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[–] Skua@kbin.social 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"During WW1" is the context for this

[–] Skua@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The article says that the Ministry has suggested students use other programs, so it sounds like it's just something students often use rather than something that's actually required. I've not been in school for a long time, but I am doing a distance learning course and when I had to submit some written stuff I definitely found it more comfortable to type it up in an actual word processor than the web platform that only showed about a paragraph at a time, so I did that and then copied it to the web platform.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 40 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Existential Comics' "The Machine" feels highly relevant here

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Well you see, the UN's logo is actually a top-down view of Earth. Apparently. Because they can't keep a conspiracy secret without leaving some clues in the open for kicks.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I think you've misunderstood the comment above. They're asking why snapshotting DRM-protected content would be a problem if everything stays local, implying that since it's a problem it does not stay local

[–] Skua@kbin.social 23 points 5 months ago (8 children)

If your PC's region is set to an EEA country, you actually do get additional options to turn stuff off or uninstall things. Uninstallation of Edge and Copilot is apparently coming soon... for the EEA. But you can just tell your PC you're in an EEA country.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

I don't feel comfortable putting that much important stuff in one thing. If I lose my phone or my wallet, the other can do a lot to help cover for it until I get a replacement

[–] Skua@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Heavy spoilers ahead for anyone who is, for some reason, in this thread having not seen it

Obviously you're 100% entitled to feel however you feel about the movie, but I am a little confused by this. Wallace (Leto's character) was the driving force behind basically the entire film. K got accidentally wrapped up in Wallace's attempt to find the replicant child. That's what Dave Bautista's character was hiding at the start, it's why Luv went to capture Deckard, and learning about it is what ultimately motivated K to go rescue Deckard in the end.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ehhh it's a mixed blessing with China. The country's power consumption increased by an average of about 1,100 TWh per year during 2012-2022, which is outpacing the newly-added solar and wind generation in the article by a factor of four. It's great that they're adding so much clean power, quite the opposite that they're adding even more less clean power

Edit: I should add that these numbers don't specify hydro or nuclear capacity added. Not all of the gap is fossil fuels

[–] Skua@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, China actually does emit about as much per capita as Europe when measuring by consumption nowadays. Unfortunately that just means both are way too high, and several other major economies are even worse

[–] Skua@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Even if China literally just never produced another gram of CO2 ever, we'd have the same problem slightly later. We really do all need to take part, especially those of us in countries that produce more carbon per person. China produces about as much per person as Europe does, but that's still way too much

[–] Skua@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We could so easily choose to use the spelling Ouranos and drop the Y sound at the start, but in our hearts we clearly don't want to

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