ChairmanMeow

ChairmanMeow , 6 hours ago

Putting Trump in charge doesn’t hold Democrats accountable. It would move them further to the right, which is the exact opposite of you want. They don’t care about disinterested non-voters, they only care about courting those that do show up to vote.

Change needs to come from within. Organize within the DNC. Primary their candidates. That’s how you get people like AOC elected. Once the primaries are over, there’s no shot at moving them further left.

ChairmanMeow , 5 hours ago

There’s no incentive for them to change course now. That ship has sailed. They know the alternative is Trump and that’s objectively worse.

During primaries, you have power. There they can be voted out without Trump’s spectre looming over the election.

ChairmanMeow , 25 minutes ago

In a 2 party FPTP system, the people don’t have that power. That’s the point. The DNC can just shrug it off and say “okay, then Trump wins, and that’s even worse”. The DNC can survive a Trump term. Gaza may not.

ChairmanMeow , 4 days ago

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/4af98640-1536-45c9-901c-051726a97655.jpeg

Clearly says Walt Gisnep.

ChairmanMeow , 5 days ago

Bombing a house in the middle of a residential area seems “reasonable”?

A judge and jury found the police department used unnecessary excessive violence and violated constitutional protections against unlawful searches.

ChairmanMeow , 5 days ago

I hope so, yes.

ChairmanMeow , 6 days ago

If you close a nuclear power plant before closing a coal one, you are effectively replacing the nuclear with coal.

That’s not how words work.

And coal use has been going up in Germany. So I don’t know where you are getting these ideas from.

Your data source is outdated. You’re looking at data up to 2022, whilst his data shows 2023-2024, which is more recent.

2022 also saw problems like the Ukraine war frustrating gas supply, forcing the use of more coal. And there was covid throwing a wrench into things as well.

Nuclear powerplants in Germany were beyond their lifespan and fixing and modernizing them was not economically feasible. Just too expensive compared to other forms of energy.

Germany certainly hasn’t been “replacing nuclear with coal”.

ChairmanMeow , 5 days ago

The nuclear plants in Germany were too old and too expensive to maintain. At some point a reactor is just end-of-life. They get operational issues causing semi-frequent shutdowns. The reliability issues become a problem that skyrockets the costs further.

Closing a nuclear plant like that puts enough money back in the budget to afford a faster transition to renewables, which ultimately closes down the coal plants faster too. It’s about the big picture, it’s not as simple as simply saying “we’ll do less coal” or “we’ll do less nuclear”.

ChairmanMeow , 5 days ago

Merkel and Schroeder gambled on Russian gas imports as a holdover to transition from the aging nuclear plants and coal plants towards renewables. They did so because according to Merkel “it made sense at the time” and she did not really see the larger geopolitical picture. When Russian gas suddenly dried up due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they had to delay the closure of several coal plants to keep the power on.

So they’re trying to replace nuclear and coal with gas.

ChairmanMeow , 7 days ago

XD is Dubai (separate from the United Arab Emirates).

ChairmanMeow , 11 days ago

A strong bias against genocide and in favour of peace is not a very disagreeable one.

ChairmanMeow , 11 days ago

Signal recently updated to allow usernames instead of phone numbers.

ChairmanMeow , 11 days ago

Ah, that may be true indeed.

ChairmanMeow , 13 days ago

It’s rather the opposite. Big oil pushes nuclear because nuclear directly competes with renewables, and because nuclear is a centralised power generation solution that they can fully own, in contrast with stuff like rooftop solar or onshore wind. Shell has a share in General Atomics, BP is eyeing investments into nuclear energy.

Nuclear fusion might truly be an answer, but there is nothing that nuclear does that renewables can also do, but cheaper and faster.

ChairmanMeow , 13 days ago

If you Google “is a nuclear baseload required” you’ll find plenty of articles clearly demonstrating why this isn’t true. Renewables + storage solutions can provide the base load just fine. The biggest issues have been worked out already, it just needs to be built (which is expensive, but so would nuclear be).

ChairmanMeow , 13 days ago

Money spent building nuclear is money not spent on renewables. I didn’t say you said to stop building solar, but deciding to build nuclear does mean building less solar, simple allocation of resources.

Solar energy particularly has been becoming increasingly efficient and cheap. In fact, it’s ahead of even the most optimistic expectations price-wise.

There’s been plenty of studies showing that nuclear is not theoretically required to achieve 100% fossil-fuel free energy generation. And we’ve known this since 2009: frontiergroup.org/…/do-we-really-need-nuclear-pow….

Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and energy storage solutions are perfectly capable of providing the full energy demand whenever we require it. The only issue is building sufficient amounts of it.

In fact, nuclear is particularly bad at providing base power. The reason is that renewables are so cheap (and becoming cheaper), that one of the main issues has turned into having too much power on the grid. Nuclear unfortunately doesn’t turn off and on very quickly. Many old reactors take a couple hours to do so, and even if it’s technically possible it’s financially impossible because the reactor would be running at too large a loss. When dealing with fluctuating power (mostly caused by the day/night cycle of solar, other effects mostly even out if the grid is large enough), you need a backup system that can also easily turn on and off. Energy storage and hydrogen can do this, nuclear can’t.

Then there’s the energy security argument. 40% of uranium imports come from Russia. Kazakhstan is an alternative, but even that is largely controlled by Rosatom.

Literal fucking oil shill.

Please stay civil. I’m happy to debate you but you can keep the insults to yourself. I’m very much against the oil industry. I’m not even necessarily against nuclear as a technology (I think it’s safe and don’t think the waste will be too big of an issue, also fusion is really cool science), but I have to conclude that it doesn’t make financial sense to go for nuclear, there’s practical problems integrating it with a renewable grid and we just have better alternatives.

ChairmanMeow , 13 days ago

Nobody is pushing nuclear? Strange, I wonder why in my country numerous parties have been pushing for nuclear then (mostly right-wing pro-corporation parties with fossil fuel donors).

Here’s an article if you don’t believe me: dutchnews.nl/…/let-the-state-build-new-nuclear-po…

There’s plenty of parties pushing nuclear. The fact that it’s hard to actually build doesn’t mean that there’s no lobbying effort being made. And even then, a lobbying effort now will only really result in a net nuclear gain in 10-20 years time when the reactors actually finish.

And for the record, “big oil” , does invest in nuclear. Chevron, Duke Energy, Eni, Shell and BP all investments in some nuclear research or nuclear company. The reason they don’t really invest much more is simple: it’s barely profitable, if at all. And renewables threaten the financial picture even more.

ChairmanMeow , 14 days ago

Definitely do! uBlock Origin is the best one around, and it’s completely free. Even without configuring anything the defaults block 99% of annoying ads.

ChairmanMeow , 14 days ago

Conservative undertones? I’m curious why you think that. Could you elaborate?

There’s strong tones of anti-corporatism and a clear favour towards communal living. And the obvious “care-for-the-Earth” stuff. But I don’t think those are necessarily conservative. I could see the argument for Christian undertones, but more in the traditional “love thy neighbour” and “custodianship” sense.

ChairmanMeow , 16 days ago

Techwise it probably doesn’t, but then there’s marketeers, sales, accountants, legal, etc…

ChairmanMeow , 16 days ago

Paying hush money is allowed. Laundering money to conceal that you’re paying hush money, violating campaign laws in the process, is not allowed.

ChairmanMeow , 16 days ago

They’re all gods among men.

ChairmanMeow , 16 days ago

Steam apparently has a backup plan in case of a looming bankruptcy. But they never elaborated on what that is.

ChairmanMeow , 17 days ago

There are a lot of people who are in favour of sending aid to Israel as well. Biden can’t afford to piss off either group too much. But he does know that if Trump gets elected, one of those groups gets the opposite of what they want. So he’s naturally banking on that group of people still picking him over the alternative.

ChairmanMeow , 18 days ago

It could perhaps turns a fan due to the air current it generates by spinning?

ChairmanMeow , 22 days ago

Android has a garbage collector, meaning it requires an additional 2GB of RAM of overhead to keep things smooth. iPhones run significantly hotter than Androids, and consume more energy to achieve their performance gains.

It’s not true to simply state “one is better than the other”. There’s various metrics in which either one may be better.

ChairmanMeow , 22 days ago

Well, more RAM will always help. An iPhone with more RAM will allow it to perform better than one with less RAM. Similarly, too little RAM will hamper performance regardless of the device.

ChairmanMeow , 24 days ago

The 24h cycle with subdivisions in 60 is easy for dividing them up though. 60 divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.

ChairmanMeow , 28 days ago

Probably wise to help shoot as much as possible down. If they manage to get all of it and the attack causes no deaths, then it doesn’t give Netanyahu much political manoeuverability to opt for retaliatory strikes. That could deescalate things a bit, hopefully.

Still, no clue how this will play out.

ChairmanMeow , 29 days ago

Tai was actively being manipulated by malicious users.

ChairmanMeow , 1 month ago

You’re ignoring that the state should rectify unacceptable situations. With wrongful imprisonment, the state can rectify the situation and compensate the innocent. With the death penalty, this is never possible. And even if such a rectification is not done, at least the prisoner was still able to live somewhat of a life.

This makes life imprisonment infintely more acceptable that the death penalty. There’s no doublethink in admitting there are different gradations of unacceptable.

ChairmanMeow , 1 month ago

As CEO he is ultimately responsible for his platform. So yes, in the end it’s his responsibility. It’s why he gets paid the big bucks.

ChairmanMeow , 1 month ago

I wonder if Meta implemented a very basic “no porn keywords” filter. “Interracial” is quite a common keyword on porn websites, perhaps that’s why it won’t pick up on it well or wasn’t trained on images like it?

ChairmanMeow , 1 month ago

The article reads:

When asked by CNN to simply generate an image of an interracial couple, meanwhile, the Meta tool responded with: “This image can’t be generated. Please try something else.”

Which is what I’m referring to.

ChairmanMeow , 1 month ago

This was carried out by the Khorasan branch, so that’d be Afghanistan, not Syria.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

I don’t think about them at all to be honest. Total disinterest.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

I’m surprised you find that the gaps makes things feel less cluttered. Imo it looks considerably more cluttered.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

It’s additional space around components showing what’s behind it. So you’re seeing more stuff in between windows, making it look less organised imo. The “whitespace” isn’t really white here. It looks like another unnecessary element crammed inbetween two windows that might as well just sit neatly next to one another, making the windows slightly larger. I also like being able to move my mouse to the edge of things (e.g. the taskbar) without ending up in the whitespace, which causes misclicks for me.

Again, my opinion. Not stating absolute truths here.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

Doesn’t matter. Lemmy instances are technically “entities” so the law applies to them. You don’t have to be a business, just “anything that processes EU citizen’s personal data”.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

Instances located in Zimbabwe still have to comply with the GDPR, as the law applies to any entity that processes EU citizen’s personal data, regardless of where this happens. Instance B would also have to comply with a deletion request, or whatever EU member state the citizen is from will impose a fine and seize assets if necessary.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

It’s both indeed, citizens as well as residents.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

It absolutely is enforceable, and the EU has already enforced it several times.

The EU can of course try to seize assets, but in many cases they have signed a treaty with other countries stating they have the right to enforce the GDPR within their borders. Think a bit in the sense of an extradition treaty. For the US, this is the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for example.

This means the EU absolutely can, will and has the means to enforce the GDPR abroad.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

GDPR applies regardless of any “business”. It applies to any entity processing personal data.

Which is incredibly broad by the way. IP addresses and email addresses are personal data too. Same goes for “account data” in a broad sense. So Lemmy does collect personal data, and has to be compliant with the GDPR.

Of course, for a fine there needs to be an investigation and the entity has to not comply with GDPR requests after a warning. And you’re absolutely right that devs can’t be sued for this, but the sysadmin running the instance can be. But that would only happen after GDPR noncompliance.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

I’m not sure if Milei has been in power for long enough to have any sort of meaningful impact.

I don’t expect him to have a positive impact, mind. But it always takes a bit of time before things change.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

I mean, Lovander does exist though.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

It functions more like a drawing tablet, with the ability to put something behind the screen allowing you to easily trace it.

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

Same here. Quite bizarre too, since I’m not even a US citizen so I’m not even allowed to buy in. And surely based on their user data Reddit should know that…

ChairmanMeow , 2 months ago

“Cox ring” sounds like “cock ring”, which is a sex toy.