An asshole move is consuming other people’s work without giving them something in return and then bitching at anyone that accurately points out you’re a leech

But yes, the current ads based system is mighty broken. I did touch on that, so did the comment before me, and I’m surprised an expansion felt needed

“All of it, obviously!”

It’s weird to me that people complain about how long it takes to get to work, why don’t they just aggressively speed to get there earlier?

Sites need money to run and many rely on ads. Blocking them is an asshole move (that I admittedly do) but so is dumping them all over a page. It would be nice to have some sort of pay for what you use alternative but until then, bitching isn’t half as weird and obnoxious as whatever you’re doing in this comment

“Skytanic” was a great episode of Archer. For anyone that hasn’t seen it, the running gag is that Archer thinks the non-flammable helium is going to explode the blimp they’re on leading to things like this slap

And social media is arguably the main thing. The network effects make it sticky but the US has been amazing at exporting it’s culture, social media amplifies that, and right now that culture is a bit fascisty with a hint of freedom stopping regulation of the rich and misleading. That said, but that lens, I’m not really sure Lemmy is a great alternative since it has a lot of people from the US already and I think it wouldn’t scale well (either because of lack of instances, burn out from moderators, or the problems migrating here)

Ironically I went searching for if that was true and ended up at this same article:

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

SHARKS ARE INNOCENT. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or otherwise attacking the underwater network of fiber-optic cables. The people who build and maintain the nearly 600 subsea cables that carry almost all of our intercontinental traffic—supporting just about every swipe, tap, Zoom, and doomscroll anywhere on the planet—have a love-hate relationship with this myth, which has persisted for decades. They might even hate that I’m starting this piece with it.

It’s a terrible way to open an article: here’s some irrelevant bullshit that hides what will actually be in the article until after you pay us.

And what’s with the (presumably genAI) image of a shark tearing the cable? Is a shark associated with something I’m not aware of like a company or something?

personally I wouldn’t even call it clunky. The current headline misleads about grok and has the wrong focus (the guy did a lot of bad shit and a small portion of that included some actions on grok which are being audited)

That’s kind of captured by their effect during reentry. I’m assuming you’re focusing more on things like light pollution?

I’m pretty sure brew on mac is the same too

🤦‍♂️ Don’t put words in my mouth to try to make an argument

Its a video so tough to quickly scan so I didn’t watch it. To keep the block in that plane, I think that needs the forces to be to magnets pulling towards each other at the back and that seems like it would make the tuning hard since tightening / loosening each string moves and rotates the block holding the strings. Did they say much about that?

Yeah, by memory Rupert Murdoch had his hand at that and in Aus and the UK. I’d love to see that reined in again too

Humans have been killing each other as long as we’ve existed isn’t an argument to avoid trying to make it happen less

I’m on a phone (swipe autocomplete) and it was 4am when I couldn’t sleep (poor proofing)? You got upvote’s, impressive. <- Left another there for you

For others here, I use kagi and turned the LLM summaries off recently because they weren’t close to reliable enough for me personally so give it a test. I use LLMs for some tasks but I’m yet to find one that’s very reliable for specifics

I only really asked because of the upvotes. It’s a bit upsetting how pessimistic the audience is

It’s been great traveling the world and seeing more and more solar installations. There is a long tail for things like aviation and plenty of chemistry but the world is changing. It would be nice if less governments were voted in that were anti the transition but progress is still being made

Legislation for solar roofs on car parks is a great start. It’s a win-win for space usage, just a more expensive installation. Korea just added some legislation

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Both authors seem to be alive:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Ritchie
• https://github.com/pabloarosado

Is this a pessimistic joke like movie’s where someone creates cold fusion so the government is after them to cover it up?