My dad's re-learning Python coding for work rn, and AI saves him a couple of times; Because he'd have no idea how to even start but AI points him in the right direction, mentioning the correct functions to use and all. He can then look up the details in the documentation.

doing nothing is good for my soul

yessssssss

I would not be surprised to see that vegetation like this can reduce heart attacks and strokes by 50%, by lowering blood pressure.

You shouldn't feel pressured into making a wish.

I guess a part is that science seems to meticulously avoid the question "why do we live", in a non-technical way, in a way that actually gives people a sense of meaning.

That and mental inertia, i.e. some things change very slowly.

Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

Counter point: sex appeal is fine.

It's the people who are pushy irl who are the problem. IMO you can still be very "sexy" and as long as you don't push it, that's not a problem.

I didn't read the article.

From a technical viewpoint, all types of plastics can be recycled; it just costs a lot of energy. So instead of supplying this energy through fossil fuels to re-cycle old plastics, they just used the fossil fuels directly to make new plastics.

In the future however, when there's abundant amounts of cheap solar energy, it will make sense to re-cycle plastics.

The animal and human dichotomy seems mostly religious in nature.

Agreed, and interestingly, it can be interpreted in one of two ways:

• Religion says that animals and humans are different.
• Religion is the difference between humans and other animals, i.e. other animals don't have religion.

I guess both are true.

Short question: how would they enforce that? What if I use some obscure messenger that nobody has ever heard of? What if I simply use telnet or netcat to send messages to other people?

I'm introducing the theory of an "r-factor" that measures how capitalistic a country is.

r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.

r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.

in-between them, there's a linear interpolation.

(i invented that "r-factor" as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)

i'm for r = 0.5 btw.

And Windows 13 will be a single stick.

I like how angry they is about this, because I relate to this.

I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate,

This is verifiably just false.

How much does food cost you a day? Maybe $25, depending on what you buy.

How much does operating a 1000-user lemmy-instance cost for a day? Around $0.0003 per person per day.

Trust me I did the math on this one. Internet services are not expensive. Internet corporations just try to extract a lot of money out of you.

Fandom wiki page

Yeah, no, fandom is dirt and has been dirt for a while now.

From the link:

It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

From the link:

A species of oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres (100 feet) through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said Friday.

So, what's chasing you?

watch out that you don't cut yourself 😘

I have always wondered how do you do it: How do you fly?

There's nobody that I don't like

Yesss.

flying squid

the cooler mia

max

gandalf der 12

ygthur (or sth)

and a lot of german home instance ones (ranslite, nudel, kühe, ...)

and probably a few i forgot rn