@12thRITS@dgar investment in the war machine is a tax on our collective stupidity, our inability to prevent bullies, greedy, power hungry people from leading others to conflict, sadly, until we are better, we'll have to pay it. But sigh, if we ever do, the amount of ressources we'll free will be quite something.
The more I think about it, the major problems in tech and in society in general is that all the investment is going to solve problems that white affluent men have
@danirabbit some try to solve problems others have, and honestly it's not necessarily better, because they try to solve their idea of the problem others have, and can be something wildly inappropriate and even dangerous (and be frustrated when people aren't thankful).
I would say, best way to get started is to listen to people you want to help, and try to design solutions with them, and pay a lot of attention to feedback.
Destroying the planet we live on -- the only planet we can live on -- is of course totally legal and even supported and subsidised by governments around the world (including #Scotland's).
But PROTESTING against destroying the planet? That's illegal. That's very, very illegal. Don't even think about doing that.
@simon_brooke@lienrag@pgcd@TomSwirly Well, i think, and i should really invest myself more into that, so take it with a grain of salt, that local politics is how we ultimately get to influence at the larger scale, it’s a lot easier to get someone elected at a city council, as mayor, or as other locally very influential roles, than at national or international levels, and these in turn, influence the higher levels, that’s how the right managed to get an insane amount of power.
@simon_brooke@lienrag@pgcd@TomSwirly it’s not, but a tiny portion of humanity even flies at all. It’s a highly priviledged activity, for social justice reason, it needs to be reined in, because we can’t ask poorer persons to make efforts without the richest people doing this kind of effort, but it’s not what matters in the grand scheme of things, much much more people drive a car every day of the year, than people take the plane 2 a year.
This story demonstrates why the right wing’s mantra of ever “smaller government” is lethal. It’s the role of government to make sure products and services are safe.
When the Trump administration came into power, it shrunk the EPA.
Both parties are not the same, nor are they only marginally different or whatever nonsense some enjoy spouting out. #ElectDemocrats
@melissabeartrix@gocu54 while i'm sure we are the majority, i sometimes wonder how representative the population is there, there is certainly a large skew, that or i'm out of touch with the share of actual share of trans people in the general population.
It's certainly a good thing if trans people feel welcome enough to be over-represented here, anyway.
@melissabeartrix@gocu54 oh it's definitely not just us :D, trans people have a long history on such network and many were there years before me (at least), and helped built it, and helped build it, and i'm sure that helped a lot. The fact that many server admins are, has an effect on moderation, so while in the mass, it's only marginally more, the bias is probably higher in more influential positions. (e.g the late @nova, who i only learned was trans after her tragic passing was very prolific).
Trump's lawyer Blanche: There are a number of the jurors that we have social media posts for very much contrary to what they said. We don't want to confront them openly
Judge: They were not told it is an anonymous jury.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Juror number 1 has a series of extraordinarily hostile Facebook posts-
Judge: Can I see them?... Was I handed the right thing? The sheet has 2 screen grabs
@GottaLaff NFL i find it pretty incredible that there are still people with no strong opinions on trump, i'm almost concerned about their awareness about, like, everything, but i guess they'll have to figure it out. :ablobgrin:
Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.
I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.
Pros:
This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.
Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.
It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".
I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.
We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.
Cons:
Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.
While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.
We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.
@RickiTarr I live close to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, i’m French and moved here a few years ago.
The NL is a great country in many aspect, some of them are the high quality infrastructure, with great public transport and other non-car transportation options, most famously bikes, but not just that. Small human-scale cities that are well connected and very pleasant to visit, and it doesn’t take going far to walk or bike among trees and nice landscape. People are nice, but also very direct.
@RickiTarr Cons, well, the weather is not the best, unless you like rain, the winter is not really cold, but it’s long-ish, and a bit gloomy, the language is challenging (but you don’t need to learn it, people speak english, though i feel bad about not being able to say much after living here for years).
Cost of life is quite high, housing in particular, but wages are also good, so i’d say it’s fine, and quality of life is worth the price.
#Trump says on Truth Social that it would me “my great honor” to go to jail for violating Judge Merchan’s gag order and that it will make him a “modern day Nelson Mandela.”
@BlackAzizAnansi "it's not based on your performance at all", might feel like a nice thing to say on the moment, and might be the actual truth, but surely if she worked her butt off for this job, learning it didn't make the slightest difference when company reassessed its "strategy" will certainly have an impact on her strategy about investing her energy into her next role… fool me once…
Them - it's a virus, every time it changes to a new variant it gets weaker
Me - percent of deaths have not changed and maybe a slight increase, and it's getting more infectious, along with combining covid and influenza together as one
@melissabeartrix the myth that a virus automatically becomes weaker as it mutates is what really has to die out.
It can absolutely get worse, it helps infectiousness if it doesn't kill you fast but if it only kills you after you contaminated many people, it's absolutely not going to be selected out & things that make it spread more can absolutely make it more lethal & considering it's current lethality, it can absolutely become more lethal without hampering its spread.
What an Oxide and Friends last night! @bcantrill and I were joined by the one and only @AndresFreundTec to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incredible story… so great to get into the details with Andres. Definitely check it out (or on the pod tomorrow).
@BlackAzizAnansi I keep in mind that large groups of people, some of them very smart, are paid significant amounts of money to work on it full time, and we are bombarded with info to be critical about all the time, so it's absolutely not a fair fight, I fell for it before, and I will fall for it again, though I try not to, of course.
I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.
There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/
@futurebird i think the idea is simple to the point of being naive indeed, if we are smart enough to build something smarter than us, then this thing is, by definition, also smart enough to build something smarter than itself. Perfectly logical, but assumes a very unidimensional understanding of intelligence, and the total ignorance of the possibility of different kind of limits.
How stupid do people think I am ... I did a house call to someone that I fixed their clock 9 months ago ... I asked if a series of questions, including "has the clock been moved?" ... And got no ... Went to do the house call and the fucking clock had been moved ... I got there turned right and was told no the clock is in this room ... Then we had a discussion if the clock had been moved ... It had ... He denied it ... Until his wife showed up and I said "I thought the clock was in the lounge" ... She said it was, {husband} moved it ... So after a lengthy discussion with the husband I left him with an invoice to be paid, along with, you don't pay it the warrant is voided
@melissabeartrix@static i suspect many people get away with lying (and feel so smart), because most people are not confident enough to confront them (am i crazy? was it really in this spot? etc), and it's easier to just go along than fight.
Ô tout puissant, dis le clairement si tu veux que j'aille les p'tits arpions à l'air comme Tom Sawyer, ça ira plus vite, non parce que la communication par signes mystiques là, c'était bien dans l'Antiquité, les gens ils avaient le time à l'époque, mais on est au XXIe siècle, Seigneur, j'ai pas qu'ça qu'à faire !
@scudery Ouais, alors ça c'est plus entre lui et lui, je pense, par ce que le magneau pascal qui dit "père, père, pourquoi m'as tu abandonné?" du haut de sain sulpice, ça sent pas le plan sans accros, y'a eu embrouille sous golgotah, je pense.
Je ne verrai pas Dune 2 au cinéma avec ma pneumonie, mais au moins en version 🏴☠️ c'est gratuit.
Dans Dune 1, le gentil seigneur envoyé sur la planète Arrakis pour y exploité les ressources était tué par des méchants sur ordre de l’empereur intergalactique qui aimait pourtant le gentil seigneur comme un fils.
Le fils du gentil seigneur survit avec sa maman et rencontre des autochtones un peu débiles, mais fiers et grands guerriers
@Camille_Poulsard pas vu dune 2, lu bouquins il y a très longtemps. Le baron arkonen c'est un gros méchant caricatural quand même, genre de mémoire il est vénère contre Paul, qui est un enfant, et du coup pour se détendre il veut torturer un nain, il demande qu'on lui en trouve un, quelqu'un a la mauvaise idée de dire que quand même, c'est pas ouf, et du coup il lui fait raccourcir les jambes, ça fera l'affaire.
I wonder who the first person was who figured out they could send a message home to their family... when they were on a long journey by taking some of the pigeons they raised with them and letting them go?
I bet the first message was just the bird itself. "When I get to the mountains I will release Lisa, when I reach the amber fields I will release Ahmed."
But then they learned to give the birds little parcels to carry.
Maybe the birds were raised for meat, or as pets... or both.
@futurebird the birds are still raised for meat in some places, I saw when I was a kid in the south of France, you don't even have to enclose them, they stay close to the home you give them, that probably started naturally on short distances because of that, and people realize other time how incredibly far they could push it.
But there are many things I wonder how people came up with that, in particular when it's a lot of work to make something edible/non toxic.
