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by Ourgon 5y ago
Grid-scale batteries are not the solution. Residential solar combined with residential storage either through dedicated batteries (which can be repurposed old EV battery packs or tailor-made residential storage batteries) or electric cars w
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Do I believe society is better off with free software compared to the alternatives? Yes, I do. Do I believe the GNU project, the GNU licence and the related software has done good for society? Yes, I do. Do I believe the Free Software Found
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Everyone's standard of living ? I don't think so. People like John Kerry - that so-called 'Climate Czar' [1] who keeps on dashing around the world in his private jet to tell the world they should be ashamed about their
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by Ourgon 5y ago
If you can atomize garbage it'd be useful as reaction mass for some space transport - one step closer to Mr. Fusion from Back to the Future.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
How edgy. You first, m'kay? Together with the telephone cleaners, middle managers etc. Don't wait for us, we need clean telephones when we arrive.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> with power to spare ...but without money to spare. If the desktop fits his needs there is nothing gained in replacing it with a proprietary and form-factor limited device like an Apple laptop unless he's hog-tied to the Apple worl
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Nah, we probably are more wary about answering this type of poll. Them young'uns just give all their private data to anyone who asks, not so those of us who have been around a bit longer.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You first state that 'everyone treats gays, lesbians and bisexuals badly', only to walk it back a few words later. Why did you say it in the first place? Also, I asked for proof of your statement in the here and now, not for histo
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The first three sections are worth showing to those who stubbornly insist on either trusting that these companies (all of them) will not abuse their access to their data or insisting they don't care about what those companies know abou
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> So given that everyone else treats LGBT as a group, and that everyone else treats them badly Simply put: Nonsense A bit more elaborate: some people have something against people who differ in some way, whether that be in their sexual o
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> and I'm saying this as an LGBT person I' m left-handed but I would never think of identifying myself as being part of some diffuse group of people 'united' by handedness. In the same vein I do not see why gays, lesb
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by Ourgon 5y ago
It does actually mention this, about halfway down: One of the major points of criticism is that overusing Claymorphism and going overboard with colors and typography can give off a somewhat childish feel to the UI. Michał Malewicz acknowle
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The ADL changed the definition of the term racism somewhere in 2020 to mean The marginalization of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people . They changed it to something slightly less
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by Ourgon 5y ago
a movie which only stars those specific leads is unlikely to end up with any awards Movie, not individual actors. Movies with a cast of only this unfavoured identity class are unlikely to gain any awards. > The majority of films that h
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by Ourgon 5y ago
It could if the audience did not know the piece was generated by a machine. This has already been proven when art critics gushed praise over works which turned out to have been made by a chimpanzee [1]. [1] https://www.ladbible.c
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You can flip it around in the sense that a movie which only stars those specific leads is unlikely to end up with any awards specifically due to the demographics of the cast. This actually reinforces the validity of the question asked by th
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by Ourgon 5y ago
He should have used the term ableist [1] instead of racist , true. Then again, I'm sure you understood what he meant even if he did not use the correct -ist/-phobe/-privilege term of the moment. Also, his question - did
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I hardly ever wear long-sleeved shirts and even if I do I roll up my sleeves - if I don't they either get dirty, get caught in some machinery or just are in the way. When it is too cold for short sleeves I put on something long-sleeved
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> What world do you live in where this is unbelievable? A world where the demand for racism far outstrips the supply leading to a deluge of fake accusations. Some of these are elaborate hoaxes - Jussie Smolett comes to mind - while oth
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by Ourgon 5y ago
It is 5°C here now, I'm wearing shorts. This is Sweden. When the sun comes out in spring and there isn't too much snow it is shorts-time - use it or loose it.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You don't seem to understand what I wrote so I'll explain it: - imagine a slow-but-secure browser, 10 to 100 times as slow and using 10 times as much memory as stated by the parent poster - imagine your bank and payment processor
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> I feel like, in most cases, I could make due with JavaScript being 10x or even 100x slower, taking up 10x the RAM, lacking some uncommon features, and so forth -- if it meant being able to enable it without needing to worry about new z
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Cut it out with the ad-hominems or move to Reddit.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I think he's referring to 'Sargon of Akkad' (Carl Benjamin) being banned [1] for what essentially came down to insulting some trolls during an interview for another Youtube channel. [1] https://www.spiked-online.co
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Anything Wikipedia which starts off with "...right-wing..." needs to be taken with a bag of salt. Have a look at the talk page for some pointers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:America%27s_Frontline_Doc...
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by Ourgon 5y ago
What state, and which rights are being removed? Give us some pointers to the laws related to those rights which are being removed. If you can show proof that men and women who want to live as the opposite sex are granted fewer rights than o
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by Ourgon 5y ago
We do not consider people who suffer from dwarfism a separate species, they are humans with a condition which limited their growth. People with Hypertrichosis are not seen as a separate species either, they are humans who show abnormal hair
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by Ourgon 5y ago
That's just sophistry which doesn't add anything to the discussion. Given that the vast majority (99.98%) of humans do end up either male or female [1] it is a fact that humans are sexually dimorphic with male and female phenoty
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by Ourgon 5y ago
As a biologist, it is hard to understand how anyone could believe something so outlandish. It’s a belief on a par with the belief in a flat Earth. I first saw this claim being made this year by anthropology graduate students on Facebook. A
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I see your one article by one activist and raise you the whole body of literature on sexually reproducing species, to be more specific of mammals - of which we are one - as written by non-activist biologists. I would encourage you to read s

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