Yeah. Like I say, it’s not complicated. And with anything competent in the US going out of the picture for a while, European countries might actually have a chance to get involved and do something. Lord knows Israel isn’t going to stop and the US isn’t going to do anything that’s good in this regard.

If you have any ideas on how to stop it or how to prepare your own cities and states, I believe it’s critical to discuss.

The little groupings of people who have started to set up networks to observe and disrupt ICE operations to go out and snatch people, are probably the best people to get in contact with and become involved with. I would prioritize offline things more than online things. Although talking about it online is good to spread the word, it won’t be where any of the actual action happens as things develop. Those people and local government are the best people I can see that it is good to coordinate with.

Be safe. Reasonably safe. Hopefully we can shake hands at the end of all this.

The half measures aren’t working. Just go in and stop it. It’s a crime against humanity, it’s not complex.

I mean, I am dreaming if I think it will happen. I would love to be wrong and see the countries of Europe do something significant while the US is busy just falling over and soiling itself, and see if it works. It would be a wonderful precedent. And, again, it’s late as hell, but I’ll take it if it could actually happen.

If nothing else it would mean all the Gazans who already died or might as well have, didn’t die in vain.

Which interestingly enough implies that they are having so much trouble selling advertising, that they are making up nonsense and pretending it is advertising, so their remaining advertisers aren’t spooked away by the ghost town / dead mall atmosphere.

I don’t know what I was expecting lol

If the heartbreak I feel didn’t come through about the destruction of our home and everything that makes survival on it easy, the possibility of our total extinction and the certainty of massive scale suffering of every living thing on the planet, then let me make it clear: Yes, that’s a bad thing.

The earth will be fine. It’s been through way worse than us. There was about a billion years when the whole thing was just a snowball. People don’t even really know how microbial life that was adapted for the surface survived, although the theory is that its little lifeboats were melted pools of water near volcanic hotspots, some sort of liquid water that incredibly enough was able to randomly stay around the whole time through. It only takes a very small number of survivors to repopulate everything once it turns okay again. The earth has been through oceans at the poles and total freezes and meteor strike apocalypses and everything in between, some of where we came from was the engine of creation in the wake of one of those disasters, the end of the dinosaurs.

The paradise place we call home, though, is cooked and done for forever, on any kind of human timeline. There is 0 chance that what we call a livable biosphere, the kind of green grass nice summer day paradise we were born into, will still be around in a hundred years. It’s gone. We’re the last generation.

There’s still a lot we can do to choose less apocalyptic options. The sheer massive scale of the disaster means that every fraction of a percent could save millions of lives, or significantly reduce the chance of total extinction. But bottom line, the planet itself and the web of life that lives on it will persist. Whether we will, certainly whether our civilization will, is uncertain, it will be determined by this generation and the next.

Yeah. I am curious. I might try to breathe some life into [email protected] by inviting some of them to talk about it there and learn more, but I feel like they probably will not be interested. There’s some kind of “ask a tankie” community somewhere, but I feel like that is just going to be a gateway to getting screamed at without learning much. [email protected]? I feel like I’m probably banned / defederated from there already.

I have heard that at least one of them is known to be a Russian expat-thanks-to-his-family who grew up in a Western country, and so I guess he is reacting out of wanting to still have pride for his homeland without the direct present day experience to calibrate what he says about it. Kind of makes sense to me. I mean, not completely, but it is the explanation I was looking for at least.

I legitimately am very curious about what’s going on there. There’s no way to know obviously, but I really wish I could understand the psychology and the understanding of the world that leads them to it.

I sort of suspect that it’s similar to flat earth, sort of a “feeling superior because everyone else is wrong, combined with no interest in fine details or patience to look at facts, combined with strong groupthink and wanting to be part of a club to have allegiance to”, combined with self-selection over time that anyone that isn’t out of their damn minds as far as geopolitics tends to get driven away pretty quickly, leaving only the residue.

But I have no idea, that’s just a guess, and I am curious.

I strongly suspect that they do. I don’t know for sure, but it would seem like such a silly oversight for inkjets to be omitted now that they have quality that rivals or exceeds laserjet printers.

Other random information:

https://github.com/Natounet/YellowDotDecode

Also, be aware that modern printers are rumored to embed some other type of information in some other way, now that people are hip to the yellow dots. It seems like it shouldn’t be super-challenging to figure out the new details, but for some reason I’m not aware of anyone having figured it out.

I mean you’re not completely wrong. It is just a matter of how you choose to look at it, I think. This is why sometimes they have those little disclaimers “The opinions expressed in this post are purely my own, they don’t represent my employer / university / trade union even if their name is on it because my main method of communication has to feature their name for technological reasons.”

Personally, I would like to think that if I ran the company, I would say, “Of course we support our employees’ rights to say whatever the fuck they want, they are human beings first with all the rights that go with it, and only secondarily are they employees who ‘belong’ to us in a certain sense.” But of course that is basically an unheard of point of view in American corporate culture and probably why they will never put me in charge of Microsoft, sad to say. I think as far as the majority view in American business you are probably in about the 99% majority in how you’re looking at it.

You misunderstood the nature of my question lol

Free speech is a principle, the concept is not limited to its specific legal definition in the first amendment.

People’s facebook friends abandoning them because they were racist is never an infringement. Facebook deciding what posts it will and won’t allow can sometimes be an infringement of the principle of free speech, which is why handing over control of our public spaces to private companies is a bad bad idea. People’s employers editing their emails to make it harder for them to be involved in certain political speech is definitely an infringement of the employees’ free speech.

None of those examples are illegal, but some of them are fucked up regardless. Not every “free speech” argument involves someone who wants to be racist without consequences.

Also, it’s by definition impossible for it to have better than 100% cooling efficiency, which is already the norm for refrigeration-cycle-driven machines.

There are niche applications where it can be the right answer, but no amount of improvement to this specific technology will ever make this as good as existing refrigerators.

What fresh hell is this

Yes. RT and Sputnik and making up sources completely and making up random shit that got a journalist deported, make for the best of any newspaper. Clearly. Such things are to be emulated.

There are Lemmy instances that take precisely this attitude, if you replace “Palestine” with some other particular countries. The details are different, but the purpose and behavior is the same.

And yes, it’s a bad thing to do.

Well… we’re sure getting ready for something.

I think the userbase of a community being clueless enough to tend to upvote anything vaguely good-sounding is a big factor in me eventually deciding to unsubscribe from that community. It doesn’t seem like it is a fixable problem once it develops.