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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • Look, I don’t get this need to cite exceptions to make oneself right. I can’t engage in pedantry or add endless footnotes to a general concept of what constitutes thievery or what every individual’s plan is for whatever they steal. It’s ridiculous to waste that time. You can steal a steak and sell it. You can steal a TV and watch it.

    The spirit of the discussion is the direct intent of theft is either for an immediate need of a basic necessity of food, or the non-necessity of a luxury like a tv. Leave it at that concept.




  • As some have already mentioned - coriolis forces. But why not build bigger so coriolis forces aren’t an issue? Because spinning up anything of sufficient diameter to even come close to 1G would need some kind of unobtainium to be strong enough to keep the spinning object intact. Say 5 tons of mass at 0 G is just mass, but now accelerate it and you need to figure out how to support 5 tons.

    1 rpm for 1 G is going to need almost 1km radius. 2 rpm is ~400m.

    You can see that the numbers, size, and engineering get pretty ridiculous to keep people from being sick when spun.


  • Corporations have no loyalty except to their own interests and the shareholders.

    They don’t care who gets the oil. If the oil is produced by the US, Saudi Arabia, or Norway, none of those countries get any special access to oil produced by companies based there. The oil gets sold at global market price based on market forces, so if your oil can be purchased at a higher price by being exported, it’s going away. Your local prices go up for fuels or LNG even if you produce a ton of it yourself.

    Because that’s the market we’ve established. Corpos don’t care, they’re making billions.









  • I think there‘s a bunch of different groups. There‘s Gen X that got taught not to share their personal info, the current generation is growing up being taught this as well, a lot of all gens gave sites everything because clueless or indifferent, and then the groups that deliberately shared info trying for internet fame.

    There‘s plenty of Gen X that are clueless about privacy and computers.

    Knowledge about avoiding tracking, obfuscating your identity, blocking ads, etc. requires constant effort ad knowledge. We‘re on lemmy, and that‘s a bit of an echo chamber because people here as a whole tend to be more knowledgeable about computers, and people here seem to forget that like 90% of the population are clueless about them.