Tehdastehdas @ Tehdastehdas @lemmy.world

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Crypto money is a waste of computation that could be used for something productive, like protein folding.

When investing in (most) companies, the money buys means of production for making a product someone can use. I like that.

One day I had my phone charging on the same table I was measuring a liquid from two glass dropper bottles. The phone heard me shaking the bottles, clinking the glass pipettes, and dropping the liquid into water. I’ve never ever talked about dropper bottles as I didn’t know what they are called before this incident. I had bought the liquids with their bottles about a month before, and I’ve only ever referred to them by the brand name of the liquid.

My Quora feed 20 minutes later:
“What are the advantages of using dropper bottles in chemical processes?”

More incidents: https://www.quora.com/Is-Quora-listening-to-my-conversations-Why-do-suggestions-pop-up-relating-to-what-I-am-talking-to-my-friends-family-about-offline/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Usually index funds outperform active investors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/24/heres-when-active-mutual-funds-tend-to-outperform-index-funds.html

• Investors generally fare better in index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds versus their actively managed counterparts.
• The average investor pays about five times more to own an active fund relative to an index fund. This makes it tougher for active funds to outperform index funds, after fees.
• However, the lowest-cost active funds tend to beat the average index fund in categories like junk bonds, foreign stock and global real estate.

That's how the evil profit the most, and voting with your feet has limited effect. The correct solution is regulation and EU-mandated boycott.

I think this would be wise:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-schools-should-teach-but-dont/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

If you're in a dry, hot environment and evaporate water in a swamp cooler, you lose about 2.3MJ/l (0.6kWh/l), from which you can skim maybe ~10% (0.06kWh/l) with a thermocouple. If you're charging a Dacia Spring consuming 156Wh/km, you'd have to evaporate ~300 liters of water to drive 100km. (Edit: some errors.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization#Other_common_substances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator#Efficiency
https://ev-database.org/cheatsheet/energy-consumption-electric-car

But then, what if you bought solar panels and a wind turbine instead of thermocouples and water?

That pattern is strong in the sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration. The real geniuses were sidelined and kept poor.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

https://hsc.unm.edu/news/2025/02/hsc-newsroom-post-microplastics-human-brains.html

... brain tissue from people who had been diagnosed with dementia had up to 10 times as much plastic in their brains as everyone else, Campen said. But while there is a clear correlation, the study design cannot show whether higher levels of plastic in the brain caused the dementia symptoms – they may simply accumulate more due to the disease process itself, he said.

Why was Hitler so mean?

1. Rough childhood driving him to resort to narcissism to escape depression.
2. Narcissism driving him to blame others for all problems.
3. Methamphetamine kicking the regular madness to the next level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Early_years

[At the age of 6,] onset of intense father-son conflicts caused by Adolph's refusal to conform to the strict discipline of his school. Alois tried to browbeat his son into obedience, while Adolf did his best to be the opposite of whatever his father wanted. Alois would also beat his son, although his mother tried to protect him from regular beatings.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-evil-in-people/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

... the infantile narcissism will be preserved as a kind of psychological fortress to protect the child against the vicissitudes of its intolerable life. Thus children may become evil in order to defend themselves against the onslaughts of parents who are evil.
... the longer we continue to make the wrong decisions, the more our heart hardens. ... with each step along the wrong road it becomes increasingly difficult for them to admit that they are on the wrong road
... When they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world’s fault.
... As life often threatens their self-image of perfection, they are often busily engaged in hating and destroying that life—usually in the name of righteousness.
... it is out of their failure to put themselves on trial that their evil arises. ... We become evil by attempting to hide from ourselves. Evil originates not in the absence of guilt but in the effort to escape it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism#Normal_and_healthy_levels_of_narcissism

... a moderate level of narcissism is supportive of good psychological health. Self-esteem works as a mediator between narcissism and psychological health. Elevated self-esteem, in moderation, supports resilience and ambition, but excessive self-focus can distort social relationships.
Destructive levels of narcissism ... feelings of entitlement and superiority, arrogant or haughty behaviors, and a generalized lack of empathy and concern for others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Subtypes

... Grandiose/overt: the group exhibits grandiosity, entitlement, interpersonal exploitativeness and manipulation, pursuit of power and control, lack of empathy and remorse, and marked irritability and hostility.

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/methamphetamine-dictatorship-hitler-nazi-germany-and-drug-abuse

Morell’s notes reveal that he put Hitler on a regimen of Vitamultin -- a preparation containing glucose, vitamins, and sometimes the methamphetamine Pervitin -- and prescribed dietary restrictions, bloodletting, leeching, enemas, and the morphine derivative Eukodal to relieve the GI symptoms. Sedatives (for sleep) and testosterone (for sexual potency) were also among the considerable number of drugs (over 40 different kinds) Hitler took over the course of his adult life.

Does methamphetamine use increase violent behaviour? Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study

Conclusions: There is a dose-related increase in violent behaviour during periods of methamphetamine use that is largely independent of the violence risk associated with psychotic symptoms.

Try headbutting instead of petting.

The nonvoters might learn, but not the brainwashed consuming Fox News - they'll blame the left once again.

If voting will be fixed as Trump promised, a different puppet could be installed. This would increase the appearance of legitimacy.

Home to all things “Mildly Infuriating” Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that.

The blame can be placed accurately: https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Not on average, but we allow the most greedy to self-select into power, tipping the balance.

Side topic; why are there any squares? They're not stiff because they skew, unlike triangles.

The Starlost needs a remake. Great premise, dollar store execution.

Foreseeing the destruction of Earth, humanity builds a multi-generational starship called Earthship Ark, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 200 miles (320 km) long. The ship contains dozens of biospheres, each kilometres across and housing people of different cultures. Their goal is to find and seed a new world of a distant star.

In 2385, more than 100 years into the voyage, an unexplained accident occurs, and the ship goes into emergency mode in which each biosphere is sealed off from the others.

Centuries after its original launch, most of the descendants of the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are even aboard a spaceship.

A more objective, or at least utilitarian justification is that oligarchy reduces total welfare by overconsuming limited resources for the benefit of the few. Propaganda for such inequity is unethical and should be banned.

Was that a gif animation? As such, it's hard to understand.

Surely the banning government would recommend Loops, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Signal.