Like, these kinda people exist. He’s probably depressed, unemployed, and doesn’t know what to do with his life.

My take is: we should improve society somewhat. If society improves, this too will improve, in yours and countless other examples.

There’s no point haggling with single, individual cases like these IMO, because you “fix one hole, open another” or sth. Really, i started to abandon the concept of finding personal relationships, and instead focus on what can be done to improve society as a whole. Kinda like what priests who lived without real private lifes did in the medieval times. It’s challenging, but fulfilling.

omg, that whole comment thread is just so incredibly wholesome. i’m a weirdo too, btw, in case anybody wants to be friends 🤗

What kind of info do you think they could have had? With boeing, it’s probably something about corruption, pocketing state subsidy money that should have gone to actual projects, or something similar.

People love mocking Russians when their “leaders” fall out of windows, but where are these people when corpos kill plebs within US?

You assumed it was about being fair. People just like to shit on russia to distract from internal problems, it was never about the “people falling out of the window” thing.

According to the police records, the man committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of his head.

edit: after reading your comment more carefully, you actually already mentioned that. oopsie.

Did he fall out a window?

From what i’ve observed, people deal with “there’s no higher power” differently.

For some people, that i call right-wing, or authoritarian, having some higher power that tells them what to do, is the meaning of life. If they lose that something, then they become depressed and stop living, in any sense, a joyful life.

On the other hand, there are people, which i am comfortable to call left-wing, or hippies, or communitarian, who don’t need that higher power to tell them what to do, in fact, it rather obstructs them. They are joyful even in the absence of a higher, guiding power, because they can find their own meaning in life.

I guess everybody will come up with different answers to that.

To me, saying “there is nothing after death” is a simplified model. It asks you to live in the here-and-now, to live in the moment, because that makes you productive today.

Of course, the world won’t end when you die. You will leave an impact on the world, kind of a track. Like, when water flows over a landscape long enough, it leaves a river bed. That will stay, even after the water subsides.

So in some sense, death might be your end, but it’s not the end. I don’t know whether that helped you.

i think acetogens are biological entities, though?

wasn’t there some rule about industrial processes being 10x to 100x more efficient than biological beings, in general?

i find the technology itself more interesting than the scaling-up, because we can’t do anything about the scaling up (at least i don’t have billions of dollars that it would cost), but we can analyze the process qualitatively from home, that’s more exciting.

Interesting. I wonder how they catch the CO2 out of the air.

Ok, after reading (parts of) the paper:

• they use some amines on porous Silicate to catch the CO2 out of the air
• the whole process in the paper is actually a 2-step process, the first step being CO2 capture
• the second step describes how to convert CO2 into CO+H2 or sth

words only have meaning because there is reality behind them backing them up

if you have no economic strength, you cannot so easily make demands

Decentralization is an essential element of the Fediverse.

I don’t get how you would get around choosing a server. Maybe make the recommendation algorithm easier? Like, ask clearer questions, ask fewer questions?

Why are these articles even published? They are so incredibly non-technical that it’s just impossible to get the point as a reader.

Why even link these articles here? Throw that pop-science in the trash bin, where it belongs.

dd if=user-complaints of=/dev/zero

is exactly what apple will do with these complaints

you could just as well burn your money or drive your car into a tree, as a form of protest. it’s a waste, either of time, money, or energy, but nothing is achieved that way.

I never understood StreetComplete

as i understand it, there’s tons and thousands of datasets available about public infrastructure, but for some bizarre reason, StreetComplete asks us to fill in that information by hand? How stupid is that? only to make a ton of errors while manually copying in that information.

'cause racism, they think they’re better somehow

Truth is, these big companies don’t care about you. Or your opinion. You can threaten them about “switching to Linux”, but these companies will think twice and say:

• if we take this complaint seriously, we might retain one (1) customer, which makes us $1000 in the future
• if we follow Trump, we might get some favorable legislation, which makes us $10000000

how, do you think, will apple react?

Well … just like the US economy is kept alive by the constant threat of unemployedness and therefore homelessness, the US society is kept moving by the constant “winning group”/“losing group” divide. If you would heal incels, there would be no “losing group” to look down upon anymore, and the US would have to create a new one, thus perpetuating the problem.