ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
I something want to do this but then I realize I can make a better cake myself.
- Comment on Time flies 1 week ago:
Incredible. What changed?
- Comment on Friends. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s almost as if different people find different things funny. Mindblowing, I know.
- Comment on Few adult men are killed by adult women. 2 weeks ago:
Which part of “study the blade” didn’t you understand?
- Comment on Few adult men are killed by adult women. 2 weeks ago:
The scary thing is how many men no one would ever suspect of doing things like that do it.
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 2 weeks ago:
Because there are no consequences for doing it. The world is full of people that will do anything that’s convenient for them as long as they can get away with it. They think categorical imperative is for suckers.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Can’t tell if it’s a parody or actual scene from the movie.
- Comment on Manosphere 2 weeks ago:
TLDR?
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 2 weeks ago:
Just set it to whatever you prefer. Who cares which direction other people scroll?
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
Of course industries are trying to slow down the process but I don’t think overcoming them is as easy as trying harder. As I said, they do employ a lot of people so you have to modernize them without destroying them. It’s a slow process and you have to fight lobbyist and corruption on every step.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
EU is pretty much doing what you’re describing: it has some (weak but still) EV transition plan, it’s pushing hydrogen (to de-carbonize industries), it’s installing a lot of renewables. I would say they doing as much as people and industries are letting them. Push any harder and industries will move, people will lose their jobs and you will see even more discontent. And doing more would cost money which would mean higher taxes or less investment which people would also not like. We could tax the rich but this also isn’t very likely as there will always be a place for them to hide their money in (if not US than Russia or Argentina).
This is how it’s going: Image
This is what “best effort” gets us right now. Even if by some miracle all other countries started doing the same (and as we know US for example is doing the exact opposite) we would see 50 more years of emissions. This is obviously not going to happen so we’re pretty much fucked. Rioting will definitely not change any of that.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
People hated seat belts and life jackets.
No one was rioting for or against seat belts. It was a simple policy that some people didn’t like but it wasn’t opposed by the majority. To solve climate change the people you want to riot would actually have to sacrifice something.
Sometimes the government has to operate against the will of some people for the good of all people.
“Some” people? Sure. Majority? I don’t see it. We’re seeing so little progress on climate change because ordinary people oppose most of the solutions. No one is going to riot to get something they don’t want.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
You want to riot to fix climate change? Ok, let’s say you will get everyone to riot, abolish the government and kill the elites. What will you do next to solve climate change?
Ban* cars? People will be against it. Ban beef? People will be against it. Ban air travel? You guess it, people will be against it. Majority of people support measures that they think will not affect them like carbon taxes and renewable energy but if you look at actual, consumer level changes you will see a big drop. Only 34% of drivers support ban on ICE cars.
Look how much people bitch about paper straws. You think they will agree to actually limiting CO2 emissions by using less energy, traveling less, eating less meat and buying less useless stuff? The problem are not just the the elites and the billionaires. WE are the problem.
10% richest people account for half of the emissions. To be in the top 10% you have to make over $30k a year. To stop climate change pretty much everyone on lemmy would have to agree to big sacrifices. Are you ready to significantly lower your quality of life or you just want to riot because you think it will help you save it?
*By ban I mean limit by making more expensive.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
What did the French protests achieve in the lest decades? Hint: nothing.
The Yellow Vests were largely ignored and the fuel tax was eventually scrapped because Covid hit, not because the government got scared of the protesters. The latest protests against pension reform were also ignored and the changes were delayed only because they couldn’t get vote of confidence in the parliament.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
Unitra was a Polish brand existed during communism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh, the top one is more recent (you can tell because of the tattoos). Is that the joke? She gained weight but the meme suggests she lost it?
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
My TV only had 4 button for 4 channels so once we got more than 4 channels we had to use a small wheel to change frequencies and look for them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And the other one?
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
Totally agree. Star Wars was just a cool movie and something new for its time. I even liked the first one but personally, I think the cliffhanger ending of the second movie was a disgusting cash grab that should have ended the entire experiment and it go only worse from there.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
Yes, of course you’re right but even ignoring all the fantasy bits and just focusing on the science and vision of the future it’s mediocre. Let’s take AI as an example. Star Trek has state of AI solidly defined: there’s one truly intelligent android, it’s state of the art and no one really knows how it works so it’s not copied yet but it’s recognized as a person and granted all rights. Computers are intelligent but not real AI. Dune doesn’t have AI and there’s an explanation for it. But Star Wars? C3P0 was build from junk, is completely useless but is kept around for decades as some sort of a pet or companion. At the same time robot soldiers are just weapons. AI is granted personhood or treated as appliance without any sense or logic behind it. Nothing besides robots has any intelligence for some reason. Star Wars used basic concepts from sci-fi but it’s clear the writers didn’t understand any of them.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
Nothing. Nothing in Star Wars means anything. It’s just mediocre sci-fi at best and explanations for pretty much everything are worked out backwards trying to fix all the inconsistencies and nonsensical ideas. “This monster will digest you for 1000 years!”. So are people supposed to be kept alive inside of it for that long or you die immediately and it just takes 1000 years to poop you out? Just another silly phrase in a badly written script but I’m sure “the canon” came up with some crazy explanation for it (“you see the worm bends time and space in a way that one day inside of it feels like 1000 years!” or something).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He’s really worried.
- Comment on That Damn Smile 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: In medieval Spain, because of the constant wars between Christian and Muslim kingdoms a lot of land count not have been used for farming. Big chunks of land would pass from one side to another, people would have to move and abandon their crops. This lead to rise of big sheep herding industry - sheep could be moved out of the way of incoming army. But the hot climate forced people to move the sheep into to mountains during summers. This migrations - summers in mountains and winters in warmer southern regions - created high quality product - merino wool. To protect growing wool industry special laws were enacted that created protected herding routes that in many places can be seen to this day:
To celebrate this heritage there’s a “herding day” held in Madrid when sheep and goats from the mountains of Leon pass through the capital on their way to the winter grazing sites:
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 2 weeks ago:
They look like typical happy family from Poland.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 weeks ago:
Even in places where HVAC is big like Spain you can’t get a technician to look at it during summer. In smaller towns everything is difficult. Young people don’t want to do those jobs and older guys have so much work you have to chase them to get anything done. My family had to wait over a year for painter.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 weeks ago:
Right now in Poland people with a degree struggle to get by working shit government and corpo jobs while people after trade schools buy summer homes and drive new cars. In Spain were I live they don’t make as much money but they sure as hell don’t have to worry about work. I’m trying to find someone to do some reforms and people simply ignore you. They have so much work they simply don’t care if you will hire them or not. And a lot of those jobs a not back-breaking. AC technicians have shitload of work now and will only have more.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with trade-schools?
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, same as self driving trucks. Been 15 years away for 15 years now.
- Comment on Those of us who don't use ChatGPT will get this one ;) 3 weeks ago:
I believe the refined oils are extracted using solvents. This is how Aceite de Orujo (Pomace Oil?) is made for example.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
It’s just my opinion but I don’t think she’s not a very good speaker and she’s not good at confronting people. In the hearings I’ve seen she’s usually very soft, can’t drive her message through and is unconvincing. Her nice, soft persona works great at local level where what she actually stands for matters more than theatrics but I don’t think that would be effective in a presidential debate.
