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fosforus

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politics: green/libertarian

geo: anti-r***ia, anti-religious extremism, anti-fascist, anti-trump

gaming since 1986

linuxing since 1996

psych: drinking too much coffee, wasting too much time and energy in here

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fosforus ,

UEFI is such a disaster. I still sometimes use legacy boot and notice that I miss none of the features UEFI gives me. And still I go for UEFI because it’s shiny and new. Guess I’m a disaster too.

fosforus ,

Weeellll, shit. Thanks for the info.

fosforus ,

As a general supporter of Israel’s fight against Hamas: this is fine. Fuck those asshole settlers with a rusty crowbar.

fosforus ,

Ukraine just needs to let them come.

I think they’re not stopping volunteers. Integrating them into the military is a challenge of its own though, they’re not just Civilization army units that you can move around and they’ll behave like any other units.

fosforus OP ,

China attacking Taiwan would cover that side of the planet pretty nicely, I think. They haven’t done that yet, right?

fosforus OP ,

Holding a “referendum” (95% voting as the ruler wants), mobilizing army, … I don’t know. Doesn’t look good. Yeah, USA should be able to wipe them out pretty easily, unless they have some sort of a deeper plan there.

fosforus OP ,

Cool, cool.

fosforus OP ,

Israel is not apartheid, and it’s obviously not committing genocide. Hamas is for genocide.

fosforus OP ,

They are bombing Hamas terrorists, their enemy, not refugees. You must remember that Hamas fighters and civilians look exactly the same, and they deliberately lurk among the civilians. This is obviously not genocide.

I’ll give you a hint in form of a question that may lead you towards the truth: What happens to the amount of population in a genocide?

fosforus OP ,

Consider the question, dude. What happens to the population in a genocide?

fosforus OP ,

I’m guessing you’re gonna say that there is no genocide if not all or most of the people are killed, because then their people have survived. But, genocide also incorporates cultural genocide.

No, I’m saying that population doesn’t grow during a genocide.

That’s the fate the Israeli state wants for Palestine. It is still technically genocide.

But… Palestinian Arabs are >20% of the population of Israel. You’re making absolutely no sense.

fosforus OP ,

Does it really sound like that? Should you perhaps try to steelman my argument in your head?

fosforus OP ,

I feel like there’s some weird context here. Why does Stefanik want to get that “yes” and why are they reluctant to say it? Would it be a declaration of some university policy that would lead to suppressing the demonstrations or what?

fosforus OP ,

Yup, head in the sand. That works.

fosforus ,

I mean you might be right that it’s currently quite a lot worse, but in the recent past, their fertility rate has been way above death rate, every year since 1970:

worldometers.info/…/state-of-palestine-population…

This is the reason why their median age is so low.

And their life expectancy has been around 73 years, which puts them at /201.

www.worldometers.info/…/life-expectancy/…

fosforus , (edited )

USA has roughly 15 million vacant homes currently. If this company manages to fill some of them with people, that means there’ll be fewer vacant homes. Obvious net benefit for all.

edit I guess you guys enjoy that there are homeless people then

fosforus ,

How do you think businesses work? By pricing the things they are selling out of reach of consumers?

How much money does a corporation make by just owning a house? I think it’s not as much as renting it.

fosforus , (edited )

No, that’s not any of this works. In a free market, it’s entirely possible (and often the case) that both the rich fucks and everyone else benefit.

I recommend Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell and also Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee.

edit Based on the voting response, I guess I should have suggested something from Dr. Seuss first.

fosforus ,

Are you saying that the rich fucks who are buying up housing stock will make them accessible to the houseless population of America?

No, that’s not what I’m saying.

fosforus ,

That is true. Protecting the free market is one of the few legitimate roles of the government.

fosforus , (edited )

Lol please go read those books so you can stop being so ignorant.

fosforus ,

It increases the overall supply, brings more resources and stability to the housing market. Corporations that specialize in house rental have a opportunity to view market data. All this combined benefits everybody.

fosforus ,

Fuck Discord. It stole entire communities from us. It is the opposite of privacy. And, subjectively, their client applications are just a horrible mess.

fosforus ,

Supposedly by providing a better service than the existing tools :-| I don’t personally how it is better, but obviously lots of people did.

fosforus ,

In what system would the homeless people sleep their nights in bed stores?

The scarcity isn’t primarily the beds. The scarcity is where to put the beds, which is perhaps artificially upheld by zoning laws and other governmental shenanigans.

fosforus ,

I don’t think the beds are the problem. Housing a single person takes much more resources than just a single bed. Those resources are scarce.

fosforus ,

Is the guy in the picture employed?

fosforus ,

There are some capitalist countries that have a pretty low number of homeless people. Finland, for instance: 3,686 in 2022 (0,07% of whole population). So yeah, perhaps USA could do a lot better in this, but also being capitalist doesn’t really correlate with this.

Then again, could be that the reason for the low number of homeless people in Finland is that you don’t survive the winter if you’re homeless in Finland.

fosforus ,

Do you think the homeless need our empathy or do they need something else?

fosforus ,

Would this homeless person have a home if the bed store didn’t exist? Or what is the actual alternative that you’re looking for?

If you give away the beds, the bed store does not exist, and people who can afford beds wouldn’t be buying beds. Then the people who might have worked in the bed store don’t have jobs and they perhaps are also sleeping on the street.

fosforus ,

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/6ed25f17-a5b2-4356-80d1-4a4dc1c0f643.png

But perhaps China is indeed Capitalist.

fosforus ,

You’d be surprised by how far just caring can go. And by that, I mean genuinely, empathically, caring.

Depends a lot on who is doing the caring. For instance, if a homeless person has infinite empathy towards another one, not a lot will happen. If a particurarily unskilled politician has a lot of empathy, what they do with it might be a net negative.

So I kinda disagree with the sentiment here. Empathy alone does about as much as thoughts and prayers. Empathy isn’t even required in order to help a lot of people. You can be the driest, most temperature-room person on the planet and do good things.

fosforus ,

Finland’s version of capitalism is in another universe compared to North American capitalism.

Yeah, quite a lot more capitalistic: www.heritage.org/index/ranking

Finland had UBI

We have never had UBI. Only some local experiments that have ended now. Other things you said are correct though.

fosforus ,

That was indeed a mistake in many levels. Nevertheless, China is responsible of China’s pollution output, nobody else. Unlike you seem to imply, the chinese are not unthinking animals, but regular people – with even higher than average IQ compared to west according to some studies. They were perfectly capable of making good decisions instead of bad ones.

And in fact, they seem to be in the process of making such good decisions now. The Economist believes that their CO2 levels will peak this year and start to go down in the near future due to China’s investments in clean energy.

economist.com/…/will-china-save-the-planet-or-des…

fosforus ,

I think it’s slightly insulting towards chinese people to think as you imply that they’re unthinking animals who are completely guided by what the west does. They are smart human beings just like everyone else (or smarter if you believe some IQ studies), so they should be able to make responsible decisions.

And as I point out in another reply, they seem to be in process of making good decisions right now. This has a good chance of absolving their guilt if they keep progressing like that.

fosforus , (edited )

His 18-year old sister was murdered by an african-american serial killer in 1975. Perhaps that did something for his political position.

Still a bit weird to be pro-Trump after his attempted insurrection. But that’s tribalism for you.

fosforus ,

Yeah, it’s pretty crap. Are there any reboots that have the original cast and weren’t just plain horrible? I’m thinking Matrix 4, but that worked because it was a parody of itself.

fosforus ,

Jokingly votes for an actual terrorist, wasting their vote – calls people traitors. What a Lemmy moment.

fosforus ,

Star Trek

And they mostly ruined that too.

fosforus , (edited )

Ethereum transactions are claimed to use about 1-22 Wh per transaction. Not sure where the wide range comes from, but at least it’s quite a lot better then Bitcoin’s ~700-2000kWh per transaction. Ethereum is comparable to how much a credit card transaction is said to spend, although those figures only take into account power needed for their computer systems. Blockchain currencies replace a lot more infrastructure than just the computer systems, so I think it’s reasonable to say that Eth2 is more energy efficient than credit cards.

That’s not enough to make it a replacement for credit cards yet, but it’s a good lowest of the low barriers to be crossed to qualify as a replacement.

In a few years, we’ll probably be spending a huge amount of power for AI also, and there doesn’t seem to be any Proof-of-Stake -like technology to help with that. Good times.

fosforus ,

Indeed, sir.

fosforus ,

They also bought Michelle Obama and Duke&Duchess of Essex as podcasters. Not saying these are equivalent to Rogan, just that they seem to be burning money on things that has nothing to do with music. And I’m very much not a fan of fucking up podcasts as a simple medium delivered by RSS. I have a futile hope that that decision will burn them.

fosforus ,

They reported a 65m profit on the quarter before these layoffs. I don’t think they’re going bankrupt unless this last quarter has been a disaster for them.

fosforus ,

Tidal seems to be a fine alternative.

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