Chainweasel

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Chainweasel ,

They didn't start calling WWII what it is until 1944, but I think we can all agree it didn't start in 1944.
Just like later historians placed the start of WWII on multiple different events depending on which country you're in, the start of World War III will be long before we start calling it that.
I'm in the camp that the start of WW3 will be the Russian invasion of Ukraine if things continue to escalate the way they're going, because that's when you really started seeing lines being drawn between the axis and allies.
Russia, China, Iran, and NK are the most recognizable names that have aligned themselves with the axis so far.
The lines are already drawn and future events will dictate whether or not we're currently living in WW3 today.

What do you think the Great Filter is?

The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi...

Chainweasel , (edited )

I think that the great filter/fermi paradox is a combination of two facts,

  1. Our entire radio output (the only example we have to go by) is pitiful compared to the sun, like a candle in front of a flood light, you'll only be able to see it so far before it's completely drowned out. After a few dozen light years our radio output is less than the margin of error of a stars detectable radio output.
  2. As a civilization advances it must reduce radio leakage. As data gets more important, it gets more important that you're not wasting energy moving it around. Narrow beamed radio transmission becomes the norm and even less radio signals escape the system than when radio was messy and overpowered.

They're not missing or gone, they've just moved beyond messy radio signals. Even we tightened up our radio emissions in a little over a century. Most of what we watch or listen to comes to us via fiber, cable, or short range transmissions like cell phone towers and Wi-Fi.

Chainweasel ,

I don't.
I don't have kids, I work 40hrs a week, I don't buy little things I want because there's a few "big" things I want that'll I'll need about $800 for.
I make it almost paycheck to paycheck and it will take me at least 6 months to save $800 if I buy nothing else.

Chainweasel ,

I'm sure China would be thrilled if Russia started WWIII on their border.
But let's be honest though, world war III started 3 years ago and as of right now there are currently 9 more active conflicts going on worldwide than the peak of world war II, but no one is going to call it a world war until the superpowers are in direct conflict with each other.

Chainweasel ,

Not likely, considering the last few times it happened it didn't. This is the first time it's happened since the 1980s, not the first time it's happened.

Chainweasel ,

While I agree the spread of CSAM needs to be stopped, we can't violate everyone's privacy in the effort to do it.
And are actual people going to be reviewing these messages or are we just going to blindly trust AI not to flag innocent people on accident?

Chainweasel ,

Vaccines don't work when 1/2 the population refuses to take it.

Chainweasel ,

Covid had a ~5% mortality rate at the peak, H5N1 has a mortality rate of ~56%, a damper won't be enough

Chainweasel ,

I had one about a year ago on Lemmy.ml when Lemmy.world had more downtime than uptime, but I haven't used it since.

Chainweasel ,

I don't, sites like this are they best when their a hidden corner of the internet

Haiti transition council taps former PM Conille to again lead country ( www.reuters.com )

PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 28 (Reuters) - Haiti's transition council on Tuesday tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille, who briefly led the country over a decade ago, to return to the role as the Caribbean nation works to restore stability and take back control from violent gangs....

Chainweasel ,

They didn't "he and an army will now be tasked" they said "he will now be tasked"

New Israeli attack today (Tuesday) on Rafah evacuation zone ( www.reuters.com )

CAIRO, May 28 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a tent camp in an evacuation area west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, Gaza health authorities said, while advancing to the heart of the southern Gaza city for the first time after a night of heavy bombardment....

Chainweasel , (edited )

This feels like the scene in Mars Attacks when the Martians were carrying around the translator saying "we come in peace" and "Stop, come back, I'm you're friend" while blasting the shit out of people.

Chainweasel ,

Why the hell are we concerned with Putin's feelings on the subject?
I'm sure it also enrages him that we're helping Ukraine at all, so what's the point?
In fact, we should be going out of our way to purposefully piss him off.
He's 71 and possibly has cancer, inducing a coronary might be the quickest way to get this war over with.

Chainweasel ,

I'll wish badly on them for you then.
Good riddance!

Chainweasel ,

Yeah, we'll see how well that works when billions of people are displaced by climate change, living in poverty with little to no access to healthcare or medicine.
I'm sure that'll bump the average waaaay up.
/S

Chainweasel ,

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable

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  • Chainweasel ,

    Burritos have an inside and an outside, therefore sandwich.

    Chainweasel ,

    It's tripled in population. We're up to about 3,000 people now.

    Chainweasel , (edited )

    Genocide in Gaza, meh.

    What? People are willing to let Trump win (which would be its own entirely separate set of human rights violations) over the genocide in Gaza.
    You must not be paying enough attention because your first point can be easily disproven by visiting any major news source and viewing the stories about the mass protests on college campuses all over the county right now.

    Chainweasel , (edited )

    I think Gamers Nexus also did a video on it recently.

    Edit: I'm an idiot and I just recently started watching GN so I had no idea it was the same channel 🤷‍♂️

    Chainweasel ,

    Covid has a mortality rate of about 3% while H5N1 has a mortality rate of about 56%.
    If it starts spreading from person to person and it has an r value similar to Covid, we're fucked.

    Israel launches Rafah offensive it says is start of mission to ‘eliminate’ Hamas ( www.theguardian.com )

    Israel has launched a major military offensive against Hamas forces in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, seizing control of a key border crossing and cutting off most aid into the territory a day before indirect talks on a ceasefire deal are due to restart....

    Chainweasel ,

    So, if this is the "start of [the] mission to 'eliminate' Hamas", what the hell have they been doing since October?
    I mean I know what they've been doing, but what was the goal?

    Chainweasel ,

    Looking young is very different from feeling young.
    I could never look at myself in the mirror ever again and it wouldn't make my knees feel any better.

    Chainweasel ,

    I'm blowing off all of my responsibilities and getting high and playing video games all day.

    Chainweasel ,

    I don't disagree at all, But I feel like the only reason why the United States has any interest in controlling the Middle East is because of the oil.

    Chainweasel ,

    Removing old.reddit will push more people away than locking down the API did.

    Chainweasel , (edited )

    Digg (a link aggregator very much like Reddit) started pulling similar shit and everyone left for the alternative, which was Reddit at the time.
    After everybody left Digg, Reddit became the default and after about 15 years they are doing the same things that drove people away from Digg

    Chainweasel ,

    And if you recommend Discord as an alternative, it's not the same.

    I keep seeing people recommend discord as an alternative but it's just chat rooms, If it's an alternative for anything it's ICQ.

    Chainweasel ,

    Exactly, it's actually MORE work to shave with a beard because instead of just completely removing all of the hair and you have to shape it and make sure it's symmetrical.

    Chainweasel ,

    A lot of people believe everything they read on Facebook so...

    Chainweasel ,

    Honestly I think it's as simple as his notariety.
    He is one of the most well-known psychologists and is a bit of a pop culture icon.
    It's like how you see most non-physicists talk about Einstein more than they do Feynman or Higgs.

    Chainweasel ,

    While "next" is technically correct, it'll be far worse than Covid was/is.
    Covid was our practice round and we failed.
    Not only is Bird Flu orders of magnitude more deadly than Covid, people are so thoroughly sick of pandemic protocols that we'll never get the kind of mask adoption we saw during Covid and even that was abysmal.
    Employers will never allow people to work from home again if they can help it, they're still Fighting to claw the rest back now.

    This will likely be our last pandemic.

    Based on a true story ( lemmy.world )

    My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the...

    Chainweasel ,

    If you're into the sci-fi, you'll probably like Project Hail Mary, it's hard sci-fi and you get very invested in the story.
    Ray Porter also does a great audiobook narration of it on audible.

    Chainweasel ,

    I misread this as "Ganja" and thought they dropped him in a tub of hash or something

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