Pika

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I appreciate your desire for more nuance, and I support it throughout discussions.

But the case of Bill Gates is fairly clear-cut. His philanthropy efforts are covering for shitty business practices and tax evasion.

This is one of the reasons why people are concerned about billionaire philanthropy in the first place. It creates a good image of a savior, while serving to reduce taxes and cover for malicious investments. We would be much, much better off taking this in form of taxes and actually allocating it for good.

Not winning a race to the bottom doesn't make someone good or decent, though

Any any good person wouldn't become a billionaire in the first place.

Even libertarians, who are on the exact opposite side economically, agree IP is garbage made and manipulated to enrich the few.

Alan Walker

The dude has just seen one tune go viral and decided "why not make ALL of my music exactly like this?"

I see where this is coming from, and from that angle, it might seem (and sometimes be) noble.

The problem arises when the oppressed group starts falsely lumping everyone outside the group into oppressors, which so often happens around gendered issues, among others. So many times I've seen women in such spaces lashing out at men at large and then bringing this mentality to the world outside the group.

"Men can't be discriminated against - they are oppressors" "Men are abusive by nature" "Men are unsafe to be around" "Men are the problem" "It is always men" "Sure, a man might just be a chill person, but he always carries privilege and is thereby part of the problem" "Men go through different socialization that breaks them and makes them abusive"

These are just few of the arguments I've seen in the wild, on several occasions.

To be clear: it's not by any means exclusive to women. There are plenty of examples of men grouping together on much the same grounds, spreading similar false narratives about women. And this is something that shouldn't happen, ever, under any premise. It erodes our ability to build bridges, to communicate, to find actual solutions - and to support each other, whatever the gender distribution of any given place is. And currently, Lemmy is certainly not the worst on the scale, even though it could fare better.

The problem is not being allowed somewhere. Women are allowed pretty much everywhere, too.

What is inadequate is building what are essentially hate groups and not letting the opposite side defend themselves.

This turns to unnecessary and brutal radicalization that is antithetic to a productive change.

Much like the original.

Turns out, a community exclusive to some gender almost inevitably turns into a hate pool, exactly because the most common scenario in which they are needed is "let's shit on someone and not let them defend themselves".

Naturally, those excluded find a way to get into the conversation to stand up for themselves. When men come together to spread hateful takes on women, this naturally puts women in a position to defend, respond, and possibly retaliate. The same works the other way around.

And honestly - it's how it should be. Those spreading hate and silencing all other voices should not be given platform for it. Let's remain constructive and keep the conversation going. Division and hate hurts and ends up gross for everyone.

While it might be a tough decision, I wholeheartedly welcome it.

Community-driven projects should be managed by the community, and I fully trust the Mastodon nonprofit to lead this part of the Fediverse into the future.

Good luck on this new stage, Eugen. And congratulations to all Mastodon users.

Having an exclusive game for Steam hardware would undermine the reason why users support Valve in the first place.

Quite unexpected. I love soy sauce in a classic tomato-cucumber salad, but soy sauce + beetroot is something I cannot comprehend. Maybe I'll give it a spin, though!

On the other side, being killed by a bear is not particularly healthy

Where I am, it's potato, carrots, and beets, which coincidentally make a traditional salad.

This is not a coincidence :)

Really, if you want to look into cheap and good food, look no further than what your ancestors ate. They ate it precisely because it was cheap and as nutritionally adequate as they could get.

Sure, some modifications must be made now that we have more foods and clean drinking water available on demand, but this is a good starting point.

Jesus Christ, you can produce a Q1 article with nothing but math and a bunch of eggs?

I really need to up my publishing standards.

P.S. Of course they got some fancy measuring equipment in there

There's an app for everything, ain't it?

I remember seeing an app that just allowed you to set one of three timers corresponding to one of three teas you may want to brew.

At this rate, it's easier to memorize.

Russian here.

I use the formal "You" when talking to adults I don't know well and in official conversations. Also, with superiors.

I use the informal "you" with friends and family, and with colleagues I know well. Informal "you" also communicates warmth, safety, a call to action, or authority, which is why it may be used when addressing children (particularly preteens), people in danger, or someone else you need to either influence or make feel safe, or both.

Of course there are millions of exceptions, and everyone keeps it slightly different. For this reason, it is common for people to have hard time figuring whether to address certain people by formal or informal "you". Mistakenly using the formal option can be read as creating more distance, the informal - as invading the personal space. It's an issue in spoken conversations, too, as these forms are actually two different words that are audibly different.

Fair!

Though I had a bit of fun around the absurdity of their argument. Quickly went downhill though.

Your ignorance would be you missing out, not me.

Besides, judging by your repeated claims that you'll get banned here, I must assume you to be a Nazi or other kind of supremacist. If that's the case, I strongly advise you to stock up on history and philosophy books before proceeding with physics. If it's not so - it's still your issue not reading it.

Cheers!

Less than low, a simple zero

So, essentially removing the single most important advantage of marine transportation (hyper-cheap global transportation due to tricking physics with large-scale ships) is nothing? May I remind you that 1 (one) container ship stuck in a Suez canal four years ago threatened to cause a global economic outage? Without extreme economic efficiency of large ships, the modern economy as we know it is about to collapse. This is not an exaggeration. You simply cannot maintain this level of trade and exchange with smaller ships, as most things will be prohibitively expensive to deliver over the long range.

Our ships aren't infinitely large

Indeed, because, again, structural integrity and the requirement to pass through things like Suez and Panama canals. Overall, however, the bigger the ship - the better. And you cannot build any rowboat that would even remotely, on the same order of magnitude, match the efficiency of container ships.

We've never really found a way to make sails work for ships that size

You're writing this under an article about sail-powered vessel able to deliver 5300 tons of cargo.

No idea what you're trying to say with this part

Rowers would need to be seated on the sides of the ship, or need paddle systems (probably rotationary) large enough to have many rowers drive the same shaft. Either way, you're very limited in how much rowers you can put in there, and the wider the ship - the more you'll see it's simply not an option. Modern container ships are way wider than it makes sense to put rowers to.

What I should do to make it so all ships are electrified with pure renewables within 24 hours.

Absolutely nothing can be done to achieve this - and it's equally impossible to turn every vessel into a rowboat in this time. What's the point? We have industry and technology to turn vessels into either, so why choose the inferior option?

I'm glad you have no explanation for how to make this one happen

Huh? Nuclear-powered vessels are traversing this route for many decades already, particularly the icebreakers, but really all sorts of crafts, even mobile nuclear power plants. And they have good track record as far as reliability and environmental impacts are concerned. Nuclear power is inferior to renewables in terms of ecological footprint, but stays way ahead of diesel and other chemical fuels. And in many applications, particularly in very remote areas with few ports and complicated navigation, they are the only sensible option anyway.

Are you trying to tell me there's something wrong with me for thinking "big" is a fair enough word for the biggest rowboats..?

Yes, absolutely. The biggest rowboats are not big enough to even remotely match modern container ships, and this translates in a loss of efficiency - a very big one.

What?

In the realm of shipbuilding, larger ships are more energy efficient per unit of cargo volume/weight. Aside from that, hosting a crew large enough to propel the ship would carve out a lot of space otherwise used for cargo. Finally, rowing a ship is a very tough but also unnecessary job, i.e. something people struggle with for no good reason.

You make it seem like it's either oil or rowing, or that we can turn any ship into a rowboat overnight. In fact, turning a container ship into a rowboat would require a much more complex and expensive rebuilding than installing an electric powertrain. There's really no merit to your idea at all, or at least I didn't hear a single one good argument for it - not because I don't care to listen, but because, with all my attention put into it, I see nothing but odd fantasy completely detached from physics.

I don't think it's worth it to keep this discussion in any capacity or on any platform. If anyone here bans you (which I doubt anyone will, unless you end up nagging everyone), it's not because you're a visionary beinging truth to stupid people. It's because it is you wasting people's time without reading a single physics book to have your grand ideas easily disproven, allowing you to move on to more productive choices.

With genuine hope that I didn't waste a couple dozen of minutes on some aggravating AI bot, goodbye.

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Japan wanting to join in on the 2025 Axis of evil LMBO

Bill Gates is a horrible person.

Bill Gates is a horrible person.

Bill Gates is a horrible person.

Whats a band/artist who's music all sounds the same?

Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

[Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame

What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg

YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg

If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing

World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing

World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing

Is it possible to enable systemd output on login/shutdown similar to Arch Linux?