While there's lots of objectionable material on freeside, even here there's lines admins and mods aren't ok with allowing to be crossed.
Recently someone went out and tried to send cp to many instances, and there was a panicked thread including many admins who immediately deleted the content and blocked the post and in some cases defederated the instance.
The articles claiming the fediverse is dangerous and filled with crime are just part of the normal attack cycle where the media, owned by big companies, attack anything that seems to be a threat to corporate hegemony. I've seen right-wing commenters breathlessly repeating such libel, apparently completely oblivious to the fact that the same exact tactics have been used against most of them personally.
Recently someone went out and tried to send cp to many instances, and there was a panicked thread including many admins who immediately deleted the content and blocked the post and in some cases defederated the instance.
The articles claiming the fediverse is dangerous and filled with crime are just part of the normal attack cycle where the media, owned by big companies, attack anything that seems to be a threat to corporate hegemony. I've seen right-wing commenters breathlessly repeating such libel, apparently completely oblivious to the fact that the same exact tactics have been used against most of them personally.
It's a good thing the useful idiots never read any book other than Harry Potter, because if they read a history book they'd realize that every single time during the revolution, the whackjobs are given a seat at the table, and the moment the revolution succeeds those same whackjobs are sent to the gulags.
They wouldn't be useful idiots if they realized this song has already been played before.
They wouldn't be useful idiots if they realized this song has already been played before.
I've started a company that builds perpetual motion machines.
People say you can't build a perpetual motion machines. I tell those people "Of course it's impossible, then you go out and do it and it's not impossible anymore."
Welcome to my ted talk. Investment information is on the forms to your left.
People say you can't build a perpetual motion machines. I tell those people "Of course it's impossible, then you go out and do it and it's not impossible anymore."
Welcome to my ted talk. Investment information is on the forms to your left.
If the shooting war part of World War 3 starts tomorrow, how exactly is that going to line up with DEI? I assume we'd have to load our rifles with apologies?
https://www.youtube.com/@journeytomicro
This is a really cool channel, and the narrator sounds like he took all of the xanax.
This is a really cool channel, and the narrator sounds like he took all of the xanax.
"rents are too high. Please give me the power to make the situation worse by having companies change rentals into condos"
Man, I feel this.
I made it through and I never have to do it again, but there was always a voice in the back of my head reminding me that failure was such a terrible option.
I made it through and I never have to do it again, but there was always a voice in the back of my head reminding me that failure was such a terrible option.
"Hey everyone! We're living in an authoritarian hellscape, we're all living monuments to the disgrace we've participated in against our ancestors who fought for freedom! Isn't that fuuuuuuunny?"
The amazfit bip s is as close to the pebble I could find without having crippling design flaws that would cause it to die prematurely.
Smart watches need to get their heads in the game with respect to battery life.
(Gadgetbridge is an open source interface so you don't need to use their dodgy software)
Smart watches need to get their heads in the game with respect to battery life.
(Gadgetbridge is an open source interface so you don't need to use their dodgy software)
The original xbox was the best console forever because Microsoft are incompetent at security.
"Oh, we'll just buy the product" great but the company went out of business or changed strategies and now you can't even install your legally purchased copy of the program anymore
oh nevermind there isn't even a copy of the program since it's all cloud based and the company has decided to make the free product paid and if you need to ask how much you can't afford it nevermind we changed direction the product is gone
oh nevermind there isn't even a copy of the program since it's all cloud based and the company has decided to make the free product paid and if you need to ask how much you can't afford it nevermind we changed direction the product is gone
Pure willpower and "Stop eating you fat bastard" does work for a little while and can be a way to get to a target weight in the short term, but other than hollywood actors whose only job is to get ready for a part and they have people for everything else, most people have other responsibilities and you have to balance your self control between all your responsibilities. I speak from experience succeeding and eventually having life happen.
People forget that there's a lot more to life than one thing. Besides weight, there's other health, there's family, there's friends, there's work and career, there's other commitments, and running around starving yourself forever isn't sustainable in such a world.
People forget that there's a lot more to life than one thing. Besides weight, there's other health, there's family, there's friends, there's work and career, there's other commitments, and running around starving yourself forever isn't sustainable in such a world.
It's important to reasonably think about scenarios that could happen. Refusing to think about a bad thing because you don't like the idea of it happening is more dangerous than thinking about a scenario where something bad happens.
According to public sources, the payload of America's nuclear weapons from 1.3MT to 0.01MT. There's about 5,000 armaments, and a total payload that's potentially around 2,000MT, or 2GT.
2GT is a lot. It'd cause a lot of damage. It would increase background radiation levels for generations. It would decimate a huge amount of land and depending on how it was detonated it could send non-hardened technology back to the dark age in a blink of an eye.
On the other hand, I'm not sure it's enough to destroy humanity. Humanity has detonated the Tsar Bomba with an potential yield of 50MT, and this is a mere 40 of those.
The largest non-nuclear release of energy I could find was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, it looks like that energy release was in the Gigatonnes of TNT range, released over 3 days. Since it was a volcano, it also ejected large amounts of material into the atmosphere. This massive release of material and energy lowered global temperatures for the next year by 0.4 to 0.7C, and did lead to many additional deaths, but did not end the earth.
The other thing about that eruption is that unlike a pure release of nuclear energy, many of the effects of the eruption were related to the fact that it was a volcano, which was spewing material from within the earth. I think it's reasonable to assume that less material would be ejected by a nuclear explosion, fewer chemical compounds such as sulphur dioxide would be released. On the other hand, we don't know how long World War 3 would be. Maybe the energy is released over hours, maybe days, maybe weeks.
So yeah, really really bad but probably not the end of humanity.
According to public sources, the payload of America's nuclear weapons from 1.3MT to 0.01MT. There's about 5,000 armaments, and a total payload that's potentially around 2,000MT, or 2GT.
2GT is a lot. It'd cause a lot of damage. It would increase background radiation levels for generations. It would decimate a huge amount of land and depending on how it was detonated it could send non-hardened technology back to the dark age in a blink of an eye.
On the other hand, I'm not sure it's enough to destroy humanity. Humanity has detonated the Tsar Bomba with an potential yield of 50MT, and this is a mere 40 of those.
The largest non-nuclear release of energy I could find was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, it looks like that energy release was in the Gigatonnes of TNT range, released over 3 days. Since it was a volcano, it also ejected large amounts of material into the atmosphere. This massive release of material and energy lowered global temperatures for the next year by 0.4 to 0.7C, and did lead to many additional deaths, but did not end the earth.
The other thing about that eruption is that unlike a pure release of nuclear energy, many of the effects of the eruption were related to the fact that it was a volcano, which was spewing material from within the earth. I think it's reasonable to assume that less material would be ejected by a nuclear explosion, fewer chemical compounds such as sulphur dioxide would be released. On the other hand, we don't know how long World War 3 would be. Maybe the energy is released over hours, maybe days, maybe weeks.
So yeah, really really bad but probably not the end of humanity.
Does anyone have any video of organisms from the genus Archaea? I've been on a microbiology kick and seeing video of the other forms of life at that scale is really cool, but I can't seem to find the newest addition to the record.