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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Declining birth rates in Africa will become a problem for Europe, because immigration is how we keep our healthcare systems running.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
More scientists and inventors, more philosophers and artists, more people that share your niche hobby…
The only people who have a problem with that, are hipsters or just like dieing a preventable death.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Ploughing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I had the same question a few hours ago, but I found some science.
Tldr: 30% of energy use is in diesel, and about half of that is for tilling fields.

Rant:
Note that this is energy use, so only CO2 emissions are counted, while methan is ignored. If we stopped farming animals, the effective emissions of the sector would be cut in half. Even if we are unwilling to change out diet, maybe we should look at reducing the amount of fertilizer instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Ploughing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The main problem is that, not ploughing increases the need for pesticides, currently around 8% of energy used and reduces yield. While not ploughing increasing requiring 3x the pesticides might not be the case, a 20% reduction in yield seems plausible.

The main energy consumption in farming is fertilizer at around 50%, but more importantly half the emissions are related to animal agriculture. Cutting back on that would actually make a difference.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Chimpfluencers' Are Sticking Grass in Their Ears And Butts in Latest Viral Trend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It was interesting, but why are we reheating news from 2023 every few month?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is heart?!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But they grow of air and water without significantly consuming the earth they grow in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They may not have noticed the cameras or not have a choice to go elsewhere in a reasonable time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

The seed hides in the secure element of your device. (it won’t be impossible to extract, but the average kid is not gonna be able hack a secure element).

But only one person needs to “hack” it on their device to publish the key, allowing everyone to use it without “hacking” their own device.

You can’t store a key on a device and keep it safe from the owner.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not.
I usually go into zapper mode on ublock to remove the pop up without agreeing, but they probably treat that as “accept and continue”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Galaxy Brains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a tumbler thing, iirc it’s the only way to add your own text when reposting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far you've fallen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Just switches and numbers, no foreign language support, no screen reader, no tool tips, no drag and drop, no night mode, …
The only convenience feature was converting metric to imperial for display.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaotic Evil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Should have used display port instead of HDMI because from certain angles you only really see the rectangular side. Not that I ever tried to plug a USB thing into mine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I haven’t seen many clips, but the effect on me was more humanizing than anything.
It’s mostly funny and having religious nutjobs is a shared experience.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Have you tried fresh banana picked a minute ago?

No, but if climate change keeps accelerating, I might be able to eat a home grown banana. Unless the gulf stream breaks of first, in which case I can heard reindeer.
Both are horrifying to think about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It could also be scaled (THz) or when working with light given as a wavelength (nm) and sometimes even photon energy (eV).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of those days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
While it could be read as 40*(1/4), it actually means 40+1/4. 401/4 would be true madness.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's that time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There is a reptile cannel on YouTube (think it’s called clint’s reptiles), that does annual skeleton reviews for halloween. The worst I can remember are where snail and octopus.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Had I not woken up then, I wouldn’t have remembered it at all.
Even more faux deep.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Writing mine down so I don’t forget it:

Do you know those picnic huts that are all roof and open on one side?
Well in my dream I was going to supper with friend and family, came across a hut and felt adventurous.
So I climbed it to balance across.
Something I have done before irl.
proof

But in the dream it was very long and crumbled under my feet in slow motion like in an action movie.
I didn’t make it all the way across before waking up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Moskitos live anywhere there is stale water, so either clean it or have it wild enough that other insects outcompet them.
Put your compost pile somewhere you don’t walk past a lot, because that’s where flies congregate.
Ticks aren’t that mobile, they need some animal to carries them there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excuse the fuck me?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
While I think even marriage has limits, baines said

fault?, gf no if a wife yes
but regardless a shit human being

implying that leaving any romantic partner in that situation is immoral.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excuse the fuck me?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Should she have stayed and essentially worked as a nurse until he died?
Just because they where in a relationship early in life?
If the illness didn’t happen, they might have fallen out eventually, but because one is ill the other is morally bound for decades?

If that’s your moral standard, you better spend every free minute of your life volunteering and every spare cent on charity, otherwise go fuck yourself!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
While it was probably not the best use of our time, it certainly made me think about relations and algebra in more interesting ways than the last uni course did.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
But I am not taking about an amount of different things, but a parallel or branching number line being part of the set of natural numbers.
I am not talking about modular arithmetic on its own, but as part of the set of natural numbers.

Under the missing axioms those constructs would be part of the natural numbers, including an x in N such that s(x)=x and therefore x+1=x. While some might think this implies 0=1, it doesn’t, because we don’t have the axiom of induction, an thus can’t prove a+c=b+c => a=b.

The usefulness of such a system questionable but it certainly doesn’t describe the natural numbers as we understand them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There are also an infinite number of rationale between two integers, but the rationals are still countable and therefore have the same cardinality as the naturals and integers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I know how how natural numbers work, but the axioms in the comment i replied to are not enough to define them.

Not sure what you mean by ‘loops’

There could be a number n such that m=s(n) and n=s(m). This would be precluded by taking the axiom of induction or the trichotomy axiom.

If we only take the latter we can still make a second number line, that runs “parallel” to the “propper number line” like:
```
n,s(n),s(s(n)),s(s(s(n))),...
0,s(0),s(s(0)),s(s(s(0))),...
```
there are no natural numbers that are negative

I know, but the given axioms don’t preclude it. Under the peano axioms it’s explicitly spelled out:
0 is not the successor of any natural number
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That axiomisation is incomplete as it doesn’t preclude stuff like loops, a predecessor to zero or a second number line.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does information want to be free⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Hoarding information is like hoarding any other resources.

Information is unlike any other resource, it can be shared without taking away from the giver.
Hording it is not about protection what you have, it’s about intentionally depriving others with no benefit to your self other than keeping up a power imbalance.