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And it’s 100% in accordance with international law.

Would be nice to be able to pick out individual source polluters for a range of substances

We can already do that today with inverse modeling of atmospheric substance transport and the satellites you mentioned. Heard a talk about the topic on a conference 4 years ago. That’s how scientists could pinpoint the emission source for some illegally emmitted CFCs in China (and afaik the Chinese govt acted accordingly). With high resolution data you can also use these methods to detect methane leaks in gas pipelines etc.

+1 for such an extensive, well-founded rant

Interesting read. The statements by SJP are really disgusting and the Maoist revolutionary rethoric is repulsive to say the least.

Thanks for pointing that link out. Disgusting to say the least…

Wrong. It’s the talk of authoritarian extremist politicians in all countries.

For a stranger kind of fantasy: Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake

Payback is fair? Even though these very digital megacorporations are just now facing antitrust lawsuits for very good reasons? The only argument for having to use these platforms as a content creator is reach. But if Google, Amazon, Meta, etc. only got their market-dominating positions by illegal means, nothing is fair about wanting payback.

I am paying money to people creating content for me directly, even for some YouTube channels. If I were to abide by Google’s rules, I’d have to pay double. For the infrastructure & the people actually producing the content. Sorry… Why would I? I will not pity a monopolist because of their lost profits as long as I can circumvent it somehow.

He knows that he’ll lose power once that war ends. He will prolong it as long as he can. Of course he doesn’t care about the lifes of his own people, never did.

I think some of these requirements have a lot to do with bots and trolls. If Lemmy were as popular as Reddit, we’d probably see way more rules like that.

My experience in a community-supported agriculture is that it’s hard to plan ahead. In wet years we will harvest lots of pumpkins but fewer tomatoes (crops are not protected) and in dry years it’s vice verca. And the years do become more extreme regarding temperature and precipitation.

But I think in the future we will try to grow new crops that are better adapted to arid conditions like soybean.

We have all kinds in my city: Medieval cobblestone, brick roads and asphalt. As a cyclist I have to tell you that I hate all kinds of brick roads that I have encountered. Even when they’re not the horrible middle age version, they will often get deformed by roots or depression of the ground quite rapidly, making them even more bumpy. For this reason I think, I saw in Sweden in an otherwise bricky city center that they had a narrow asphalt lane on the side of the road for cyclists. I was just amazed that someone would spend that much thought into what’s great for cyclists. As a cyclist I really love asphalt :D

Lol thats literally what I say to the flies. But my death/hit ratio is probably 0.3.

What is a “serious gamer”?

That’s right, it depends on the place. Very much boils down to rural vs. urban (as in so many countries) but it’s also a bit worse in Eastern Germany.

However the comment above is not wrong, in that there are definitive limits to free speech in German law so that you have more legal levers against nazis before they turn to violence.

Also just realized this pretty late after supposedly having made another bil… Just that the units never arrived in my wallet, hahaha.

There are these new Atlantide weapons you can get at obelisks (not the staffs). When I try to deconstruct such a weapon (on PC version), my game crashes, even after the latest fixes.

Infranife with X modules and adjacent supercharged slots is so OP. If the goal is efficiency, why would you get anything else?

One of my favorite movies in general is Lanthimos’ The Lobster. I think it’s brilliant, macabre and funny at the same time. Big recommendation.

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer… Fascinating. I liked it too but it’s more on the psycho-horror side of things.

His last movie in cinemas was The Favorite iirc. Also plays in the Victorian era setting like this new work. I liked the movie but didn’t make the same impression on me as the other two. His earlier works I can’t give an opinion about as I have yet to watch them :)

Thank you so much. This inspires me to also revive my classic one day when I have the time for it. I still use it every now and then but the battery life has of course gone down. Didn’t know that iPod modding was a thing, hahaha.