As I keep saying, the big winner of the Iran War is China.
@knord Trump the Nation Builder as they say.
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After screaming about Reflect Orbital's awful plans for the last 8 months, I am just so delighted that this cartoon exists. I mean, that's probably me in panel 2, right? (About to get my eye damaged by their stupidly dangerous satellite....)
@sundogplanets I saw this cartoon and immediately thought of you. Bloody techbros, what can't they stuff up for the rest of us?
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They lied to you when they told you the genocide had ended.
They lied to you when they told you it was the 'most moral army.'
They lied to you when they told you there were safe zones in Gaza.
They lied to you about the death toll.
They lied to you about the number of the wounded.
They lied to you, and you were even foolish enough to believe them
HP Fined $14 Million For 'Cartelization' of Ink Cartridges, Toner, PCs https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/16/2210245/hp-fined-14-million-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
so sad i have to say this cause your post doesn't
HP's annual revenue: appears to be on the order of 50 billion dollars or so
so what the fuck do they care about a 14 million dollar fine and why the fuck do you all at slashdot not point this out ?????????
In a recent thread @CedarTea touched on frustration with a certain type of utilitarian environmentalist city-dweller, and I immediately thought of a YouTube video I saw recently where someone confidently stated that people SHOULDN'T grow their own food. People should live in high-rises and leave food-growing to the professionals, who can do it more efficiently.
And I just had to sit with that for a second, and wonder at people who think the only benefit in engaging with growing or gathering food is producing as much as possible, and if the "as much as possible" isn't good enough then you shouldn't do it.
This isn't a knock on city-dwellers or high-rises, or a disagreement that there are reductions in individual CO2 emissions from people living in densely populated areas. But I do feel a great deal of sadness, and feel that people are wildly missing the point of it all, when they decide that engaging with the rest of the living world in a variety of ways, gaining greater understanding of agriculture and ecology, seeing and feeling yourself as an integral part of life, just doesn't really matter very much. Efficiency rules all!
@idzie is the one cucumber and cherry tomato that I’m gonna harvest today are gonna feed 2 adults? No. Does it make me happy? Very much so! And it also make my neighbors kids really happy to pick 2 strawberries and 10 blueberries themselves in our otherwise concrete courtyard.
@ireneista That's kinda been my feeling, yeah. Yet another industry whose valuation is more or less based on a shibboleth.
@dalias @mathew i really didn't like systemd linking to a ratcheting crypto paper by a non-lennart poettering as a way to write a system log that can't be modified (crypto in this case is a cop-out for and actually hides improper isolation boundaries) but otherwise i don't have terribly strong opinions on the subject
Well this does not seem like a great feedback system. Wildfire smoke took out 2.5GW of PV generation in ISO-NE
Beardy Star Stuff 🌹🏴🇵🇸
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Science: hey look we found some new knowledge and want to share it with humanity!
Capitalism: you should be charging for that.
Science: no you see the more it gets shared about the more everyone can participate and the more further knowledge we can generate! It's not a zero sum thing! And that wouldn't work if we charged people to access it!
Academic journals: Don't worry Capitalism, we've got this
Capitalism: cheers fam
Science: well fuck
That was a bonkers bananas bronze spot game 🤯
@koutropoulos It surely was.
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I made a blog post if you'd like to see more from this shoot: https://potterybyosa.com/blogs/clay-people/studio-shots-with-vivian-hoang
@atomicpoet Sorry Chris, but I lived in the US. I've met countless of Americans. Worked with them, taught them. A lot of them are stupid. They are ignorant and relish in that ignorance. Being smart and educated is something that is reviled by many.
Don't get me wrong, I met many brilliant people too. I count some of them as my best friends. They agree with me, by the way.
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@atomicpoet What you describe is the fact that Americans don't care about the rest of the world, it's background noise for them. And that too leads to actual ignorance, not feigned one.
@dalias @mathew i really didn't like systemd linking to a ratcheting crypto paper by a non-lennart poettering as a way to write a system log that can't be modified (crypto in this case is a cop-out for and actually hides improper isolation boundaries) but otherwise i don't have terribly strong opinions on the subject
soloojos (Mastodon)
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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@hipsterelectron @mathew I care about system logs but in totally the wrong way. 😂
@atomicpoet Sorry Chris, but I lived in the US. I've met countless of Americans. Worked with them, taught them. A lot of them are stupid. They are ignorant and relish in that ignorance. Being smart and educated is something that is reviled by many.
Don't get me wrong, I met many brilliant people too. I count some of them as my best friends. They agree with me, by the way.
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Now I'm curious. But I presume you can't tell. And I'm so far outside the universe of computing these days that I doubt I'd properly understand
@DartzIRL So I helped build this thing called veilid... built a badge on it as a defcon trinket that also runs veilid.
then realized my access methods were not going to work at DEF CON, so totally retooling that.
@hipsterelectron can’t think of a “neutral” faction in star trek but uh why is everywhere all of the time enemy territory?
@maxine foiled. good point. i think it was slightly aspirational, as in masking should not be necessary all the time in a just world
