gandalf_der_12te
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- Comment on get sum 6 hours ago:
People call me crazy, but I say that our society has been mass brainwashed, basically mentally neutered, acting increasingly neurotic and violent and irrational.
No i’m not calling you crazy, i actually see it the same way. Social Media is a mass brainwashing tool.
The reason why elon musk acquired twitter is because he saw it as an “social engineering” challenge, after having already taken up classical engineering challenges (tesla). the reason is because the rich see it as exactly that: society is a system that can be manipulated and twisted into shape.
- Comment on get sum 6 hours ago:
IMO, what is going on that is destroying mental health, and again, I say this as an early tech adopter
i think you forgot a word or more in that sentence
[the internet / social media] literally retards the development of functional social behaviors
I have the same opinion, and i say that the internet takes attention away from functioning social forms of behavior. in other words, the internet feeds off people’s attention, but that reduces inter-human contact too.
- Comment on parallels 7 hours ago:
yeah that’s what i meant to say
- Comment on get sum 8 hours ago:
the age of sexual consent varies between 16 and 18 in the US
- Comment on get sum 8 hours ago:
trans people only make up a small percentage of the population and they don’t explain the surge visible in the graph
- Comment on get sum 8 hours ago:
what i have come to realize is how much different people’s view on sexuality differs.
Everybody thinks their own emotions are absolute and the way that everybody sees it; though that is not true at all. A very clear example of this is how different people are attracted to different kinds of people. It’s not only about being gay or not, it’s also that there’s a huge number of people who are either asexual or rather prudish to the extent that they basically don’t have sex outside of very narrowly-defined contexts.
This has been a huge surprise for me to learn about since my own instinct is the opposite: sexuality is what keeps the society together, what facilitates the exchange of people and causes relationships. without sexuality, a lot of things wouldn’t work or work only very slowly.
- Comment on parallels 9 hours ago:
After reading this wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing#History
damn, the asians beat us to it again, i guess. (speaking as an european)
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- Comment on bird based storage 16 hours ago:
you have heard about IP over avian carrier
now get ready for:
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 18 hours ago:
actually China’s CO2 hasn’t gone up in the past 12 months: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdd6jdm42o
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 18 hours ago:
pollution
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 19 hours ago:
cement releases large amounts of CO2 when it is being produced, i.e. when the cement powder is being produced from limestone.
later, when you mix the cement with water and sand to make concrete, it re-absorbs that CO2. you’ve got it backwards :D
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 19 hours ago:
i agree with your sentiment completely, just to point out a small technicality:
space elevators aren’t technically feasible. i’ve done the calculations a while ago and practically, the weight of the space elevator itself would be so much that it wouldn’t be able to carry its own weight. remember that it would essentially be a tower several hundred kilometers high. the highest buildings on earth today aren’t even a single kilometer high.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 19 hours ago:
i think it’s not only racism though. surely, there’s also a lot of kicking-downwards on the poor. the poor shouldn’t get a nice life, so they’re motivated to work harder and be successful, so since public transport helps everyone, including the poors, we don’t want that.
(not my words, just a common sentiment i’ve heard)
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 19 hours ago:
it’s not even capitalism at this point. there’s various definitions of capitalism out there, which makes it blurry and difficult-to-talk-about, but most of them feature some element of wealth maximization. in the current trajectory, nobody’s wealth is increased.
trump’s policies hurt not only the common people, but also the economy. if the common people have less money, they spend less on consumerism and that cripples the economy. that is actually what’s already happening rn. and it’s only going to get worse. we need handouts, so people can spend money.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 19 hours ago:
you’re looking only at the return-on-investment of rail as if passengers would have to pay for it with tickets and such. that is not at all the case.
the benefit of rail or any transport infrastructure in fact is the fact that it facilitates the rest of the economy. almost every economy depends a lot on transport, and by making transport possible, the rest of the economy becomes possible, and then that pays takes, and that’s the advantage in having streets.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 20 hours ago:
I read half the article and i strongly disagree with a lot of its points.
First, it lists corruption as a reason to halt the HSR (high speed rail) program. Corruption is however not specific to rail and exists in every branch of the economy, including car and road construction. So that’s not a reason to target HSR.
Secondly, it says that HSR is not “economical”, which completely ignoring that HSR does not have to be economical, at least not in the classical sense. To a political party, the cost of a project is the popularity or unpopularity of the project; i.e. to the party, the actual cost is the cost of voters who dislike projects. However, the Chinese people are overwhelmingly looking at HSR as a positive thing and an excellent idea. So it has a very positive benefit for the state. Also, note that good transportation facility is valuable for all the other branches of economy, and therefore has positive economic by-products.
These considerations make me wonder whether actually the article is paid for by the oil lobby, trying to perpetuate outdated and expensive airlines and car transport methods.
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 1 day ago:
i get that he was good at getting people excited for electric cars and space travel, but that’s no excuse to slashing social safety nets. and that’s definitely what he intended to do when given the chance. it was only due to public backlash that it was stopped. sociopathic behavior.
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 1 day ago:
Musth, not Musk
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 1 day ago:
also btw i read somewhere that Musth (the manic episode) can be shortened down to approximately 2 weeks when the elephants are restrained (with a metal chain) and practically starved a bit (given very little food) for a while. (they survive ofc)
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 1 day ago:
the cycle between the day and the night represents the cycle of mania and peace
- Comment on Resources 2 days ago:
actually if you read the paper it goes into more detail than just calories
- Comment on grindset 3 days ago:
only put effort into things you believe in
- Comment on Is there any social media without memes and US politics? 3 days ago:
In that case i would recommend you block !politics@lemmy.world and !politicalmemes@lemmy.world and !news!world@lemmy.world
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 3 days ago:
and prettier partners
- Comment on Resources 3 days ago:
what is soil erosion and why is it relevant? i’ve never heard of it
- Comment on Resources 3 days ago:
voting by emotion
- Comment on Resources 3 days ago:
now you also know the name :)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
turns out that the media’s display that men only want sex doesn’t quite turn out to be true, after all
- Comment on Resources 3 days ago:
Why can’t we just have fewer people too? Instead of finding ways to support 50 billion people
line must go up
