birdwing
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- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 6 days ago:
Oops, thanks, corrected!
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 6 days ago:
They kind of already exist, xenobots
- Comment on What are the worst ever city street layouts? (U.S. perspective) Charlottesville VA and Lexington KY 1 week ago:
Most of Houston is parking spots. Unwalkable and unbicycleable, little greenery. Gets scorching hot.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 1 week ago:
fuck off, i’m not going to use aislop
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 1 week ago:
ngl this got me wondering what kinda jobs are fairly easy to enter (not too difficult or not too few availability), have good job prospects (salary, labour terms and conditions)… like how do i even learn how to do front/backend, etc., if i am bad at math?
- Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work? 1 week ago:
Wondering if ever in the future we’ll be able to reverse brain death…
- Comment on Terrorbird 1 week ago:
“would you rather-”
“Bear.”
“But I didn’t even finish-”
“Did I stutter? Bear. I love the hairy, cuddley gay ones.”
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
Again, that is a policy failure. Do not blame the public transit & pro-walkability/bicycleability organisations, but the car lobbies.
Also, c’mon, a car is more expensive to maintain - it impoverishes you more. You have to pay for petrol/electricity/hydrogen, have to face traffic jams and still focus during travel, find parking spots, waste a ton of your local currency on paying it off, and so on.
No fucking thanks.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
And there it hits again: the core of the issue is not the bus agency, but the lack of support for excellent public transit.
Build another car lane, it gets filled up immediately.
Build a bus lane, have buses drive regularly between areas of cities, connect cities with each other by train, and you’ll see it’s much better. Lack of bus lanes, bicycle lanes and paths, trains, is a policy failure caused by RINOs like those MAGAhats of Trump, who vote for bootlicking the petrolobby.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
Most people do live in cities, yes. I live in a town with like ‘only’ 20k people and yet there’s decent public transit.
Cars and their lobbies are the problem.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
A few minutes in a traffic jam? Pah, that isn’t a traffic jam. They last for far longer.
I never need to wait an hour for a bus - at most it’s 20 min and that’s late in the evening.
I think it’s a big sign of societal poverty when people are condemned to cars!
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
… buses don’t come hourly there. They come far more often.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
Waiting for buses is not poverty. Being in traffic jams and stuck to using a car is, however.
- Comment on Surrey libraries fitted with Chinese firm's CCTV despite concerns 1 week ago:
Of course, if it’s British surveillance, it’s better than Chinese! After all, it’s sold to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 2 weeks ago:
“Child abuse is cool if my kid doesn’t like me forcing my religion upon them”.
- Comment on :o 🐟 2 weeks ago:
give the fucking paper NOW
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 weeks ago:
Socialism, social democracy, and communism all focus on a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and income. To what extent and what their approaches are, differ, though.
Social democracy proposes a classless society, usually within the premise of an ‘electoral democracy’.
Socialism, if distinguished from social democracy, also wishes a classless society, but goes further: it wishes to advance social ownership of the economy, i.e. rather than just politics, the economy is also democratised. Instead of a CEO deciding for all, it’s the labourers that choose, that have a say.
Communism proposes that a just society must be not just classless, but also moneyless and stateless. Instead of money as transferrable and susceptible to wealth accumulation, other means for exchange are used; labour vouchers, community exchange systems, and so on. Instead of a centralised, repressive state, society would be decentralised and free, living in communes; if there is a military or a police, both should stand on equal footing with the people.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 3 weeks ago:
I’d throw in to not interact with the troll at all. Report, block, move on.
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 3 weeks ago:
Varies though, some areas let children from 12 yo and on participate in local decision-making, whereas others have it tied to when one can legally start working.
Some areas put it pretty late, by about 21-25. I even recall that if you want to run for president in the US, you need to be at least 35 years old. Yet there is no maximum age.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 3 weeks ago:
I’d prefer tying the salary (including bonuses, assets, and everything) to the lowest paid wages in the nation.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 3 weeks ago:
My condolences.
- Comment on Every fucking time 3 weeks ago:
no probs!
- Comment on Every fucking time 3 weeks ago:
The one I gave works on other search engines too. There’s also site:, which allows you to search within a specific site. E.g. searching for anarchism/marxism could be done by going for :
site:https://anarwiki.org/ council communismYou then get all pages from that site that mention council communism. Crucially, the site has to directly be after the : there. You can also use it for specific domains; for .org domains, you would then do
site:org anarchismand so on.
You can also combine them, like:
site:https://anarwiki.org/ filetype:pdf anarchism
Another is apostrophes:
"word or phrase you search for"If you do that, it will specifically only include results with those exact formulas, not something related to it. Again, also can be combined with the above.
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Boolean strings (“yes/no”) are also options, if you want to exclude specific options. You then you do -keyword.
For example,
"anarchism" -AItells the search engine: only give pages with anarchism mentioned, and no pages that mention AI.
Finally, there’s the wildcard, where you do # or ***** or ? depending on the search engine. You can do:
queer pride in *Which basically says to the search engine, search for anything that is like “queer pride in” AND has some other term in there. It lets you search more broadly. This is the only one I don’t use often, because usually you need more specific information, but if you want to search further, that might be an option.
- Comment on Every fucking time 3 weeks ago:
Yup, do
filetype:pngbefore the rest o’ the search
- Comment on To cosmic shreds, I say! 4 weeks ago:
You could remove the X chromosome so all of them now have Y, but that is lethal.
- Comment on To cosmic shreds, I say! 4 weeks ago:
Why not change the measure of the nuclear efficiency of fusion from hydrogen to helium, to be from 0.007 into 0.006?
- Comment on Is there a sublemmy where people suggest ideas for a sublemmy? specifically, a sublemmy to review fediverse instances. 5 weeks ago:
sidelemmies, bylemmies, is what i usually call them instead. officially they’re called communities.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
no, iirc that site just doesn’t have https . which is baffling, most modern sites do
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 10 Careers Once Considered Stable Are Now Seeing Major Layoffs (Latest Data) 5 weeks ago:
Also agriculture if you’re in an area that’s been (formerly) too cold or dry for it.