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- Comment on U.S. Is Seeking Exemption From a European Climate Law, Officials Say | Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies. 4 days ago:
Hurting oil and gas companies is, uh, the point.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
That makes more sense. I was thinking printing money only to pay pensions, which honestly seems like something European social democrat parties might actually do.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
Them being born in a certain period is actually very relevant here, because the state pension system as it works in many EU states (and, to my understanding, many other countries like Japan too) allowed boomers specifically to pay in way less than they are getting out. This was then conveniently adjusted so that millenials and the younger half of gen Xers pay in more than they will get out, because their payments are used to finance the pensions of those above them on the ladder.
In most/all of these countries boomers are a massive voting bloc and politicians are consistently either doing nothing about the issue or making it worse. While there are populistic aspects to it, young Europeans have a plenty of valid reasons to hate boomers.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
I imagine you’re not being entirely serious, but I fail to see how that is anything but yet another inventive way of kicking the can down the road so that boomers don’t have to deal with it.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
You’re saying that as if it makes any difference whether I talk about boomers or pensioners. The two are currently synonymous and we live in the present, not in the future. In the future when boomers are dead, if this problem still exists I will be using some other word.
- Comment on I care when it affects deez nutz... 2 weeks ago:
The right hand side is true (the recycling symbol, for example, is notoriously useless), but these days we do have many plastics that can be recycled and/or are actually biodegradable, though obviously there are asterisks to both. Enzymes have also been recently found and engineered to break down many common plastics.
To my understanding recycling household plastics these days mostly sucks because (1) even though there’s fewer varieties now and they’re generally more recycleable, there’s still a very wide spectrum of different chemistries that goes into all the packagings and automatically sorting them out is non-trivial, and (2) a lot of household plastics like food packaging is dirty and washing it uses more resources than just making a new package and burning (or more recently, composting) the old one does.
Also, good news: the widely reported “spoon’s worth of microplastics in your brain” thing actually isn’t really true.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
I see you’re talking about US numbers, but the US doesn’t really have a state pension system in the same way that many other countries doo. Maybe that’s the confusion here.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and once boomers start dropping dead, gen Xers will be fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their slice of the state pension ponzi at the cost of everyone below them on the ladder the same as boomers did. That does not change my point at all.
There is no fair and equitable world in which state pensions can continue working the way they work now. The system was built on the expectation of infinite growth with every generation being larger than the last.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Neither of those are billionaires.
Gerontocracy is fundamentally an issue of the few holding more than their fair share of wealth and power at the expense of others and pulling the ladder up behind them. It is a class issue same as everything else.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Most billionaires are also boomers. The class war and the war against gerontocracy are one and the same.
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- Comment on It really is 3 weeks ago:
Good guess! I suppose my comment reads like a verbatim quote from one of his videos.
- Comment on It really is 3 weeks ago:
If there’s complex life on one of the ice shell moons like Titan or Enceladus, it’ll be way weirder than anything in the ocean could ever be.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s kind of ironic that after complaining about prayers with many words, Jesus goes on to tell them to instead use the Lord’s Prayer, which in itself is just an incredibly long-winded way of saying “hi god give me a good and virtuous life”.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 4 weeks ago:
Well, the gospels themselves are an example of editorializing. None of the gospels are written by the disciples themselves, most if not all of them were written after all the apostles would have been dead, and it is widely agreed that two of them (Matthew and Luke) are basically fanfiction spin-offs of Mark and a second, long lost source.
To clarify, I think by the time the stories were canonized, the narrative was likely more or less established. But in the 2-3 centuries before that I expect it to have been quite varied. We have no real way of knowing either way because there are very few surviving scraps of manuscripts from that early on.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 4 weeks ago:
The New Testament was written after his death too, some parts of it earlier than others. I think it’s also a pretty safe bet that there was a lot of editorializing over the centuries, since AFAIK the earliest surviving copies of anything are from the 2nd or 3rd centuries CE.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 4 weeks ago:
Jesus wouldn’t quote the Bible. It was written hundreds of years after his death.
- Comment on The amazing world of tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
One of these three is not like the other two.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 5 weeks ago:
Clicked on link expecting a Tom Clancy book. Was severely disappointed.
- Comment on Perfection 5 weeks ago:
This could literally be a Dwarf Fortress randomly generated inscription.
- Comment on During his first term in office, President Trump appointed an anti-union lawyer as head of the Labor Department 5 weeks ago:
In case anyone else was wondering why this user shows up as banned, it’s because it’s an LLM spam bot. It ousts itself here: lemmy.world/post/38619576/20422026
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 5 weeks ago:
The fact that there’s textbook fascists in the US government and many people I know seem to still be in denial. Mostly non-US people, in case that changes the equation.
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe like 13. However it wasn’t until my twenties until I learnt what it actually means, and I’m convinced most of the general populace never learn that.
- Comment on FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site 1 month ago:
Archive.is too good for this world
- Comment on This is incredibly stupid 1 month ago:
This is a lot more than mildly infuriating, even as a non-brit.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
Without the Steam Deck there’d be 27% fewer Linux users. So while that would indeed mean Linux wouldn’t yet be 3% of the total Steam userbase, I think you will find that 27% is not the majority.
GamingOnLinux aggregates this data in a nicer way and as you can see there, the total Linux market share has gone from <1% five years ago to the 3% it is now. If that increase was mainly thanks to the Steam Deck, it would have to make up more like 75% of the Linux userbase rather than only 27%.
Instead, as others have pointed out, SteamOS’s share has actually gone down rather than up, which is a natural consequence of the Steam Deck being relatively old now so fewer are being sold.
- Comment on [UnReal World] has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting' 1 month ago:
I think I first played this in like 2005 or something. I was underage and didn’t have banking credentials yet, so I bought the licence by mailing a letter full of coins to the author. Back then a lifetime licence was a few dozen euros, but I bought the major version licence for like 15€. That version received updates for a couple of years, from what I remember. I never bought the lifetime licence, but re-bought a major version licence twice and then bought the game again when it launched on Steam. In the end buying the lifetime licence would’ve been cheaper, heh, but I don’t mind supporting the developers.
I still keep coming back to it every few years. There are other games in the same genre or very adjacent to it that are better as games – Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is the first to come to mind – but there are some things about URW that no other game really does, notably the whole realistic iron age survival thing (it’s a different genre altogether with less nuanced survival gameplay, but another iron age favourite of mine is Vintage Story, which is basically a Minecraft mod spun off into its own game).
The animal AI in particular is really good. The way you hunt in this game is a pretty good representation of cursorial hunting, which is basically just running after the animals until they tire – something humans are good at thanks to bipedalism. You only rarely manage to take down larger animal like elks (moose in American; the game calls them by their European name) in one strike, which means that you have to wound them and then jog after them until they collapse from exhaustion and blood loss. Or you can dig trap pits in chokepoints and corral them into them, another real hunting strategy used in iron age Finland. The tracking in the game is also very involved, as the animals will try to lose you by moving erratically.
Damn, now I kind of want to go back and play the game again.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
“Freedesktop SDK” means the user is running Steam via Flatpak. They could be on any distro.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
“SteamOS Holo” 64 bit is the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
That’s not true. You can see on Steam Hardware Survey what OS people are running, and SteamOS only makes up 27% of Linux users on Steam, so the vast majority are on regular PCs.