lucullus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And Jamal Khashoggi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If something could rotate infinitely after being initially pushed, would the initial push disqualify it from being classed as perpetual motion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, thanks. Thats explains it quite good. Basically everywhere in space we have at least some energy. And where we have enery particles will pop into existance and be destroyed again (photons mostly I guess for low energy like with the background radiation in space). These particles only live a short amount of time, but they can still collide with objects like dust or even planets. And when these objects move, the particles in the front will basically collide harder/more, than in the back. Thus a small force against the moving direction is exerted on the object, proportional to its speed (just like friction). Though this is only significant for small objects like dust or on a very very very long time scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If something could rotate infinitely after being initially pushed, would the initial push disqualify it from being classed as perpetual motion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What quantum effects exactly? How does that work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for input/feedback on what work would look like in solarpunk settings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that story it the shown example was about tending to the communities vegetable and fruit plants on the buildings top. Though I can also see cleaning up or transporting stuff. Maybe even a system, where citizens would be socially required (as part of the notmal upbringing, not enforced with force) to learn basic tasks from each of the most important areas of expertise, to then do these basic tasks as chores, keeping the experts free for more complex work (and simultaneously spreading wide knowledge)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for input/feedback on what work would look like in solarpunk settings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In some solarpunk shortstories, that I read with a bookclub recently, there are still kinda jobs. Probably there will always be some undesired things to be done by humans (too complicated or too resource intensive to automate). Basically the stories (I think it was in “Halfway to better” by Susan Kaye Quinn) outlined two kinds of jobs:

  • your main profession: Chosen based on your likings and what you are good in. Heavy focus on learning, teaching and services for the community
  • chores: Often basic communal chores, those jobs not automated and not fitting for a specific profession. Done round robin by every member of the communal space

  These stories have a heavy focus on achieving things for the community as a whole. Work both as self expression and service to others. That sounds quite appealing to me. It shows a way for a highly technologised society, without going the monopolised power route of Cyberpunk.

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  Adjacent to that: In “Always coming home” by Le Guin the outlined society (which is more of the low tech variant of Solarpunk) has a nice quirk. The people choose their profession and the results that you produce are yours. But being rich has a totally different meaning for them. Only the one, who gives much of his or her overproduction to the community (through communal resource fund for example) is considered rich (connotated positively from both the individual and communal side). The one who, who hoards is considered poor. So there are still jobs, and the society absolutely expects you to work. Though because everyone is contributing according to their abilities to communal life and funds, nobody suffers due to inability to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Endgame for the Open Web⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The good thing with the internet is that everybody can publish their thoughts. The bad thing is, that everyone actually does XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember correctly it is cable bound either to a PC or a battery pack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No way!..⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Wow, me too! Let’s go and fuck some shit up!, so that we are going to both hells!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might wanna look into the work of Judith Butler. PhilosophyTube did a great video about that on youtube. That explains it in detail. There is no conflict between gender and sex. Two only weekly connected concepts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good memoirs or autobiography about someone who had a rough childhood, especially victims of child abuse/neglect?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not asian or bullying, but “I’m glad my mom died” by Jennette McCurdy is really strong. A mother living her own dreams through her daughters acting career, alternating between extreme emotional states. I thinks its writtem very well and describes her struggles getting out of the pressure by her mother and out of her own behavior pattterns learned since early childhood.

  Though I cannot say, if this can be used as a guide. From what I remember the key learnings maybe would be: Get out, suround yourself with better people and get therapy. Though I might misrepresent the book with that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A while ago we had an interesting situation at work. At regular intervals our team has a call with our direct boss, for communicating how the business is going and to give little talks about out current technological challenges with our customers. At that time the results of the employee survey were published and our team had low levels on the statement “My work fills me with meaning” (not sure about the translation here). Our boss was curious about why. We had a few moments of silence until one of my senior coworkers said honestly, that at least he is not searching for his lifes meaning in work. Which is also true for me. Wasn’t a big thing after that. Our boss is totally fine with that.

  That being said, one important thing for our boss (and also for me, when coaching new coworkers) is seeing, that we have at least some fun and interest in our work. If you don’t have that, then both the quality of your work and the relations to coworkers can suffer quite a bit. Then maybe doing a different job is better for you.

  You can be honest about being there for getting money AND being passionate about your job (or at least part of it) at the same time. So show that to management. If they are still pissed, then they are in fact shitty. If you have other good opportunities, it might be time to head out then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I should have mentioned, where I got this from. I’m not an AI researcher myself - so AINAAIR. I’m referencing this youtube video from TheMorpheus (News and Informations/Tutorials about various IT stuff, including AI research)(Video is in german). For example the diagram at 3:00.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The german government had an interesting idea for that. Collecting all the emission taxes into a common fund (like sales tax on each item) and then paying that back to the citizens, the same amount to everyone. If you get the emission pricing right, then rich people (who emit more through their life) will pay more tham they get, while poor people will profit from it.

  Though the system is not yet active (because of shit financing tricks that got stopped by the courts and the current inability of the government to actually pay that money out to the citizens)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The optimization in mass production should meet chickens at least roughly for this to work out. Though also interesting would be the health of the insects. I know nothing about that, but maybe we wouldn’t need that much antibiotica as with meat mass production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think banning meat will ever happen. Thats not really how that usually works. Though it will get more expensive. And actually currently the meat industry is heavily supported by governments to keep meat cheap enough for poorer people.

  And we won’t solve climate change just with eating insects in the same way we won’t solve social justice issues just with keeping meat prices low.

  We need to do multiple things at the same time. Finding and developing good food options, that are not as taxing at the climate as meat (especially cattle) is one good step, while doing other things against climate change. And we can work towards social justice by heavily taxing the rich, using that money to fund public goods and services mostly used by the workers.

  Eating meat vs insect based products is not the socialist hill to die on, I think. There are better ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The hallucination rates with current models are quite high, especially the reasoning ones with rates like 70%. Wouldn’t call that accurate. I think most times we are just not interested enough to even check for accuracy in some random search. We often just accept the answer, that is given, without any further thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it was only focused on that one biometric. You can always just add another for security, though it is good to keep in mind, that bionetrics aren’t necessarily as secure as they are often marketed as. Fun fact: In the science fiction book “Qualityland” by Marc-Uwe Kling one biometric after another was shown to be insecure, leading to the people having do kiss their tablets/phones for authorizing money transfers, using OneKiss™, which is so more secure than other ways of authentication (trust me bro).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years ago I saw a talk how some hackers where able to fool arm vein scanners. I think it was a talk on the chaos communication congress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a Russian stock market people invest in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People also trust other exchanges enough, despite big problems/scandals/crisies. In that Russia doesn’t seem so different from the USA, especially now, that both are getting close and mor similar again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The bee die-offs, that one typically hears about, has nothing to do with honey bees. Honey bees don’t show any signs of going extinct. Its may of the other bee species, which are dying off. And that is bad because of the species liking different specific plants, which often rely on this bee species to be pollinated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooohhhh, now I see that it is Ellen. I first thought it was Bernd Höcke, a current polititian for the nazi party AfD in germany XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely not relevant in this case, but in the german novel “The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear” a Bollock is a giant creature (as in multiple km high), who at some point in his life takes his head of, puts it on the ground and spends the next centuries searching for his head. I think that is funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What security purpose a Faraday bag has when it contain a vehicle keyfob⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be easily mittigates by the keyfob using a rolling code. The attacker can record the signal, so the car will also have received it. A replay of that specific code won’t work again. That is a principle used in cheap garage door fobs for many years. So I guess keyless fobs would have at least that level of security.

  Better would be a cryptographic encryption using public/private key (already done in chip cards, so common technology). Though - looking at the dumb things car manufacturers did - I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t use private/public keys for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong to not have a disabled child solely to avoid forcing the child to suffer their whole life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the way it is phrased I would second this. The problem is, that it faults the disabled person for the life problem of those around them (THEY are ruining other peoples life). The discourse never ever blames the disabled person here. Doing so will land you in a bad discussive corner - together with the common argumentation of nazis. Though the question of abortion (as stated by OP) is not as clear cut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Communism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so it is just a case of a specific definition of “state”. What are the attributes of a state in that definition (as they do not include "the Administration of Things)? Goes totally against my intuition with that word

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Communism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you can clarify for me, as I’m not knowlegeble in Marxism: When the state withers away, what is the central organisation called, that manages the means of production? I thought that would also be called functions of a state. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is the line between meeting somebody halfway and being a doormat with no personality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Drawing clear boundaries for yourself is a good thing and has nothing to do with narcissism. They are about what is important to you. Disagreement over such boundaries can mean the end of the relationship, for the better.

  Though it sounds like you are somewhat overcompensating in some areas due to your family experiences (I might be wrong in that). A serious relationship also means meeting the partners needs. If you draw the boundaries so hard to rule out any compromise, then dating will be very difficult, maybe impossible. So you need to be clear with yourself of what is really important and where you can compromise.

  Your examples are very different. First its about “doing something” for her, which is too vague to answer. Might be anything. Just using the phrase “Do it for me” is not manipulative in my view. It might be something that is important for her. If you can compromise on that, why not meeting her need? If not, then communicate it and the reasons clearly. If thats a problem for her, the relationship can still just end.

  Then its about keeping contact with your family or potentially nursing your parents. That seems to be a hard (and probably healthy) boundary for you. She should accept that. Though talking about it in a non-pressuring way is ok.

  And the last two examples are these low stakes situations, where probably the communication is going wrong. These are easily solvable without much drama, by compromising (and yes, ording from different restaurants or having one person cook while the other orders is also a compromise). Do you know the 4 sides of a message? I think it is a quite important concept about communication, since sometimes the anger or sadness, that you her from your partner are not really about what they are saying. Human communcation can be quite complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A few months ago a german activist wrote a book about how low and middle positions in government agencies can work against the governments intentions in case of a extreme right wing takeover by the AFD. Though I don’t know, if it was translated to english or would be 1 to 1 applicable to the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds as dumb of an idea as the one child policy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  How could one protect electronics/hard disks/etc from a Crrington type event?