pacology

@pacology@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest pet peeve is that they sell you a service, at a certain speed, that you can only use for like 50 hours a month…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This 🔝

  Berlusconi had a similar political appeal. After he exited politics, his party went to the biggest in Italy to insignificant.

  It will be really difficult for someone to pick up the Republican Party and run with the same platform as DJT. Many have tried it (e.g. de santis) but none is able to have the same success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that 80% of the users are on one or two instances. Maybe the operators of those instances could sell it to a big publishing company, like Condé Nast or something. That way it will be easier to vertically integrate advertisement between traditional print media, online publications, and less formal online gathering places. It’s a win win at the end. The original operators get their bag, and the community keeps going while being supported by a successful business.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course. He is only a chatting predator or pedofile.

  /s btw. I don’t know anything about the situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel betrayed...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is the salient point on the Wikipedia page that explains why horses don’t produce 1 HP:

  Watt judged that the horse could pull with a force of 180 pounds-force (800 N)

  Basically, Watts made up HP to sell his steam engine to mines and likely made up a number to make the new technology seem better.

  Some things never change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future shines like gold⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has nothing to do with education. It’s commentary on the academic job market and how professors expect post docs to work for “exposure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Politics] Have phobia, will travel⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will 2024 be old people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we want to believe the evil alien theory, viruses might actually fit the bill better than plants, with fungi as a possible unlikely second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The kiwi fruit sold as "red kiwi"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it 80% off by any chance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Gaza Strip declared independence?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an expert in middle eastern politics.

  My uninformed take is that if the Gaza Strip was to self organize as a state, they will implicitly recognize Israel as a state as they will have to decide on borders.

  Being unrecognized allows the Palestinian authority to claim all the former Palestinian land as their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Phone Game Ads Were Allowed Elsewhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Alexa, why am I seeing ads on lemmy??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In real general terms, communism is about people/state’s ownership of the means of production. Under this system, most private property is nationalized.

  Socialism allows for private property and sees the role of the state to redistribute power and wealth among its citizens through some sort of state program.