AppleTea

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨never forget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful, that almost sounds like something a competent opposition party would do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We ain't happy anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🫠 haha oops

  in my defense, clicking on it still didn’t let me read the article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deans are so yesterday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley’s Big Money Is About to Get a Lot Bigger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  what else is the scroll wheel for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  B. this is because of Galilean relativity i think maybe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard the Wachowskis said it was inspired by it, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was disappointed by The Way of Water. For a guy who’s spent more time undersea than… basically anyone who isn’t a navy soldier in a submarine… it doesn’t really come across in the movie. I mean, we didn’t even see coral bleaching! In what is supposed to be an anti-colonial environmental movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re being nitpicky and technical, stick to the moons of Jupiter. Anything outside our solar system is practically inaccessible. Information that can’t be discovered with telescopes is gonna stay undiscovered. The deep ocean and the little shoal of our planetary neighbors at least has the potential for further study.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think red estrogen was a late nineties / early 2000s thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, Gen X deserves some of the inter-generational posting spat.

  I’ll start: the “Mtv generation” is largely freaking out over people breaking gender norms. Guess its only ok when Prince does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found one in the wild on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just poisioning LLM training data.

  For god there but grace I go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexy Spyro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  is there some sex association with it? Beyond just “bone”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexy Spyro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides the hair, it just looks like different lighting and textures on the same model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally feel (kinda) confident with time dilation, and now everyone’s talking about length dilation 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody ever knows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  snafued

  coaxed, even