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691.
by anoncake 6y ago
No, enforcing lockdowns is an action.
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by anoncake 6y ago
There is nothing to play down. More than a year into the pandemic are there is still no evidence of long-term damage except in rare cases. Evidence of inflammation in monkeys does not qualify, before you ask.
693.
by anoncake 6y ago
> It's about cost of maintenance not people wanting a feature to be removed. And while this feature specifically doesn't have to high of a cost (I think) it will sum up if many "hardly used" features are left in place
694.
by anoncake 6y ago
Unused screen estate is wasted screen estate, I guess. Just like unused RAM and unspent money.
695.
by anoncake 6y ago
If India needed the gold standard, they could just introduce it.
696.
by anoncake 6y ago
I'm starting to think someone inside Mozilla is getting paid by Google to fuck up. This level of incompetence is incredible.
697.
by anoncake 6y ago
Re batteries: For grid storage, you don't need "battery metals". Lead-based batteries are perfectly sufficient when you don't care about energy density. And that's ignoring other methods of storing energy.
698.
by anoncake 6y ago
Why, because everyone is scared of each other?
699.
by anoncake 6y ago
No? The streets are as clean as ever. Missing: Google, search, finding, information
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by anoncake 6y ago
All of these things are true?
701.
by anoncake 6y ago
The difference is that air travel is at least useful.
702.
by anoncake 6y ago
Not everyone wants to buy another computer, wasting money, space and resources.
703.
by anoncake 6y ago
No, it isn't. The Switch has a different input scheme. All keyboard-and-mouse platforms are interchangeable, experience-wise.
704.
by anoncake 6y ago
The soil and the groundwater are contaminated. You can't realistically replace those, not across 2,600 km^2.
705.
by anoncake 6y ago
Not Kotlin, AFAIK Loom is about the JVM.
706.
by anoncake 6y ago
Those games can often be ported by bundling them with (a tested version of) WINE.
707.
by anoncake 6y ago
Because "socialism for the rich" as a term doesn't make any sense.
708.
by anoncake 6y ago
Do you really think those websites actually check if you "gave consent" before tracking you?
709.
by anoncake 6y ago
How do you explain the chernobyl exclusion zone?
710.
by anoncake 6y ago
That means nuclear isn't very harmful when everything goes right. It has nothing to do with risk.
711.
by anoncake 6y ago
We all know that the chance is not 100%. Maybe it's 90%, maybe it's 99.9999%, it doesn't matter: It isn't 100% so he and him are plain wrong. I do think neopronouns are silly when used like this but silly is better tha
712.
by anoncake 6y ago
If democracy is defanged, it hasn't prevailed. > I suggest reading the history of money. The current system is an aberration. Historically, with gold as the currency/gold standard, nation states couldn't inflate money away
713.
by anoncake 6y ago
Even if we assume sunlight and wind are infinite, the labour needed to harness it is not. Else energy would be free by now.
714.
by anoncake 6y ago
Those are the only correct pronouns when someone's gender is unknown.
715.
by anoncake 6y ago
If you don't pay, you're the product. If you do pay, you're a product with disposable income.
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by anoncake 6y ago
You don't have it (on your own) but you try. > BTC doesn't concentrate power, it tilts the balance in favor of a just system where value isn't plundered at a whim. No, the value is "plundered" by a democratically
717.
by anoncake 6y ago
> In theory if all btc miners used only renewables, the price of renewables would drop, and become more affordable for others, and the net impact on the environment would be positive. No. If demand rises, so do prices. Not the other way
718.
by anoncake 6y ago
In other words: You disagree with what your government is doing. Instead of convincing your fellow citizens that it needs to do less, you take matters into your own hands like a wannabe dictator.
719.
by anoncake 6y ago
This is called projection. You assume people cannot be trusted because you cannot.
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by anoncake 6y ago
How can you interpret "No, thanks" as a ruling? Doesn't the thanks part imply you're rejecting an offer, not refusing a request?

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