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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The fact that anyone can see this and think "yes, this is a clear sign we must invest MORE in oil consumption" is wild to me.

If ONE country is shelling out as much for renewable as the rest of the world spends on fossil fuels, then MAYBE, just MAYBE there might be something to renewables, especially given all the things we see daily about how much more efficient renewables are, how much money is in the entire industry, how quickly people are switching to renewables...

It's mind boggling that anyone thinks fossil fuels are the future, or at least can convince other people that it's the future all while caring about just the money.

I'd love to have a power wall and a wind/solar setup for all my energy needs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Violent protest? Prison.

No violent protest? Straight to Prison.

Talking online about possibly organizing a non violent protest? Believe it or not... Also prison.

Gee, when it's prison no matter what, I wonder what people will do? Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMM

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I just bought a laptop last year (portability and space constraints, I'd love to build a pc when I have the space for it) and it was supposed to come with windows 10.

I got a windows 11 model shipped to me. I didn't ask for this. And I have to say.... I fucking hate it. Why does the start menu need to change locations...

My next computer will absolutely be Linux, and it's Microsoft's own stupid fault. Windows 10 WAS supposed to be my last windows OS...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My dad was convinced the fridge magnet he "wiped the hard drive with" was sufficient to destroy the data inside.

I plugged it in to the new computer and whattaya kno', booted up just fine.

At the time, I assume he just didn't know fridge magnets weren't powerful enough to do anything past the sheet metal exterior.

Now I'm convinced he physically wiped the fridge magnet all over the outside, thinking that literally you had to wipe the physical drive with any old magnet, and has absolutely no idea how hard drives stored data or why/how magnets work to disrupt it.

A subtle, but important difference.

I never part with my hard drives, once all the important data has been transferred and the entire hard rive has been backed up vie external storage, I disassemble it and cannibalize anything I need, and keep the actual disc assembly intact. I like spinning them by hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My first though in reading the title was "well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media."

There's about the same amount of integrity from it, and it's way easier to think "man, this one guy I'm watching might not know what he's talking about" than it is to think "this whole team of people are wrong" but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It's easier to trust "Paul" because he's wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.

Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them 'influencers') will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.

anecdoteI was still a child during Iraqi freedumb and even then I knew something was fucky because friends in other countries were saying our politicians were lying to us to go to war, but my parents and teachers all believed the media coverage of wmds

Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I'm only partially joking, I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Man, imagine if your neighbor was getting shot at by his neighbor on the other side, and while you're telling your neighbor "you got this Bro, I believe in you and here are some bullets" you go ahead to the other side and continue buying things from the shitbox taking potshots.

Buying stuff from Russia makes you a piece of shit. Pure and simple. You're funding genocide.

And please do bring up the US and Israel, as if I won't agree the US is a piece of shit for funding Israel's genocide of Palestine and you're engaging in whataboutisms I see people harping on every time China gets brought up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Hey look, an administration that doesn't understand science continues to prove they don't understand science by threatening unscientific tests that are inadmissible as evidence in a trial.

Surprise, thy name is [ERROR, SURPRISE NOT FOUND]

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Lmao this guy thinks hard work is what makes people rich instead of massive amounts of exploitation in an inherently exploitative economic system....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

100%

I regretted setting my hand of fire with hand sanitizer.

I did it on purpose, fully knowing fire burns.

I just didn't think it would hurt so much before I could plunge my hand into the sink.

I did it intentionally, it wasn't an accident. I just wasn't prepared for the consequences at 11.

This administration has 0 excuse.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

And for the same production value and some brightly colored spandex, so can you!

Never underestimate how many ways you can dress up a rock quarry. Just ask the members of SG-1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

New headcannon, that's why Gandalf was so bothered every time Pip did something dumb, because he felt like it was a failing on his part as an ancestor.

100% confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Projection and insecurity often make people lash out.

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