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- Comment on We need to talk about Nigel Farage and Russia. 4 days ago:
It’s not a text, it’s a video. You can download it with yt-dlp if you don’t want to just open the URL for some reason.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
Lots of trees there. That place still looks pretty nice in the summer.
A quick web search had someone say it’s Yaroslavsky District, Moscow and while I’m not entirely convinced (having trouble matching the photo to a map), in the summer it will probably look similar to the photo of Yaroslavsky District on Wikipedia.
- Comment on ✨️ DIVA ✨️ 1 week ago:
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
Just wait until you hear what happened to the guy standing in front of the tank in the original photo.
- 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. 1 month ago:
Hurting oil and gas companies is, uh, the point.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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... 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Good guess! I suppose my comment reads like a verbatim quote from one of his videos.
- Comment on It really is 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Jesus wouldn’t quote the Bible. It was written hundreds of years after his death.
- Comment on The amazing world of tomorrow 2 months ago:
One of these three is not like the other two.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 2 months ago:
Clicked on link expecting a Tom Clancy book. Was severely disappointed.
- Comment on Perfection 2 months 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 2 months 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"? 2 months 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"? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Archive.is too good for this world
- Comment on This is incredibly stupid 2 months 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 2 months 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.