Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)M

mineralfellow

@ mineralfellow @lemmy.world

Posts
9
Comments
122
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • It's almost like violence and persuasion are BOTH tools with applications in fighting oppression, rather than picking one or the other as The One True Faith(tm)? 🤯

    Jump

  • I have been to many Nelson Mandela museums, and spoken with a lot of people who lived through the end of Apartheid. When he took power, both the black and white populations were gearing up for civil war. One guy told me that there were charts up at his school showing the likely kinds of grenades that could be thrown at him. Anyway, Mandela managed to calm things down. He might have been the only guy who could have navigated that exact time period. He did it through a series of policy changes, meetings with key leaders, and speeches. Entirely peaceful, but importantly, there had also been huge amounts of violence leading up to his release from prison and becoming president.

    Did the racists change their minds? I don’t know. But the transition to the new government was peaceful.

  • Iraqi book market culture

    Jump

  • Thousands of dollars for your books? Three books hardly counts as a collection.

  • Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

    Jump

  • I just finished marking student reports. There are some sections clearly written without AI, some that clearly are written by AI, and then some sections where the ideas are correct, the grammar is perfect, and it is on topic, but it doesn’t seem like it is written in the student’s voice. Could be AI, could be a friend editing, could be plagiarism, could be written long before or after the surrounding paragraphs. It is not always obvious, and the edge cases are the problem.

  • Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

    Jump

  • Perfect grammar and slightly unusual words in a paragraph. Could be a weird formulation from a student’s mind, could be AI. No way to really know.

  • how can I stop spiralling about my breakup?

    Jump

  • I am nearly twice your age. Pretty much everybody has been through a version of what you are experiencing. Two things you must know.

    1: You had a relationship that was valuable enough to you that losing it hurt. That is special in itself, and you need to consider the good thing that you had. Seeing a concert is ephemeral, but you remember the music and performance positively. Think of the relationship this way, also.

    2: Give yourself time to mourn. Mourning is natural, and it is a process, but there is an endpoint. Many have walked this path and come out on the other end.

    You are young, and you will have many more experiences in your life. Some positive, some negative. But your life is far from over.

    Take a day, go for a long walk at the beach or park or nature trail. Cry, weep, wail, knash your teeth. Then move on.

  • Bannon Says He’s Advising Trump to DEPORT Elon Musk Immediately

    Jump

  • South Africa doesn’t want him.

  • Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'

    Jump

  • Yeah, that is terrible! Spending $50k on something that might be helpful or useful in the future! We should have used that money to purchase one JDAM kit so we can bomb more people.

  • 34% of Russian strategic missile bombers at main airfields damaged in Ukrainian drone operation, SBU reports

    Jump

  • A few years before WWI, Russia had a disastrous war against the Japanese, whom they had considered an inferior, small opponent that would be defeated quickly.

    Time is a flat circle.

  • Trump Wants $3 Billion in Harvard Grants Redirected to Trade Schools

    Jump

  • These are research grants. Trade schools do not do the type of research Harvard scientists do. It is the leading research institution in the world for many fields. Most of those grants are on the order of less than a million dollars and fund young, untenured researchers who will become the next generation of scientists. Alum sponsorships are almost always earmarked, and never for research purposes.

  • US Tourism Sector Plunges into Unprecedented Revenue Crisis in 2025 as America First Policy Ravages Global Visitor Arrivals

    Jump

  • Stopped at re-entry to the US.

  • US Tourism Sector Plunges into Unprecedented Revenue Crisis in 2025 as America First Policy Ravages Global Visitor Arrivals

    Jump

  • Just had a prominent colleague return from a conference in Italy. He was stopped at the border and questioned for several hours, making him miss his flight.

  • Sob sob sob

    Jump

  • “F**k you”: Entire Trump team hated Elon Musk, damning report reveals | Elon Musk has left the White House an utter failure

    Jump

  • Yeah, defense spending is something like half the discretionary budget. Obviously the place to start when cutting waste, but not politically viable for arcane reasons.

  • A 9th planet in our solar system might be found — and no, it’s not Pluto

    Jump

  • The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum

    Jump

  • It has added some new jokes at the braai. Also spawned arguments about who wants Elon the least.

  • 'Did I Miss Something?': Online Shoppers Shocked as Trump Tariffs Jack Up Prices 145%

    Jump

  • Deporting legal immigrants with proper documentation has happened already.

    Deporting valid visa holders after cancelling a visa for no clear reason has happened.

    Tarrifs have been instated, removed, reinstated, and modified based on whims of the president.

    Judges made legal decisions, which is their job, and we're subsequently harassed by ICE.

    DOGE has done irreparable harm to the well established, decades old infrastructure that the country runs on. Because of their decisions, top-level scientists are fleeing the country, programs to help people around the world and project US power have been dissolved with no warning, and institutions across the country have been thrown into disarray. There is no indication that the individuals involved know what they are breaking or have any plan to repair it.

    If you are, in fact, living under a rock, then looking into all of these things might be a good start. You might then want to look into the history of Nazi Germany in the mid 1930's to see how they destroyed democracy back then, and see how things happening now mirror what was happening then.

  • Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important

    Jump

  • I live in an area that routinely has 70% humidity. My prints are consistently stringy, and I know it is because of the wet filament. I use an A1 Mini with AMS. Is there a solution, or am I doomed to stringy prints?

  • In Trump-voting Iowa, farmers have started to shout at each other

    Jump

  • They can be cold as a frozen thermometer in December if you ask about the weather in July.

  • ‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

    Jump

  • Yeah, I was enjoying some videos about dumb Steven Seagal movies, but then I realized that every single one would have jokes about women being bad drivers, being overly emotional, etc. At first I took it as a humorous way to look at Seagal's misogyny, but then it became apparent that it was being applied in other cases where it didn't make sense. It was subtle, in the context of the rest of the videos, but a definitely present part was the manosphere mentality.