kent_eh

@kent_eh@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but I think they have had issues with filtering neonazis

  Any platform that proclaims itself to be a censorship free zone is going to attract nazis and other undesirables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone else hear AC/DC when they saw this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important life choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Glass is just borderline

  It als depends on the distance and transportation costs to get to a glass plant.

  Which is dissapointing, because glass should be relatively easy to recycle into new containers. The core process isn’t much different than making new glass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Purpose isn’t something that is handed to you, it’s something that each of us has to find/create for ourselves.

   

  And true happiness isn’t found by comparing yourself to others.

  Its not a fair comparison. You only get to see their directors cut, but you see your own blooper reel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  8 years on an internal combustion engine is nothing if you preventative maintenance properly.

  Also depends on the type and amount of driving you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I live in the green part⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first 2 on the legend look darker than the following 3 .

  I agree with the previous commenter. Colour coded maps are useless for about 25% of the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leaving it open ended and subjective is setting up for failure.

  Having a specific list always misses something, and bad actors will find ways to abuse the gaps in that list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the culture wars bullshit is originating from a tiny but disproportionately noisy number of people.

  But then, because their claims are so outrageous, the media picks up onbit and runs with it, without bothering to be proportional to the number of people causing the problem in the format place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't install app because it isn't "certified" by the government⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably because it’s much cheaper.

  There are reasons why it’s cheaper, and none of them improve your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming he doesn’t change the rules and appoint himself president forever, then the limit is 2 terms, consecutive or not.

  Even if a person started their presidential mandate partway through a 4 year cycle (as happened after Nixon stepped down and after Kennedy was shot), it’s still 2 terms, not necessarily 8 years.

  If Trump dies in the next 4 years, Vance could serve out the current term and would only be eligible to become president for one additional term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  should keep the rest of the world entrained.

  Sorry, but you guys stopped being fun to watch a while ago.

  It’s now gone well beyond train-wreck levels of horrified “can’t look away” viewing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why isn’t that benefitting the working class? These are real questions. Trump has all the wrong answers

  The existance of people like Trump and Musk are the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These orgs could use your donations now more than ever.

  As well as your volunteer time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the bullshit that Trump yelled about, I think actual death squads is relatively low on the list of things he would actually be able to accomplish.

  For the first year or so he will be too focused on trying to punish the justice system that was so “unfair” to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The sentencing happens before he has any power.

  Plus, any state charges can’t be pardoned by a president.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t be bothered to worry about the climate 100 years from now

  I can because I care about my kids and potential grandchildren.

  we’re going to be attacking (many more) Americans 100 days from now

  I also have family members who will be impacted directly by that.

  I can be concerned about stopping both of those negative outcomes. (And would be even if it didn’t directly impact my family)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wr can hope not to repeat the plague, but with Trump empowering anti-vaxxers, even that can’t be taken for granted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the counter-argument in favor of genocide?

  Thw arguement is the party that has been calling for a cease fire since the start if the conflict versus the one that will actively encourage Netanyahu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That reminds me, isn’t his sentencing coming up in a couple of weeks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point it becomes impossible to tell what is something Trump really believes and might actually do versus what is just blowing smoke, blatant lying, a thing that contradicts another thing he said, or something he forgot he said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess Trump won’t see consequences,

  Probably not given his age, diet, and general level of fitness.

  And even if he does live that long, I doubt he will remember it given his clearly declining mental health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In a bad economy, no one cares about your politics

  That’s no excuse for electing someone whose stated policies and politics will fuck the economy even further and faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what should one archive in a fascist regime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We might see censorship and destruction of art but information will survive internationally.

  As well as imprisoning of people spreading information and making art that the regime doesn’t like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what should one archive in a fascist regime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or copyright.

  Whether honest or not, copyright claims are a very powerful tool to take stuff down now, and fight about restoring it later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich countries tend to have better functioning waste collection and disposal services.

  These days it is a lot better, but it wasn’t always that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I put down on my resume?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or even “experience using …”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, launching that sort of payload is going to be insanely costly.

  And causes its own additional air pollution as part of the launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of ocean trash comes by river from poor countries.

  Also by river from wealthy countries, and has done so for centuries.

  The scope of the task of removing it is far bigger than OP can imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is exactly the reason.

  Those caps also prevent the small percentage of people who would abuse the system from having as much of a negative impact on other users.

  Back when the company I used to work for offered an unlimited voice calling deal (we’re talking 25 years ago on the old analog cell system) there were a few people who decided it would be a good idea to use their phone as a baby monitor, which tied up a voice channel for days at a time. There being only a dozen or less voice channels on most towers at the time made that kind of thing a signifigant cause of congestion.