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Ace T'Ken

@ AceTKen @lemmy.ca

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I advocate for logical and consistent viewpoints on controversial topics. If you're looking at my profile, I've probably made you mad by doing so.

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  • Grabbed the podcast! More detail never hurts. Much appreciated.

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  • usufruct

    So... reading the Wikipedia article on it for more info, it doesn't seem to place any limits on what you can own. It simply lets you makes allowances for others to use something of yours. It doesn't seem to mention forfeiting unused property in the least.

    It's basically just being a landlord, but with other stuff, no? I'm not following how this isn't corruptible unless there's something I'm missing.

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  • Me too. It's faster than texting and gives you a whole lot of missing context.

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  • I read up on it, but I'm not sure how that's immune to greed. Are you able to explain?

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  • No political system is perfect. Ever.

    They require constant vigilance. They require battling. Human greed is capable of corrupting every system that a human mind can create.

    Anyone that tells you they have a perfect political system that would never need fixing is a liar, an idiot, or both.

  • Ryujinx has been taken down after an agreement between the developer gdkchan and Nintendo

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  • Ryujinx has been taken down after an agreement between the developer gdkchan and Nintendo

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  • What was the final build? I have 1.1.1402 on my PC.

  • Chappell Roan Says She’s “Voting For F@cking Kamala,” But No VP Endorsement & “F@ck Trump, For F@cking Real”

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  • I don't think that's called an accent, that's an affectation.

  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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  • They are? Where? I mod a Community and I've never seen anything that isn't explicitly for Admins that can see them.

  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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  • For my community ( !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca ) I would adore this as long as it's available to Mods of the community the downvotes are in and Admins of that instance only. It should absolutely not be visible for normal users.

    We are hit with downvotes nearly every time we post a new thread on anything even remotely controversial so it would really help us filter out people who simply downvote to bury the thread and contribute nothing whatsoever to the discussion.

    If you disagree, we want to know why and discuss that with you. It's the entire point of our Community.

    Heck, we actively made it a rule to not downvote unless the user is not adding to the discussion, and that it should not be used as a disagree button. People generally ignore this, however.

    That or just add the moderator option to disable downvotes for Communities. It would be an incredibly handy toggle.

    EDIT: For an example as to why it should be implemented, see this post you're currently viewing where I give reasons, how it's been impacting us, some alternatives, and people hit the "fuck you" button with zero discussion and that's all. This is the problem.

  • what's your favorite thing to put ketchup on that isn't fries?

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  • A trash heap where it fucking belongs.

    There isn't a thing that you can put ketchup on that a good BBQ sauce or hot sauce isn't better on. I will die on this hill.

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  • Looks like what I'd want to use, but to reach broad support it needs a Windows client as well.

  • It isn't worth it

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  • Well, it's definitely more wrong , so there's that.

  • Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA

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    1. Thanks for the memories.

  • We're closer to tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030 than we look – IEA

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  • I see what you mean, but energy isn't currently free, and as we built more headroom, crypto and AI have simply eaten up that headroom. Don't take my word for it, simply look at the statistics on how much more energy we are using than 10 years ago, and then look at corporate energy usage now on those two things. Renewables haven't kept up because large corporations keep eating more and more. In fact, governments have had to **de-**decomission a few coal plants because the energy usage was so high. Here's an article on one of them that is supporting a massive crypto farm.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely 100% glad that the energy is not all coming from coal plants anymore, but also it isn't like none of it is.

    And no energy is emission free. You still have to pay the environmental cost to create and maintain the equipment gathering the energy in the first place.

    In short, renewables are great. Corporate overusage of energy is not, especially for incredibly selfish gain like crypto and "AI". I'm not going to cheer for the shares at corporations to be higher simply because we have renewables offsetting a tiny bit of the massive power they suck up.

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  • "Oh, nice!" - Companies haphazardly adding AI into everything whether you want it or not and eating up three times this energy produced for short-term shareholder gain.

  • What horror story/movie/game/whatever terrifies you even though it's fictional?

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  • Well. My child is that age and I very much relate to the protagonist. Was not expecting a gut-punch this afternoon.

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  • Gaza war protesters shut down Golden Gate Bridge, block traffic in other cities

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  • Street protests generally carried out in front of royal palaces or civic structures where those in power worked had an impact, yes. NOT protests at a random road in town.

    I am factually correct here.

    I have never stated that protests aren't effective when carried out well. I've stated that these road blocking protests aren't effective because they do not target.