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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t think it’s fake, just look at the last door; it’s the dry/dirty spot below the handle is a different shape which tells me it isn’t just a copy/paste of another one. The center door window is also narrower than the others, to accommodate the additional pillar that would be needed for the structure.

    Plus it (probably) wouldn’t be centered in 4 parking spaces if it wasn’t that long. Normal length trucks take up 2 spaces at most, if the driver is an asshole. It’s very possible, if expensive, to modify a truck like that. You’ve seen a limo right? Same concept.


  • Honestly I think proper search is one of the biggest things holding the fediverse back from mainstream adoption. It needs exposure, and it needs to be easy to find information and communities around obscure topics in order to really replace silos like reddit and facebook. I’m glad to see this exists, and I particularly like that it supports kagi.

    Edit: Maybe this should have been obvious when seeing that it uses other search providers as a backend, but all it does is pass a list of fedi websites to filter results for. That’s… not a proper search. It’s a potentially useful tool, but it’s not doing any of its own aggregation and more importantly the list of websites is also painfully small. Color me disappointed.



  • AI is the tool that capitalism needed to actually kill it. Before that, the internet was never on any trajectory into unusability as long as you has money and fortitude to deal with ads and privacy invasions (or an ad blocker).

    Now writing absolute garbage is so cheap that the internet is being flooded with it, diluting all the correct and useful information to the point that it can actually be hard to sift through and find it.





  • My claim is that alternatives with minimal drawbacks are going to be required in industrialized societies, yes, because plastic is very deeply ingrained in our industry, and has been critical to many of the advances that we’ve had in the last few decades (especially medicine and healthcare).

    If we’re talking about just the food supply chains, that’s a little bit different because people are more willing to suffer inconvenience if the perceived health risk is large enough (because health depends on our diets). The problem is that the perceived risk, for the vast majority of people, is fairly small. Plastic ingestion poses chronic issues, not acute ones (mostly). This means that we’ve already addressed most of the more acute toxicity concerns, and the chronic concerns are going to require more conclusive data to persuade people to care now and not dismiss it by saying “I’ll worry about that later, we have more important problems now”.

    That said, I never said we were “doomed”. In fact I think that we’re going to develop better and safer technologies, and plastic and how it reacts with living organisms will be better understood. But, I think that’s going to take some time. In the mean time, I think we’re going to start to go back to older materials (particularly in the food supply chains) where the additional cost is manageable. Plastic isn’t going to go away completely though. Not now, not ever. The best we can do is make it safer, and mandate other materials where it’s most important.




  • While I’m not going to say I’m “glad” she lost, which would thereby mean that I’m glad that there’s so much more fear and suffering in the country, I think there’s some merit to the idea that electing Kamala would have just resulted in more of the status quo that people were clearly becoming disenchanted with and, perhaps, in the long run, Trump being elected sooner is going to ultimately result in less harm as people are incentivized to push back sooner and harder because they’re less worn down than they otherwise would be.

    Really, idk though, I don’t have a window into the alternate universe where that happened. This is all just kinda shit. @DancingBear really should be making that point if that’s what they believe instead of being rude about it.


  • I completely agree, but your point is irrelevant to mine.

    Median household income is around 80k, which means that the vast majority of the population makes a lot less than 100k. I have little pity for the financial concerns of people who are having a hard time getting by with six figures, when so many people have to be content with far less.

    I will absolutely still stand in solidarity with them against the ruling class who make things far more difficult for all of us than it needs to be. That’s not the point.

    Asking me to have pity for the financial concerns of someone who makes more than double what I do (assuming similar circumstances) is like asking the average migrant laborer to have pity for mine.