infinitesunrise @ infinitesunrise @slrpnk.net

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One can hope for sure. But the cynical side of me imagines Democrats forming ranks around a reactionary opposition to lowering pharma drug prices specifically because Trump ordered it. Or rather, with that as their rationale.

Esperanto for Lemmy lingua franca! Err... I mean... Lingua esperanta!

How about you work on the blanket ban on fossil fuels / specific software computation, and I work on the low-hanging regulation that addresses two pressing issues in one go. Whoever finishes first promises to jump over and help the other finish their goal. That way we can avoid perfection being an enemy of good, while also striving toward perfection.

We're the boomers, now.

One of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions are disused or decommissioned natural gas wells, which continue to leach methane into the atmosphere after being abandoned. Crypto mining has the potential to incentivize the decimation of these greenhouse outputs by using that methane to generate their power, outputting water and the much less harmful carbon dioxide as combustion product instead. But as mining is a profitability game, they won't do that if there are cheaper and readily-available power sources to tap into. That's why it's crucially important for regulators to get smart about this: setting up rules that prohibit crypto mining on public power sources, identifying sites in need of pollution management, possibly incentivizing miners willing work within a framework where they can capture and utilize that pollution and show their work.

It's trading at like $105K today.

Gates was born in 1955 though... Spooky music

I think it's a silly to waste one's time struggling over deciding which one is worse. They're both billionaires who spend hundreds of millions of dollars undermining the public interest. Gates just cares more about his PR than Musk.

Conner wouldn't stare, she'd just fucking shank you.

Disappointed but not surprised that the sexual assailant in this article has not been charged with anything yet, let alone sexual assault...

Calling someone a creep for not matching your gender appearance expectations, as at least one of the women in line for the bathroom did to this lady, is also arguably sexual harassment. But nobody's going to bring any consequences against the woman that did that. Typical cis woman weaponizing false victimhood and then disappearing into the background with zero consequences and possibly zero self reflection.

Thanks a ton OP for linking to all the tools and services in description, this is an awesome resource!

Yes I believe that human nature is to be fluid and shaped largely by one's experiences. I just wanted play with the OP meme. However, mutual aid is 100% absolutely a factor in evolution, especially that of social species like ours. Not the only factor obviously, but a large and defining factor.

Peter Kropotkin comes flying down from the sky in a cape:

"Mutual aid is human nature and a factor of evolution"

My inner grouch is still really bothered by the fact that the prequels became retroactively beloved through meme magic.

Just this past week I coincidentally got my torrent box back up and behind a VPN. I'm actively looking for popular torrents in need of more seeders, especially those on private trackers worth building some seed cred on. Anyone got suggestions? I'm open to books, libraries, certain genres of anime, feature length movies, various commercial software, and large FOSS software.

"The court system in my country is so close-knit with the police that they have a policy of not charging cops with most of the crimes they might commit when on duty or requiring any proof of their statements in court." Yeah it's demoralizing but I don't find it hard to explain because at a high level the issue isn't complicated.

This has already been happening for several months: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning/index.html

Don't make brash promises you can't keep, they absolutely have already come to blue states and they were all over blue states during Trump's last term, too.

The vast majority of Americans do not have the means to up and move to a new state.