Pup Biru

it will truly be a great day for humanity when our smart microwave can display accurate time derived from literally differences in things travelling the speed of light and atomic decay with redundant backups and systems designed to withstand nuclear war

a great day indeed

i’d say it’s less that people “get very uppity about it” and more that it’s not something that’s particularly relevant. we have no evidence for or against, and the outcome doesn’t really change how we interact with the world

likewise the universe could be entirely chaos and everything that exists in this instant: your memories and understanding of the universe and everything to back it up could just be the current arrangement of things and will be torn apart in the very next instant

but it’s not really a useful position to form conjectures from: if it is, it doesn’t matter what you do; if it isn’t, then you should act as if the universe will be here and that your memories are valid

there’s actually a bunch of these, but healthcare tends to fall prey to “too much money, too many consultants, fancy brochures”

i mean, we hunt them with guns now so i’m not sure a pointy stick will change their point of view :p

coming from australia, this is super real… we have such a unique set of animals and plants that it’s all just so normal to us, but then you travel overseas and everything is like what you see on tv and in movies

i’m mid 30s, and last year i saw snow falling for the first time in chicago… snow falling is beautiful, and to most of the world it’s just normal - to australians, it just never happens

i imagine that it’s only the UI - they’d have to implement all the profiling etc themselves… but it does mean they have a framework to build the tools into, and not having to build the UI rather than starting from scratch which is a huge help

at previous points in history, more people died… thats just a fact… death due to war is always arbitrary and unfair

perhaps, but you’ve got to admit that we’ve been living in the most peaceful time in history. superpowers mean sure they get a lot of control, but they also provide a lot of security… it’s a shitty arrangement, but i’m not sure that the alternative is better: with lots of small powers, those countries tend to feel a lot more empowered to encroach on others’ territory

perhaps alliances help that, but i’d argue that kinda leads to a cold war situation where you get “spheres of influence” and that’s kinda like superpowers anyway, but you get a whole group of countries being drawn into conflicts that a belligerent ally starts

to be fair, it’d be fucked up if they did have a plan: it’s not their country, and they kept saying “2 state solution”, so their plan was to sit down with israel and palestinians and hammer out a mutually agreeable situation… anything more would just be making choices without consulting palestinians and that never works out for anyone

i think domestically, internationally in general, and possibly in gaza tbh:

gaza: trump has said directly that he wants to level gaza and take it over for the US; the democrats at least paid vague lip service to “red lines” and shit - i don’t know what was happening behind the scenes; it didn’t seem like much, but we can never know how much worse it could have been without that. i feel like trump is definitely worse for the palestinians, based solely on his rhetoric

internationally: people will die in ukraine; perhaps a lot of people, and who knows whether the conflict will escalate further from here given the fragmentation trump has and will cause

domestically: yeah i don’t think i even need to go there

however you slice it, trump is going to cause significantly more deaths… im not okay with “supporting genocide”; it makes me absolutely livid that no matter what happens genocide will be the outcome… but not making a choice definitively causes more loss of life

i understand for sure the argument that if you vote for democrats anyway, where’s the line? when do you punish them so that they learn? it’s frustrating as fuck for sure… and that’s a valid argument, but in that case you’re still making a choice: you’re sacrificing all those lives over the next 4 years to maybe teach them a lesson (that they didn’t learn last time with hillary)

granted, i’m not a US citizen so my “support” is limited to trying to convince people on the internet to not fuck over the world

if you live in the US, and pay taxes, you contribute to that same genocide… if you have no choice in the matter, i don’t see how you can be responsible for it

voting is similar; your 2 realistic options for voting in the US were republican or democrat… no other choice was going to effect the outcome of this particular issue. in that case, either look at which choice was less awful for the issue or put that to the side if you think they’re both the same and look at other things: queer rights, protection of democracy, economy, etc

no matter how you slice it, voting democrat means fewer people would have died, globally and domestically; that’s how you move past it… by realising that genocide was going to happen no matter what, so may as well save some other lives and keep trying to fight the genocide in other ways

acknowledging that both sides support a genocide and moving past that because there’s nothing you can do to change it isn’t trivialising it; it’s being realistic about a whole lot of horrendous options… sticking your head in the sand doesn’t magically make the genocide go away

okay so what’s your next step? because letting the right win has to be the stupidest ever way to influence change to the left

and now you’ve robbed her of her chance to sell john oliver her collection of valuable rat erotica

someone mentioned elsewhere, but worth repeating here i think: this already has a merged RFC and apparently someone is working on it

https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4

saying it bluntly is helping… doomscrolling is the problem, and it might not be easy to fix but it is the actual fix

this is actually the way it works in australia: downloading content is not illegal; sharing content is illegal

thus as a consumer, usenet is fine

obligatory ianal

did they ever clear up that random unexplained binaries issue?

gimme an advanced advanced mode that mimicks the uMatrix UI and i’d donate monthly for sure - uMatrix is one of my most used tools! i’d switch to uBO if the UI were as powerful

i’ve tried using dynamic filtering before, but honestly the UI for it is horrible… their example they give for allowing youtube embeds shows my issue with it pretty well:

their solution is either to allow everything from google.com and youtube.com, or to allow all 3rd party frames

uMatrix allows me to, for example, allow 3rd party frames only from youtube.com, and block cookies for those same frames (heck you could even allow frames and block CSS originating from google if that worked!)

this is particularly useful for analytics services… sometimes the whole page won’t load if an analytics script doesn’t load, so you can allow only scripts and block xhr so it can’t send pings back home