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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fossil fuels⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
While you guys kind of have a point, the specific argument you put forward is rather weak. Transportation accounts for an almost negligible part of the overall emissions of a product. Bulk freight cargo is super efficient. If you want to moan about transportation emissions, look at single people sitting in tons of steel making short trips.

The point you still have is that emissions are caused in the process of satisfying a demand. Consumers do have a partial responsibility. However I would object in that the problem cannot be solved from the consumer’s position. It is a market failure. Markets have no incentive to internalize their externalities, that has to come from a different place; e.g. politics. Carbon pricing is an interesting mechanic, since it utilizes that same argument for good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fossil fuels⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s true. A lot more could be said about this, on various levels in various directions. Ultimately I don’t think this systemic crisis can be solved on a consumer level. The attempt leads to the status quo; different subcultures with some people paying extra to calm their consciousness, while most don’t care or cannot afford. I’m afraid if we try to work with individual sacrifice against economic incentives, the latter will win.

It’s also true that some companies use their economic power as a political lever, to influence legislation in their favor. Or as a societal lever, to sway public opinion in their favor. I guess this meme here tries to address that. I honor the motive. Just the chosen vehicle is broken. With mountains of evidence supporting the cause, however, there are plenty of other, perfectly fine vehicles available.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fossil fuels⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This meme is so wrong it is deliberate misinformation. The Guardian made an article which is probably this meme’s source. It even linked to the original source, the Carbon Majors Report. But blatantly misquoted the CMR. For example, CMR says something like “100 fossil fuel producers responsible for 71% of industrial GHG emissions”, but The Guardian (and meme posters) omit the italic bits.

What do they mean with producers? Not companies like Apple or Heinz, but simply organizations which produce fossil fuels. Duh. Shell, BP, but also entities like China’s coal sector (which they count as one producer, although it consists of many entities). CMR also states 3rd type emissions are included. Which means emissions caused by “using” their “products”, e.g. you burning gasoline in your car.

So yes, the downvoted guy saying “Consumer emissions and corporate emissions are the same emissions” is pretty spot on in this case, albeit most likely by accident. Rejected not for being wrong, but for not fitting into a narrative, which I call the wrong reasons. Please check your sources before posting. We live in a post-factual world where only narratives count and truth is just another feeling, because of “journalism” and reposts like this. Which is the infuriating part in this particular case. I guess you want to spread awareness about the climate crisis, which is good, but you cannot do so by propagandizing science and spreading lies.

All that from the top of my head. Both the ominous TG article and the fairly short report are easy to find. In just a couple of minutes you can check and confirm how criminally misquoted it was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Eventually, things settle at almost perfect ratios. Everything between creates some kind of friction.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this one goes out to the arts & humanities⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

What does it even mean to bruteforce creating art? Trying all the possible prompts to some image model?

Doesn’t have to be that random, but can be. Here, I wrote: “throw loads of computation power, gazillions of try & error, petabytes of data including human opinions”.

The approach people take to learning or applying a skill like painting is not bruteforcing, there is actual structure and method to it.

Ok, but isn’t that rather an argument that it can eventually be mastered by a machine? They excel at applying structure and method, with far more accuracy (or the precise amount of desired randomness) and speed than we can.

The idea of brute forcing art comes down to philosophical questions. Do we have some immaterial genie in us, which cannot be seen and described by science, which cannot be recreated by engineers? Engeniers, lol. Is art something which depends on who created it, or does it depend on who views it?

Either way what I meant is that it is thinkable that more computation power and better algorithms bring machines closer to being art creators, although some humans surely will reject that solely based on them being machines. Time will tell.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this one goes out to the arts & humanities⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That depends on things we don’t know yet. If it can be brute forced (throw loads of computation power, gazillions of try & error, petabytes of data including human opinions), then yes, “lots of work” can be an equivalent.

If it does not, we have a mystery to solve. Where does this magic come from? It cannot be broken down into data and algorithms, but still emerges in the material world? How? And what is it, if not dependent on knowledge stored in matter?

On the other hand, how do humans come up with good, meaningful art? ~~Talent~~ Practice. Isn’t that just another equivalent of “lots of work”? This magic depends on many learned data points and acquired algorithms, executed by human brains.

There also is survivor bias. Millions of people practice art, but only a tiny fraction is recognized as artists (if you ask the magazines and wallets). Would we apply the same measure to computer generated art, or would we expect them to shine in every instance?

As “good, meaningful art” still lacks a good, meaningful definition, I can see humans moving the goalpost as technology progresses, so that it always remains a human domain. We just like to feel special and have a hard time accepting humiliations like being pushed out of the center of the solar system, or placed on one random planet among billion others, or being just one of many animal species.

Or maybe we are unique in this case. We’ll probably be wiser in a few decades.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⌛⌛⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This ambiguity is what I had in mind when I read “let me be clear”. Though now I get it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just a guess: to prevent bots from scraping the full content?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portal Paradox⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Consider these two pixel-oval portals:
```
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x    x     o    o
x    x     o    o
x    x     o    o
x    x     o    o
  xx         oo
```
They are the same size, and you can easily make a bijective mapping for each of their pixels.

Rotate one two times in 3D space by 90°, and it fits through the other. If you want more wiggle room, make them taller.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of yesterday evening none of my posts are visible in my "posts" view anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You can check wether it has something to do with “[ ] Show Read Posts”, a checkbox in your settings.

It confused me once; because it counts your own posts as “Read Posts” and hides them accordingly.

At least that’s what it did in the last months. Since the recent update to 0.19, I see Read Posts no matter how I toggle that setting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemm.ee is dead⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

when your server is a raspberry pi of some underage kid

You couldn’t be further from the truth. sunaurus has been an exemplary admin, with clear communication and obvious competence. He’s even contributing to the source code and helped other admins in troubling times.

Yes the situation is/was bad, but for anyone who followed the server, as an exception. Coincidentally right around the holidays.

It’s fine if you rather want to move to another instance, but can you do so unlike an underage kid, slinging fabricated dirt on your way out?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the instance get updated to 0.19.1?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

the server performance in general seems to be a lot better than before

For me it’s the opposite. All good, then I took a break around Nov/Dec, and now it’s a slug for more than a week already. Pages take second_s_ to load and sometimes don’t load at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone feel like an actual adult?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

I feel like I’m pretending to know what I’m doing.

I guess that explains the observation. As kids, we’re fooled by the pretenders. So we grow up with this expectation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User independant defederation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s refreshing to see someone hate these abominations with the same passion I do, and bring up very similar points. Thanks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple, right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s economy of scale. A centralized building can be much more efficient than many individual houses. Big emphasis on CAN.

It all depends on how wasteful people are at home, wether they commute by train or bike (or how much car trips they do while WFH), and how responsible the office is managed.

The last studies I saw posted in Lemmy about this highlighted the nuance, while people jumped on the maximum possible saving as if that was real.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we defederate from rdq2.net?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Correct and an important distinction generally. But in the given context, what difference does it make? Would we ban a NS-Nazi, but not a Mussolini-fascist? In the brevity of the comment which started this chain, I think “Nazi shit” referred to both. Since both has no place, and both are very similar to each other for all intents and purposes of Lemmy moderation.

Yes, we could simply use the correct term and oppose ‘fascists’, but internationally, both terms are practically synonyms.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we defederate from rdq2.net?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I guess you hit it.

So on a more theoretical note: There are contexts in which the word lost it’s meaning. Some leftist groups are quite trigger happy with words usually reserved for the extreme right. I also heard in Russia, ‘Nazi’ has a different meaning than in the west, literally more “bad/evil”, a more general ‘enemy of Russia’.

However;

Just because someone used the word wrong doesnt mean …
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't browse by new because of bot spam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Right, exactly my position.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't browse by new because of bot spam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
@sunaurus@lemm.ee, can we please defederate zerobytes.monster? If you look at zerobytes.monster/communities, the numbers are extreme. Thousands of posts per community, but only 2-digit comments (in total! for whole communities!), some have literally 0 comments for thousands of posts.

Most (all?) posts are mere reposts from reddit. Their “bOt” posts so much, the user profile (when viewed from lemm.ee) does not load, so we cannot block it. It drowns the All-feed for new users.

Referring to the administration and federation policy for lemm.ee, I think these two lines are relevant:
Some concrete examples of instances which we would defederate:
1. An instance which has a 2:1 ratio of bots to users 🤖
2. An instance which is focused on creating spam in the network
1. While it seems to be just one bot and a few users, the activity of that bot vastly outweighs humans, by a factor in the thousands.
2. I’m not sure if it’s their intention to create spam (honestly, no idea what their intention is, really - advertising for reddit?), but in effect, that’s what they do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't browse by new because of bot spam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, zerobytes.monster/u/bOt is really a monster with 1.87 million posts in 3 months. I can open that page, but when I open it from lemm.ee, it times out: lemm.ee/u/bOt@zerobytes.monster ⏳

So I just ran into this problem and am searching for a solution. Your post is one month old now. How’s it going, did you find a solution for you?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
People get outraged about wasting a fine building. But do you have any idea how much effort it takes to make a good plan?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is Indeed a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

No landlords will touch me, a person with a GUARANTEED INCOME.

However, if you have a job, that you can get fired from or quit the next day, they’ll accept you. Blows my fucking mind.

Exactly, it’s crazy. Some even go further and require you to earn 3x as much as your rent.

While I understand it’s a good rule of thumb to not spend more than 1/3 on rent … a good rule of thumb for THE RENTING PERSON, that is. Why would any landlord care if I eat oats or drive a lambo? As long as I pay my rent, what do they even care how much I have left?

And since rents have been rising more than wages, satisfying this unecessary demand becomes increasingly difficult.

Maybe it is because they are not rational homo economicuses. They find someone to rent their place anyways, so they can use their power to punish or reward people based on their societal ideals. Or simply have a say in what kind of people are allowed to live in that hood.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is Indeed a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Very similar to finding a new home.

Bonus challenge: Find a new home without a job.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate using mobile to read articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s probably one reason why it became a habit to stay on Lemmy, often not even opening the article.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

I personally avoid argument threads for the most part unless I have a dire social need, but not every conversation is necessarily about the Holodomor and Xinjiang (the two points of contention it seems).

I’d hope that everyone I talk to and take seriously is a denier of “White Genocide”, the theory that white people are under threat of being bred out and marginalised in their own lands by the deliberate machinations of refugees and immigrants. In this rather gross example, we wouldn’t refer to each other as genocide deniers.

Genocide denial refers to pretending a genocide did not happen. You’re talking about a conspiracy theory. “We are under [perceived] threat” is something else, notably weaker, than “We are being eradicated”. Not agreeing to a conspiracy theory is not similar to denying a piece of history happened.

This answer made me question wether you are arguing in good faith. It feels like a mix of confusing terms and some whataboutism. When you were aware what the points of contention are, why bring up another, unrelated, imaginary example which doesn’t even fit?

This allows the reader to question wether you see other, actual genocides as similar to imagined ones, which are only subject of conspiracy theories, not mass graves. I can see how this can be read as genocide denial, or at least downplaying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Is there any reason to think it isn’t rooted in the difference in political alignment?

I saw a lot of shit from hexbear, and the issue rarely was political. Plenty of examples in this comment section.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

I don’t see why people who want to block hexbear.net don’t just block some communities they don’t like and users they see commenting a lot.

Since I recently joined this group of people who want to block hb, I reply. First, I’m not subscribed to any hb community, as far as I’m aware. So this option is unavailable to me. The issues I have happen in communities hosted on other instances, with hb users participating.

What bothers me is the way in which this participation happens. Sometimes the content (offensive, vulgar, dishonest), but mostly the way (edgy). I feel this negatively impacts the non-hb communities I’d like to participate in. Blocking specific users makes me not see them anymore, but it does not undo the damage they do to what I like. It’s like looking away when a classmate is being bulied. Feels wrong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Exactly my feelings.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a nice opportunity to voice my support for defederating hexbear.net from lemm.ee.

I say this although I very much approve the open federation policy of lemm.ee, which was a main reason to register here.

But of the growing list of encounters with hexbeared comment sections, there was not one which was fine. There just seems to be something about some users of this instance to consistently ruin things.