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Xenia wouldn't suggest that :c (lemmy.world)

please don’t harrass or insult that website, but I recently browsed that website because I wanted to get a wallpaper, but then I realized the top bar was saying “Xenia suggests you get Firefox”, wait what?? She wouldn’t suggest that first of all, second, this means that the website knows if you are using Google or...

infinipurple ,

You are utterly delusional.

How did living in caves not backfire on cavemen?

I have a lot of indirect experience/knowledge with caves. I don’t have to be one of the people who directly explored one to know one of the first things one learns about caves is how ill-suited for wandering around they are. Slopes can change on a dime, it’s incredibly rocky inside, and they fill with whatever falls from the...

infinipurple ,

It might be that you have a mistaken view of cave dwelling.

Most such settlements only used relatively shallow rock-face caves, which eliminates the majority of your listed risks.

Without reliable light sources, you’ll appreciate that people weren’t delving kilometers deep into the ground. Caves were simply a way to protect from the elements and to provide a choke point to better defend against wild creatures.

infinipurple ,

Wars are won (and lost) as a result of supply chain logistics.

One of the most important elements of the war machine is a well-fed and well-equipped soldier. As such, most armies have dedicated logistics divisions to ensure supplies, weapons, and machinery get to where they are needed on time.

Consequently, supply chain interdiction or disruption is a powerful weapon of war. To interfere with your enemy’s logistical operations is to reduce the overall effectiveness of their combatants and thus their strategy.

Modern-day Russia was not prepared for this war to last as long as it has, their commanding officers have little regard for their soldiers, and they’ve historically had poor logistics to begin with.

This makes it easy to disrupt their supply chains, if they were even set up in the first place. Add this to tribalist infighting and a general lack of cohesion and you end up with people going hungry.

infinipurple ,

Worth £10.98 lmao how arbitrary

infinipurple ,

Can’t believe that’s the pricing these days. Good grief, the poor tax is real…

infinipurple ,

Do you?

infinipurple ,

Taking my son to the zoo tomorrow! Don’t think he’s going to get any sleep tonight, he’s so excited, bless him 😅

infinipurple ,

Oh you 😅

infinipurple ,

Ah, to be able to read lmao

infinipurple OP ,

Thought a discussion on this might be interesting. Unity may be signing their death but the decisions will have an impact on lots of studios and games in the meantime.

Not really sure what to do with this particular one myself. I’ve been really looking forward to Hometopia but this is a difficult pill to swallow for a game that proudly stated it would “always be free-to-play”.

infinipurple OP ,

I agree, Unity’s aggressive monetisation encourages devs/publishers to do the same. Tbf, the guy behind it all has been quoted saying that anyone who doesn’t aggressively monetise their game is an idiot…

infinipurple OP ,

It’s a huge jump. Difficult to compare it to a game on another platform though.

infinipurple ,

Can’t speak to any others, but ElementaryOS runs great on my MacBook Pro.

infinipurple ,

PowerToys is the way.

infinipurple ,

This is absolutely fascinating. I can’t even.

infinipurple ,

One of my schools didn’t have a dress code in the way you imagine it. There were rules, but only in the broadest sense (no nudity and such). A kimono would not have been considered to be in violation.

infinipurple ,

Studies show that wind turbines kill a fraction of a percentage of the total bird population. Not ideal, but ultimately negligible.

infinipurple ,

PowerToys is very much live and available for download. I use it daily.

infinipurple ,

Growth is slowing. That doesn’t mean total availability is not increasing, but that it’s increasing at a lesser rate.

Do they not teach reading comprehension anymore?

infinipurple ,

So, nuclear waste is undeniably a problem,but the reality is that most of it is low-level and not that difficult to dispose of.

Other industries have much worse by-products that are more costly and challenging to dispose of. Many mineral extraction chains produce far more toxic hazardous waste than nuclear power does. Heavy industry deals with chemicals significantly more toxic and dangerous to humans.

It’s easy to be scared and to drum up fear of nuclear waste due to its longevity. That fear shouldn’t be dismissed, we do need secure facilities for high-level nuclear waste—but that type accounts for about 3% of all nuclear waste and is currently being safely disposed of in deep-level purpose-built facilities.

A far greater risk of exposure and contamination exists from any number of ongoing industrial processes—a single processing plant failure (on almost any production chain) is liable to release more toxic material into the environment and result in a greater impact on human and animal life than any risk from nuclear waste.

infinipurple ,

Okay, so, I appreciate the discussion, but I have to address your comment as it is plainly disingenuous.

  • Finland is, indeed, the only country with an currently operational deep-level storage facility. But several other such facilities are in active development across the globe. These are long-term storage facilities and their design and installation naturally takes time. Nuclear is still young, but the solutions are being worked on—the only thing hindering it is people like you who attempt to sabotage the industry and then claim it isn’t up to scratch.
  • You claim “the facility will be finished in a hundred years and only contain the waste of a single Nuclear (sic) power plant”. This is a carefully-worded lie. The facility will begin storing nuclear waste this year and continue to store waste from all five of Finland’s nuclear reactors for the entire length of their life cycles, which is indeed about 100 years.
  • The cost is a difficult one and can only be assessed in the context of all ongoing costs to produce nuclear power. However, the International Energy Agency’s ongoing assessment of the Levellised Costs Of Electricity—which takes into account all cost inputs for power generation of any type, from mineral extraction to ongoing maintenance, to waste storage—shows that nuclear is the low-carbon technology with the lowest costs overall.
  • The reason that Germany doesn’t have concrete plans for long-term nuclear waste storage is due to years of undermining attacks on the technology from fossil fuel lobbies and oddly similar ‘Green Party’ voices. To say that a technology cannot work or isn’t viable because the opponents of said technology have successfully sabotaged it is incredibly disingenuous and deeply malicious.
  • You cannot claim that the issues of any sector of energy generation are “solved politically”, nor can you claim that their “funding is secured with certainty”. Again, to claim a technology isn’t viable because you don’t want it to be and you’re helping to undermine its development isn’t a good argument. Nuclear power technology continues to advance at a rapid rate and will continue to do so providing it receives the necessary support and funding. The same goes for any emergent technology.

Your entire comment is full of the things you claim that the proponents of nuclear energy put forward. You are skewing the facts in an attempt to favour a sensationalist argument that convinces those less educated in the technology that it is scary and dangerous—which extensive research demonstrates to be untrue.

The reality is that renewable energy is unpredictable and best suited to flexible generation. Please do not misunderstand me, I fully support the development of all renewable technologies. However, when we wean ourselves of fossil fuels, we will need new baseload power plants. Nuclear is currently the best option to provide stable baseload generation.

infinipurple ,

What a roller-coaster. Glad you are free of that nonsense.

infinipurple ,

Critical thinking is a lost skill, it seems.

infinipurple ,

🎯🎯🎯

infinipurple ,

Same here. I find that those with no critical thinking skills are quick to say ‘oh you just can’t stand to be wrong’–no! I have the self-respect to educate myself and not spread misinformation.

infinipurple ,

What a hot and plainly idiotic take.

If you’re not shilling for the Russians, you’re certainly dense as fuck.

infinipurple ,

Ah yes, the classic take: your anecdotal experience is conclusive evidence.

infinipurple ,

That’s so exciting! Hope you have a blast!

infinipurple ,

! Live your best life! !<

infinipurple ,

lmao good luck!

infinipurple ,

Hope you can still enjoy the trip. P Some people change though… and some don’t. Might just mean you need a new friend group.

infinipurple ,

That’s awesome, I’m really happy for you!

infinipurple ,

What an idiotic take. A good government is elected by the people and directed by them to make decisions in their favour. Of course it is the government’s role to protect its population from dangerous food additives.

infinipurple ,

That’s actually very interesting and reassuring. Thank you very much indeed for the insight–I can continue to use Proton in peace.

infinipurple ,

Well, yes, but the reality is that the crowd-sourced aspect of it is what protects you. But you’re right, there’s always an element of risk!

infinipurple ,

Yeah, I’m inclined to agree. She didn’t set any limits and told them to do what they wanted to her. Amazing it wasn’t worse in the end.

infinipurple ,

Yeah, that’s pretty much the point of this sort of endurance art.

infinipurple ,

I don’t believe it was, not for the original performance. Or have I misunderstood that?

infinipurple ,

Because when you invite someone over, there’s the additional context that they are your guest and should behave as such.

During this performance art piece, that additional context does not exist. The only context is that provided by the artist, which did not set such limits.

infinipurple ,

Oh, 100%. In any other context, consent is–or should be–an ongoing event. I’m just not sure that applies in the context of endurance art.

infinipurple ,

Yeah, that’s how I understood it too.

infinipurple ,

Bless you.

infinipurple ,

Art’s raison-d’être is to challenge ethical and moral preconceptions. You seem to have missed the core value of this performance.

Immoral art can’t hurt you, the viewer. It’s supposed to make you feel emotional. You should have the emotional intelligence to question those feelings and come to an understanding of why the art in question made you feel that way.

Marina went through the effort and hassle of putting on this piece, and yet still its purpose has completely eluded you.

infinipurple ,

Absolutely. The number of people in the comments who have missed the whole point of this piece is staggering.

It’s performative endurance art. Marina was very much hoping and intending to make a statement on the human condition and the flexible limits of our morality. The audience played their part perfectly.

I know that some of you are outraged at the whole thing, but remember that art can’t hurt you, the viewer. Art is supposed to make you feel things. And subsequently, you should have sufficient emotional intelligence to analyse and challenge those emotions and the ethical and moral preconceptions they stem from.

infinipurple ,

You’re missing the point entirely. It’s supposed to make you feel emotional, and to give you the opportunity to challenge those feelings and understand where those emotions are rooted.

Art is all about challenging your preconceptions, and yet you can’t seem to get over your preconception that art itself is worthless lmao

infinipurple ,

I don’t think you have to worry about that ☺️

infinipurple ,

Talk about irrelevant, good grief.

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