Ice
@Ice@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 5 days ago:
Supplemental Question: This is my first post on Lemmy, and the responses have me wanting to clarify something- Is everyone on this platform fucking mental?
No, but the fediverse has a good portion of the crazier parts of the left wing (and they are very vocal). If it bothers you, go heavy on blocking the worst offenders and you’ll find that most lemmings are pretty chill. We’re “just” nuts enough stray from the mainstream platforms where most normies hang out.
I for one look forward to the day when I can recommend the fediverse to at least my left-wing friends w/o them questioning my sanity.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Duskers!
A sci-fi/horror game where you try to survive the vast coldness of space by controlling a group of drones through CLI or individual ones via top-down camera.
Pretty interesting, deep lore and quite atmospheric.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Seems to be the same software as the freely available Ur-Quan Masters off-steam, no?
There’s also a HD remaster, which doesn’t seem to be on steam.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 weeks ago:
Must be nice to be able to spend 600$ on groceries…
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 weeks ago:
That’s more than our monthly grocery budget for two…
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 weeks ago:
…and they wonder why we become EU-sceptics…
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- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 month ago:
It gets worse when you combine super LED brights with matrix headlights that are marketed to “allow the high beams to remain on even with oncoming traffic”.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 1 month ago:
100%, I’m terrible at remembering peoples names so I force myself to say it a few times after meeting someone new, really helps it stick.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 2 months ago:
One could argue that if euthanasia is legal, then there would be situations of: “Hey, granny is kinda taking too much resouces… maybe we should just pull the life support?” or “Okay my child has cancer and takes up too much of my money, and all this money would be wasted if the treatment fails, I’m gonna talk to the doctor and end this parasite once and for all”
Which is exactly why I’m in favour of euthanasia for humans on a moral level (people should be able to decide their own fate) but against it on a societal level (it will likely result in people getting pressured into “choosing” death.
The harm of the people who are unable to choose death (a.k.a commit suicide) on their own suffering is a lesser evil compared to people who want to live being pressured into dying (in my view).
- Comment on What impact is the whole vegetarian/vegan diet having on the price of meat? 2 months ago:
Compared to the massive increase of meat consumption in the population-dense developing world & other major influences on price such as improvements in the efficiency of meat production, the impact of the veg-movement is nigh negligible.
The price impact is rather on the side of restaurants & grocery chains in their logistics, now requiring a more diverse offering to be able to serve both the traditional clientele and veg-customers. Spreading the same demand over a larger range of products leads to a lower per-item throughput. Hence slightly lower efficiency, more waste & more overhead, which leads to marginally increased food prices overall in western countries.
- Comment on Cold and expensive vs hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden 4 months ago:
The sad part is that the backbone of our clean energy system, nuclear power, is being dismantled by persistent attacks from the environmental party. Since 2000 they’ve dismantled half of our nuclear fleet, and are commited to destroying the rest within twenty years.
Meanwhile our national grid operator is warning about the potential need for rolling blackouts during the winter demand peaks, which coincide the very coldest days of the year (which are also dark and windless). This winter there were below -40°C in parts of the country, and when the overwhelming majority of households rely on the grid for heating, extended outages have the potential to be lethal. Meanwhile, the electricity cost for a normal single family home can exceed 1’500€ equivalent for a single winter month, which can be compared to the median wage after taxes (3’000€ equivalent).
Wood fire heating is making a huge comeback, reaching levels not seen since the 80s. 2022 marked the first year in my lifetime when many built up areas smell like wood fire in the winter, and have done so every year since. Industry experts are talking about adding fossil gas turbines as a stop gap measure to shore up the system, until we can either expand hydro by damming up the last northern rivers (currently prohibited due to environmental regulations to protect fish) or increase nuclear capacity again.