and they love the idea of monoculturalism and they love "their people" to be at threat outside "their country" so they can force them into that country.

    It is fascism through and through.

    Aceticon , (edited )

    They’ve become the very thing they fought against nearly a century ago.

    Well, that's the thing, it wasn't they - those were completelly different people who just happenned to share the same religion and etnicity.

    Put aside the racist thinking (even the soft, closet version of racism that's been pushed by libs in the last couple of decades under claims of being "positive") that bundles all people of the same gender/etnicity/origin/sexual-orientation as being the same, all equally deserving and all implicitly victims or aggressors, and this situation is simply aggressors doing horrible, inhuman acts against other human beings, due to a mix of greed and extreme racism.

    The only kind of fair expectations and judgment is based on people's actions, not other actions of other people of the same gender/etnicity/origin/sexual-orientation, and that different other people who happen to share with these violent sociopathic agressors a characteristic that is entirelly irrelevant for this behaviour of theirs, were themselves victims of another bunch of violent sociopathic agressors and fought the good fight, only has meaning for those people whose treatment and perception of other human beings is shaped by their race, i.e. for racists.

    If there is one thing all this has shown is that a lot of people turn out to have been running around with a deeply discriminatory view of others, including pretty straightforward racism, even though they believed they were no such thing (the opposite, even) because the discriminatory judgements the made of others were said to be "positive".

    Those people might not have done it for bad reasons, but they still interiorised deeply discriminatory views of other human beings, a moral disfunctionality which was weaponized by Zionists to allow them to act against their victims with quasi-inhuman levels of racism and violence, all this well before the current situation in Gaza.

    Altofaltception , (edited ) to World News in Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years

    Reminder that the Tories have had 2 Prime Ministers in power without holding an election.

    Edited to clarify: yes there have been 3 PMs since 2019, but 2 of them were not elected.

    Twentytwodividedby7 ,

    Isn't Sunak the third since the 2019 election?

    GreyEyedGhost ,

    He must have forgotten the lady who didn't last as long as a head of lettuce.

    Altofaltception ,

    Liz Truss. I meant PMs who were elected.

    Altofaltception ,

    In hindsight I could have phrased it better, but I meant PMs who were elected.

    Boris Johnson was elected in 2019.

    Liz Truss replaced him but was not elected. Rishi Sunak replaced her and was also not elected.

    EinfachUnersetzlich ,

    They were all elected by the voters in their constituencies, the same as every MP, and chosen as the leader of their party by the party members, the same as every PM.

    Altofaltception ,

    Playing musical chairs is not a typical move.

    Technus , to Technology in ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS

    The article describes the device working in ways that violate relativity, but the actual technical description is a lot cooler.

    It's not a quantum compass, really. It's a quantum accelerometer and gyroscope. The hope is that its accuracy will lend itself to long-term inertial guidance, which normally needs regular GPS updates to correct errors which accumulate over time.

    eager_eagle OP ,
    @eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

    a lot cooler

    ice what you did there

    long-term inertial guidance

    this is exactly what I got from the article: a more accurate inertial navigation. What part violates relativity?

    finley , (edited )

    You can’t use it to determine both your location and velocity at the same time. (/s)

    Technus , (edited )

    It is being used to develop a quantum compass – an instrument that will exploit the behaviour of subatomic matter in order to develop devices that can accurately pinpoint their locations no matter where they are placed,

    [...]

    The aim of the Imperial College project [...] is to create a device that is not only accurate in fixing its position, but also does not rely on receiving external signals.

    These statements imply the device can know exactly where it is in space just by measuring some purely internal quantum effect, which conflicts with the principles of Lorentz invariance and relativity.

    Both are constructed around the same idea that there's nothing special in the laws of physics that changes with where you are or how fast you're going. That observation is what led the conclusion that the speed of light is the same in every reference frame, and to Einstein developing the theory of relativity.

    In reality, the device needs an external signal to learn its initial position. And it's unlikely to be perfectly accurate so it may still need periodic updates, just hopefully a lot less frequently.

    The London Underground is actually kind of a dumb use-case because it's fixed infrastructure. You can just have something like RFID tags around the track that the train reads as it goes by. And there's going to be sensors in the track that report trains' presence to a central control room. It's just a good setting to test the device.

    What it's really potentially quite useful for is nuclear submarines since they can stay underwater pretty much as long as their food supplies last, and knowing their position without using sonar or being able to receive GPS signals is quite important for navigation and obstacle avoidance. But the author was probably told to downplay potential military applications.

    Darkassassin07 ,
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    It would certainly make jamming of guided weapons quite difficult; missiles, drones, UAVs, etc.

    lemmyng ,
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    The London Underground is actually kind of a dumb use-case because it’s fixed infrastructure.

    On the other hand it's a perfect test bed, because there's sufficient changes of direction and speed, and the fixed infrastructure lets you measure drift. Plus it being underground helps simulate GPS signal being weak or unavailable.

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