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by wunderland 3y ago
The best time to stop that was probably last century. The second best time is today.
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by wunderland 3y ago
What a massive waste of the limited carbon budget we have remaining as a species. The techno-optimists who think this is bootstrapping more humanity-serving missions (like a colony on Mars or the Moon) are lying to themselves. We are sque
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by wunderland 3y ago
because the people who write the rules fly in private jets
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by wunderland 3y ago
And the cartel of incandescent lightbulb manufacturers that prevented longer-lasting bulbs from eroding profits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
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by wunderland 3y ago
Not a David Brooks fan but where is the lie here?
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by wunderland 3y ago
We’re staring the obvious in the face for decades: overconsumption is unsustainable. But our entire economy is based off this wasteful mode of production, so we’re sold lies and happily latch onto fantasies to convince us that we can someh
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by wunderland 3y ago
Hollywood is a great example of an industry that has created stability through unionization. But it requires a strike like this almost every decade (or even more frequently) because as technology keeps evolving, the studios engineer new wa
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by wunderland 3y ago
A poorly chosen name that seems like a child’s idea of cool. Vaguely over-promising things which are unlikely to ever be built. Musk is nothing if not consistent.
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by wunderland 3y ago
Nobody does corruption at the scale of the US where the worst scams are completely legal.
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by wunderland 3y ago
Here’s a video of Oppenheimer saying the famous quote https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac
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by wunderland 3y ago
A corollary to this is that many of these venture-backed businesses that use predatory pricing also exert strong downward pressure on wages of the “contractors” they employ who would otherwise be able to find full time jobs in the incumbent
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by wunderland 3y ago
The US has worked hard to engineer a recovery for the global financial crisis that counters any efforts for greater cooperation across Europe. Merkel believed strongly in a peaceful partnership for the Eurasian continent (which included Ru
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by wunderland 3y ago
Has anyone tried setting this up on a raspberry pi 4?
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by wunderland 3y ago
Apple Photos actually supports a shared library now: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213248
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Ukraine marks 500 days of war by admitting it blew up Russia's bridge to Crimea(businessinsider.com)
9 points by wunderland 3y ago|7 comments
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by wunderland 3y ago
This is a huge loss for privacy. Hopefully individuals will still be able to request their address be removed from the street view index.
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by wunderland 3y ago
Here’s an example of a Nazi poll that went mega-viral yesterday: https://twitter.com/rightwingcope/status/1676980329905528832 (screenshot because @christgnosis went private after outing themselves as full-Nazi)
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by wunderland 3y ago
Incredibly reductionist argument. Success is impossible to define therefore all social networks are failures? There are clearly properties of a social network that users would like to see: ease of use, reach, quality of content and moderat
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by wunderland 3y ago
Earlier posts said that there was no way to see Threads on the web but I was able to see this in the browser (don’t even have Threads yet because I’m in Europe).
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by wunderland 3y ago
A perfect example with the recent changes at Twitter: > Most Twitter users barely tweet and don't care about followers - a "heavy user" tweets on average less than three times a week. So if someone is posting regularly eno
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The slow, sad death of Twitter(theneweuropean.co.uk)
10 points by wunderland 3y ago|0 comments
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by wunderland 3y ago
It immediately broke embedded tweets all over the web, something which was unique to Twitter. This lowers Twitter’s overall value in hopes of reaching some short term sign-up goal.
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by wunderland 3y ago
That it’s this easy to get around the login ban shows how poorly executed and hastily planned this was. I imagine it will be rolled-back in the next week as it becomes clear to advertisers how much lower value tweets are
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by wunderland 3y ago
> From building codes to systems of labor and construction, everything is designed with the detached single-family home in mind: zoning that bans apartments (and density and affordability) over large swaths of urban America; a mortgage,
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by wunderland 3y ago
Alternatively, this has nothing to do with an outdated curriculum and is about removing a distraction that impacts learning of anything!
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by wunderland 3y ago
Piketty loves to make fun of this sort of research because the hypothesis they’re disproving has been disproven a hundred times in very simple, empirical ways. But we have to pretend we’re diligently narrowing down the culprit at the heart
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by wunderland 3y ago
Everyone makes mistakes, it’s ok. Just try not to delete evidence next time.
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by wunderland 3y ago
This would make sense if there was a correlation between income and societal value but this is so obviously not true. I’ve personally turned down many opportunities that were low paying but would have been much better for the world than ba
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Sunk boat had not moved for hours, data suggests, contradicting Greek officials(theguardian.com)
10 points by wunderland 3y ago|1 comments
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by wunderland 3y ago
Inis Mór (Inishmore) isn’t completely desolate. It even had a small airport. There are some shops and a B&B and a little town around the ferry station.

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