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by spurgu 3y ago
> How about the externalities and technological advancements nessecary to domesticate wild horses, and also the infastructure networks which drove the need and ability to create a ship capable of transporting those horses across the Atla
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by spurgu 3y ago
I'd say it's more about autonomy, self-sufficiency and freedom, rather than just "living primitive lives". Technological progress tends to stifle all of the above, in the grand scheme of things. Think about owning horses
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by spurgu 3y ago
Wait, whom are you quoting (and responding to) here? In any case it sounds like you're describing a trolley problem (where people die whatever option you choose and you might pick the one killing less).
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by spurgu 3y ago
The positive comments are mostly in response to his view/ideas/philosophy, as in Industrial Society and Its Future and his subsequent books - I don't think there's a single person here condoning the bombings. If you we
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by spurgu 3y ago
He's written a couple of books (didn't have complete freedom to do it, I remember him complaining about some hurdles) and done mail correspondence with various people.
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by spurgu 3y ago
The problem he realized was that there's no political solution. Bombing people is obviously wrong but if you're convinced that humanity is heading down a destructive path then doing whatever you can to stop it makes sense, where t
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by spurgu 3y ago
> Who goes against the fed. government and wins? big tobacco couldn't do it. neither could the auto industry. Millions of people. Not a centralized exchange like this.
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by spurgu 3y ago
Yup, this is the reason why I bought an Oculus Quest 2, to use Immersed[0]. The idea to have a huge multi-monitor setup that I could use on the go - carrying it in my backpack - felt really appealing[1]. With the pandemic I didn't real
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by spurgu 3y ago
The native apps and website are horrible for a number of reasons. I definitely wouldn't touch Reddit with a ten foot pole if 3rd-party apps and old.reddit.com went away. I'd say people using the native apps are generally unaware t
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by spurgu 3y ago
Trackpad -> More gestures -> App Exposé https://i.imgur.com/u9BRDU8.png (Big Sur, YMMV)
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by spurgu 3y ago
> I rely almost entirely on gestures on my trackpad (three fingers swipe up to see all my windows that are not minimized). Swiping alone is unnecessarily slow so I don't do it unless I need visual assistance. I do them all though, i
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by spurgu 3y ago
Or, let people build their own housing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/oakland-home... Allocate some land for this, let people create their own community/ies. Isn't America sup
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by spurgu 3y ago
Haha! And shuffling around, had it been a Swedish filter then "hora" would've been filtered, driving the Spaniards nuts :D
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by spurgu 3y ago
Boost also.
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by spurgu 3y ago
I tried out Lemmy a year or two ago (it seemed nice) but found that they had a hard-coded list of "bad words" that automatically got censored, some of them quite soft (and with dual meaning), like "bitch". So yeah, I qui
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by spurgu 3y ago
Good point. I haven't had any need for incognito Reddit since I discovered the setting.
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by spurgu 3y ago
Yeah. Can nowadays also be toggled in the settings so you don't have to setup any redirect extension. Which makes me hopeful that it might not be going away but I'm not holding my breath. Without old Reddit (and third-party apps o
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by spurgu 3y ago
Some things are really useful in plastic (like mechanical parts) but there's a lot that we could live without (replace as you said), even though it would be more expensive ( short term ). I'm actively trying to choose products w
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by spurgu 3y ago
That's crazy. And depressing. Have we learned nothing?
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by spurgu 3y ago
The guess is accurate enough to be way better than nothing.
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by spurgu 3y ago
Governments can just keep printing money forever, no one has to work. /s
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by spurgu 3y ago
If is the keyword here. You might not be able to do so (safely/encrypted) in the future.
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by spurgu 3y ago
What? Haven't been following much (since I'm not interested in paying close to $1k for a phone) but from what I gather the Pixels are still excellent devices.
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by spurgu 3y ago
Pretty much I loved the Nexus lineup and used the first Pixels but stopped buying them when the prices started approaching that of laptops.
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by spurgu 3y ago
Yeah let's just keep growing. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
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by spurgu 3y ago
I suggest you look into David Sinclair, he's done some interesting research with epigenetics.
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by spurgu 3y ago
Yeah I have red LED lighting in my boats for night lighting and also use the red light almost exclusively on my headlamp at night when camping, to maintain my night vision.
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by spurgu 3y ago
I'm not American either (I'm from Europe). I used to think that the 2A was a stupid relic from past cowboy days but have grown to appreciate it (after debating/discussing with Americans) and am now somewhat disappointed that
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by spurgu 3y ago
> Pretty audacious claim at the end, which I intend to test over the next few weeks :-) Well not any , like that , but at least any simple melodies should be easy peasy. Larger interval jumps are harder to hear/identify and moreso
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by spurgu 4y ago
Doesn't help when you have infinite scrolling involved, keeps loading new stuff. This particular page isn't too bad, at least with a fast connection everything loads in a couple of seconds, but there are worse examples out there.

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