But pushing for more renewables can also be a way to stop fascism. Those texan oil barons are funding Trump exactly because they want to keep their business. Putin is funding all those right wing parties because he wants to keep selling gas. And the Saudis, Qataris and other dictators are also not to keen on not selling oil and gas.
I’m sceptical. Even if somebody would present a working fusion reactor today, what would the timeline to replace everything based on fossil fuels even be? Build several thousand of expensive fusion reactors in every country of the world, even in geopolitical rivals like China, Russia or North Korea or war-torn third world countries? Replace every car with an electrical one? Replace home heating everywhere? Rebuild every ship and airplane worldwide?
Seeding is something to help your fellow pirates. You donate your bandwidth to help them get their files. It’s totally in character for meta to just leech everything, take stuff, not give back anything and then to run to the bank laughing
They are getting downvoted, because they are obviously wrong. Of course the government is “creating” the money. But it can’t just print money and spend it. Countless governments tried it and it always led to hyperinflation - and therefore the budget of course has to come from taxes
For everybody, who hasn’t that much of paperwork: I’m kind of doing the same, but without barcode stickers. Just scan the document into paperless and then stick it in a box or a folder. If you need the physical document sometimes in the future (which you won’t), paperless of course has the date of the scan / date of the document available. It then it quite easy to take your chronolocical sorted documents and find the one that came in on 2023-04-14
Which is kind of crazy, if you think about it: The federal budget is coming from taxes. So the deal is that Trump is destroying valuable services of federal institutions and only 20% of the “savings” are getting passed on? While normal people will have to pay for stuff like the weather forecast?
It is nostalgia. As the article correctly describes: If you just want your physical copy, the humble Audio CD is where it’s at. Every other audio format is worse. I also collect vinyls, but that really is not about the audio quality and if they weren’t so unspectacular, collecting CDs would make more sense
Netflix is creating shows for distracted viewers, Spotify is creating “ghost artists” to stuff playlists nobody is actively listening to, writers writing books nobody is reading and podcasts are produced that are downloaded and never listened to. Great.
Money absolutely would help and I wish the EU would put additional funding into this.
Not only the EU. Let’s be honest: curl is used at Google, Meta, Apple and every other tech company. There is no reason why the EU should be the only entity funding them. Just funnel some of those tens of billions of revenue every quarter into the software that is essential to run your business.
Just to give you the perspective from Germany: Reagan is viewed as an idiot, everybody forgot about Bush Senior, people kind of loved Clinton, viewed GWB as an idiot and warmonger, Obama is seen as a great guy and Binden was also not viewed negatively by most people. Trump, however, is seen as the dangerous clown that he is.
I would like to have a PSION as a portable writerdeck, but they are surprisingly expensive. Used ones can fetch 100€+
Just be patient. Those new GPUs are so new, expensive and rare that no game has them as target hardware. Stay on your current setup and wait until games are catching up and prices go down.
It’s not really unfixable. Square Enix just doesn’t want to spend the money to update an older mobile game
Even if you’re capturing carbon - the average American is producing ~14 tons of CO2 per year. That is quite a lot to store if you have captured it.
Let’s be honest - this will kill many subreddits. Of course some mods will start a paid subreddit next to an existing one and try to bring their users to subscribe. So expect those subs to become like those YouTubers who are constantly trying to push you to their Patreon.
Check out Flohmarkt:
If you think about it:
In the meantime, spez totally trashed his site, destroyed valuable communities and pushed away the mods that keep the place clean. Really, really great business strategy there.
Exactly this - Join-Lemmy.org has some (minor) UI and text issues. I’m also not quite happy about the sorting of the instances and the selection there. If f.e. you chose “General -> English” during onboarding, you get this screen here:
Hexbear? Some random 11 user instance from finland? Lemmy.world nowhere to be seen? They are randomizing the instances, which kind of makes sense to prevent the bigger ones from growing even more, but which might confuse new users.
But those are minor UI quirks that can be solved. All those reddit couch warriors that claim that everything should be completely redone exactly how they want it to be are insane. Normal users are able to understand the concept of instances.
Don’t waste your time with stuff like this. Install an alternative app - OpenStreetMap is great and does have the correct name.
I still remember 2020 and 2022, it’s not that long ago. So Covid started to hit the US in spring 2020. And take a look at inflation rates:
Yeah, it took some time, but you really can’t deny that there was “barely a blip in inflation” and that it came only after the war started.