lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@group.lt
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 23 hours ago:
- Comment on Real talk 1 day ago:
Specifically billionaires/unchecked capitalists
The easy scapegoat oversimplifies the problem, which goes beyond & predates capitalism. Though exterminating all of humanity is one way to achieve sustainability, it doesn’t necessarily require it. So far, however, humanity has reached living standards beyond subsistence only by consuming resources at unsustainable levels faster than the planet can replenish, and that has been true regardless of economic system. Even when living at subsistence levels, humanity has likely caused mass extinction events.
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People here tend to fixate on their pet theories that scapegoat capitalism for everything including that humanity’s drain on ecological resources exceeds Earth’s rate of regeneration without acknowledging that their alternatives don’t address the problem, either.
Although governments are far more able than individuals and firms acting singly to take action to protect the environment, they often fail to do so. The centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe, where governments controlled production, had a particularly poor record on pollution control. Per capita mortality from air pollution in Eastern Europe (outside the EU) and China remains high relative to the EU and North America.
In particular, the Soviet economy—with constitutional guarantees to continuously improve living standards & steadily grow productive forces—caused disproportionately worse ecological damage than the US’s. All economic systems have the same capacity to degrade the environment & deplete stocks of natural resources. Without adequate policies to protect the environment, improving & maintaining living standards with the continuous economic growth necessary to do that threatens the environment.
Moreover, human activity before capitalism has led to extinctions of megafauna, plants, & animals dependent on those plants. The quaternary megafauna extinction was likely driven by overhunting by humans. Those extinctions & increased fires coinciding with the arrival of humanity to Australia transformed the ecosystem from mixed rainforest to drier landscapes. Aboriginal landscape burning
may have caused the extinction of some fire-sensitive species of plants and animals dependent upon infrequently burnt habitats
More recently, they killed off the elephant bird likely due to major environmental alterations & overconsumption of their eggs.
Until humanity starts living sustainably, they are the problem.
- Comment on Real talk 1 day ago:
From earlier comment on similar post
Moreover, human activity before capitalism has led to extinctions of megafauna, plants, & animals dependent on those plants. The quaternary megafauna extinction was likely driven by overhunting by humans. Those extinctions & increased fires coinciding with the arrival of humanity to Australia transformed the ecosystem from mixed rainforest to drier landscapes. Aboriginal landscape burning
may have caused the extinction of some fire-sensitive species of plants and animals dependent upon infrequently burnt habitats
More recently, [indigenous people] killed off the elephant bird likely due to major environmental alterations & overconsumption of their eggs.
and I see like before the same OP still won’t do the decency to support fellow humans by following web accessibility. That sums up our conviction of humanity.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 day ago:
I grew up in a city where I was told if you look at someone the wrong way they’ll beat your ass.
Who’s rude in that situation? Pretty sure anyone who beats people over nothing are universal dickheads.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 day ago:
Staring isn’t rude. People are awfully self-conscious. People can just be. Weird is fine.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 day ago:
Exactly: society is full of dickheads, then people fuss when they’re treated as who they are like they’re entitled to more.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
So you don’t think web accessibility matters? What have the disabled done to you to deserve this abuse?
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
You could have done
1. The extra… 2. The like/dislike… 3. The flow…
Instead, you went with the counterintuitive & unnatural
1 . The extra… 2 . The like/dislike… 3 . The flow…
which takes special effort. This ain’t making sense.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
Welcome to democracy & divided, partisan voters.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
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Bizarre. Did you mangle lists on purpose to impair web accessibility just because?
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 weeks ago:
Vote enough non-Republicans into Congress, impeach, and convict? Wait for whatever is turning his skin purple to take its course?
- Comment on Jordan Lund needs to be removed as a moderator, especially over political communities such as Politics 2 weeks ago:
An explicit argument consists of citing the relevant rules, stating how they’ve been violated, and providing evidence. It shows you’ve done the bare minimum to show your claim is plausible. This is in everyone’s interest, especially yours as the interested party.
As basic advocacy, an explicit argument should be expected: if you’re unable to articulate a decent argument, then how can you expect others to do so for you? Leaving that guesswork to others may not necessarily work in your favor. Do you really want to leave the best argument to chance & the unreliable charity of others?
Depending on the objectivity & soundness of the argument, it may convince popular support is legitimate, just, and demands action regardless of where admin decision ultimately settles. Not attempting one, however, draws all of it into question.
- Comment on Jordan Lund needs to be removed as a moderator, especially over political communities such as Politics 2 weeks ago:
I saw: still needs a proper argument.
- Comment on Jordan Lund needs to be removed as a moderator, especially over political communities such as Politics 2 weeks ago:
Per site bylaws on community mod removal, can you provide an argument for this case addressing the relevant rules directly?
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 weeks ago:
meme: bitches dont know bout my spoiler effect
or primariesa spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating
Vote splitting is the most common cause of spoiler effects in FPP. In these systems, the presence of many ideologically-similar candidates causes their vote total to be split between them, placing these candidates at a disadvantage. This is most visible in elections where a minor candidate draws votes away from a major candidate with similar politics, thereby causing a strong opponent of both to win.
That the US voting system lacks the sincere favorite criterion is mathematical fact: lesser-evil voting is necessary to avoid practically certain loss. Denying that is like denying laws of physics. You can’t coerce logic & causality to your will. Just because you don’t understand that doesn’t mean others don’t. Primaries exist to select better major party candidates.
Viable 3rd party candidates requires voting reform, which again requires passing those reforms through the current system.
- Comment on 🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎 2 weeks ago:
Mangosteen? The rind hardens like leather & makes a nice container/ornament.
- Comment on 🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎 2 weeks ago:
Maybe diospyros virginiana?
- Comment on AI advice 3 weeks ago:
Think you’re outing yourself as unable to grasp a sarcastic answer to a dumb question in the human case. And look at all those upvotes! Lemmy keeps disappointing.
- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 3 weeks ago:
I’m accused of being AI on other sites
Other sites? Happens here, too. The best answer is troll them by imitating AI.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 5 weeks ago:
What part of science is guilt by association fallacy? Rash judgement is at odds with science. Did you know criminals can associate with noncriminals?
To flip this around, ostracizing others “out of safety” for associating with ex-convicts (who had been processed & released to society) is morally compromised & dishonest, ie, immoral. Talking to someone who did something wrong doesn’t imply you did something wrong. Neither does taking their money. Indulging fallacies is not a hallmark of scientific thought & is more consistent with the repressive, medieval thought scientists fought very hard to overcome.
Sages of major religions famously associated with undesirables: outcasts, untouchables, murderers, dangerous felons, etc. By the “logic” of that announcement, communities should have banned Buddha & Jesus (also mentioned in the Epstein files). Those that didn’t were “deplorable” for “not taking firm action to protect” members “in light of” blanket “allegations” that fail to specifically accuse them. If they were sanctimonious enough, they too could have done “more”.
Post needs text alternative for image of text.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link: - usability - we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR - text search is unavailable - the system can’t - reflow text to varied screen sizes - vary presentation (size, contrast) - vary modality (audio, braille) - accessibility - lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) - some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description) - users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments - systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices - web connectivity - we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source - we can’t explore wider context of the original message - authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered - searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way - fault tolerance: no text fallback if - image breaks - image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations. Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
