yeah but it helps formulating it yourself. only reading is not as good. you need to activate the neurons that do something, such as writing it down in your own words. every other way you only stay passive.

idk what you’re cooking but it’s mostly bread and cheese and some vegetables for me. vegetables can be eaten raw, so i don’t even need to turn on the stove.

smart, growing algae in your backyard ;-)

what difference does that make?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Idle_Process

“everything is brighter with a molotov cocktail” - i learned that today

yeah but the trouble is also that if other jobs close down, people are gonna push into your field and take up the jobs too

advocate for socialism which i have been doing for years.

The fact that Democrats don’t have a Project 2027 or Project 2028 runbook proves that they’re not even trying.

ooh yeah that could be lol i completely forgot about that. wasn’t that last year? (checks calendar) oh no

Everybody who’s complaining about “the rich” or “the oligarchs” should invest a few thoughts into how to actually formulate a law that makes society a better place.

What we need is people who actually write up policy proposals. It doesn’t matter whether you have a senate majority, you need to write the policy proposals now. What actually changes things is societal pressure, and you only build that up by showing that another way is possible, which you show by writing down how exactly you would run an alternative society. For which you have to write down policy proposals.

how so?

every planet is (approximately) flat if you only consider a small portion of its surface area.

knowing that the planet is a sphere is only relevant if you’re doing (a) worldwide business/travel (shipping routes, airplane routes, …) or (b) spaceflight due to orbital mechanics.

What i like:

• the fact that the software works flawlessly and has very quick response times to everything,
• the people here

what i think could be improved:

• more people, also more niche communities
• more content that is not political
• better connectivity across the fediverse, i.e. being able to discover content from mastodon and pixelfed and such
• this goes two ways: also that mastodon users have an easier time discovering lemmy content

what i think would be very cool:

• a fediverse map, which maps fediverse instances to physical locations. and allows to automatically show content from “instances near you”, i.e. if i live in vienna, it also shows me content from austria, augsburg, dresden, depending on physical location. this would help discover events and organize irl events when you can easily tell how physically distant it is from you. maybe also a per-instance list of the closest-by instances according to physical space for easier content discovery.

i don’t get that reference

somebody will argue that consciousness was there first and the whole body + brain is actually kind of a dream …

(not how i view it though. i have a different answer)

my answer is that consciousness does not emanate from the brain at all, but from the fact that we are alive. in other words, i believe that consciousness is a property that many or all forms of life have evolved to have because/as long as it is advantageous to them. this view is called “existentialism” btw.

they’d give up leverage if they did it now. you know, you can only bomb a datacenter once. so they want to do it as a response when they get attacked next time, as a deterrence against the actual attack.

that is a really interesting point, actually. i had not considered the option that attackers can actually just physically alter your device. of course, if they install a keyboard sniffer, you’d never be able to detect that, and also they could read all the data. there’s no protection against that; once the device was in the hands of an (sufficiently skilled) attacker, you can’t trust it anymore, no matter what software you have/had installed.