kalkulat @ kalkulat @lemmy.world

Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

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Trump will go away. Scientists will not go away. Science will get smaller, but that may well be good for it ... scientists are inventive. Have you seen the simple tools they used to make all those discoveries back in the middle 1800s?

The more efficient we can get, the less resources we use. Early TVs each drew HUNDREDS of watts. As did early computers. What changed? Scientific insights.

We can do what we can do to stop making it worse. Work togetther to change our habits. Do what we can to make do with less and feel good about it. "Every dollar is a vote", definitely. Work with the people who know what's in store for them, like farmers. Skip a trip now and then. Use mass transit more. Keep improving our home, if we have one, so it's better-insulated. Use better options for heating (wear more clothes instead of burning more fuel) and cooling. Stop admiring consumption and buy lasting, healthier products. Walk away from wasteful consumption, the investors will turn elsewhere unless companies respond.

We can keep in mind the world we're making, and how we will best to live in it. And become living examples of alternatives that are inevitable.

That needs to be done with a combination of hardware and OS. The hardware needs to allow setting the maximum analog audio voltage delivered at the audio outputs. The OS needs to let users make that choice and then enforce it.

Of course, more highly-compressed audio will still sound louder. For that you'd need to be able to measure the average delivered voltage and compensate for it. Also easy to do in hardware. Audio has always been an after-thought in consumer electronics (since TV's came along anyway) and computers have continued that tradition.

Back to the days when there were only a few TLDs... like .net .org .com. I'd then campaign for a law that disallowed any income-seeking behavior ... adverts, tracking, cookies, porn, scams, promotion, surveillance ... everywhere EXCEPT .com. Break that law, you lose your business and your servers, the CEO does serious time in jail, and noone working for that company is allowed back on the net anywhere until forever.

'1925 we shifted' ... no, Over the century that followed, yes, to a great extent. While our handlers have continued in their ways, much of the great mass of humanity has moved (and history shows it, if you're familiar with it all) into a much better place. Tens of millions died across Europe in the '20-40s ... not repeated since WW2 and the A-bomb. The current admin notwithstanding, *humanity itself has shifted away from the bastards ... and they know it ... and they'll soon (not soon enough) be dead.

MAGATs are junk humans.

Not quite true, I think. Thanks to education, literacy, better nutrition, we have been nearing the level where the old ways are nowheres -nearly- as crude, unthinking and hurtful as they were for 5900 of those years. All the scamming has been laid out for everyone to see. And now, we get to choose.

definitely evolving ... up until 2025, now regressing

Find a -soft, dry- spot for the tent. And pound the pegs in first, then the rest of the tent goes up more easily.

Oh ... and if it's -really- cold out, put a handwarmer, or two, in the toe of the sleeping bag. (Good to well-below zero F)

Only the grains that are knocked out of the box don't get played any more.

They get to play in a sandbox designed for them. They're taught how to play in the sandbox, and are given the toys to play (roads, electricity, raw materials for example). We get to be the sand.

Citizens United

Corporations have been 'people' since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.

Yet somehow, unlike most people, they've escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I'd call that an unfair advantage.

158 families isn't much to feed 300 million starving people. We need rules on who gets to eat the 0.01%

It is very hard to grow food outdoors in either case. Underground the temperature is fairly stable at about 30+°F. If that's allowed, and I can manage how to grow food underground, then from experience I know I can easily survive 9°F and spend a LOT more time outdoors than at 100°F

Nuclear is: very slow to make, very expensive, generates dangerous waste, invites proliferation.

Wind and solar are quick, relatively much cheaper, create little waste. The sun is forever.

Personal transportation needs a complete redesign. Burning fossil fuel at 20% efficiency (80% waste) to push a 4000lb. vehicle with a 200lb person in it is insane. Personal electric vehicles of 200-300 lbs tracking defined lanes at 20mph under computer control would take care of 80-90% of urban travel needs. And greatly reduce the number of roads needed.

I came to a conclusion about GPT (which is very good with English on most topics) when I asked it how many prime numbers, when divided by 35, leave a remainder of 6. It quickly and confidently said there were none. It hadn't even tried. The correct answer (there's a proof) is: an infinite number.

Two months later it answered that there were 3. Closer ... but no cigar

How many hundreds of millions of people have died, and will continue to die, over invisible 'truths' cooked up by liars looking for power?

The bible peddles the 10 commandments. My favorite example is a very simple rule 'from God': Thou shalt not kill. How many have died at the hands of 'protectors of the faith'?

Any ideology may be dangerous. People who are convinced they're tuned into a privileged view on reality may be willing to kill others to protect it. Human history is full of proofs of that.

"On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology." — Kenneth Clark