millie @ millie @beehaw.org

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This is what happened with plastic bags in some stores in the US. We passed plastic bag bans and while in a lot of cases the result was a combination of low-quality paper bags and legitimately reusable plastic totes, in the past couple of years some places have started giving out plastic bags that are way thicker than the ones we used to have and just calling them reusable. Like, yeah, they're strong enough to be reused, but that definitely doesn't seem to be the norm. We just ended up with single-use plastic bags that literally use more plastic.

I picked up a projector on sale for $50 on Newegg, usually I think they're like $80 or something. Only problem is, I don't know how to get the dust out of the inside of the projector lens. I've tried spraying canned air into the cracks around it, but it didn't work. I even took the thing apart intending to wipe it down myself, but I couldn't figure out how to get to the back of the lens.

Still, for $50 it's not too bad. The little bits of dust are kind of annoying, but they're not in focus and it's pretty alright for watching movies.

He saw Civil War and thought it looked cool.

Considering that it also extends to charging stations, that some of the Teslas are privately owned, and that people have been doing things like shooting at dealerships? I'm thinking not.

Quite the pattern. Notice how once something happens a few times, it becomes a normalized course of action. In a month or two we went from not hearing about this at all to seemingly many people across the world jumping in specifically on lighting things on fire. There have been some other approaches too, but burning things down seems to be an increasingly common response.

It's interesting to see how specific kinds of resistance become sort of a behavioral trend. A few people lead by example and suddenly it starts to snowball. I wonder what other kinds of similar situations we'll see play out over the next few months.

I've honestly had the same thought, but then I look at the attitudes of the people involved and their implementation of what they're doing and it's hard to assume anything other than stupidity and malice. I don't think Trump or Elon are capable of that sort of strategy, and if they are they're two of the best actors on the planet. I really don't think they're nearly that intelligent or talented at actual deception. They're certainly reckless enough, but I don't buy that they're anything other than dangerously stupid.

I wouldn't be remotely surprised if that's been the motivation for some of their supporters, though. There may well be people in the world who feel that pulling the pendulum as far into a shitstorm as it will go will create enough of a counter-swing to be worth the immediate results, and that may well have affected their voting. It seems like a pretty foolish gambit for anyone who has to live through it, though, and pretty heartless to boot.

If, on the other hand, the acceleration and counterbalancing is just a natural occurrence? A way to get from point A to point B with the least possible action? That doesn't sound totally crazy to me at all.

But, like, there doesn't need to be someone sneakily manipulating politics and capitalism for that to happen. Hopefully we do learn from what's happening and what's already happened enough to make some of the same sort of societal improvements much of Western Europe and the United States saw after WWII, preferably sooner than they did with a lot less damage in the mean time.

We do seem to be in a similar situation and have a similar opportunity to change things as a result once people actually get the ball moving. Assuming we do actually get the ball moving.

Mozilla seems to be doing fine to me. Most of the people complaining about them don't give any indication that they themselves are doing anything particularly helpful either.

One thing I notice about my childhood memories is that the context is very different. There are things that I obviously didn't understand in the way I would as an adult, which I think is part of why we end up unpacking and recontextualizing childhood experiences as we grow older. But our earliest memories are obviously going to be formed with far less context and understanding of circumstances than even those formed just a few years later.

It makes me wonder if the issue isn't the storing of memory, but the lack of meaningful context to fit them into the way we process things as adults. Like, say I had memories of someone speaking a language I didn't speak at the time, but later learned. What are the chances I'm going to catch onto their individual words well enough to parse them years later once they have context to give them meaning? I'm guessing pretty low.

I would frankly be shocked to discover that instances like lemmy.ml aren't either mostly populated by bot-farm workers and state actors or by people who've been taken in by their rhetoric. They don't seem very representative of real people who aren't terminally online with an extremely niche perspective.

Apart from these issues, though, there’s just a huge degree of arrogance and cruelty involved in proposing mass killing as a solution for any ecological issue.

As much as I feel the distaste for killing any living beings, this seems like a naive position to take. Should this be applied to lionfish? Spotted lanternflies? Water chestnuts? Kudzu? Culling invasive species is part of minimizing the destructive impact of human ecological interference, and is generally a pretty soundly established protective practice. I can't claim to know how appropriate it is for this particular owl population, but this is a pretty sweeping statement to make that seems to fly in the face of reality.

Many people don’t like trans and won’t support it, left or right.

This is such a strange way to refer to this. Do you mean trans rights? Trans people? "Trans" as a collective "it" doesn't make sense.

Frankly, you stating that you're "not saying it's right or wrong" seems to me to reveal your personal bias, especially when combined with this extremely bizarre wording. I don't think it's reflective of how most people see us. Generalized transphobia is a minority opinion. Solidarity in the face of oppression isn't.

Dividing us isn't going to work.

Do you have some context for this? What is it from?

Whoever wrote it seems like they're looking for sheep, and are trying to cast anyone who isn't helplessly servile as manipulative.

In my experience discord literally feels like I'm in the room with someone. I use it constantly and it's been great for me. Phones on the other hand are kinda garbage. The signal is consistently unreliable. Sometimes I literally get calls where one of us can't hear the other. Sometimes several calls in a row. Occasionally calls just don't even go through.

Gimme push to talk.

It depends on whether the server you're on is boosted, also. But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone. Phones may technically be able to play audio with a higher bitrate, but that's limited by both cell service and speaker quality.

More reliable too, honestly. Plus the video streaming is indispensable. Honestly, discord voice chat is a big part of the reason I haven't made a serious attempt to use Matrix for much if anything. The lack of push to talk is a deal breaker. Also like, none of my friends are there.

I would never engage in marketing.. except for my own indie projects.

Hitler, he only had one ball

Goring, had two but very small

Himmler had something sim'lar

And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all

I dunno. I can't see more than two of those names in succession without this popping into my head.

Trump is aging like a Nazi opening the Ark of the Covenant.

How does the math work for that?