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  • Me neither. Apparently, some schools teach this, but most only learn this in college.

    Which is why the culture war so often involves College educated van non-College educated.

    I’m on the College side of the culture war, but we must kind of acknowledge the truth that we had extra education that the other side did not.

    Some of them might resent us for it, some of us might be snobby about it.

    But at root, that’s where the culture disparity stems from.



  • Also, on Reddit when you post a comment that gets even a little bit popular and visible, you always get some asshole who misrepresents your point and wants to pick a virtual fight.

    I never know when to engage or ignore.

    In any case, it’s never satisfying. Ignore and you feel bad. Engage and you feel bad.

    Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.




  • Good on privacy and monero. I wish he would do more hands-on I2P and Monero stuff.

    Dislike the politics. But alt-right sympathizers have been part of the scene ever since I can remember.

    I prefer the European cyperpunk scene. Less guns and bootlicking, more sticking it to the man. Sadly, we aren’t really producing much English language content, so Americans still have an edge online.




  • That really is the problem. Both sides suck in this war.

    On the one side we have a colonial apartheid regime that tries to steal every inch of land while imprisoning the native population in ghettos and restricting their economic and human development and trampling their human rights.

    On the other side we have a desparate population seething with righteous rage at their oppression that has rejected every attempt at compromise and is only willing to stop once they have fully driven off every last invader off their land, but realistically they don’t have the power or international support to achieve that, and they also never owned every inch of the land, either. So. Their ambition is neither realistic nor righteous.

    While most Israelis are European colonists who could migrate to either Europe or America, not all of them are and it would not be fair to those whose ancestors lived in the region for hundreds of years to become refugees.

    So anyway. I think the EU, UK, USA and Arab league need to come up with a reasonable plan - in consultation with the Israelis and Palestinians - and just force Israel and the Palestinians to accept the most reasonable plan. Both groups are fully dependent on their benefactors, while their domestic politics prevent them from solving it without external pressure.



  • alvvayson@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlPower Sources
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    10 months ago

    True, but there were also concerns about the proliferation of nuclear technology and the risks of nuclear war.

    If we could power the earth without nuclear or fossil fuels, that would be objectively better. But it just doesn’t seem possible.

    And trying to achieve an impossible goal while simultaneously burning even more carbon is irresponsible.

    So we need to quickly build out the required nuclear capacity.


  • alvvayson@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYou did it Mary!
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    10 months ago

    Thank you. And amazing to see you have positive upvotes.

    Whenever someone makes a comment like this on reddit, an army of accounts would appear to downvote and argue against it.

    I’m convinced the narrative on reddit is highly controlled on these kind of topics.

    Either that, or the retards of WSB were the culprits and they haven’t found their way to lemmy yet.

    Now that I think of it, perhaps those same accounts were used to manipulate retail traders on WSB… hmmm…



  • alvvayson@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlUnpopular Opinion
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    10 months ago

    Sure, they all use open source to varying degrees.

    But most of Android is actually contributed by engineers who are being paid by Google.

    We could argue that $300K in San Francisco is still exploitation, but there are worse forms of exploitation in any case.


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    10 months ago

    Tell me how the math works out on this one.

    Because last I checked, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and Google still are the biggest companies and their wealth rests primarily on closed source software.

    I would think for the “largest” transfer of wealth, we would be able to pinpoint some poor exploited geeks coding software juxtaposed against some rich fat cats making money off of it.

    But Linus Torvalds doesn’t seem poor and IBM/Red Hat, while rich, is much smaller than Microsoft.