Yeah, you're right, I'm an it scmuck in cyber now but it doesn't mean I failed at computers, I don't want a more stressful job, I don't want to program for a living, I just enjoy learning computer science.
As for uni yeah now it's just extra years of high school, up to an MSc is mandatory if you want to succeed, and by succeed I mean have a job, and even then your chances are very slim.
I used to love computers... still do, but good god do I hate tech companies and all this shit it's spawned. My last remaining line of defense mentally is that at work we have shifted to a mostly Windows environment, and my interests lie with the Unix side of things.
When I was ~10 and visiting the US as a tourist I lost my wallet somewhere on Ellis Island and realized it only when I was about to pay for a slice of pizza at some touristy cafe, I was freaked out and a random stranger that wasn't in the queue just paid for it for me so I didn't worry. Was only like 5 bucks or something but I still think about that today. Poverty and widespread opioid addiction and HIV was so common in the country I grew up, I was not used to people not caring to waste money just to help a stranger.
Mozilla can't put together a half way functional browser to save their life and lick up every enshittification doohickey that falls of the back of the burning Trainwreck that is Google.
It was this for me, but it only works in one direction - when turning it down. So turning down YT volume means turning down system audio, then turning up YT audio is just turning up the YT audio. Insane behaviour. There is a way to turn this off in Firefox flags (about:config). This shit also messes with your system mic volume on MS Teams.
That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn't reason and can't be reasoned with.
Can't say I've ever heard of this show, but it's always a shame to lose something like a science show to this insane far-right takeover of the UK happening right in front of us. What's happened to the BBC is especially a travesty and I've even seen people here on Lemmy still claim the beeb to be anything other than the far right propaganda outlet it's been since the BoJo premiership.
I'm glad that there are still people out there who seem reasonable and not driven to insanity, and who use their voice to do right, and as a trans person I appreciate him for standing up for my people.
Wouldn't be so sure about that. If anyone unfamiliar with the games watched it in large numbers I'm 99% sure there's someone out there who thought it was a more futuristic 1950s, not a more retro futuristic 2077. I'm actually not sure even Todd Howard knows
Called it. All the corpos will strike deals, including those who own platforms to which artoids post their art, and there is zilch that the artoids can do except whine about technology rather than recognize their true enemy.
We cannot prove a negative, there is no way to say that something has absolutely zero risk, and no burden of evidence is ever enough for many (for instance of this: see the puberty blockers & trans HRT debates or any vaccine safety debates).
Therefore the burden of proof is on those who claim there is a risk. We can do our best to rule out what harms we can, as you said - as a precaution, but we cannot simply ban everything until proof that literally cannot exist arrives that something is risk-free.
The question is whether the risks outweigh the rewards. And the rewards of being able to use plastic everywhere are actually massive, there are so many medical and scientific applications that just wouldn't be possible without the wonder of plastic. So much QoL enhancing stuff like access to internet and food and water in most deprived places got so much more accessible thanks to the physical and economic properties of plastic, and no I don't mean corporate profits I literally mean it is cheaper even by labour value theory terms.
If anything is unscientific. It's your, we have no conclusive proof so let's keep flying to the sun and see what happens. I value health over profit though. I guess that might be where we differ.
Flying into the sun to see what happens is how we find out what happens. That's actual science. Best we can do is rule out some risks based on what we know, which we have done and continue doing to this day.
I don't value profit whatsoever, I'm as leftist as you and probably more so, please chill with the condescending tone, I'm on your side, but your line of argument is flawed and a one way street to reactionary thinking and stifling of human progress.
You're missing the point. If asbestos didn't do any harm, we wouldn't have had to ban it.
It's possible that microplastics do not actually do any harm. You must consider this possibility to maintain a sharp and sound mind capable of critical analysis and a healthy scepticism and scrutiny.
Jumping to conclusions that anything unnatural must be harmful like asbestos because some substances like asbestos have harmed us in the past is anti-intellectualism.
The real issue right now is that we do not know if any humans without microplastics in them, making it impossible to gather evidence from a control group population to actually be able to attribute any observed things to microplastics.
Almost all foods are processed and most are some degree of premade. You better hope so too, because "processing" gets rid of like the insanely high risk of contamination that food has in nature. Eating meat of a deer carrying some virus or bacteria or simply being poisoned by fungi affecting some plant was how non-agricultural humans died a lot, and it's only once we started processing everything, like e.g. ultra heat-treated & pasteurized milk that food quality improved.
We always have, I've never seen a meme template used incorrectly without lots of comments calling it out for being wrong, even when it was actually funny.
See idgaf about how a template is used as long as it's funny. If it's used incorrectly but is funny it's a 'spin' or variant or remix or even a 'subversion' if the joke is about the template itself (meta commentary).
The former shows knowledge of the template and intent.
But if it is unfunny and it's used incorrectly then oftentimes it is so because it's used incorrectly.
The latter shows a lack of knowledge of the template and lack of intention.
Yeah, you're right, I'm an it scmuck in cyber now but it doesn't mean I failed at computers, I don't want a more stressful job, I don't want to program for a living, I just enjoy learning computer science.
As for uni yeah now it's just extra years of high school, up to an MSc is mandatory if you want to succeed, and by succeed I mean have a job, and even then your chances are very slim.