Water usage is probably my biggest. Living in a high desert, my wife and MIL see no problem with filling one side of the sink with hot soapy water to wash a few dishes because “that’s just how I’ve always done it”, to watering the grass and plants for hours. All of this makes me mental.
Everyone deserves health care. And a decent place to live. Even people without jobs!
Everyone deserves health care.
Even people who don’t live in your country? Because that’s going to be a strain on your healthcare system.
Yes, yes, it’s a nice ideal, but when the rubber meets the road, shit can hit the fan, which means healthcare for the FIFO, and the rich.
If it’s “everyone in my circle deserves healthcare”, then it’s very realistic. “Everyone in my country” might even work as well. “Everyone in the world deserves healthcare in my country” not so much.
there is literally no possible usecase for Generative AI, it is modern day snake oil. nothing could possibly justify adding yet another “technology” to the list of existing tech that is already scorching our earth and enslaving people. it was created by the CIA to bolster the surveillance state and i have considerably less respect for someone when i find out that they use it for any reason at all.
there is literally no possible usecase for Generative AI
Demonstrably false: GenCast, a Diffusion model (and thus GenAI), is freely available here as source code to train it yourself if you so wish. ERA5 data is free to download.
It’s cheaper and more accurate in both result and resolution to run a classic Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model.
I will fully agree that all the slop that’s being generated is shite and a waste of time though.
Religious people are one the biggest reasons as to why we are where we are today. Anyone that tries to “respect” these delusions are also culpable. It’s the best invention to sedate the masses in their cage since sliced manna.
How do you explain to yourself that religious and spiritual people are the drivers of mainstream politics and new political ideologies, while atheists/modernists/disenchanted are pretty much either irrelevant or clinging desperately to their position of vaning power, paralyzed, and often depressed?
The average person is dumber and more arrogant than we usually give them credit for.
LED headlights can fuck right off, and if you defend them then you are either an asshole or a dumbass who couldn’t think about it for twenty seconds and see the impact.
You can buy night glasses to help with this bullshit. They don’t reduce the shine so much but they stop you from being blinded after being hit in the face with what is bright even for high beams.
In Homestuck, there’s a hill that if you die on it you wake up as a demigod
So yeah, I think that’s the one for me
Just in response to your annoyance, I have found women ive been around tend to have more of a “fuck other people and the climate” attitude than most of the guys (its usually not that abrasive, just more of a “why wouldn’t I water my grass? We have the water” attitude). Especially if there’s kids, they dont care about anything else (that’s just biology I guess). Please dont take this as sexist, it is just something ive observed.
I get very annoyed with people wasting unnessesarily and using amazon.
my favorite is the ‘love to travel’ types. point out that their trips to antarctic are toxic for the environment there and they lose it on you. because cute pics with penguins are worth it!
Yeah that is unfortunate. I like traveling too but usually drive. No matter what you do travelling is bad for climate.
What really pisses me off is asshole tourists who litter or otherwise make nature unenjoyable (massive douche hiking while blaring annoying music out of a Bluetooth pill)
Then again billionaires fly their jets to work every day and burn up millions of kwh daily for their 5 properties they own. So I think we can have a couple travel vacations a year.
Neil Postman was right.
Our educational models and methods are changing for the worse.
TV and the internet are terrible mediums for public or political discourse and this has exacerbated many of our existing issues.
Our culture has become more shallow and has started to lack something profound because of how we utilize technology for education, business, and entertainment.
Things will not improve until we change our relationship with these technologies.
EDIT: several words.
Fuck AI.
People should be able to transfer their vote of their first preference didn’t win. Sorry democrats, being forced to vote for you isnt democracy.
Mathematical Problems with Winner-Takes-All Voting Systems.
I’m Dutch; I can vote for 16 different parties or so… None of those represent me well, and the one I’m voting for never wins anywhere close :(
J. Posadas was probably right about building communism after a nuclear war.
From what I see, my people would rather starve to death under their familiar oppressive regime than to organize a communist revolution.
I can’t blame them though. We are in a geography where there is no politic and economic stability.
ALL information, except what you can hold in your brain, should be 100% public, with no limits on use.
An unimaginable concept right now, but I think it is essential if we hope to ever trust each other and achieve global peace.
ALL information, except what you can hold in your brain,
Nice try, FBI - you are NOT getting your grubby little hands on my passwords!
Then artists could not create anything as a job.
They certainly could. Authenticity and originality become what is valued. Everything being public means you will know who is the original.
No, because if the information is public domain, then anyone can freely copy and redistribute it. Nobody could incent anything, because as soon as you do, its public, and anyone can copy it. Nobody could create unique software, because anyone could copy it.
If an artist or creator has a unique original idea, then in your system, it is automatically public, and free for anyone to copy and redistribute.
Nobody will give a shit who the original is, if they can get the exact same thing for cheap or for free.
In the 90s, everyone knew who the original artists for music was. They still all downloaded it for free, because they could, and it was not even legal.
So, i’m afraid you’re living in a fantasy world with this idea.
Intellectual property is important. But, I think it is too highly enforced in some cases and not enough in others. For example, I believe it should be the law that anyone could make an operating system fully compatible with windows, and that windows should be force to provide all information to allow that, as otherwise they have an unjust monopoly.
There are other cases like that, like, I believe every nation should make it mandatory that all social media algorithms are publicly declared, able to be copied, and able to be tested to make sure the declared algorithm is correct. This way they cant be biased to brainwash people.
But your idea goes too far, as it completely.destroys anybody’s ability to make profit off ideas.
The result will be that people keep ideas to themselves.
I’ll take your RSA encryption keys, thanks
That is redundant. Everything would be public.
There is no need for you to know my browsing history or my medical history.
I promise my journal really isn’t that interesting
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Spaceships for everybody.
The Sound of Music is not a Christmas movie.
My wife and her family and a whole bunch of Canadians all think it is and I am so flummoxed by it.
I’ll stand over here on my hill and say that Return to Oz IS a Christmas movie.
I love that movie but it’s the first time I’m hearing it being referred to as a Christmas movie. Iirc there isn’t even any Christmas celebration in it?
no!! It takes place around the Salzburg festival which is in…July I think?
Is the first Rambo movie a Christmas movie?
People who believe in any religion are the same as dormant terrorist cells. One can have perfectly formal relationships with them on a daily basis, but given the right conditions, they become a huge, possibly lethal, risk.
Agreed. The amount of down votes you’re receiving shows that, even on lemmy, >25% of users have an immediate and ingrained distaste to others sharing the thought that religion can be dangerous. The religious hold their own religion in such high regards, not realizing that, for the most part, they were never given a choice of which religion, let alone the choice to not be religious at all.
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion” - Steven Weinberg
I wonder how many of the people who downvote me have people in their family who will be sent to die in Iran for the lunacy of a bunch of Christians excited for Armageddon.
consider antivaxxer parents that stick with their beliefs despite their children who died of easily preventable diseases to find your answers.
That really happens there? My god. Well, after all priests come in many different uniforms. Sometimes even sounding like a screeching cabinet like RFK Jr.
That really happens there? My god.
some part of me wants to live in your world for this; i assumed that everyone knew that this was the case since it’s on cnn/bbc/al jazeera/rt/etc.
