The earth will be fine. It’s been through way worse than us. There was about a billion years when the whole thing was just a snowball. People don’t even really know how microbial life that was adapted for the surface survived, although the theory is that its little lifeboats were melted pools of water near volcanic hotspots, some sort of liquid water that incredibly enough was able to randomly stay around the whole time through. It only takes a very small number of survivors to repopulate everything once it turns okay again. The earth has been through oceans at the poles and total freezes and meteor strike apocalypses and everything in between, some of where we came from was the engine of creation in the wake of one of those disasters, the end of the dinosaurs.

The paradise place we call home, though, is cooked and done for forever, on any kind of human timeline. There is 0 chance that what we call a livable biosphere, the kind of green grass nice summer day paradise we were born into, will still be around in a hundred years. It’s gone. We’re the last generation.

There’s still a lot we can do to choose less apocalyptic options. The sheer massive scale of the disaster means that every fraction of a percent could save millions of lives, or significantly reduce the chance of total extinction. But bottom line, the planet itself and the web of life that lives on it will persist. Whether we will, certainly whether our civilization will, is uncertain, it will be determined by this generation and the next.

I strongly suspect that they do. I don’t know for sure, but it would seem like such a silly oversight for inkjets to be omitted now that they have quality that rivals or exceeds laserjet printers.

Other random information:

https://github.com/Natounet/YellowDotDecode

Also, be aware that modern printers are rumored to embed some other type of information in some other way, now that people are hip to the yellow dots. It seems like it shouldn’t be super-challenging to figure out the new details, but for some reason I’m not aware of anyone having figured it out.

I mean you’re not completely wrong. It is just a matter of how you choose to look at it, I think. This is why sometimes they have those little disclaimers “The opinions expressed in this post are purely my own, they don’t represent my employer / university / trade union even if their name is on it because my main method of communication has to feature their name for technological reasons.”

Personally, I would like to think that if I ran the company, I would say, “Of course we support our employees’ rights to say whatever the fuck they want, they are human beings first with all the rights that go with it, and only secondarily are they employees who ‘belong’ to us in a certain sense.” But of course that is basically an unheard of point of view in American corporate culture and probably why they will never put me in charge of Microsoft, sad to say. I think as far as the majority view in American business you are probably in about the 99% majority in how you’re looking at it.

You misunderstood the nature of my question lol

Free speech is a principle, the concept is not limited to its specific legal definition in the first amendment.

People’s facebook friends abandoning them because they were racist is never an infringement. Facebook deciding what posts it will and won’t allow can sometimes be an infringement of the principle of free speech, which is why handing over control of our public spaces to private companies is a bad bad idea. People’s employers editing their emails to make it harder for them to be involved in certain political speech is definitely an infringement of the employees’ free speech.

None of those examples are illegal, but some of them are fucked up regardless. Not every “free speech” argument involves someone who wants to be racist without consequences.

Also, it’s by definition impossible for it to have better than 100% cooling efficiency, which is already the norm for refrigeration-cycle-driven machines.

There are niche applications where it can be the right answer, but no amount of improvement to this specific technology will ever make this as good as existing refrigerators.

What fresh hell is this

Yes, demesisx and demeaning_casually are two alts of the same person. There were some others as well, I think they’ve all been banned at this point. They did the standard Lemmy bad-faith-person behavior of being hostile and obviously dishonest with the admin when the admin went to talk with them about it, at that point without the intention of banning them I don’t think. For as unsuccessful a behavior as that is, it’s pretty popular, I’ve dealt with it multiple times. I think the admin was able to find some more detailed information about it than I was, they caught a bunch of different alts.

The timestamps come from the time that votes get federated, which is often in batches a little bit after they were posted on the origin server. They’re not reliable to the second. If I remember right you’ll see batches of votes even from legitimate users come in all at the same time or within seconds if they’re all on the same instance, and also there tends to be a reliable 30-second cycle on which they all get sent out in those batches. If you look on a scale of minutes, and there tend to be bunched-up votes from apparently different accounts that all are taking the same types of actions, that’s more of a reliable sign of fuckery.

There are Lemmy instances that take precisely this attitude, if you replace “Palestine” with some other particular countries. The details are different, but the purpose and behavior is the same.

And yes, it’s a bad thing to do.

Well… we’re sure getting ready for something.

I think the userbase of a community being clueless enough to tend to upvote anything vaguely good-sounding is a big factor in me eventually deciding to unsubscribe from that community. It doesn’t seem like it is a fixable problem once it develops.

He already did. “Thermoelectic cooling: It’s not great.”

“There’s just one little issue with this technology. It’s not very good. Like, at all.”

Sure, why not. I’m a little bit reluctant to play the game of declaring instances as “officially bad” and refusing to have anything to do with them; lemmy.world and midwest.social are both on that communities list in places even though I have grave concerns about parts of their core moderation teams. The world just isn’t a perfect place, Lemmy included, and refusing to play with it until it gets into perfect shape may not be productive. I may be very noisy about complaining about certain instances but shunning them completely is different.

But that said, having it be officially and overtly illegal to say “Israel bad” on a politics and world news community is such a significant problem that I guess it would be better to honor the people who are trying to set up a replacement (similar to how I don’t have !worldnews@lemmy.ml anywhere on there). I’ve updated it to switch to the dbzer0 community instead. Thanks for the heads-up.

Father: Though time may have softened my edges and given me wisdom, I still have danger within me. Be cautious.

Son: MURDER ALWAYS MURDER

See also:

!communities@ponder.cat

https://ponder.cat/post/1349429

Also, here’s a list of some of the busy communities I am subscribed to if you want to see:

Little late guys

But what the fuck, I’ll take it. Now see if you can snatch Netanyahu and put him in The Hague where he belongs. That would be a solid start.

Also establishment media: What the fuck, why are we dying

Israel props up Hamas because it knows it can get away with the terrorist framing to justify it’s escalation of ethnic cleansing and apartheid to western powers. Israel regularly assassinates and imprisons more moderate leadership so that fundamentalist groups gain more prominence. This is the way Israel likes to justifies it’s blockade, mowing the lawn, and divide Gaza/West Bank. If you think Hamas is being played by Israel, sure.

Absolutely agree with all of this.

But it’s not like they have any option other than armed resistance. I can critisize their methods all I want, but at the end of the day, I’m not the one living in Gaza, I have no clue what it’s really like living in those hellish conditions, I don’t really know what I’d be willing to do to try to break free from the Zionist entity that has routinely bombed, imprisoned, tortured loved ones for generations in the largest open air prison on earth.

Yeah. I get this… I’m not trying to sit in judgement of anyone in that situation. Maybe I overstepped my bounds in saying some of these things, that’s fair. I’m just saying that “trying to break free” in a way which basically just plays into Israel’s hands and gives them the pretext they were looking for to eliminate Gaza once and for all is not resistance, even if it feels like it is at the time.

What the Palestinians actually need is from someone from outside, from one of these powers that has more money, weapons, and size than Israel by 100 times over or more, to step in. And no one is, while they die like leaves in Autumn.

The PA is a fig-leaf of resistance because they directly work under Israel to violently suppress resistance against the settler colonialism and apartheid in the West Bank. The PA is Counter Insurgency (COIN) wielded by Israel to prolong the Apartheid and continue to delay any semblance of statehood. The PA is viewed by Palestinians nearly just as negatively as Israel because of that. They assist Israel’s expansion and crack down on resistance. It’s another arm of Israel’s Apartheid apparatus

Yeah, pretty much. What I’m saying is that Israel overpowers them both by so overwhelmingly much that neither of them is “permitted” to accomplish anything at all. Hamas is permitted to splinter the Palestinians politically, and to commit terrorism from time to time, not nearly enough to be a threat but enough to keep a lot of people (certainly a lot of Israelis) hating the Palestinians and providing a good pretext.

The PA I know less about, but if they are fully corrupted and complicit in Israel’s oppression that would make sense to me.

You’re not wrong about the Palestinians having no options at all. I don’t even know what they are supposed to do.

Thank you, I hope it is useful