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- Comment on I'd believe any of them. 10 hours ago:
I assume hes doing it in the bowel, because that would be the most distressing, but if its in the tank, thats merely upsetting. The article doesn’t say which.
- Comment on Ketamine addict Elon Musk believes puppets are attacking him 3 days ago:
botched penis surgery
rumor has it he’s already given himself erectile dysfunction with one already
- Comment on James McAvoy Pitched 'Star Trek' Series About "Young Picard" 1 week ago:
The scifi police/hospital procedural needs a high-school drama tie in.
- Comment on nice sleeves 1 week ago:
Don’t drink a full bottle of Dusse and Willett before shopping online.
- Comment on In the deep freeze 1 week ago:
Oatmilk icecream has come a long way
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
It sort of dies out before the first 1.58^-5^ of a lightyear. But be my guest, consign your offspring’s offspring’s offspring to the consequences of your wanderlust.
Moreover, there’s a humongous range of possible radiations, temperatures, elemental combinations, gravitys, pressures. The range necessary to keep a human alive is a one dimensional sliver on the pie chart.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
The practical universe ends where the solar wind meets the interstellar medium. Baring scifi plot contrivance extra-luminality, this is it for us.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
The first step to keep eggs in multiple baskets is to start with the cataclysmic greenhouse effect in the first basket.
Wanna colonize space? It’s a centuries long undertaking, and you should start from a stable foundation. Especially considering, any long term habitation is gonna be fostering an ecosystem from scratch, so you kinda really wanna model that on a stable ecosystem.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
What is the motivation behind the money? Why are they really doing this?
We want to colonize Mars and maybe the Moon, not because it is easy, but because we have a mistaken belief that it is easy!
Asking “Cui bono?” will get you most of the way to an understanding of what’s going on… but sometimes there is no benefit, and rich powerful people are just acting on mistaken assumptions. Like, the assumption that a Mars (or any other body in the solar system) will take anything less then slow grueling highly sophisticated intricately organized staggeringly terribly carefully coordinated work for like 12 human generations.
- Comment on never forget 5 weeks ago:
Since we’re all fighting about it, the version of WTC 7 I heard:
Buildings above a certain height tend to have magnesium charges installed, so that in the even of catastrophe (like say two hijacked airplanes), they can be brought down in a controlled manner with as little collateral as possible. I’ve heard WTC 7 was accidentally wired up alongside the twin towers, so when the call was made, it came down as well.
Is that true? No fucking clue.
- Comment on great to know! 5 weeks ago:
The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it’s intended to do!
Gotta give credit, I stole this insight from Cory Doctorow.
- Comment on great to know! 1 month ago:
AI is a tool to do mass layoffs without making your stocks devalue. What happens after all the major companies do mass layoffs? Not a question investors are interested in, so it must be an externality with no barring on economics.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 1 month ago:
Careful, that almost sounds like something a competent opposition party would do.
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 1 month ago:
I’ve heard Pharrell agrees with this read. From what I’ve heard, he was contracted to write a song for something and the execs kept turning him down, so in his frustration he wrote the most shallow cheerful song he could. He thought they’d recognize that and reject it to, but they loved it.
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Big Money Is About to Get a Lot Bigger 1 month ago:
I plugged the URL into an archive site, but this works too, thank you
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Big Money Is About to Get a Lot Bigger 1 month ago:
🫠 haha oops
in my defense, clicking on it still didn’t let me read the article
- Comment on Deans are so yesterday 1 month ago:
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Big Money Is About to Get a Lot Bigger 1 month ago:
Everything after the ? in the URL can be removed. That’s all trackers so they can follow who shared what.
- Comment on A reminder 1 month ago:
You are saying that capitalists own the means of production, while “little capitalists” don’t.
I don’t think its useful to lump in high-income professional work with the low end of capital accumulation. The sums may overlap, but the actual class interests don’t, at least not entirely. Good analysis should recognize the distinctions here.
- Comment on Flat earthers 2 months ago:
I’ve always wanted to ask a flat earther why I only ever see full moons in the eastern sky at night and never the western sky. I don’t suppose they’d have a canned answer, so I’m curious the to the response.
- Comment on How to get attention around here. 2 months ago:
I was using “markets” interchangeably with “capital”. I do agree with what you, I don’t think you can escape markets as a social phenomenon, and at the same time they cannot be allowed to decide our political future. Our current setup is tantamount to ductaping the lever down on a lawnmower, and declaring that the “wisdom of the engine” knows what needs trimming.
- Comment on How to get attention around here. 2 months ago:
Markets incentivize and reward selfish behavior. A different system would incentivize different behaviors.
I swear, it’s like we’re stuck in the 20th century when it comes to this. It’s like designing a multiplayer game. Throw a thousand people in a RUST server, they’ll behave one way. Throw that same thousand into Deep Rock Galactic, they behave completely differently.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 2 months ago:
Gotta disagree here. You can have capitalists without them being in control of the state. That’s what most of Europe was during the early modern period. Capital existed, but political institutions were mostly still geared around the aristocracy and the Catholic church.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 2 months ago:
I believe the thinking is that you can’t really have the state wither away while capitalist states remain predominant on the planet.
- Comment on Google joins the party 2 months ago:
Tried
So it spat out some text that said “I’m now connecting to ChatGPT beep boop beep beep that’s me dialing for realsies” and now we get to pretend something newsworthy has occured
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 2 months ago:
what else is the scroll wheel for?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 months ago:
Suppose someone in that era became def and blind as an infant/toddler. Do you suppose they’d ever be able to learn to communicate?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 months ago:
I’d love to hear someone who thinks Helen Keller wasn’t real describe what they think the late 1800s was like.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 2 months ago:
B. this is because of Galilean relativity i think maybe
