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ganymede

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  • Would they dare to regulate (eliminate) part of the population if they no longer need us in the future?

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  • there are too many people, to live the way we are. and the way we are living is shameful. what insanity would prioritise Many Not Existing so A Few can keep living a shameful life?

    population distribution is anti-correlated with carbon footprint: "Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%"

    it's not about population, it's so A HANDFUL of overly-privileged people can continue to waste energy on eg. nice frosty transparent dialog boxes serving them slop advertising on their smartphone as they sit on the toilet - so that MANY MANY other people end up either not existing or starving just so they can enjoy the privilege

    <insert applause>

  • Would they dare to regulate (eliminate) part of the population if they no longer need us in the future?

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  • Although it is necessary to reduce population in general

    is it?

    there's perhaps too many people to live as wastefully as we do, oughtn't we reduce the waste then?

  • For browser option, should I chose Kagi or Swisscows?

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  • which is why i'd say clearly identify the source so people can discern.

    afaict if you want to fairly criticise kagi its for not moving fast enough on adding clear source referencing & adding methods for users to filter out source types.

    is there something i'm missing? are there other reasons to suspect bad faith on kagi's part?

  • For browser option, should I chose Kagi or Swisscows?

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  • any nation's major search engine is going to be turning up propaganda.

    imo it's better to include it & state where it came from so people can discern.

    personally i don't believe the entire population of any country are all bad people and increasingly siloing global citizens from eachother is only going to increase the kinds of toxic nationalism which dangerous regimes use as fuel

  • How to evaluate software security?

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  • but how do you know whether to trust that information

    test it, break it, see what happens.

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  • Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole

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  • my homebrew theory is its also so you can smell directionally.

  • Why books haven't all been translated to every language by now?

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  • and the translation will get progressively shitter the further into the story you go cos the compute resources start getting rate limited lol

  • they know what they need to do

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  • Correct me if i'm wrong, it's been a while since i watched this grid engineer's explanation, but my understanding was it has nothing to do with PV itself, it began with IBR misconfiguration which under "unusual circumstances" cascaded due to further grid mismanagement.

    yes the misconfigured IBR were at a PV plant, but thats where i think the media runs with the story without really communicating clearly to the public. IBR misconfiguration, even at a PV plant, is not a technical failure of PV technology itself, at all. IBR misconfiguration also effects turbine outputs with HVDC feed for example.

    where i think the story gets further jumbled is alot of the "unusual circumstances" involved issues which were traceable (under current implementations) to a renewables dominant grid state. so the news story seems to become "PV/renewables trouble", whereas afaict in reality it's more like "renewables dominating to unexpected levels + misconfiguration/mismanagement".

    imo the distinction is important, it's not a PROBLEM with PV, it's a problem with previous assumptions about renewables capacity & grid state no longer being true, and the ways bureaucracies & their infrastructure decisions can lag behind that change.

  • they know what they need to do

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  • Ah gotcha, yeh afaik that was definitely a grid failure rather than renewables failure in any form.

  • Choose wisely!

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  • forced vs post scarcity

    tbh i'm happy whenever someone at least acknowledges the tension between these two facets.

    anyway my actual point, imo the "too many humans" propaganda is part of the forced scarcity lobby. there's perhaps too many humans to live as wastefully as we are, so why wouldn't reducing waste be our #1-3 top priorities?

    but waste is more 'profitable' (in short term), so we go all in - while pretending Us Living & Others Not-Living is a moral obligation on our part wtflol

  • they know what they need to do

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  • what happened with them over solar? i assume you mean photovoltaics? because Spain is fucking winning with concentrated solar thermal

  • they know what they need to do

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  • can you pls explain what you mean?

    is this another way of saying 'greed'?

    or are you making a point about energy generation, storage and distribution infrastructure?

  • I'm pro science until science disagrees with me

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  • nearly every single criticism against "science" is rooted not in a claim made by a scientist, but by the media and politicians completely fucking misrepresenting what the scientists said.

  • What is your opinion on Libertarianism?

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  • afaik it was originally about freedom from oppression. as with so many things, it has been hijacked by bigots and they've twisted it to now mean their freedom to oppress others.

  • Whats your take on stand up comedy?

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    • Mitch Hedberg
    • Wanda Sykes

  • I'm new to lemmy, came from reddit. What's the lemmy etiquette like? How different is it from reddiqutte?

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  • corporate koolaid frequently masquerades as 'knowledge', and is parroted rather than built up from first principles.

    compared to reddit, an average lemmy user would tend more towards the latter than the former.

    be on the lookout for the cognitive dissonance which can precede the realisation you've been parroting corporate propaganda. it's ok, it happens to all of us, but the sooner we realise the better for everyone.

  • No, graphene isn't being targeted by the french government.

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  • i think i can answer this

    personally, when i first encountered graphene's radical statements about the terrible security landscape we're all subjected to, i reacted quite negatively & assumed they were crazy.

    then i actually check the technical details of their claims, and fuck me it turns out to be SCARILY correct.

    most people don't actually bother with the second part. and you end up with a classic "shoot the messenger" scenario, where the bearer of bad news is equated with the bad news itself & punished by the mob (because they feel it's easier than actually facing the uncomfortable reality of the bad news).

    that scenario can only play out for so long before the messenger gets sick of being shot every day & reacts badly to the crowd. then the crowd points at their poor reaction & uses it as further "evidence" against their character.

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • well said!

    imo it's not a coincidence the public are being steered away from supporting graphene. it's one thing to see the general public do this (they will do whatever their told), but seeing countless people who supposedly should know better its quite disturbing.