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by bluescrn 3y ago
The internet should have transformed education. For curious self-learners it has, there’s incredible resources online for those who seek them out. But it hasn’t made much of a dent in ‘the education system’
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It’s about the trend of using censorship/silencing as a solution for everything, of hiding from opposing viewpoints rather than countering bad ideas with reasoned debate (and simply not feeding the trolls) While a block button can have
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…until they express the wrong opinions.
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Having a large collection of offline reference books, maps, and music/movies for entertainment would still be desirable for those who can find a way to power/charge a device. Rather than building a 'collapse OS', maybe j
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Some sites take the 'reduce line width' way too far though, and on a widescreen desktop display you're looking at a narrow column in an ocean of whitespace. (It's one of the more glaring flaws of the Reddit redesign...)
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Car theft is rather more policed because a 2-ton 100mph+ car can easily kill or cause a lot of damage in the wrong hands. Bike theft is down there with shoplifting or recreational drug use when it comes to policing priorities. But when a bi
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Unless bike theft is solved, an e-bike will remain a toy for the weekends for most people. An expensive e-bike is a prime target to thieves. They require a secure indoor storage space at both ends of the any journey, and many potential user
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Nu-cu-lar is scary. And it's much cheaper to just tell the working class they can't heat/cool their homes any more, the little people have just got to stop using energy...
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If bans are the solution to every problem, maybe ban pets? Would avoid some CO2 emissions and poop on pavements, too…
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So do thousands of other toys, tools, and gadgets. An EV requires about 1000x the batteries and other resources that go into a small drone. This is a very weak argument against drones.
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> Going back to it seems like a terrible idea. Does it?... After watching savings being decimated by inflation, with the seemingly unending money-printing (the solution to Covid, Ukraine, whatever the next crisis is), a lot of people are
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Comparing small camera drones to large armed military UAVs is like comparing ambulances to tanks. (Although the more interesting/worrying case is the recent use of weaponized hobby-grade quadcopters in the Ukraine war, a tactic that co
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They will be before long, in the seemingly inevitable cashless society with nearly all retail done online
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"Privatise the profits, Nationalise the losses!"
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> That’s why we have laws and penalties for breaking them. Which aren't really enforced in many places. Leading to tyre slashing to become a fashionable form of criminal 'activism' in a social media world: https:/&#x
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Disruptive != Destrucive. But when you screw around with transport infrastructure, you may be putting lives at risk if emergency vehicles are held up in completely unnecessary traffic jams.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Whatever you think of autonomous vehicles, we should not continue to normalise maximally disruptive acts of protest by tiny groups. Serious protest should involve serious people power, not just a handful of radicals aiming for maximum disru
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Before GPUs, you'd first have to master assembly language optimisation if you wanted to do anything worthwhile with realtime 3D. (But for some people, that was a whole lot more fun than building games in Unity or Unreal Engine...)
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On the other hand, 'climate change' is the excuse used by rich countries for not building the infrastructure required to support increased migration. And there's probably a significant overlap between the people calling for w
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Yeah, I kind of wondered whether it was an experiment with a control system that could work on mobile
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Also, entire new forms of bullying, endless porn, and clickbait media with headlines that can be terrifying to adults, let alone kids.
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Enshittification, Immiseration, Impoverishment The words likely to sum up this decade.
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This would work so much better if replacement batteries were widely available and replacement just required a screwdriver, rather than heat guns, suction cup tools, and pry tools ( https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+12+
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by bluescrn 3y ago
In the UK, it feels like food is up 25-50% over a mere couple of years. Items that were £2 not so long ago are now rounded up to £3 in some cases. It doesn't help that supermarkets are constantly playing games with pricing, trying to
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It's easy to blame the drivers, but in the era of the smartphone, I suspect that there's a massive decrease in the ability of pedestrians to actually look where they're going...
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I suspect that a movement that took the 'ACAB' slogan mainstream did a pretty good job of demoralising the police, though, leaving them less effective even with increased funding. Why should they risk their lives for a society tha
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A change of government won't fix any fundamental problems with housing/infrastructure. These are long-term problems and government thinking is inherently short-term.
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This comment shows up the other issue, the London-centric nature of UK politics. If you think the UK transport network is OK, but pick the most extreme examples of housing costs, you're probably a Londoner. The housing situation is awf
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Depends on the definition of 'loads'. For residents of small to medium sized towns and villages (where there's plenty of land available), the rapid sprawl and worstening traffic is incredibly visible.
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There's loads of houses being built in the UK (often of questionable quality, built for maximum profit, packed into minimal amounts of space). It may still not be enough to match the demand, but the real problem is we don't seem t

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