Aceticon
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- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 2 hours ago:
That’s always the case and is something that has to change (though the path for that is so far unclear).
However Capitalists + actual AI would’ve been much worse for people’s livelihoods that merelly Capitalists by themselves.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
Good news.
Guess my info on that was quite outdated.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
Natural Gas - which is not renewable - is a reactant and Oil is still involved indirectly as a means to generate the power needed for the process.
That said, it’s unclear to me if the Oil is somehow used at the chemical plant to generate said energy (for example, to reach the necessary temperatures) or if it’s even more indirect than that and it’s just fuelling Power Generation plants which in turn provide electricity used in the heating, pressure generation and subsequent cooling for that process.
If it is the latter case I have to agree that it’s not quite as bad in the renewable sense as I thought.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
There is a book called The Omnivore’s Dilemma which is a great read on this.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
Fertilizers are made from Amonia which in turn is made using the Haber-Bosch process which requires fossil fuels to provide the necessary energy (see this related article)
There is also “natural” fertilizer made from organic mass left over from other activities which would otherwise go to waste, but that’s insufficient for large scale intensive farming (composting is fine for your community garden or even for supplementing low intensity agriculture, but not for the intensive industrial farming growing things like hybrid corn).
Finally, the use of techniques like crop rotation which lets letting fields lie fallow so that natural nitrate fixation occurs and the soil recovers do not make the soil rich enough in nitrates to support hybrid corn growing because, as I mentioned, the plant density is too high to be supported by natural soil alone without further addition of fertilizers.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
Can’t have people give less of their income to rent-seekers…
- Comment on Earthquake detection kit 2 days ago:
It only looks crazy until it actually has crazy looks, by which point it’s obvious it works.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
The industrial farming of corn in the US requires using hybrid corn strains to reach the yields it has, which in turn requires the use of fertilizers because the natural soils is incapable of sustaining the density of corn plants that hybrid varieties achive.
Those fertilizers in turn are mainly made from oil, which is a non-renewable resource, making the whole thing unsustainible. It’s is possible to make the fertilizers sustainably, it’s just much more expensive so that’s not done.
A lot of the reason why the US is so deeply involved (including outright military invasions) in the Middle East from where most of the oil comes is because in the US oil it’s not just a critical resource for Transportation and Energy, it’s also a critical resource for food.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
Which neatly raises the point of how modern large monoculture does a lot less of that kind of use of agricultural products unusuable by humans.
Absolutelly, the whole of a cow slaughtered in a slaughterhouse is famously used (down to the hoves) and nothing thrown out, however you don’t see goats being raised on the unusable parts of a corn plant (whilst wheat straw is actually used as feed, for corn the silage for cattle made from it uses the whole plant including kernels not just the left-over unusable by humans parts).
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
It makes sense for it to be the same as solar power: just because most of energy generation is done in big facilities and even some kinds of solar generation (such as solar concentrators) can only be done in large facilities, doesn’t make having some solar panels providing part of one’s needs (or even all of one’s needs for some of the time) less cost effective in Economic terms or a good thing in Ecologic terms.
So it makes sense to raise some of one’s food, but maybe not raise one’s own beef or even aim for food self sufficiency, both for personnal financial reasons and health reasons. That it’s also good in Ecological terms (can lower the use of things like pesticides and definitelly reduces transportation needs) is just icing on the cake.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
Judging by the median quality of life (rat race, anybody) and the obesity epidemic (and related diseases), neither “happy” nor “healthy” seem to be objectives and it looks a lot more like it’s just “alive and energized enough to work”.
Industrial Food (and that includes the Intensive Farming and Cattle Rearing side) in the US is particularly bad at the healthy part, and even in countries with better food regulations the industrial stuff (and again that includes the products of intensive farming) is still significantly worse in that sense than the non-industrial kind but at least they don’t shove corn so hard that it adds up to over 70% of the human food chain directly and indirectly.
Not that I’m saying that the World can sustain this big a population without intensive farming. I’m just disputing that the modern version of it even tries to have “happy” or “healthy” as objectives, much less have succeeded in achieving either.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
Most “cost effective” things are only that if you don’t count Negative Externalities.
The obvious example is fossil fuels.
- Comment on Ghosts and Divers 3 days ago:
Same here for the same reason.
Mind you, they had already pivoted from a great consumer electronics company to customer lock-in and other anti-customer actions before that, roughly since the Media side executives took the top positions away from the Electronics side ones in the late 90s early 2000s.
- Comment on Speed 4 days ago:
One is but a two pi greater version of the other.
- Comment on Speed 4 days ago:
Thus neatly making the case that radius matters.
- Comment on Archaeology 4 days ago:
Well, a court ordered exhumanitions of a murder victim is not grave robbing, so your example in the 2nd paragraph just makes the point that there are in fact more categories than “grave robbing” and “archeology”.
And yeah, governments often definite who owns what (since in natural terms, plenty of things such as land cannot be possessed) and hence directly or indirectly what is robbery.
(Which brings the interesting question of “who owns the grave” so that taking from it is robbery)l.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
In bullshit, which is itself an imprecise metric.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
So are you saying that that following the Teachings Of The Prophet on how a woman should dress in a modest way and in all other thinks in life, alhamdulillah, is less important than speaking for a pig!!!???
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Imagine that you go to an outdoor barbecue on a bright Summer day.
And some guy who is an extreme Muslim is going around telling some women that they’re not dressed in a modest enough way and that people people should follow the Teachings of the Prophet and how life is a lot better when people follow the Teachings of the Prophet.
It’s not Islam that’s the problem, it’s certain kinds of people, their proselytising and, worse, their trying to force or even imposing their own moral values on others.
Same with Veganism and some kinds of Vegans: because it’s a moral choice some of those who practice it have the very same behavioural disfunctions as religious nutters.
- Comment on Sticks 1 week ago:
Depending on the hour of the day at the other poster’s location, it can arrive much faster…
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
OTS flashing.
Like OTA but over space rather than air.
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 1 week ago:
The Tories already morphed into Posh Fascists so why would any person with a yearning for anti-immigration, nationalism, extremelly punitive Justice System, genocide support and strong-against-demonstrations, vote for the non-Posh version.
- Comment on Hey there gamers 1 week ago:
2S = 100 sets of 101 S = 100/2 sets of 101 = 50 sets of 101 = 5050
I wondered about the same thing so did the Maths (which is kinda the point of the meme) back from 5050 and it all checks out.
- Comment on fight the power 1 week ago:
I live in a building were one of my neighbours has 4 or 5 cats and has some mental problems and so at times will for no visible reason start shouting.
The cats couldn’t care less.
I suspect that of all creatures, a domesticated cat is probably one the least likely to be stressed by it, at least if it’s an usual thing.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
They seem to be well acquainted with how the average human mentally works.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
We the People Who Work In Tech, welcome you to the World of bullshit meisters making insane stuff up around your domain expertise area.
We’ve been living in it since at least the late 90s.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
If you buy a monitor from Amazon, do you expect that they will thrown in another one for free?
What about if you hire a plumber to come fixe a leaky pipe, do you expect them to install a new set of water taps for free while they’re at it?
Do you go to McDonalds and expect a posh table waiter, and a complimentary bottle of Beaujoulais wine along with lightly seasoned oregano and olive oil garlick bread, for the price of a Big Mac?
So why expect that workers will do more work than what they are being paid for?!
If it’s only a business relationship, as those very same managers treat it when it’s time for layoffs or when giving below inflation raises because the job market isn’t tight and they can easilly find replacements, then it’s only fair that workers too treaty it as only a business relationship and only provide the level of service they’re being paid for.
If they want the haute cuisine Michellin Starred service they’re gonna have to pay more than McDonald prices.
The whole calling it “quiet quiting” is just a reflection of the moneyed class wanting to, as the Brits would call it, eat the cake and still have it afterwards.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
People change, their learn new things and their wants and objectives change.
I would be wary of considering a failure that somebody who started with the aim of running a coffee shop forever, at some point changed their minds and quit.
It depends on how they quit - if it was good while it lasted and it was their own choice to quit, it doesn’t sound like a failure to me. For me a failure would be quiting against one’s wishes. In fact I would see keeping running a business you’re fed up with against your wishes a failure.
As for relationships, some of the biggest failures I’ve seen involved people staying in something that had become hellish “for the sake of children”, due to money constraints or just for keeping up with appearences, whilst I would consider a successful relationship when people live well together for some years and when they do drift apart do the adult mature thing and separate by mutual agreement, often still being friends afterwards.
- Comment on Mandelbrot 2 weeks ago:
It definitelly doesn’t pay to be detail-oriented when doing a fractal lawn…
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
I’m from a Tech and Science background (unfinished Physics degree, most-definitelly-finished EE degree and then about 2 decades at the bleeding edge of Informatics) and some years ago came in contact with the Theatre Acting world for a couple of years whilst living in London (UK), doing various short courses, seeing fringe Theatre and getting acquainted with various (not famous) actors and directors.
Most were surprisingly (for me, at the time, with my pre-made ideas from my Science background and 2 decades in Tech) intelligent people.
Good acting using modern acting techniques and good directing do require quite a lot of brains to pull do well, IMHO, since in things like method acting well before there’s any acting of what’s on a script, there’s a whole process of analysing them and various techniques for discovering the emotions of the character (best I can describe in a short space), at least for stage acting.
The only main difference in capabilities, I would say, is that at least in Acting there is a much higher proportion of Extroverts than Introverts, the very opposite of the proportion in Science and Tech, and Introverts are the ones with the personality type that’s detailed oriented and hence more likely to come up with things like new or changed processes for doing things (IMHO).