That would require really large numbers of the most selfish people ever to work together as a group and not break ranks even when self-interest dictates they should.
In New Zealand they don't carry guns on their person but they do have a handgun and semi-automatic rifle in their car at all times. They're in a locked box.
I just remembered that you can find posts you have read on the 'Account' menu (it's only there if you have the 'hide read posts' option turned on, which I don't, so I had forgotten about it).
The last few years have been a masterclass in cult-style leadership and internet-facilitated grifting. The orange man is setting a great example for others to emulate.
Hence PieFeds rational discourse toolkit in the sidebar.
Wow that 黑孩子 is super messed up. Thanks for sharing about this 🙂
This need for consensus is absurd and unrealistic. There will always be some countries that put their interest above humanity.
Time to form an alliance of the willing and get on with it.
Long before the devastating encounter with Theia, a kind of sorting process had taken place inside the early Earth. With the formation of the iron core, some elements such as iron and molybdenum accumulated there; they were afterward largely absent from the rocky mantle.
The iron found in Earth's mantle today can therefore only have arrived after the core was formed, for example on board of Theia.
If all of the iron that we have available to us is only there because of a freak collusion then most other life-friendly planets in the universe would not have iron. This would severely slow their technological development. No iron age, no steam engines. No horse shoes.
Seems to be working ok at the moment but I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
the gunmen are mostly former herders who have taken up arms against farming communities after clashes between them over strained resources.
climate change...
Mastodon.social is too big to defederate. Any instance that does would be undesirable to most people.
What is the point where a network is too concentrated? My gut feeling is its when 1 instance is more than 33% of the active users. Ideally 10%?
One of the risks of me cycling through flags like this is I don't really know enough of the details of each country/cause and I'll probably make a horrible mistake at some point!
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Suspect chased by police for 170 miles through 4 California counties before escaping into Mexico
(www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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Tired of Trump and Musk's face? Yeah me too so I made a firefox extension to hide them
(media.piefed.social)
It just checks image alt text for keywords. No AI weirdness.
If it is approved it will be available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uglymug/. I don't plan to submit it to the Chrome extension store but anyone is welcome to copy the code and do so.
Meanwhile if you'd like to try it out before it's approved (trust me bro) you can get the extension from https://we.tl/t-VZw12WGo7q and then unzip the contents into a new folder.
Installation Instructions:
For Chrome:
- Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/
- Enable "Developer mode" (toggle in top right)
- Click "Load unpacked"
- Select the folder where you unzipped the files to.
For Firefox:
- Open Firefox and navigate to about:debugging
- Click "This Firefox"
- Click "Load Temporary Add-on"
- Select the manifest.json file
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New analog chip that could be up to 1k times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs
(www.livescience.com)
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What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid
(www.theatlantic.com)
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The comforting thing about the conspiracy mindset is that it means someone is in control. They might be evil or selfish or AI or lizard people whatever but at least the world makes sense, has a structure and someone has it nailed down. People crave this security and will seek to build evidence for it. They may not "like" the picture they end up drawing but they like having a picture because it feels solid and graspable. Understandable.
The scary truth is none of it makes sense, there is no one with their hand on the tiller and anything can happen.