isles @ isles @lemmy.world

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We're (American's specifically, but I see echoes in westernized European countries) propagandized into thinking angst is the natural state of teenagers rather than the natural state of teenagers within this specific system. I think teens can just more clearly see the brutal society they're about to be forced into and don't have the cognitive dissonance of benefiting from that brutal society yet.

I think they might be taking issue primarily with the "reliability", the argument that solar is all well and good, but because generation isn't uniform, it can't fully replace fossil fuels. And I can see the argument for using nuclear for base-load and supplement with solar as it's available to use.

No, it's "better" to source materials for education from the students themselves. In the US, good luck learning if you don't have the mandated school supplies. I'm sure if we didn't need the state-sponsored daycare so adults can work, the administration would rather have all students be virtual.

This story won't make your life better: As a broke twenty something, there was an app called SwagBucks (I just looked, it still exists). And you'd get paid for leaving the app up displaying ads. I don't know the state of Android emulators back then, so I bought ~12 cheap phones and left them on 24/7. Eventually, SwagBucks added an inactivity timer, so every 2 hours, I'd walk by the board of phones and tap them to keep going.

This all sounds incredibly stupid, but it was enough to pay for a fun Christmas. I think it was ~$500 in profit, after the cost of phones and electricity were accounted for. Payouts were Amazon giftcards.

Maybe they shouldn't have based their business on monopoly?

What are the internal factors of a person that are not influenced by the environment or culture?

Well, at least there's the veneer of authenticity, ha. Thanks for the extra context.

for example payment processing.

Thank you! I'll check that out as well, though I value highly federation.

Oh thank you so much for sharing! I abandoned Goodreads because it lacked trustworthiness (why does an unreleased novel have 10,000 5 star reviews?)

There are so many justifications for fascism within religions (Maybe most especially, but not exclusively, Abrahamic)

Honestly, that's been my favorite - bringing in automation tech to help me in low-tech industries (almost all corporate-type office jobs). When I started my current role, I was working consistently 50 hours a week. I slowly automated almost all the processes and now usually work about 2-3 hours a day with the same outputs. The trick is to not increase outputs or that becomes the new baseline expectation.

Aren't you also effectively down-resing the 4 screens? You're not running 4x 1080p streams, you're running 540p, textures can be downscaled with no perceptual loss. Non-consoles are already designed to be adaptive to system resources, so I don't see why you need two completely different sets of assets. (IANA dev)

People don't appreciate having spurious claims attached to their legitimate claims, even in jest. It invokes the idea that since the previous targets of blame were false that these likely are as well.

This will be interesting for you to learn: You not wanting a thing is not the same as nobody wanting that thing. This applies to all things.

I'm not in the community at all, but I have to respect how these players reacted to getting hacked. I'm sure it was devastating to have their tournament run ruined in that way.

What you say is true, a lot of potential voters are not seeing this as a change of heart, but rather a theatrical distancing from an unpopular issue (perpetrating genocide).

https://china.usc.edu/wealth-inequality-us-and-china

I see that the US is bad and that China is rushing to catch up. However, I'm not a USA apologist and one graph can't tell you all the disparities between governments.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-inequality-by-country

Shows the US at #28 worst and China at #35 worst.

And then violence should be met with ultraviolence.

I don't believe in the escalation game and the state having a monopoly on violence hasn't worked out well.

Thanks, I had stripped out too much link metadata, it's working now.