OroPla

For over 50 years we've been hearing dire predictions about climate catastrophes, none of which have come true.

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...

You want alcohol companies pay hospital bills now? I don't mind, but that's an uphill battle.

> Carbon capture is fraud.

Planting and growing trees is a form of carbon capture and it is one that has worked in Earth's history to bring CO2 levels down over the last millions of years from 7000ppm during the Cambrian Age to less than 700ppm.

> At any point where a computer appears to have made a decision, someone else was behind it.

Are you arguing that not computers are best at chess, but that whichever human last updated the chess algorithm is actually the reigning chess champion?

Are people responsible for the decisions government representatives they voted for made? How about things like Brexit?

What is a chess computer doing, if not making decisions on what move to play?

While it seems reasonable that you need humans to take accountability, it looks like a very shaky position to assert that computers can't make decisions. And going back to chess computers, we acknowledge that computers make better decisions than humans in that area.

Forbidding computers that can make better decisions than humans from making decisions to keep accountability just seems to be arguing to hire fall guys. You still want the better decision maker to make decisions, but you need someone there to take the fall if things go wrong.

Very weird incentives.

How is Ctrl overloaded in Linux? Other than copy and paste, what do you use it for globally?

Because they did not put sugar in everything. Also, they weren't cooking with vegetable oils.

Without those two it's a bit difficult to get to the point of obesity in a world where you have to walk a lot because cars and elevators don't exist.

It's a bit concerning how we hear so many self-destructive voices from the USA on so many different topics. Especially since they tend to export their culture all over the world.

I looked at gameplay, but it's not for me. I skipped around a bunch in a gameplay video, but no matter where I landed there was always someone talking and there wasn't any gameplay to speak of, just flying around randomly and then maybe shooting at stuff.

> The easiest path is to buy the game digitally through the service on the device and play it directly. Pirating it is more work and harder to do.

You cannot buy a game digitally. You can only rent a license. Once there are laws in place that enable me to sell a game I bought on Steam via ebay we can call it buying.

This game failing would be the funniest thing this year.

Correct, the purpose of morality is to enable cooperation among groups of genetically close humans to improve their survival chances.

Now what does this purpose of morality mean in regards to factory farming?

My solution was to not install anything with ads and to not browse the Internet on my phone.

If there are, we should have figured them out by now, since that is the story of California during the 1840s. People redirected a bunch of water to turn the desert into a treasure. Kinda literally, since shortly after they found gold, which destroyed all the positive economic change that was brought.

Or take the Netherlands, that used to be a lot of water and now it is a lot of flat land.

Welcome to nihilism, where nothing matters. On a grand enough scale, is there a difference between our universe existing and our universe not existing?

The "natural" state of the universe is having no life at all. And once our sun implodes this region of the universe will cease to be an exception.

Instead of trying to perform a balancing act with nature we should just continue to shape things into things that are more convenient to us. Like redirecting water into a desert.

My dad created/curated a family archive dating back to the 19th century. Since I moved it to immich people sometimes look at it! In fairness, though, they mostly look at the new stuff.

> We do not want a society where people worry about being recorded without their knowledge

Isn't everyone already carrying an expensive wiretap around with them at all times anyway? Is the only difference that people don't know or care how their smartphone can be made to record everything they say and thus they don't worry?

Regulated, not banned.

https://www.adac.de/verkehr/recht/verkehrsvorschriften-deuts...

"Rechnen" is short for the now obsolete "rechenen", which seems to be where the words "Rechenzentrum" and "Rechenaufgabe" came from. It's a word that predates what we call computers today, too.

A "Rechenzentrum" was a place where lots and lots of people were sitting down crunching numbers with pen on paper. This job also existed in the USA, where originally "computer" was the job title of someone working in such a computer center.

But then electronic computers became better at crunching numbers than human computers, so the job became obsolete. The word stayed around, but the meaning changed. Same way we dial phone numbers despite phones no longer having dials. We also still hang up the phone, despite there being nothing to hang the phone on anymore.

Many people have a severe misunderstanding as to the purpose of morality, after all. They also cannot answer who decides what is right and what is wrong.

Corporate backups include entire VMs, not just files. So you are looking at something that is closer to 40TB than to 40GB.

Wow,.. this is so old that they still use the word "Tao" instead of "Dao". Still good advice, too.

I don't understand what is wrong with existing Git platforms to be needing replacement.

96% full.

If it wasn't for current prices, I'd already have bought a new drive.

If that is what sane web component code looks like, I never want to use it ever.

Never quite understood how that applies to drawn porn or nowadays AI porn.

I agree, but maybe the problem people see with porn is people having that same attitude? "Relax, I don't want to have sex in real life."

> Some of the elderly people I met are mean and selfish by today's standards, but considering they might have literally survived a starvation, this shouldn't be that surprising.

My grandfather survived starvation and much, much worse things during and after WWII (in Russian captivity). He died of old age a long time ago, but was a very kind and not at all selfish person.