[-] [email protected] 170 points 1 month ago

The most important part of this is the primaries. If we fill these seats with a bunch of Chuck Schumers/Hakeem Jeffries it won't make a difference. If we fill them with Zohran Mamdanis, on the other hand...

[-] [email protected] 95 points 1 month ago

When you want to feel special but not enough to go to the effort of using FreeBSD

[-] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If the island were 100 times larger, the houses would take 1% of the land area, leaving 99%. The apartment complex would take up .04%, leaving 99.96%, which isn't much of an improvement. The proportions of our planet are much closer to my scenario than this made up island. That's a reason why we might not "prefer apartments in our own town."

There are good reasons you might want density, this just isn't one of them.

[-] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago

My only guess as to what this could mean is that since quantum mechanics is quantum, i.e. discrete, the universe therefore cannot be continuous as the reals are. But this is a category error. Just because you could never find an object that is, say, exactly pi meters long, does not mean that the definition of pi is threatened. There's nothing infinite that we can observe, but infinity is still a useful concept. And it works both ways; just because quantum mechanics is our best model of the universe doesn't mean the universe is therefore quantum. 150 years ago everyone believed the universe was like a big clockwork mechanism, perfectly deterministic, because Newtonian physics are deterministic. And who knows, maybe they were right, and we just don't have the framework to understand it so we have a nondeterministic approximation!

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[-] [email protected] 193 points 1 year ago

Lord of the Flies is bullshit. When a group of boys actually got stranded together, they peacefully cooperated with each other to solve their problems.

[-] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago

As someone from the US, a hearty thank you to Europeans. Not all of these will directly benefit me, but some of it will. Also, Apple has to be so fucking mad that they can't keep their app store monopoly, even if just in Europe.

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Sorry there bud (midwest.social)
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Source: https://mas.to/@dasharez0ne/111965947462974889

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[-] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago

Ok, but we all should admit: .net is a terrible name.

[-] [email protected] 115 points 2 years ago

If proton swap were an official proton product, it would still be a scam because crypto is a scam.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 2 years ago

It's so strange how the press covers Nikki Haley like she actually matters.

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  • Substack's founder says it will not remove white supremacist and Nazi blogs from the platform.
  • Some of these blogs have paying subscribers, which means Substack likely profits.
  • The heart of the issue is not the free speech; it's the money.

https://archive.ph/5UZb7

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Substack Has a Nazi Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
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The newsletter-hosting site Substack advertises itself as the last, best hope for civility on the internet—and aspires to a bigger role in politics in 2024. But just beneath the surface, the platform has become a home and propagator of white supremacy and anti-Semitism. Substack has not only been hosting writers who post overtly Nazi rhetoric on the platform; it profits from many of them.

[-] [email protected] 146 points 2 years ago

> The kind of person who posts on 4chan and thinks he deserves a gf

> Wonders why women don't like him

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[-] [email protected] 364 points 2 years ago

Wow it must be an extremely novel experience for an iOS programmer to have a company arbitrarily make decisions about what you can and cannot do on their platform

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