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- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 11 hours ago:
It wasn’t in the US.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 11 hours ago:
Didn’t happen in the US.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 23 hours ago:
Murder has a very specific legal definition. That is not what Matthew Broderick did.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
indeed. don’t know where my mind was…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
ts eliot did alright
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What you’re describing is just email.
Yes, you can host an email server.
Maybe what you’re asking is if this can be done within a private network, so you wouldn’t need to buy a domain and set up dns and all. The answer is again yes, but it wouldn’t be much good. Either both servers are on the same LAN, or they each have a static IP that is known and trusted by the other. In both cases there are much better ways to communicate than email.
- Comment on I worry that reading through Marxist books would be boring. Are there any fun and exciting ways to study without losing focus or getting bored quickly? 1 month ago:
I apologize for not directly answering your question, but I think you could benefit from this insight that helped me tremendously:
Boredom comes from within. Nothing is objectively boring. Introspection is your friend. Understand what is happening inside your mind when you find yourself bored, and you can turn it off - just that simple.
- Comment on 50ohm goes brrrrrr 3 months ago:
You’re describing circular polarization. It’s not the only way.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 months ago:
Pretti’s death may have turned the tide. If he had fired his weapon or even unholstered it, that would not be true.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 months ago:
I share your pessimism. My answer had nothing to do with what might actually happen.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 months ago:
This isn’t the first time the US has done
“directly capturing a sovereign leader”
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 months ago:
Or just a US revolution could work. We don’t have to kill everyone.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 5 months ago:
More importantly, the evil people running the petroleum industry are in fact old, but that is not why they are evil.
Evil people in positions of power tend to be old because a) it takes time to accumulate power, and b) folks with power tend to keep it till they’re dead. It’s just statistics - it doesn’t mean oldness causes evil.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 5 months ago:
Downvoted for ageism.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 5 months ago:
Biodiesel is a renewable liquid fuel.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 6 months ago:
And yet the democratic party remains the only one where progressives are able to have a voice and make a modicum of progress.
Also, I didn’t say anything about democrats, positive or negative, in my comment. OP was about republicans, so I commented about republicans.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 6 months ago:
You can’t hoard wealth and distribute it too.
The average republican is not super wealthy, of course, but they are manipulated and controlled by those who are.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 8 months ago:
Also deserts are not even nearly lifeless. A solar farm of the size needed would wipe out a lot of habitat.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal) 8 months ago:
Wow, hopefully that doesn’t get tampered!
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 8 months ago:
omg I just watched all of that video and it is freaking great! What a revelation. I learned so much about how AI really works, even though that is not directly the subject.
Thank you! - Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 10 months ago:
Ooooo, look at mr. “I’m sane” over here!
jk. good advice.
- Comment on Organic Maps fork CoMaps launches on major app stores for iOS and Android 10 months ago:
Yep, sure enough I missed this:
news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
I have no idea to what extent the allegations are justified, but if they are true, then yeah, a fork was necessary.
- Comment on Organic Maps fork CoMaps launches on major app stores for iOS and Android 10 months ago:
What sets CoMaps apart is a fully transparent governance approach. All decisions about the app’s development are made publicly, with users and contributors having a voice in its future direction. This focus on community engagement aims to deliver value for its users rather than prioritize profit.
Did I miss something? How is Organic Maps possibly “prioritizing profit?”
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 1 year ago:
I’m just so grateful that so many great scientists fled nazi germany. Also that those who stayed behind (this is controversial and not known for sure) hindered and delayed Germany’s nuclear weapons program.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 1 year ago:
Kill the aliens.
Srsly tho, it’s not about the tech they have or the 1000x power. Any jamming can be circumvented, and humans would have a much greater motivation to adapt than the aliens would.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 1 year ago:
I don’t see them there.
Best thing about Mastodon is no insidious algorithm forcing stuff on you to specifically make you angry.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 year ago:
Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 year ago:
Kinda makes “bye bye” seem a little weird, eh?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 year ago:
The saying is really about asking god to remove obstacles from your path and facilitate faster travel. A little like “goodbye” is a very shortened “may god be with you.”
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 1 year ago:
Others have explained that it depwnds on when, but I want to add this: when a VP becomes pres. through succession, the speaker does not become VP automatically. The new pres. picks whoever they want. Ford chose the governor of NY, for example.