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- Comment on Is there a "buy nothing" community on Lemmy? Or an anti-consumerism comm? 1 day ago:
I feel like there’s three types of buy nothing:
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buy it for life - people looking to reduce consumerism by purchasing high quality, long lasting items that aren’t engineered to have limited lifespans. See lemmy.world/c/buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works
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second hand trading groups - people who want to reduce consumerism by creating vibrant second hand marketplaces and encouraging selling, trading, and donating of old goods. Lemmy is the wrong format for this, these groups tend to exist in geographically focused platforms like Facebook and Kijiji.
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true die-hard anti consumerists - want to never buy anything, including any items that are remotely consumable. Hard to find these communities as these people tend to head off grid, and / or self implode.
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- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 6 days ago:
Is there a point you can find in history where we paid doctors, teachers, and nurses close to what they’re worth and more than professional athletes?
It sounds like you’re nostalgic for a time that never existed.
- Comment on Why do personal knowledge base applications like Obsidian have all these bells and whistles for querying and parsing metadata/frontmatter but nothing similar for the actual content of notes? 1 week ago:
Because indexing a structured field with limited values is different from indexing a “structured” document with fields that can be anything.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in Ferrari crash 1 week ago:
Damn, that sucks.
The studio head of Modern Warfare (all ghillied up), Titanfall / Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends. The guy clearly had an eye for taste / talent.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, I am just being overly angry and hateful.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the same idea, as I didn’t advocated studying them when they were authoritarian shitholes who were actively slaughtering their neighbours.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have to, I just have to name one better than Russia.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 2 weeks ago:
German culture and heritage was destroyed by the world wars. What remains is not what was there pre-WWII.
And I’m not cancelling or destroying anything. I’m just prioritizing cultures worth preserving over those that have been poisoned by a century of dictatorship and death.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Russia. Learn literally any other language. Let them and their brains dead culture rot.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 3 weeks ago:
Because we didn’t evolve to live in lands of abundance. We evolved in scarce conditions and are attuned to that.
Food that delicious and high calorie would not be constantly available in the wild, so if we ever found anything close, it would be beneficial to eat as much as possible to store up calories and survive during periods of scarcity.
- Comment on Seems legit 4 weeks ago:
You can fit text-only wikipedia on a normal Blu Ray as it’s only about 24GB. You can also easily fit Llama 3.1 or any of the other open, offline capable ai models as they’re only about 4GB.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 weeks ago:
False equivalency.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 5 weeks ago:
Do they regrow their body or a new body made from the same parts?
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
The fact that there are billionaires is the sign that they’re not being taxed enough.
Massive infrastructure / R&D projects like a space race is actually one of the more productive ways that billionaires could use their money.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
Capitalism can create innovation, but capitalism is not necessary for it. The very same innovation could have happened if the state spent a fraction of this money on R&D, without all the insane Terraform Mars T-shirts and 3 companies wasting resources to do pretty much exactly the same thing three times. Sadly the american government is not an effective redistributor of wealth, and any NASA budget comes with a million (dumb) strings attached, like spending it on certain projects that benefit the state senator who voted for it.
In this situation, the state LITERALLY spent more money developing the SLS rocket, and it is going to be a colossal failure and waste of money compared to the rockets that can be reused.
Three companies trying to produce the same thing is not a waste, it’s literally the defining feature of capitalism and why every government, including the Chinese Communist government, still uses capitalist systems. Multiple entities competing to do the same thing gives you more variety and diversity, and hedges your bets in case one of them is wrong or corrupted by flawed people in it.
Also, I don’t know where you get that 50x number, SpaceX lowered the launch cost maybe by about 3-4x compared to contemporary chinese rockets.
Compared to SLS, the literal state funded alternative.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
Lol, you do realize that Starlink is literally the first time that most rural Americans have had reliable high speed internet right?
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
You do realize that NASA has a fixed budget for the science missions they can run right? A d you do realize that when the launch costs for their satellites are 50x lower, that means they can run more missions more often?
We all hate Musk, but it’s fucking insane to look at the equivalent of the first airplane company that could land a plane and didn’t just destroy it after every flight, and say ‘thats just a dick measuring contest, how could that be useful?’
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
Public contracts are not the same things as grants and subsidies. They are contracts for services to be rendered, and SpaceX quite frankly won them handily by being fundamentally better and cheaper then the competition.
And most of their funding has come from private investment, and by building and running the Falcon 9 which is by far the cheapest and most reliable way for anyone to get stuff into space at the moment.
Like Jesus Christ, you can hate Musk without being blind to the fact that SpaceX is legitimately doing things no one has ever done before with rocketry. The SLS is a traditional rocket that was designed by NASA and built by contractors and it literally costs orders of magnitude more to fly, has never actually flown yet, and at most could fly twice a year.
- Comment on Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks. 1 month ago:
Code signing should be done though.
You can disagree with Apple’s approach that maintains them as the only signing authority, but, at a fundamental level, code signing is the only way to distribute an executable and have the user be able to trust who authored it and what’s in it.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Nope, night owl who likes to sleep in.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
I mean, I broke my hand and it never healed properly, I have pretty bad tendon damage in one ankle, I got shin splints like crazy when I started running, and I have previously herniated a disk, though not that major.
I’m not saying every single major injury is recoverable from, but look at the history of most athletes and you’ll see a lot of major injuries that they were able to recover from.
Again, not saying this is the case necessarily for your back, but I know people who have gotten relatively minor injuries, gotten terrified of them and/or used that as an excuse not to do any more exercise on that body part ever, and then got severely injured again because now the muscles and muscle control for that body part is severely undeveloped, putting more strain back on the tendons / ligaments.
The general recommended approach for most injuries is physio, i.e. reducing your exercises back down to zero weight, but still doing them, and continuously adding weight to re-build and strengthen those muscles and joints, not to avoid using them forever.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Burnout isnt a thing, it’s just situational depression.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Honestly cannot fathom this. Are you pushing yourself at the gym? Are you eating healthy and enough protein? Resting enough?
There’s literally never been a period of my life where going to the gym regularly hasn’t made me feel better. I havent gone for like 6 months because I’ve been brutally busy, but I honestly cannot fathom how you could be going and not getting something positive out of it.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
If you force yourself to run a little bit one day, then a little bit more each day after that, then eventually 4 miles will feel like a short run.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
By forcing yourself to do stuff.
It sucks at first, and you feel exhausted and like you’re not that effective and your brain will keep coming up with excuses and rationalizations as to why you should just rest, but you ignore them and force yourself to do the stuff you don’t feel like doing.
Do that for a while and you’ll suddenly have a higher energy level and it won’t seem like a big deal.
You’re basically at the point where you just took up a new exercise every day, and that’s just tapping you out. If you keep doing just that exercise and nothing else, your fitness / energy will eventually rise to the point of being able to handle it and nothing else. If you force yourself to do more, then eventually your fitness / energy level will rise to working + after work stuff being the baseline.
Give yourself time and give yourself rest days, but most people online will advocate for too much self care and don’t realize that the only way to actually change and improve is to continually push yourself a little past your comfort zone.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 month ago:
Edible, Non-Toxic, and Food form a Venn diagram.
- Comment on Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality' 2 months ago:
Again, no, because that’s not a resolution, that’s a pixel density at a set distance.
- Comment on Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality' 2 months ago:
While I get your point, this is an article, not a whitepaper.
If someone says something that is obviously not a thing, like ‘the perfect resolution of an analog painting’, then it means the author probably didn’t actually understand what they read and so you shouldn’t trust their interpretation of the underlying news.
- Comment on Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality' 2 months ago:
That’s not a resolution, that’s a pixel density at a set distance. It’s also arbitrary on Apple’s end, not actually a meaningful universal measurement.
- Comment on Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality' 2 months ago:
The image was shown in perfect resolution on the screen, which at approximately 1.4 x 1.9 mm was 1/4000th that of a standard smartphone.
This makes me doubt the author of the article’s credibility. What exactly is the “perfect resolution” of a hand painted piece of art?
The underlying paper is published in Nature which adds more credibility to its significance but an article that presents none of the limitations, drawbacks, or broader industry context that might hold something like this back isn’t adding much.