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emergencyfood ,

I think they’re only including mainstream models.

emergencyfood ,

Sure, and I would prevail in a fistfight against Saitama.

emergencyfood ,

The organisers should just cut their power supply. Or disqualify the team for trying to gain an unfair advantage.

emergencyfood ,

Investment in public transport would have been better, but it’s not nothing. Hope other countries follow suit.

emergencyfood ,

Oh definitely. I was just hoping they’d spend those billions on busses, metros and, yes, HSR, instead of on EVs. Still, they’re ahead of most countries as it is.

emergencyfood ,

It’s to fight the honkai when they start appearing in our universe. (Jokes aside, a company that needs to run a lot of servers would be interested in cheap energy.)

emergencyfood ,

I can think of four possible reasons:-

  • It works on my system - We are shaped by our experiences. To someone who had their life turned around by a religious order (or a religious individual), it would make sense to follow their teachings.
  • Opium of the masses - Life is filled with suffering. It is nice to imagine that there is someone looking out for you. An afterlife free of suffering is even better.
  • Just following orders - If you want to do something, but don’t think your community will support you, it is easier if you say ‘god told me to do it’. It might also make it easier to justify the action to yourself.
  • Church of England - You don’t care much either way, but it’s too much of a hassle to leave. Plus meeting your friends and neighbours every week is fun.
emergencyfood ,

Nuclear proliferation is always bad news.

It’s a gamble. Knowing other countries can kill you personally would dissuade leaders from starting wars. Assuming no one makes a mistake, of course.

Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals?

I just don’t get it… Why is that important, especially for kids now, that feel like they need to do a YouTube video asking for a date or doing some meme stuff. Some teens even hire the hottest celebrity or ask them to appear in their prom? This is so bizarre for me, all that just for a frivolous night....

emergencyfood ,

At least you don’t expect them to undergo two training arcs, beat a kaiju in single combat and h*‎ld h*nds with their crush to graduate.

emergencyfood ,

If all scientific knowledge were to suddenly disappear and we were to start from square one, it would all reappear exactly like it is.

Three competing theories of evolution arose, independently, in our world - one from British and European scientists studying the tropics, another from Russian and US scientists studying Siberia and northern North America, and a third by a Japanese scientist studying statistics and genetics. While the current consensus in evolutionary biology is that all three are true (at different timescales), the vast majority of people (and even other scientists) only know the first. This is partly because Darwin got there first, and partly because a lot of powerful people benefit from spreading social Darwinist woo.

Ironically, in a post-apocalyptic world, the powers that be would probably support the symbiotic theory, with Darwinism frowned upon as selfish individualism.

however the process of science will ensure that the truth comes to light eventually.

As Keynes said, in the long term we are all dead. Science is probably the best tool we currently have to find the truth (assuming there is a truth), but it is always important to remember that it is produced by humans, funded by interests and (mostly, though this is changing) published by for-profit journals. When reading a paper, always read the conflict of interest and funding details, and hope the authors are being honest.

emergencyfood ,

What a shitty article. Open access articles - particularly combined with open data and transparent data analysis pipelines - are the gold standard. Does the author not know the difference between an open access journal and a predatory journal, or is this some hit piece by Elsevier et al?

emergencyfood ,

Congrats to them!

What does the world think of India?

I am an Indian and I have noticed that Indians are way too proud of their country for some reason and at the same time lack any civic sense towards it, they are extremely loud and extremely proud. We feel like the world revolves around India and our culture is superior to that of others. Also, a considerable chunk of the...

emergencyfood ,

I still feel nervous about a regional nuclear war* between you and Pakistan or a land war with China, particularly as the region dries out.

Neither will happen. Both our politicians and Pakistani generals love sabre-rattling. Both also love their wealth and status too much to do anything stupid. And while China can really hurt us in a potential war, they can do at least as much damage by stopping exports to us.

emergencyfood ,

On paper, India has a lot of protections for transgender people (including reservations in many government jobs). Enforcement is another question.

emergencyfood ,

Even though they’re big into tech, it comes across to me that the government and general population is still stuck in the mid 90’s regarding devices (pc’s etc, smartphones excluded).

India is big in software. Hardware has to be imported from China / Korea / Taiwan, and we have to pay them what they demand.

Who is the IDF general who ordered tank fire on a kibbutz home with 13 hostages inside? (www.haaretz.com)

Until she was taken out of the house, Porat identified nine living hostages. She wasn’t a witness to the close-range shooting of any of the hostages, or to any of them being hit in the exchange of fire. “I didn’t see anyone execute anyone,” she says. “I didn’t see a body.” That is compatible with what Hadas Dagan...

emergencyfood ,

Khorne does not care whose blood flows, as long as it flows, etc.

Hope Israelis can elect a rational government next time and hold these war criminals to account.

emergencyfood ,

Well they refused to help when Azerbaijan invaded.

emergencyfood ,

If I remember correctly, the Polynesians went there from South America, not the other way around.

emergencyfood ,

But Taiwan to Polynesia is upcurrent, while South America to Polynesia is downcurrent. How would you go thousands of kilometers against the current without modern technology?

emergencyfood ,

More like an apples to windows comparison.

emergencyfood ,

I have a low opinion of militaries in general, but killing thousands of people to make your opponent look bad is a new low.

emergencyfood ,

Yep. But even a closed-source CPU is good if it makes the architecture more mainstream.

emergencyfood ,

This partixular boycott is misaimed and pointless. Science and culture belong to the world, not to any country. By all means boycott research with military applications, or individuals who work alongside the IDF or other violent groups, but what’s the point in boycotting research on medicine or water purification?

emergencyfood ,

I guess they’re trying to erase Palestinian culture? But why should scientists behave like IDF goons?

emergencyfood ,

BRICS is a trading bloc, not a military alliance. The resolution is aimed at promoting peace and international trade, not deciding who’s right in a European conflict. Not saying reconciliation and reparations aren’t important, but they can be discussed after the killings have stopped.

emergencyfood OP ,

Look at the party affiliations of the winner and runner-up.

emergencyfood OP ,

Ah, I see. India has the Communist Party of India, the CPI (Marxist), the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, the Communist Marxist Party, and the CMP-A, the Revolutionary Marxist Party, and an even greater number of socialist parties. They have aligned with and against each other through the ages, but I just posted this combination because I found it while going through last week’s election results and found it funny.

emergencyfood OP ,

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emergencyfood ,

There are no ads on Lemmy anyway. Why are you being asked to pay for that?

Ruling party loses absolute majority in elections to the Indian Parliament, but likely to form government with support of allies (www.thehindu.com)

Preliminary results for the 2024 Indian General election suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to lose its absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament. However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is projected to cross the halfway mark. The opposition INDIA alliance is projected to more than double...

emergencyfood OP ,

Party projections based on current leads

(alliance in brackets - N for NDA (government), U for INDIA (opposition), I for independent)

National Parties:

  • The Bharatiya Janata Party (N) is expected to lose around 60 of its 303 seats, finishing with around 240 seats.
  • The Indian National Congress (U) is expected to nearly double its current tally of 52, finishing just under 100 seats.
  • The Communist Party of India - Marxist (U) is expected to pick up one more seat, going from 3 to 4.
  • The Aam Aadmi Party (U) is expected to pick up two more seats, from 1 to 3.
  • The Bahujan Samaj Party (I) and the National People’s Party (I) are expected to win no seats.

Major Regional Parties

  • Samajwadi Party (U) 5 -> 38 (+33)
  • Trinamool Congress (I) 22 -> 29 (+7)
  • Dravida Munneta Kazhakam (U) 24 -> 22 (-2)
  • Telegu Desam Party (N) 3 -> 16 (+13)
  • Janata Dal United (N) 16 -> 12 (-4)
emergencyfood OP , (edited )

Regional Trends:

North India

  • The opposition alliance is projected to win a narrow majority of seats in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. Previously, the NDA had 64 out of the state’s 80 seats.
  • The NDA is successfully defending all seats in Delhi, Uttarkhand and Himachal Pradesh, but has lost seats in Haryana.
  • The contest in Punjab is between two opposition parties, with the Congress holding a narrow lead over the AAP.
  • In Jammu and Kashmir, the NDA and INDIA are leading in two seats each, with an independent candidate taking the final seat. Ladakh, too, has an independent taking the lead.

West India

  • The NDA is successfully defending almost all seats in Madhya Pradesh and Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat.
  • The opposition is winning Maharashtra from the NDA, and making gains in Rajasthan.

East India

  • The NDA has retained most seats in Bihar and Chattisgarh, but is losing some seats in Jharkhand.
  • Both the NDA and the INDIA have failed to make inroads into West Bengal, where the Trinamool Congress holds its ground.
  • The NDA has swept Odisha, previously ruled by the BJD, a regional party.
  • Results in the north-east are mixed, with the NDA holding the plains and regional parties and INDIA making gains in the hill states.
  • In particular, the opposition is leading in both seats in Manipur, which went through ethnic violence over the last year.

South India

  • The NDA has retained its majority in Karnataka, won Andhra Pradesh from the neutral YSRCP, and made inroads into Telangana (at the expense of the neutral BRS).
  • The opposition retained all but one seat in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and made inroads into Karnataka and Telangana.
emergencyfood OP ,

Unless the NDA fall short of a majority, would independents even matter that much? It might send a bad signal regarding violence in politics, but that’s about it.

emergencyfood ,

Wikipedia defines capitalism as an ‘economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit’. In contrast, communism involves ‘common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products … based on need’. The ‘means of production’ here refer to property that can be used to produce goods, and ultimately, wealth. Factories are the usual example.

I must point out, however, that the meanings of these words change over time and place. Also note that it was the Marxists who popularised these two terms; to quote Wikipedia, ‘scholars who are uncritical of capitalism rarely actually use the term capitalism’.

Best way to backup files

I have about 500GB of data (photos, documents, videos etc.) that I have accumulated over the years. Currently, I keep them on my computer and rsync all additions / changes once a month or so to an external hard drive. Do I need to be worried about data loss (sectors going bad, bit rot, bit flip, whatever it is called)?...

emergencyfood OP ,

6$ is about 500 rupees. I can get another HDD for double that price.

I do copy some important files to Google Drive, but I don’t pay for it, and I don’t rely on it.

emergencyfood OP ,

Thank you. On that note, when backing up, is there a way to compare the two versions, see if one has become corrupted, and copy the good version to both? It would be sad if your primary copy got corrupted, and you overwrote all other copies with it.

emergencyfood OP ,

So which filesystems are better for archiving?

emergencyfood OP ,

My external HD is working well, but the computer’s HD seems to be of poor quality. I’m worried that once the primary copy gets corrupted, the mistakes will then be copied to the external HD as well. (Although if I understand rsync correctly, this shouldn’t happen.)

emergencyfood OP ,

Right, which is why I prefer to rely on local backups. Much cheaper in the long run.

emergencyfood ,

Jaguars live in South America. Gorillas live in Africa. Even gorilla vs lion is very unlikely, since (most) gorillas live in the rainforest and African lions live in the savanna.

emergencyfood ,

Leopards do attack gorillas, and they probably kill babies. But a leopard weighs, on average, about half as much as an adult gorilla, so attacks on adults might not be that common.

emergencyfood ,

Ancient China did have a lot of Central Asian and Turkic white people. Red hair, blue eyes and all. They just weren’t European whites.

Exit polls say ruling NDA expected to retain majority in Indian Parliamentary elections. (www.thehindu.com)

Following the last day of voting for the 2024 Indian Parliamentary elections, exit polls predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance would retain its majority, winning 340 - 401 seats compared to 353 in 2019. The main opposition INDIA alliance was expected to win 109 - 169 seats, up from 91 in...

emergencyfood ,

Oh so that’s why South Korea’s birth rate is plummeting. It all makes sense now.

emergencyfood ,

I mean, saying a model is cheaper than the latest iPhone is like saying Teslas are cheaper than Mercedes-Benz.

emergencyfood ,

How does the battery having a short daily life get the user to buy more? If anything, won’t it give the company a bad name?

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