compostgoblin

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[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Just for the sake of clarity, there is a difference between jumping above 2C during a year and the long-term average being above 2C, which is what we’re usually talking about when it comes to global warming. This headline, and the 1.5C headlines from 2023, tend to muddy the waters. Shit is bad and getting worse, but it’s not quite as bad as you might think at first glance.

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Where? Genuinely curious

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

But then they’d have to drive all the way to Illinois or Minnesota to buy their weed

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I sort of am, because I’ve been kind of forced into the role, being the only person in my immediate family and one of relatively few in my extended family to have left the Catholic Church. I have a hard time really vocally trying to break patterns, since I’m the “outsider”. But I do what I can to make sure that I don’t replicate those negative patterns

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Carmel through Broad Ripple is really nice and totally safe. It starts to get less nice around the fairgrounds and 38th, but at this time of the year, in daylight and in a group, I think it would be perfectly safe

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

I mean, I suppose so. I can imagine a theoretical AI that isn’t trained on stolen work, isn’t insanely energy intensive, isn’t controlled by the ownership class, and doesn’t hallucinate wildly. But that’s so far away from what AI is in our current context, drawing that distinction feels like losing the forest for the trees, at this point in time.

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

It was a conscious decision. After the Second World War, the US needed somewhere to shift all of the manufacturing that had been built for the war effort. So cities were deliberately designed to keep houses away from jobs away from shops, so you need a car to get around, inducing a market for the personal car that never should have existed. People forget that before the car, there were cities across America that were walkable and had streetcars. The current state of affairs was never preordained. It’s the result of decades of corporate influence over government decision making.

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 49 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Quite a lot of people, especially here on the Fediverse. You’d be wise to care too - AI is no friend to the working class.

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Murena ships Fairphones with /e/os in the US

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I didn’t either! ActivityPub came out in 2018, what was Fediverse before ActivityPub?

 
 

It seems like a simple and reliable product, but I know so many people who are put off of residential solar because so many of the contractors are sketchy. What is it about the industry that attracts so many of those folks?

 
 
 

Does anyone know who the original creator is?

 

For many religious people, raising their children in their faith is an important part of their religious practice. They might see getting their kids into heaven as one of the most important things they can do as parent. And certainly, adults should have the right to practice their religion freely, but children are impressionable and unlikely to realize that they are being indoctrinated into one religion out of the thousands that humans practice.

And many faith traditions have beliefs that are at odds with science or support bigoted worldviews. For example, a queer person being raised in the Catholic Church would be taught that they are inherently disordered and would likely be discouraged from being involved in LGBTQ support groups.

Where do you think the line is between practicing your own religion faithfully and unethically forcing your beliefs on someone else?

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