brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, they are also responsible for making news a for-profit enterprise, which has arguably ultimately killed it.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that's fair.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The FDA was already fucking worthless. I got severe food poisoning from some grocery store pre-boiled eggs some years ago, and when I asked them to look into it to prevent other people getting sick, they just connected me with the grocery store lawyers who were just useless and defensive.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Many algorithms aren't even doing that in good faith, instead substituting in their low-cost contract cover bands as often as they can.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

It's a false choice. Metal straws are ideal, but cellulose straws are still better than both paper and plastic.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I've been saying since GWB cancelled climate action that the US has no continuity of honor in international agreements.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What could be more human than that?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The moratorium is actually since 2000, but only since 2006 in its current form. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology

Thankfully, no country, much less any multinational corporation, would ever dare cross the UN's nonbinding, unenforceable moratorium. Can you imagine how stern the tone of the statement of condemnation would be, once it was worded such that a reasonable plurality of countries would agree to back it?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

I was mostly being facetious. I haven't tried it in decades, but I'm pretty happy with Cosmos.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

🎤 Tap, tap, is this thing on? Posting again, even though this joke is probably only for me.

Presumably, this is F W DeMorgan's Law.

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