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by bmicraft 1y ago
I really don't get why just the concept of deserving respect for having lived longer - why does that make you more deserving of respect, irrespective of how you lived?
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by bmicraft 1y ago
That's correct and it doesn't.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
> The existing model is already that everybody is driving everywhere Not true where I live.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
EVs were invented in the 19th century
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by bmicraft 1y ago
So, not stupid, instead only selfish. Much better.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
More housing in _that_ model is more people with more cars on the road and needing parking spaces. The inevitable conclusion to such a model is cities like Houston, TX where everything is twice as far away because 50% of the city is just pa
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by bmicraft 1y ago
Nobody needs one once a week. Either you need for you job (and more than once a week), or you need it way less than that and renting becomes a viable option.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
Firefox on a mid-range Android phone here and this page didn't even feel particularly heavy to me. Everything loaded before scrolling into view and no stuttering while scrolling whatsoever.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
It's a good one ("tree wool"), but Buschwolle/Strauchwolle (bush/shrub wool) would probably be closer to accurate. In case any anyone's still wondering: the word is cotton
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by bmicraft 1y ago
> Every alcoholic drink is masculine - das Piña Colada - die Bowle - die Weißschorl (ÖD: der weiße Spritzer)
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by bmicraft 1y ago
With a couple of macros and keywords that don't even try to fit into the otherwise sensible syntax.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
They're very useful: if you use two nouns in a sentence chances are they're not the same gender. That makes referring back to them very easy as you can do that by gender only, without repeating the nouns or other complicated sente
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by bmicraft 1y ago
What's the endgame here? Mandatory HDCP monitors for meetings? HDCP for absolutely every application?
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by bmicraft 1y ago
If you think that then don't install everything under the sun or choose a better distro. You can just install only Plasma Desktop, Doplhin and the handful of utilities you actually use, you know?
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by bmicraft 1y ago
They didn't say drops to zero, but the advantage is obviously more limited
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by bmicraft 1y ago
I'll take hiding the scroll bar over not even handling mouse scroll events any day of the week
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by bmicraft 1y ago
You (rightly) forgot about UWP, "universal windows platform"
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by bmicraft 1y ago
Ah yes, "He/Him" - the original neo-pronoun if you will
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by bmicraft 1y ago
> ... who doesn't believe in God in their head [..] but nonetheless believes in God in their heart ... I'm racking my brain right now dissecting what that even means. Believing there is no one but wishing it wasn't so?
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by bmicraft 1y ago
I'd add that knowledge usually implies a claim to truth, while llms can only offer information with varying likelihood of being true.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
It does when microsoft is using it, as proven by every piece of software that they've written in the past decade.
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by bmicraft 1y ago
Where do you live that buses aren't running during most of the day? That just seems absurd to me. Buses in my city run at only slightly reduced (from the rush hour peak) intervals for the whole day
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by bmicraft 2y ago
Demand doesn't need to get fulfilled. The people profiting off this are still the other half of the problem.
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by bmicraft 2y ago
If they're so concerned about abuse, why are they abusing it more than anybody else?
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by bmicraft 2y ago
Have you seen what just mining coal does too a landscape? I don't think so. The only reason for that is that coal isn't new and thus not reported on in the news.
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by bmicraft 2y ago
Many deserts do have a limited amount of ground water. If you keep pumping it to the surface not only will be gone soon, it may never replenish as underground aquifers collapse and the soil compacts. I'm not an expert, but this is what
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by bmicraft 2y ago
Environmental consequences for shipping are very low compared to technologies like "growing things where they do not natively grow", as in heated greenhouses or drying out the desert to grow water-intensive crops.
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by bmicraft 2y ago
See also: GameStop
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by bmicraft 2y ago
Pyrolysis Mode can come pretty close on some ovens I think.
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by bmicraft 2y ago
Even though it might not seem like it because reporting on burning cars is very selective, EVs do catch fire a lot less than gar powered cars - even when adjusted for how many there are on the road. Additinally, many new EVs use cheaper LFP

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