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- Comment on I guess it's come to this 1 day ago:
interesting comming coming from Boomer Humor Doomergod
We’re ALL gods down here!!!
- Comment on I guess it's come to this 1 day ago:
I am
SparticusLemmy! - Comment on Granted. 1 day ago:
I mean a wish is a wish…
- Comment on Granted. 1 day ago:
So which Trump property was he staying at?
- Comment on Minimum Wage Must Cover Basics 1 day ago:
When I say only, I don’t mean literally only, but enough that we’re going to be living in a cyberpunk dystopia soon if shit doesn’t change, and we’re not going to get any of the cool holograms.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Must Cover Basics 2 days ago:
critically important because those are the only jobs that AI can’t take easily
- Comment on The real conclusion 2 days ago:
That was me last week, but no new series interested me atm, now i’ve moved on to the Laundry Files.
- Comment on How our patience level has changed 3 days ago:
We were also loading 30kb webpages. Try to load anything from the last 10 years over 33,600
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 4 days ago:
If there’s a need, i’ll start a side hustle.
At the moment, I’m perfectly happy to freeze the other 7
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 4 days ago:
A waste of money.
Box of elbow macaroni, 1/4 block of velvita and a single hot dog is WAY less than that box
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 6 days ago:
Nice trolling, blocked
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 6 days ago:
Not concerned with escaping greenhouse by going to space, if we don’t sort that we’ll kill off the space fairing generations before they live. The two things are ultimately important for different reasons. Yeah, we need to stop fucking the world up, no getting off world won’t make that any better. What colonizing will help is medical (imperfect virus) cataclysm, super volcano eruption or foreign body hitting the earth.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 6 days ago:
The eggs in a basket argument is just unhealthy existential dread at a planetary scale. Keeping humanity alive by grasping at uninhabitable rocks and poor simulacrums of Earth is like keeping an octogenarian alive with more and more invasive treatments.
Yeah because an asteroid could NEVER hit the earth and wipe is out.
The patient was born to walk in nature and enjoy food and sunsets; humanity evolved specifically to flourish on our blue marble with its delicate biosphere. Is it ethical to keep the patient alive with life support when they can’t walk or eat? Is it ethical to keep humanity alive in bubbles with pale imitations of earth on lifeless rocks?
Nobody was born to do anything. It’s what they could achieve in existing. If they go to the outer reached, they go to the outer reaches, you have no say in that. Your moral opinion will not matter.
We should accept that all things end and be more honest about these discussions. Humanity is no longer in its optimistic youth. We’ve matured to the natural limits of our species (and beyond them in some aspects), ask what we can do with the finite time and resources we have and not just where we can grow next.
You can accept them over in your corner, and stuff-you telling me to be more honest while you’re trying to control society and keep doomsaying.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
Right now we’re all kinda eggs in one basket. Earth is one good cataclysm from wiping out humanity.
But we’re not just going to sort out spreading to other planets without baby steps.
The ISS was the first step. We need a large enough permanent base to see whether agriculture and 100% recycling can work. They still need supplies from earth for now, but long term, can we make it work? how big does a settlement need to be?
cheaper access to space:
The moon is an interesting prospect. It’s significantly further up the gravity well. We might be able to launch small probes via a rail gun, then use ion engines. No atmosphere to fight.
Radio Astronomy:
Anything not aimed at earth could be super sensitive.
Fuel:
we might be able to farm oxygen and hydrogen from water/minerals. and make a depo.
- Comment on Sacre blu 1 week ago:
Can you imagine how much it would cost if was actually real cheese? That’s like 40% water by volume.
- Comment on He's right, you know 2 weeks ago:
Come to NomadNet… there are no screenshots… or actual images… just text and a little micron (think ascii) art
- Comment on splat 2 weeks ago:
on styrofoam no less. Just sell it in a bag and get it over with
- Comment on Every. Time. 2 weeks ago:
The shitty little “reusable” bags that wear out after a few uses are def worse than the micron-thin plastic were overall.
My state banned plastic a while back and I will way, i don’t see bags stuck all over the bushes, roadsides and trees anymore so that’s a plus.
I got a dozen or so insulated Wegmans large cooler bags that have lasted 5 years so far. (6 for each car) They’re double-stitched, hardcore zippers no signs of wear. I suspect their realistic lifetime is my and my wife’s death. It’s not like the kids are going to pine over the bags or anything. Now the real question, assuming they’re evergreen (jury is still out) is 25-35 years of waste reduction from a 0.001 disposable plastic bag actually net negative against 12 large textile bags with thick plastic liners, zippers, and insulation?
The bags probably host $200 in total and I’m quite sure I could buy a lifetime supply of disposable plastic bags for $200.
Not seeing plastic bags stuck to a tree every quarter mile feels good. I think reusable is probably the right answer, even if it’s not a huge ecological win.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 2 weeks ago:
Vote em in, Vote em out. They don’t do what people need, kick em to the curb
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 2 weeks ago:
tbf, people should not be able to buy politicians either.
- Comment on America’s Decline in 1 graph 3 weeks ago:
This graph is really not great for its intended purpose.
From ~'50-'60 membership surged, but with only a linear compensation gain.
membership plateaued in '55 but compensation stayed linear until the mid '70’s
from 70-80, membership was fairly flat, (small decrease) but it didn’t affect compensation for another 5 years or so?
Membership and Compensation seem hardly linked.
- Comment on *Damn you all to hell!* 3 weeks ago:
One just opened one in Arundel Mills Mall, Maryland
New handlers, some Geoffrey statues, and lots of logos, it’s more or less a double-sized KB Toys.
Still kind of exciting to see a toy store again.
- Comment on non issue 3 weeks ago:
result: pornhub.com 2007, with actress…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
infest verb in·fest in-ˈfest infested; infesting; infests Synonyms of infest transitive verb
1 : to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner shark-infested waters
2 : to live in or on as a parasite
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 weeks ago:
trap em all, throw em in jail, make em worth less when they get out, prison for profit.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 weeks ago:
god look at florida. NU UHHH $15 minimim wage is socialism… we’re gonna set it to $14
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 4 weeks ago:
Beautiful country, good food, strong on protests. The car situation is a bit strange. The service industry was a bit off-putting, but I was a tourist and well, most US tourists are awful. Maybe half the people there were nice and helpful.
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 4 weeks ago:
France is a tad crazy about driving and parking, or at least it was when I was there last. It’s kinda like NYC but no rules. I saw a bakery delivery truck back up to corner and back into the lead car, ramming over and over until the next 5 cars where pushed into eachother and he could park in the corner spot.
Cars all over the sidewalks and in the median toward the tower. Noone giving right of way, you had to just take it or you’d never get in.
- Comment on That would be petrifying 4 weeks ago:
2nd most
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 4 weeks ago:
I can totally turn it off, but it’s going to slow me way down as I’d re-read everything and go back and make edits.