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NateNate60 OP ,

This comment is shockingly bad taste on a post about innocent civilians being bombed to death in a war zone.

NateNate60 ,

Mint the damn trillion-dollar coin

NateNate60 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f4911cbb-3a0a-4a60-ac1b-4c9bdceec047.webp

NateNate60 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5a40c15a-dcb4-4d07-adf2-7a55da436568.jpeg

Elon Musk nonsense aside, a Department for Government Efficiency is honestly not a bad idea. Apparently, the military is tremendously wasteful, as are most other government departments. This could genuinely save some taxpayer money and free up funds for good things.

NateNate60 ,

I am aware of the Government Accountability Office. I want something more powerful than that. The Government Accountability Office is a toothless organisation without the resources and power needed to really identify and defeat Government inefficiency.

Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?

Social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit are increasingly infested with bots and fake accounts, leading to significant manipulation of public discourse. These bots don’t just annoy users—they skew visibility through vote manipulation. Fake accounts and automated scripts systematically downvote posts opposing certain...

NateNate60 ,

Perhaps the only way to get rid of them for sure is to require a CAPTCHA before all posts. That has its own issues though.

NateNate60 ,

China isn’t doing this for the money. They do it to keep those countries under their thumb. It’s more like, “Yeah, you owe us a billion dollars, but we’ll forgive half of it and give you a fifty-year extension on the rest because we’re just the best of pals!” And then your country is expected to vote with China in the UN for the next three decades. On top of that, it makes the Chinese government seem really rich and powerful, which is helpful for both its internal and external politics.

China is trying to buy its way to the top like the US did in the mid-twentieth century.

NateNate60 ,

I love the Internet Archive but they are pretty clearly legally in the wrong here.

Not morally, mind. I support open access to knowledge. But they very clearly broke copyright law here.

NateNate60 ,

I’m pretty sure it’s number 2. They originally had a limit on the number of people who could read something at one time (likely to match the number of licenses they held), but during the pandemic, they lifted this limit and let an unlimited number of people read it.

NateNate60 ,

What are the implications of this?

NateNate60 ,

Can someone explain the context of this to me?

NateNate60 , (edited )

Other people have described the health effects, so I’ll describe the chemistry. Fats are made of long chains of carbon atoms surrounded by hydrogen atoms attached to a “head”, which is made of other elements or structures. Carbon atoms normally can make a total of 4 bonds. Hydrogen atoms can make 1 bond.

Carbon being able to make 4 bonds means that in the chain of carbon and hydrogen atoms in fat molecules, each carbon atom makes a bond with the carbon atom before it in the chain, a bond with the carbon atom after it in the chain, and then bonds with two hydrogen atoms separately off to the side. This makes a total of 4 bonds. If all of the carbon atoms in the chain are like this, that’s “saturated fat”, because the chain of carbon is completely “saturated” with hydrogen atoms.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b5f92de8-fa25-49ad-bc8c-1072de2ed5ee.png

(Hydrogen atoms are white, carbon atoms are black, oxygen atoms are red)

Saturated fats have the often desirable property of being able to be tightly packed together, and thus are typically solid at room temperature. Butterfat is mostly saturated fat.

However, carbon atoms can also make a double bond with other carbon atoms. If a particular carbon atom in the chain makes a double bond with the carbon atom before it, it could cause a bend in the chain of carbon atoms. In that case, it also means that those particular carbon atoms in the chain that have formed a double bond with each other only have 1 available bond left (after also forming a separate single bond with the carbon atom before or after it), so it can only bond with one hydrogen atom. These are, therefore, called “unsaturated fats”, and because they don’t pack together easily, they are typically liquid at room temperature.

If there is a single double bond in the chain, it’s a monounsaturated fat.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/87c1297f-6dae-46a8-88e4-06f2b089baac.png

If there are two or more double bonds, it’s a polyunsaturated fat.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fe762137-b6ff-4bfe-a525-b078628431fa.png

Notice how the hydrogen atoms connected to the double-bonded carbon atoms in unsaturated fats can be connected to either the same side or the opposite sides of the two hydrogen atoms. If they’re on the same side, they are called cis-unsaturated fats. If they’re on opposite sides, they are trans-unsaturated fats, or trans fats in short.

This is oleic acid, a cis monounsaturated fat commonly found in many vegetable oils:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/87c1297f-6dae-46a8-88e4-06f2b089baac.png

While this is vaccenic acid, a trans-monounsaturated fat. It is found naturally in butter and human milk and is not particularly bad for you:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/613d2600-381d-4cc2-a39d-11590d1e8b80.png

Note that this is NOT the same picture as the one I showed for saturated fat. The 7th and 8th carbon atoms from the left are double-bonded and, therefore, are each missing a hydrogen atom. The one remaining hydrogen atom on each is bonded on opposite sides.

Note that trans-unsaturated fats are also pretty straight. This means that they can also pack together with saturated fats to make a solid product at room temperature.

“Hydrogenation” is the process of adding hydrogen to unsaturated fats to saturate them. This means that liquid oil can be processed into a solid product. That’s how margarine and shortening are made. In previous years, partially hydrogenated oils that weren’t fully hydrogenated could leave substantial quantities of trans-unsaturated fats left in the product, but after health concerns, many countries’ food safety authorities banned these artificial trans fats. Fully hydrogenated fats consist of only saturated fats since they have been “fully” hydrogenated, and that is what food manufacturers have been doing instead.

NateNate60 ,

What is the charge? For operating a messaging platform? A succulent private messaging platform?

NateNate60 ,

Not being end-to-end encrypted is meaningless to law enforcement if Telegram refuses to turn over the chat contents (which they do). Law enforcement can’t just eavesdrop on the conversation without Telegram’s cooperation. The chat contents are still secured by TLS from the user’s device to the Telegram servers.

Smart professional criminals rarely use Telegram for this stuff anyway. There’s WhatsApp and plenty of other popular platforms of end-to-end encrypted

NateNate60 ,

The source is this article.

It’s not just “technically difficult” to eavesdrop. Properly implemented, it’s computationally impossible to eavesdrop on a connection secured with TLS.

NateNate60 ,

I hope you realise that the comment you replied to is really just a reference to the Succulent Chinese Meal video.

NateNate60 ,

I thought I was commenting on a different post. Sorry about that

NateNate60 ,

I really had to run a fact check on this but it really does seem to be true.

Brains are 0.5% plastic by weight and with an average human brain mass of 1.3 kg, that means humans, on average, have 6.5 g of plastic in their brain

NateNate60 ,

The exact data is Figure 1, chart A. It seems the mean is around 4,000-5,000 μg/g, which is indeed 0.4-0.5%

NateNate60 ,

This is a legitimate concern, but I also question Mexico’s ability to adhere to those standards and administer justice correctly when El Chapo managed to give them the slip twice, even while under “maximum security”.

People suspect that this argument is not being made by Mexican authorities in good faith, and it is easy to understand why people think that.

NateNate60 ,

America doing something wrong doesn’t mean it’s okay for other countries to do that thing as well.

NateNate60 ,

No, of course not. He shouldn’t have broken the law. That will always remain wrong, and it must be if we want to enjoy an orderly rule-based society.

But at the same time… I’m glad it happened.

NateNate60 ,

Is it wrong to say that I’m glad the head of a cartel is in jail?

NateNate60 ,

I am more saying that “the ends must not be used to justify the means”.

NateNate60 ,

For what it’s worth, English Wikipedia editors reached a consensus to deprecate (ban) it for unrealiability last year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/Archive_424#RFC:_The_Crad…

The following notes are present:

The Cradle is an online magazine focusing on West Asia/Middle East-related topics. It was deprecated in the 2024 RfC due to a history of publishing conspiracy theories and wide referencing of other deprecated sources while doing so. Editors consider The Cradle to have a poor reputation for fact-checking.

NateNate60 ,

Those last three words of the headline are doing some heavy lifting here

NateNate60 ,

I’m a bit confused here; what have they got a monopoly on?

A monopoly is a business with no viable competitors. But Disney has at least one or two competitors in pretty much everything they do.

NateNate60 ,

Arbitration clauses in consumer contracts should be either illegal or opt-in (not opt-out). Arbitration is only fair when two sides mutually agree to it, not when a megacorp hides it in the 45th paragraph of their terms and conditions while judges continue to entertain the absurd fiction that it’s reasonable to expect consumers to have actually read, understood, and agreed to it.

NateNate60 ,

You’re correct. Imitating this sort of speech even outside of Twitch is essentially the meme. The joke is that streamers get so inebriated with talking to the chat that even when no chat exists in real-life they still reflectively reference it. This meme started on TikTok but it has spread into general Gen Z pop culture.

NateNate60 ,

Yes and Disney will get very mad 😠😠

Think of the shareholders!!

NateNate60 ,

For many parents, it’s quicker to pay $10 for Disney+ than to load up a torrenting site and download the torrents every time. As a former piece of shit bratty toddler, I can understand why many parents would rather pay.

NateNate60 ,

I’m honestly quite concerned that his cronies might actually succeed in stealing the election this time around.

They learned from their mistakes.

NateNate60 ,

What did the fact checker bot ever do to you?

NateNate60 ,

I wonder why you hate the fact-checkers.

NateNate60 ,

It would probably be some synthetic American government cheese-like product.

Which I’m sure if the Germans had come up with it and not the Americans would also be described as being nutritious

NateNate60 ,

“I like Apple devices because they respect my privacy”

How do you track a package where the online store only provides a download link to the shop app, not the tracking number

The confirmation page says the order is confirmed but instead of providing tracking information, it has a button that says ‘Download Shop to track package’. Obviously I’m not going to do that, but I do want to track my package....

NateNate60 ,

In the United States, if you have a FedEx or UPS account and registered your address there, whenever someone generates a label bound for your address, it will show up on a list of packages bound for your address on the account.

A similar function for USPS is Informed Delivery but this only tells you when something was delivered.

NateNate60 ,

Try couriers in your country and see if they offer a similar service

NateNate60 ,

If you can’t take the heat, get out of Ukraine.

NateNate60 ,

What’s wrong with PNG?

NateNate60 ,

I think this might sound like a weird thing to say, but technical superiority isn’t enough to make a convincing argument for adoption. There are plenty of things that are undeniably superior but yet the case for adoption is weak, mostly because (but not solely because) it would be difficult to adopt.

As an example, the French Republican Calendar (and the reformed calendar with 13 months) are both evidently superior to the Gregorian Calendar in terms of regularity but there is no case to argue for their adoption when the Gregorian calendar works well enough.

Another example—metric time. Also proposed as part of the metric system around the same time as it was just gaining ground, 100 seconds in a minute and 100 minutes in an hour definitely makes more sense than 60, but it would be ridiculous to say that we should devote resources into switching to it.

Final example—arithmetic in a dozenal (base-twelve) system is undeniably better than in decimal, but it would definitely not be worth the hassle to switch.

For similar reasons, I don’t find the case for JPEG XL compelling. Yes, it’s better in every metric, but when the difference comes down to a measly one or two megabytes compared to PNG and WEBP, most people really just don’t care enough. That isn’t to say that I think it’s worthless, and I do think there are valid use cases, but I doubt it will unseat PNG on the Internet.

NateNate60 ,

My argument is not “we have a current standard”, it’s “people don’t give enough of a shit to change”.

NateNate60 ,

And I suppose sysadmins and application developers are not people?

NateNate60 ,

Because I am a developer and I have also been a sysadmin, and I really do not care. Yes, the format is good but I’m not particularly excited for it.

NateNate60 ,

It’ll probably be replaced with sales tax increases. Sales taxes are very well-known to be regressive.

Or think of “low-tax” Texas, where every other road is privately operated and charges tolls out the ass.

NateNate60 ,

Hence why “low tax” is between quotation marks

NateNate60 ,

Rail competes with flights and driving for business. People are choosing not to take trains because it’s worse than flying or driving. If you build it to the point where it’s better than flying or driving, people will use it. Americans have no aversion to trains, they have aversions to bad service. See the Brightline projects and the Acela Express. High-speed, high-quality rail can work and be profitable in America.

Road tolls in Texas compete with being unemployed. People have no choice but to drive and pay because of Texas’s horrendous urban design.

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