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Cocodapuf

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  • US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers

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  • Ok, I did say "why does this matter to anyone?", and you're right about the land owner, clearly it matters to them. Fair enough.

    But you also said that we can care about more than one thing at a time. And while I agree with that up to a point, I think you can't use that mindset all the time.

    I made a reply to a very similar response below, (I don't want to spam the thread with repeat comments, so I'll just link to it) https://lemmy.world/comment/21477093

  • US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers

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  • I think that's actually a really good answer. There needs to be strict adherence to codes of conduct within the military, or we get all kinds of problems.

    At least the article suggests that the situation is mostly under control, it certainly sounds like they're going to try to crack down on this.

    Edit: funny to see this get down voted. Why down vote a concession?

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  • In reality you can, indeed, care about multiple issues at the same time

    You say that, but I am learning first hand that I have a finite capacity for injustice and misery. I see awful shit in the news, sometimes far away, but sometimes very close to home and I see it every day. It takes a toll on your mental health, caring about everything, taking a moment to ask yourself "is there something I can do about this?" - it's especially hard when the answer you come up with is "not really".

    I think one really does have a limited amount of bandwidth for this kind of thing, and we absolutely have a limited amount of time. So even if you did care about everything, it's certainly not feasible to act on everything. And just carrying all those concerns that you know you're never going to act on, that cannot be healthy.

    Sometimes you just need to let something go, say "this is not my concern". I don't believe there's anything wrong with that, so long as you make an effort to decide which things are important enough to care about, even when you're at your limit.

  • US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers

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  • In the grander scheme of things, is there a reason to care about this? I mean there's a lot of shit going on in this country, a whole lot of crimes being committed by the authorities in charge. I'm not going to list it all right here, cause that seems like a truly monumental and depressing task. But let's pretend that I did just list some of the truly heinous things that representatives of the US government are doing right now... in light of that, in comparison to all that, why does this matter to anyone?

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • Who murdered her? Some unnamed masked man?

    Yeah, this is so fucked up.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • Yeah, it's almost like that...

  • 92-year-old judge handling Maduro case 'doesn't give a s—t what anyone thinks about him'

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  • No, I think that was demolition man...

  • Woman Arrested Mid-Interview After Protesting Against Trump’s Venezuela Strike

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  • What? The land of the free?

    Whoever told you that is your enemy!

  • Minnesota Hilton cancels ICE agents’ hotel reservations

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  • Well I mean, it's relevant. Especially if your policy was to disallow possibly illegal activities, it's not hard to make an argument that ICE engages in kidnapping and murder.

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence

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  • Only if we find opposition that actually wants to do that.

    Well, we've had that for quite some time really... the sad thing is, that's not really a winning strategy.

    We have g had candidates like that, Bernie and Warren come to mind right away. But the last time they ran, they couldn't even win a primary, let alone the general election.

    I agree that actual progressive policies could solve a lot, but much of the country does not seem to agree with that, so here we are.

    For better or worse, you need the approval of more than one group of people to win an election.

  • Minnesota Hilton cancels ICE agents’ hotel reservations

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  • We do not discriminate against any individuals or agencies

    Really??? I mean depending on your definition of "agency", that might be a bad call.

    Would you offer rooms to isis? What about illegal organizations in general? What about when you're unsure, but suspect that an organization may be illegal?

  • Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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  • Likewise, my father in law loves Libre now.

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • You don't think Linux is a disenshittification solution for PCs?

    Because that's essentially what we're talking about. You want to run a custom android os, perhaps security and encryption oriented, or perhaps drm defeating is your goal. That all becomes possible if it's simply legal to do whatever you want with your devices and your software.

    Disenshittification isn't something you wait for companies to do, it's something you take for yourself! And it's a whole lot easier to organize and do that if it's officially legal.

  • New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

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  • Well, it's the students, but humans are dumb, we make bad choices. That's kinda the whole point of being a child actually, to make all those bad decisions and learn from them. But any parent human knows that sometimes you just need to lay down the law, make some hard rules. Some lessons are hard to learn and enforcing some ground rules (like no cell phones in schools) will help you learn good habits for yourself.

  • Israel accuses Mamdani of antisemitism on first day as New York mayor

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  • True. But fuck them.

  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • That's what we do in our house, I decided it was the easiest way to be sure my son actually lifts the seat. If he has to lift the lid, he'll just lift the seat at the same time.

  • China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as world's top EV seller

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  • This still seems fine... At that rate, electric will start to greatly outnumber ice cars. That has all kinds of knockon effects, for instance, selling fewer ice cars means their replacement parts will be less available, maintenance will get more expensive. Manufacturing these cars will also become more expensive because you'll lose some economy of scale benefits. So, ice cars get more expensive, while evs get cheaper. Meanwhile, petrol stations get significantly less business from petrol sales, it will become not economical for many stations to continue to maintain all their equipment. Some stations will close down.

    The cars will get more expensive, the fuel harder to find, and I'm sure there are other things that will change as well. There will be enough incentives to make the remaining drivers switch over soon enough.

  • Disney World cast member hurt stopping 180-kg fake boulder from hitting audience

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  • I expect that won't be necessary. Disney has the opportunity to get good PR out of this. All they need to do is sing this worker's praises, parade their hero around a bit, compensate him appropriately, pay for all medical needs, etc. All together a small cost for some good press and a happy ending.

  • Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality

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  • I totally understand where you're coming from and I mirror the sentiment, 100%. I'm tired billionaires steering the country, and I'm especially tired of musk, I hope I never have to hear his name in the news ever again.

    That said, I think your take is misguided. For all that I hate musk, spaceX has achieved some truly astonishing things. And not only have they achieved their goals, but they've done it at an unprecedented rate and at a shockingly low cost. SpaceX is developing technology at a similar rate to NASA way back at the beginning, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, except back then NASA was getting 4% of the federal budget. SpaceX has not had anything close to that level of funding. In fact, though they have most definitely taken government contacts, for the most part, they've been able to foot the bill themselves (and with investors) for the majority of their development costs. When you compare costs and outcomes directly - what spaceX delivered vs what it cost us against any other launch provider, the difference is astonishing.

    But that's all business stuff. What spaceX has done that impresses me is the technical stuff. They developed a relatively inexpensive rocket engine with a 184/1 thrust to weight ratio. That's the best thrust to weight ever achieved by an orbital class engine, like by a lot. Before that, I believe the record was held by the F-1 engine that powered the Saturn-V and took us to the moon, it boasted a 94/1 ratio.

    For their next major rocket engine spaceX developed the raptor, a full flow staged combustion engine, running on methane. Explaining why "full flow staged combustion" is impressive is probably outside the scope of this comment, but please believe me, this is a huge technical achievement and it provides some very real benefits. And running on methane is a good choice for reusability, it burns cleaner, and there's potential for producing it off earth.

    And of course most importantly they changed the industry by landing rockets. That's not a small feat, some of their competitors called them foolish for wasting time even trying, the industry was very much not moving in the direction of reusability. Now that SpaceX has proven the viability and in fact the huge advantage of reusable rockets, there are many rockets being designed for this, from Rocket Lab, Arianespace, Stoke Space, Blue Origin, Relativity Space, eXpace (a hilariously named Chinese company), and probably many more; this is now the way the industry is going, that's a big deal.