I hate kier but not voting for Labour would be stupid, protest votes or non votes don’t count any the only people pushing that idiocy are the rich right wing because they don’t want you to vote against them

Everyone just thinks ‘oh look these people are too dumb, busy, or disconnected to vote oh well’

You can still resist and work against a system you voted for,

Oh there is but it’s sorted through rich people filters, if a hundred show ideas contain important and useful thoughts about our current society and one show Idea boils down to ‘capitalism is good actually’ then we already know which one will get made without any other information

I don’t mind watching a ‘capitalism is good’ show occasionally if it’s risen to the top because it makes important and informative statements but i can’t abide a landscape where other opinions don’t have that same ability.

Yeah but it’s still corporate pandering and drowning your brain in bullshit. ‘did you see the latest show that rich people decided we should be brainwashed with, it contains all the talking points they think will help society to continue to benefit them’

I much prefer stuff that’s free because it’s made by people who want to make it, I’ll even put a few coins in their patreon if I really like it.

That’s why you need Nord VPN so you can play raid shadow legends safely…

The thing is they have so much less control if they do that, I’m fed up of places with adverts where comments are turned off or heavily moderate - if their post comes here they can’t do any of that, I say we let them come, we let them come and then we smash them

It doesn’t benefit them to send adds disguised because they are paid to provide ad impressions which they wouldn’t have data for. It’s just an annoying business model not a conspiracy to brainwash you.

They’re a really good open source contributor with a great track record, I know people don’t like saying good stuff about zuck related things but they’ve helped progress machine learning quite a bit. Pytourch is a great example iirc used in stable diffusion

I went back and read it three times because I thought I was going crazy, it does say that - in charity you can say that he’s not saying it’s a xenophobic action but an action taken by xenophobes people, trivial distinction though.

Also though I will go a step further and say it is xenophobic because xeno is like in xenomorph, the alien wasn’t from a different country the word means from a different origin so fits perfectly apt to describe the situation as it’s the origin of their accounts. Though of course it’s common usage does normally imply nationality.

Anyone wondering it’s a long winded article blaming meta for a genocide, personally I don’t really see how it fits the conversation beyond ‘zuck bad’ because it’s nothing that’s going to happen here

So I have to look at the internet to see if I’m allowed to protect myself from the cold? Oh not officially cold enough even though it’s making my face hurt, guess I’ll just suffer because God forbid I’m allowed to be the one who decides how much of my body I went exposed to the elements.

You like authoritarian control of the most basic parts of people’s lives, most people don’t want to live in a world like that.

But a popular location for people to buy investment properly from abroad and a lot of wealthy people have two or more homes - bits of Cornwall are so overtaken by second homes they’re ghost towns most the year, locals priced out of the market end up having to live in illegally located caravans or with their parents in a run down mundic crumbling house.

London is like it too, every new apartment block we’ve worked at has been half sold to overly rich people using it on the weeks they come in to work or socialise in the city while the other half gets sold to an over seas investment company for rental.

Personally I think our government should do deals with other countries to try and unload some of us

Not possible? It’s happening in various places already

No it never changes and the community never gets added to my list, it’s only when trying to sub to communities from other instances as far as I can tell

Well half the things I’ve tried to sub to say ‘pending’ then never get added to my feeds so that needs to be fixed. I don’t think it’s a jerboa issue because I’ve had it on desktop too.

I don’t really know what’s happening there, am I waiting for permission to subscribe? Waiting for it to sync between local and remote instances? For my local client to communicate with the instance I’m on or the the community is on?

Either way there should be an intermediary step where is stored locally soi I can find it again

Also it can be really hard finding small communities from a different instance, a lot don’t show up or aren’t fully synced so some of the posts don’t show.

Hopefully this is going to be fixed but I think it’s limiting the growth of more niche communities.

Not really, it’s all implicit in what you’ve said.

I get what you’re saying but look how absurdly difficult it is to make high speed rail, the UK are no strangers to making trains but HS2 has been a huge disaster with endless extra costs, ecoprotesters delaying it and etc - it’s currently expected that stage one will open between 2029 and 2033, they started planning in 2009. Rail is not a quick and easy solution, it’s also cost £100 Billion and the options to upgrade it are incredibly limited.

Meanwhile in Washington state they’re building a facility which uses carbon from the air to make jet fuel, the us military already tested it in all their jets and it works great - it’s not especially difficult chemistry so likely to be commercialised at a competitive price point. It doesn’t require engine modifications or anything like that, can be made with excess power from renewables at peek times to lower the cost even more and make wind and solar much better investments.

We’ve been using blended biofuel in aviation for over a decade without anyone really noticing, we’ve also been switching to electrofuels - Obama created ARPA-E the same year HS2 was unveiled, they had some significant successes such as using co2 as the fuel source (though got shifted to focus on fracking without anyone caring which is a real shame). There are various projects around the world creating efuel already with plenty more in the planning and development stages.

It’s not a perfect solution but it’s an actionable solution and a great stopgap, it could even be the boost carbon sequestration needs to become a profitable technology which leads to new markets being established and us actually starting to pull measurable quantities of carbon from the air.

I love trains and I hate flying, but if we can make carbon neutral fuels then being able to zoom over the top of beautiful ecosystems rather than dissect them with steel rails would be better for everything, building all the infrastructure for a giant rail network would create huge amounts of emissions and take decades to get to the point where the daily savings Vs cars has paid off, it would put us deeper in the hole and probably way past the point where net zero can help.

I really can’t wait for the internet to learn the reality of trains and get over this obsession, the steel required for tracks is a huge issue before we even get to the logistics and wasted energy involved in running them - a carbon neutral fuel source would make plains considerably better from an ecological perspective then trains for long and medium length journeys - we’re already in the process of taking solutions to market and the chemistry isn’t especially difficult so it’s something that’s absolutely going to happen.

I love trains but they’re not an ecological panacea.

So you want to price more people out of living good lives and being able to travel? What percentage of people do you want to be too poor to have a holiday?

I went through a phase where I played every game on there, most were gloriously unfinished or ported from the zx spectrum. There were some real gems too.

That was years ago, what’s it like now? Is there android wesnoth? Did any of the RPGs ever get to a fished state?

The real key factor is as the cost of uranium continues to go up and suffers potential shortages and supply issues the cost of installing solar and wind continues to drop - they got planning permission for a solar farm near me about a year ago and it’s already half way through having pannels installed, the speed they can do it is only going to keep increasing especially as more automated tools get developed. Then there’s the almost certainty of a breakthrough in chemistry reaching market which significant reduces cost and increases the range of locations suitable which would again drastically lower price per kWh while the price of running nukes continues to rise and they’re locked into decades of economic loss or they’ll choose to close them and all that investment and effort will be for nothing.