fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 16 hours ago:
My point is, bots on reddit are farming karma. They’re not doing that here.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 1 day ago:
Reddit tracks karma, so aparently bots build up karma for user accounts or something.
Lemmy doesn’t do that.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 1 day ago:
This is the US import origins, according to OEC World, the source of the data in your map.
China may not be the US biggest trading partner, but it’s not far off.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 day ago:
For profit companies already run reactors on dry land, which don’t move, and are heavily regulated and constantly observed.
Obviously, the risk profile is vastly different when you put the reactor on a boat.
Putting them on a boat is not well understood. Australia just doesn’t have personnel experienced with any kind of reactor. We don’t have a nuclear industry. It’s not as simple as plonking a box named “reactor” on the boat and calling it a day.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 1 day ago:
China is everyone’s biggest trading partner.
Call us a “puppet state” if you will, but we’re not as far up Trump’s ass as a lot of other allies.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 1 day ago:
blatant bots posting really crappy AI images
I don’t think I’ve noticed this ?
What would be the motive of someone creating a bot to post bad AI images?
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 1 day ago:
Exactly. So many users are obsessed with how to get more users or whatever, but these are the best days of the fediverse.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 1 day ago:
If only where was a way users could alert mods and admins about suspicious accounts.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 days ago:
I don’t think that’s feasible. Imagine for-profit corporations being responsible for nuclear reactors floating around in international waters. I don’t trust them with diesel certainly not nuclear.
It’s easy to underestimate the maintenance requirements. Australia, UK, and US just signed a treaty to develop and produce nuclear subs. It’s a big deal. It’s going to take many decades and 100s of billions of dollars before UK and Aus have the capability to build and maintain nuclear subs.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 days ago:
Because money obviously, but not the way you seem to think.
For the last 150 years, there’s been loads of the stuff more or less lying around. It doesn’t require much effort to bring to a usable state, and a cup full can move you, your wife and kids, your dog, and your car to the top of that hill in the distance.
Until very, very recently that’s been a pretty unbeatable deal.
Now we’re just building out the infrastructure and developing the maintenance skills. We’re in the midst of a transition.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 2 days ago:
Sorry bro. Not gonna happen.
Australia and NZ really have to stand together just because of the geography. Australia is critical to NZ’s security. If a superior force conquers Australia, then NZ wouldn’t be able to resist in isolation. Logically then it will always be in NZ’s interest to stand along side Australia.
Similarly, Australia needs a bigger more powerful friend to stare down our neighbors like Indonesia and bullies like China. That friend has been the US for the last 70 odd years, and with AUKUS that alliance will be greatly strengthened.
In any conflict since the dawn of time people have wistfully hoped that their own clan or tribe or city or country could stay neutral, but the reality is that to maintain your neutrality you need to be strong enough to defend yourself without assistance.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 4 days ago:
In my city it would be outside the Library, which happens to be “the town square”, on the main street.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days ago:
Yeah, it really depends on the nature of the societal collapse.
I can imagine situations in which being able to press a gold necklace into the right palm might get you out of a tricky situation.
On the other hand it’s hard to imagine a situation where a horde of gold bullion in your safe at home would be very helpful.
- Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'? 5 days ago:
There’s no benefit to displaying the real thing if you can’t tell the difference.
In most cases you’re free to believe its the actual fossil.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 5 days ago:
Sure, but 4 is easier to remember?
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 6 days ago:
For most of human history people who couldn’t do math, or read, or understand a map, have been communicating directions to each other.
4 directions is just enough to tell someone which way to face, without being too many to remember.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 1 week ago:
network effect. There’s fewer people here so there’s fewer people here.
That said, I like it just how it is and would caution anyone against wishing for more users.
Don’t focus on getting more users. Focus on making the content here the best it can be.
It’s inevitable that the quality of the experience here will change with more users. Whether it’s a net positive or negative remains to be seen.
To be sure, these are the “good old days” of lemmy.
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 1 week ago:
You may not agree with what the military does, but you have to respect them for that reason alone, above all else.
You seem to have strange ideas of what I, or others, will respect people for doing?
I would have incredible respect for anyone refusing an order because they feel that it is illegal.
- Comment on Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer? 2 weeks ago:
On one hand I agree that today, the easiest solution is freetube or similar.
However, this problem seems to become “unsolved” every other Wednesday.
- Comment on Could another country like Great Britain Release the Full Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
On one hand, I imagine the administration is treating these documents with the utmost care.
On the other hand, it sounds like thousands of people have been involved in handling them.
There are probably dozens of people with their own copies, ready for use as blackmail.
