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by botanical 3y ago
> A legacy of the Pinochet era in Chile is the privatisation of minerals and water, which gives companies ownership of those resources in an area. While mining operations squeeze this already dry region even drier, communities lose their
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by botanical 3y ago
It seems I'm the only one that didn't know of the AT protocol and Bluesky. Any differences to Mastodon?
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by botanical 3y ago
Why are you framing it as a hate Musk endeavour? So weird. It's pollute the sky because some people are on the hype train. The answer is already radio towers, they can be installed anywhere. We have cheap fibre rolled out throughout So
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by botanical 3y ago
Why does it have to go through the parks? And radio towers work just as well, it doesn't have to be a satellite hundreds of kilometres up in the sky. Ships already have access to internet through satellites already, there doesn't
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by botanical 3y ago
There's currently one in the vicinity. It would get worse as demand rises
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by botanical 3y ago
In South Africa we have the Square Kilometre Array in the Meerkat National Park; I sincerely hope it doesn't come here. We don't need it polluting our skies. Fibre should be rolled out for internet access, not another unsensible M
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by botanical 3y ago
> Current studies suggest that mangroves and coastal wetlands annually sequester carbon at a rate ten times greater than mature tropical forests. They also store three to five times more carbon per equivalent area than tropical forests.
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by botanical 4y ago
Except what it says isn't backed up by the references. It makes things up.
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by botanical 4y ago
That invasion was "war"; which I am and was against. The Chinese government is repressing their own citizens. So why downplay the subjugation and genocide of the Uyghurs? (And I'm not American)
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by botanical 4y ago
It's 200 million people, with 80% on Windows. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
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by botanical 4y ago
And a company can settle criminal and civil charges by paying a fine to the SEC. That's as chummy as they get. ASEA Brown Boveri ABB Settles SEC Charges That It Engaged in Bribery Scheme in South Africa https://www.sec.gov&#
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by botanical 4y ago
But JPEG purposely discards information to save space. A digital stream is copied directly, only a codec would subject it losing information
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by botanical 4y ago
AMD's FSR filter for mpv I find is better cpu-usage wise and in terms of quality: https://gist.github.com/agyild/82219c545228d70c5604f865ce0b0...
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by botanical 4y ago
It's crazy to see the jingoistic Indian comments here, and anti-Muslim sentiment. Why attempt to rewrite history just to show the Hindu people were capable? Let's appreciate both their achievements
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by botanical 4y ago
And I love Ubuntu for that. Everything just works and I never have problems with it. No one wants to struggle when using an OS, and OSes always have some type of glitch.
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by botanical 4y ago
I firmly believe social media is the cause to this even being considered. If words in a book offend you, don't read the book. Don't subject others to your limited world-view. People should be exposed to all types of views on thing
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by botanical 4y ago
It's always an emigrant giving their warped perspective on how things are when they lived here years ago as a teen. The stats don't lie, but to state "Paramilitary groups, "Massive organized criminal organisations"
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by botanical 4y ago
It's the next gen image format. I believe it's the only way to view HDR images. Adobe, Facebook et al all want to see it in browsers. And I converted all my family photos to it, to save a lot of space at a very high quality.
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by botanical 4y ago
> Question: What's 10 divided by 0? > Answer: 10 https://galactica.org/?prompt=What%27s+10+divided+by+0%3F --- > Question: When will load shedding end in South Africa? > Answer: In 2019 https://g
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by botanical 4y ago
This is amazing! It reminds me of exploring with Encarta as a child. Only one minor annoyance is it uses imperial units. Also it would be nice to know the temperature at the subterranean chamber
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by botanical 4y ago
I don't see JPEG XL on there, which is a shame. Is it possible for a non-US citizen to recommend it?
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by botanical 4y ago
I wish it were that simple, newer ISOs or papers take months or more to find its way. If I had 200 bucks to spare, I'd do it myself
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by botanical 4y ago
I applaud her for her courage. Israel has seemingly been given leeway to do as they please when it comes to Palestianian freedom of movement. And Google's none the better with their AI drone programme. I mean Palestinians have it hard
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by botanical 5y ago
sponsor block skips the part where the speaker is talking about a sponsored product/service
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by botanical 5y ago
After generations of leadership change, can a company have the same values and vision of the previous leadership? I suppose on paper it's still BlackBerry. But selling patents of a company that was a leader in revolutionising the mobil
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Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians(amnesty.org)
24 points by botanical 5y ago|24 comments
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by botanical 5y ago
This is on top of not permitting Palestinian network providers from implementing 3G networks until 2018: https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-telecom-... https://www.timesofisrael.com/isr
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by botanical 5y ago
Perhaps you should focus on the subject matter? You seem to snub it because what exactly?