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  • Communication? Lebanon has a right to defend itself. It's like questioning why Biden has a line to the Israel Prime Minister.

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    Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games
  • Patents aid in genocide.

    There are hundreds of thousands of industrial processes that we need to change and innovate to combat climate change. Any small innovation will be patented and then potentially exploited to extract the maximum amount of profit. This reduces the pace of innovation generally, and makes greener more energy efficient solutions slower to be adopted.

    Similar can be argued about advertising in general of course, they lead to more consumerism and more resource and energy use and why first world has such insane GHG per capita.

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    Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole
  • No, it's a term to dehumanize women they don't agree with. Don't be stupid and explain how there are good people on the incel side.

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    Density saves nature
  • Yeah I have no idea if or how it could work. Commie blocks used to design local neighborhoods with shops and kindergarden. Maybe it would be that when you have kids your move to a block with a kindergarden and school, then it would make more sense.

    Maybe it would be harder to farm but maybe it could also be solved through lighter robotic farm equipment. I once calculated that you only need ~250m² for potatoes to produce enough calories so feeding yourself so it's theoretically not that difficult. I also hope in the decades to come we can genetically engineer better food plants. Like higher / better quality protein crops.

    But my main idea was how to create a view for people that want to "live in nature". But the hippie ideal for a farmstead is unsustainable with so many people. An apartment block would save a lot on heating, cooling and infrastructure. The proper sci-fi utopia would then be to have underground railway tunnels connect thousands of such apartment blocks in nature. Then much surface area could be rewilded instead of having roads and bridges. But tunnels are rather expensive.

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    Density saves nature
  • Well for me Solarpunk is about what would be possible - except for our current global regime preventing it. So yeah it's fantasy.

    I don't know if the costs work out low enough, but you could build such a lone apartment tower on farmland right now. If you had like a government owned "eco bank" funding this. If the land and construction costs can be kept low enough. It would be really cheap with some advances in premanufactured parts or 3D printing or house building robots. Kite power for very cheap wind energy.

    If you could buy in for 50k and get all your living costs, food, energy, water and internet basically for free for the next 20 years, plenty of people would jump at this. And if it's big enough (500 units?) you could justify having a doctor and a kindergarden and hybrid local / remote school. If we were serious about climate change, everyone could live in luxury with a killer view.

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    Density saves nature
  • I think there are some trees who are very efficient in creating calories - so maybe with more genetic engineering.

    But yeah mostly you'd have smaller fields like potato or wheat or corn between hedgerows, and food forest or orchards for fruits and most of all for a nicer view. The main idea would be that you don't need to transport food except from the surrounding area to the apartment tower. You'd produce / recycle food, water and energy locally.

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    Density saves nature
  • If you'd build an apartment tower surrounded by food forest and nice fields everyone would get an amazing view. Better view than from ground level. Make the ceilings high and very good noise insulation and great windows. And it would be cheap because the land could be cheap.

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    Density saves nature
  • That's why we should build "luxury" apartment blocks in nature with high ceilings and very good noise cancellation, surrounded by agriculture and food forests, ideally growing their own food. Everyone gets a killer view and can quickly go out into nature.

    And then connect these big ass apartment blocks with underground train.

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    There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.
  • How good does it work on an external 4K monitor? Can you watch 4k video? I imagine youtube and browsing reddit or news online shouldn't be a problem.

    Basically I'd like an ultra low power PC for boring desktop stuff on 4k monitor.

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    China rams Philippine ship while 60 Minutes on board; South China Sea tensions could draw U.S. in
  • China bad propaganda. Instead of talking about the horrific civil war in Sudan, lets talk about ramming some ships and get the US involved in that... fucking insanity.

    PS: Let me make this clear: I don't give a shit about what China does unless it involves actual ethnic cleansing and mass rape. If we don't give a shit about the latter, we shouldn't "get involved" in the former.

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    Men losing their mind
  • That's right. We export our fascism to shithole countries so we don't have to deal with it at home. Checkmate socialists!

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    Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers
  • If I run some AI model on my GPU and power my computer via solar power and some batteries, am I actually contributing significantly to GHG emissions?

    Like what is the embodied energy of an AI model?

    As usual, pundits and scientists confuse what is and what could be with the truth. For example plastic recycling isn't possible because "right now economics don't make it profitable". Meaning capitalism is killing us, not plastics. I suspect the same is true for AI.

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    Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.
  • True. I think about it now as a kind of physics problem. You have political energy measured in dollars on each side. Volunteers to help bring the political message across for free can be converted into dollars too. There are a lot of people concerned or outright scared out of their minds about environmental concerns like climate change. One sight has multiple orders of magnitude more political energy to spend. For example on counter measures, or boosting extreme vegan voices to cause disruption, advertising or media stories or think tanks or lobbyists. And the "technology" to manage this political energy is rapidly advancing too. So no amount of "this is the right / wrong choice" argument is going to change anything. There is only power.

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    There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.
  • Don't they HAVE TO open their messaging app now with the "EU Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act"?

    EDIT: Huh, no they don't (link) cause they are not "core platform"...

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    China is taking a keen interest in lava tubes as possible lunar habitats
  • Interesting. You could design a robot arm where most of the surface can transmit and radiate heat away from the motors.

    PS: Oh I just found out the design I'm thinking of is "frameless dc motor" or servo so you can route cables internally and have aluminum tubes on the outside for heat transport ("When high temperatures are a concern, the machine structure can provide effective heatsinking"). And now that I know the name they are actually not that expensive on aliexpress! Something like this as a servo with CAN and 48V connection and flanges to directly attach lightweight ~15cm tubes would make building a robot arm pretty easy! EDIT: Ok basically you'd just need a lathe to make a housing with flange and to fit a bearing.

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  • Nothing spectacular but an interesting car free alternative to suburbia with high urban density and local small shops. If large enough could have it's own school and more amenities.

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