SpiderShoeCult @ SpiderShoeCult @sopuli.xyz

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Genuinely curious why you don't agree with overpopulation as being a problem. Mathematically, more people on the same finite rock means less rock for each individual person. Since resources are tied to amount of rock available, it seems to mathematically check out.

Actually in the Android community Sony helps you unlock your bootloader and offers official AOSP sources for their devices that you can compile and install yourself.

I have no idea why people are enamored with Samsung.

If it gets too hot, they'll just buy a bigger AC unit. Then a bigger one. Then they'll move underground. Until that gets too hot as well.

There was a meme floating around a while back with a quote from some native american fellow saying something along the lines of 'only when the last bison has been killed,[...] the last tree has been felled, will they realized they can't eat money'.

Their power of the rich only exists as long as the rest of the people are giving it to them. We as a collective are not able to break away though. At the end of it all apathy goes both ways. They are apathetic to human life, the rest of humanity is apathetic to human life. It's a self perpetuating system. The 'fuck you, got mine' mentality is the one to blame here and perhaps it's one of the traits that brought us so far.

And, for all the good and bad it's brought us, we conquered the planet (grey connotation intended there) because it was 'never enough'. For instance, some creatures could fly. We couldn't. So we fixed that by keeping birds in cages as pets and by inventing powered flight.

Undeniably, we've gotten ourselves in quite a pickle with this mentality, but I propose here that they are the inevitable result of humanity. Hoarders have been around since humanity started killing each other for resources (see monarchies as an example). They are probably not fecking off too soon. And I don't believe eat the rich is a solution because people will just eat the closest rich person and change the definition of rich to 'has a bit more than me' to justify it.

I had a slight glimmer of hope at the start of covid-19, when people were dazed and confused and isolating and waiting for a vaccine. At the very start, I actually thought humanity is proving we're not that bad.

The rest is history now.

Oh, he's one of those. Thanks for that!

They still look ridiculous though.

What did he do? The English Wikipedia entry has nothing on why he's a douche (as I'm understanding from the comments here).

Chiming in from Europe, half the Autobahn is under road works at this time. Bloody awesome.

temperatures are just a construct of the liberals to push their nefarious tree-hugging agenda, man!

/s

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Christmas was placed around the winter solistice to make conversion of 'pagans' easier in an "oh my god! you have a holiday then? so do I! what a coincidence! we should totally bump religions'' manner.

But in the context of change, with respect to the fundamentals of the faith, Christmas is about as relevant to the religion as seasonal events in MMOs are to end game content. Christianity has many different flavours around the world depending on what local beliefs were absorbed. Just have a look at church calendars from different countries and see what saints are celebrated year round.

Arguing change in abrahamic religions, you probably would have had a bit more success discussing the great schism of 1054 or the protestant reformation, but even those keep the same basic belief system of existence of god, him having a son, existence of a heaven and a hell and such (fun fact - there's no purgatory in the teachings of the catholic orthodox church - the full name for eastern orthodoxy).

Or, looking at other abrahamic religions you could argue that people that practice judaism have a saying along the lines that 3 rabbis have 4 opinions on a topic - an indicator of constant change in the world'a first monotheistic religion.

I might be erring on the naive side here, but I read the comment you replied to less as holier than thou and more as 'shout out to us all'.

Either that or they don't understand that even posting the comment involves using lots of petroleum products to create the magic box that browses lemmy. And the magic boxes that host the lemmy content. And the magic boxes that connect the previous two.

I'll never understand why some supermarkets choose to individually package stuff like eggplant or zucchini in plastic baggies. Or 'oh, you want some habaneros? here's their weight in packaging as well. you earned it!'

I also use the 8bitdo Pro 2, it fits very well in my hands and has the correct joystick layout. The battery life on it is insane compared to a Dualshock 4 (other controller I've used quite a lot and can compare to).

My only issue with it is that I wish the buttons on the bottom weren't useless and could be mapped to something - even the official application does not allow you to send any other keypresses through them than what is standard.

Also works over bluetooth, none of that dongle nonsense.

This is the way (non-ironic, non-meme statement). We are beyond being able to preserve privacy, the best we can do is feed them shit until they are no longer able to discern user data from complete garbage. Drown all the tracking data in a sea of irrelevant garbage. Make the algoritmh think you're an 11 year old PhD from Sentinel Island with a penchant for nordic paganism, that revels in discovering post-jazz and regularly eats fajitas at a cozy little place in Antarctica.

Wouldn't this be more of a double implication though? Without China to manufacture goods, the West is out of goods, but without the West to purchase said goods, China just gets stuck with a huge amount of goods it can only sell at a discount to other nations, thereby reducing their profit margins. Surely if other places were willing to pay just as much as the West for goods, they would be sold there as well, to not have all eggs in the same basket.

Sort of like what I read on a lunch place - "Eat here, or we both starve".

Not trying to start a pro-/anti-anything discussion, genuinely curious about the mechanics at play here, global economics, game theory and all that.

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Thanks!

Never thought the telescreens would be in our pockets though -_-

While spez is indeed a truly horrible piece of work, we should also keep in mind that he wouldn't be doing this without having some serious backing from shareholders. CEOs are the public figure presented to us for the 2 minutes' hate but let's not forget that these decisions are taken in huge boardrooms. So maybe we should say 'fuck spez et al' instead of just 'fuck spez'.

I agree. Upvoted because beans but had not much to add to the conversation.