[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

my preference is Xitter (pronounced shitter)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

America's liberals have wanted gun control. go far enough left and you get your guns back.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

and that's unfortunately only true because the greedy groups have destroyed all the non-greedy ones by slaughter or forced participation

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

we just need to make sure that we don't rely on their instance(s) too heavily so we only have minimal losses when they eventually do drop support.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it may be more comprehensive than trying to scrape other platforms, but the data that is available is absolutely nothing compared to what they collect on their own platforms. they're almost certainly not very concerned with collecting our relatively mild amount of data.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

now that's an immaculate conception

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i would say yes. there likely isn't going to be some fundamental re-thinking of evolution. sure, there are details and interactions we surely don't know about yet, but the general principles and mechanisms are astoundingly clear.

on the other hand, gravity is central to the problem of combining general relativity and the standard model. so afaik, something significant will need to change in at least one of them to resolve the issue of gravity. so we know we have a pretty massive gap in our understanding somewhere.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

take a look at The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

while just looking at the scenario itself, that's all pretty fair. but the company's efforts to commoditize its labor directly brought that boring job into existence.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

we probably need to transition to bringing our own reusable packaging/bottling for that stuff.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

this is exactly what i was trying to get at

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TL;DR

using/generating energy always emits heat as waste and there is an upper limit of efficiency that we are not that far from. if that energy was generated via something that is not a natural heat gradient for the earth's surface there is a net increase of heat in the earth system simply by generating and using energy.

a lot of energy sources fall into this: fossil fuel, nuclear, geothermal, etc. two that don't are (certain types of) solar and wind, since their energy would eventually be dissipated onto earth's surface whether we intercept or not.

that waste heat is currently estimated to be ~2% of the heating power caused by global warming, so already significant. we essentially have an upper limit on sustainable energy usage on earth (and therefore an avg per person usage) or we will have Global Warming 2: Waste Heat Boogaloo.

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