Me in tech support.

Customer calls: "Internet is not working!!"

Me: "Router lights status?"

Customer: "Can't tell."

Me: "Why?"

Customer: "Router still in box."

Me: "..?"

Me (pretends it was just an error of communication): "Can you please describe the lights on your router?"

Customer: "I can't. It's still in the packaging. The box is on my table."

Me: "...??!? ... You ... need at least electricity to power this device."

Customer spirals into rage and madness: "I ordered wireless internet!! I won't plug any cables in! I did not want any wires!!!"

Not sure if the robbing makes the story that much worse. I feel the assault, murder and public display far outweigh the money.

This meme is so wrong it is deliberate misinformation. The Guardian made an article which is probably this meme's source. It even linked to the original source, the Carbon Majors Report. But blatantly misquoted the CMR. For example, CMR says something like "100 fossil fuel producers responsible for 71% of industrial GHG emissions", but The Guardian (and meme posters) omit the italic bits.

What do they mean with producers? Not companies like Apple or Heinz, but simply organizations which produce fossil fuels. Duh. Shell, BP, but also entities like China's coal sector (which they count as one producer, although it consists of many entities). CMR also states 3rd type emissions are included. Which means emissions caused by "using" their "products", e.g. you burning gasoline in your car.

So yes, the downvoted guy saying "Consumer emissions and corporate emissions are the same emissions" is pretty spot on in this case, albeit most likely by accident. Rejected not for being wrong, but for not fitting into a narrative, which I call the wrong reasons. Please check your sources before posting. We live in a post-factual world where only narratives count and truth is just another feeling, because of "journalism" and reposts like this. Which is the infuriating part in this particular case. I guess you want to spread awareness about the climate crisis, which is good, but you cannot do so by propagandizing science and spreading lies.

All that from the top of my head. Both the ominous TG article and the fairly short report are easy to find. In just a couple of minutes you can check and confirm how criminally misquoted it was.

This is funny. It also reflects in Lemmy. For example, take this tankie comment claiming "zelensky made having peace negotiations with putin ILLEGAL", based on an article which says "Zelensky’s decree released Tuesday declares that holding negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin has become impossible after his decision to annex four regions of Ukraine."

Then watch how mods from lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml ban users and delete comments which question their narrative.

Cherry on top: A user from this curated bubble remarks that "Nobody actually has any argument against this", because of course they are shielded from comments who pointed out the inaccuracy of the claim, and don't question it themselves.

Compare yourself:

• lemm.ee version: https://lemm.ee/comment/3929526
• lemmygrad.ml version: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2389500

Now read that comment in the basement of this thread again:

Understand we American make more lie for pleasure and entertaining. Not chinese lie. China always with great truth.

The whole concept of industry co-writing laws and regulations has utterly failed. How much precedent do we need?

Lobbyists are not counselors, it's just legalized corruption. This is not a healthy part of democracy, but eroding trust.

It's working against the people.

Headline:

TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPENED TO MONKEYS AFTER GETTING NEURALINK IMPLANTS, ACCORDING TO VETERINARY RECORDS

What are these terrible things?

Up to a dozen monkeys suffered grisly fates after receiving a Neuralink implant, including brain swelling and partial paralysis.

First is the case of the monkey "Animal 20." In December 2019, an internal part of the brain implant being inserted into the primate "broke off" during surgery. Later that night, the monkey scratched at the implant site, drawing blood, and yanked on the implant, partially dislodging it. Follow-up surgery discovered that the wound was infected, but that the placement of the implant prevented treatment. The monkey was euthanized the next month.

Before that, a female monkey designated "Animal 15" began to press her head against the ground after receiving the brain implant, pick at the site until it bled, and eventually lost coordination, shivering when personnel entered the room. Scientists discovered she had brain bleeding, and in March 2019, she too was euthanized.

The following year, a primate called "Animal 22" was put down in March 2020 after its brain implant became so loose that the screws attaching it to the skull "could easily be lifted out," according to a necropsy report.

"The failure of this implant can be considered purely mechanical and not exacerbated by infection," the necropsy states.

As Wired notes, that statement alone seemingly contradicts Musk's claims that no monkeys directly died from Neuralink brain implants.

And so would the account of an ex-Neuralink employee, who told Wired that Musk's claims that the monkeys were already terminally ill are "ridiculous," even a "straight-up fabrication."

"We had these monkeys for a year or so before any surgery was performed," the ex-employee said.

The testimony of an anonymous scientist conducting research at CNPRC seems to corroborate the ex-employee's allegations.

"These are pretty young monkeys," they told the magazine. "It's hard to imagine these monkeys, who were not adults, were terminal for some reason."

An abstract study has yet to be implemented. You cannot run an abstract study on it's own. Otherwise, it can be about anything.

That's like post #10 I see from random users proposing we should somehow run ads or whatever to finance big instances.

I haven't seen a single statement going in that direction from big instances themselves. None of those posts referred to anything.

Is it just overconcerned people worrying about things which are not their problem? I assume people who can run a big instance would notice if they are getting into financial troubles. As long as they don't speak up, I would conclude we don't have to worry. The current model (whatever it is) seems to work well enough. Did they ask for advice, do they need advice?

Maybe it's that people are so used to being forced to see ads and pay half their wage for insulin that they cannot imagine nice things exist.

I think we should try to keep it nice, and not revert to capitalist enshittification prematurely, without any necessity.

We currently have more than 1000 instances on Lemmy. Maybe some do run ads, who knows. You can join them if you like, or host your own.

Show the problem exists which you try to solve. Point to instances who struggle financially, who consider running ads, something like that.

As a child, I made a siren in QBASIC. Very proud, 2000 lines of code.

My sister's boyfriend then introduced me to the concept of FOR loops. 6 lines of code.

Yes please, apply the https://en.wikipedia.org/...

The absence of it's application means you make others pay for the costly decisions of a few, incentivizing and subsidizing damaging behaviour.

The absence also often means wealth transfer from poor to rich, as you need to have some wealth to be able to cause significant 'pollution'.

It makes so much sense. "You want this? Ok, then pay for what it entails, all the consequences." Only then people make informed decisions.

More than 100k across Germany?

AFAIK it was 160k in Hamburg alone.

Maybe it has become worse since all those vegan or vegetarian fast food options became available in stores and restaurants.

When I hear non-vegs talk about living meat-free, the conversation always revolves around these meat substitutes, how unhealthy they are.

It does not come to their mind one can prepare a meal from fresh produce. Yes of course, fast food is unhealthy. On the other hand, I like it.

Imagine your kid posting silly pictures of your face on the internet, probably without consent.

German thread in https://feddit.de/c/deutschland about the story: https://feddit.de/post/3075089

Aktuell geht es hier um den Schutz von Kindern oder Ungeborenen, weil die noch nicht für ihre Rechte einstehen können.

Gibt's nicht, weil die Freiheitsrechte der rauchenden Erwachsenen sind irgendwie wichtiger oder so.

Mit solchen Werten traue ich denen definitiv nicht zu, irgendwas bei Klimapolitik zum Schutze zukünftiger Generationen zu machen.

Very similar to finding a new home.

Bonus challenge: Find a new home without a job.

Für mich ist das eine Prinzipienfrage. Geht darum, auf welchem Fundament unsere Gesellschaft steht. Bauen wir auf Fakten oder dulden wir Bullshit? Teilen wir eine Realität oder gibt es nur alternative Meinungen? Das mag im Einzelfall harmlos wirken, hat aber tiefgreifende Folgen.

Beispiel Corona, wo es auch Zusammenhänge gab zwischen Homöopathiebefürwortern und Impfschwurblern. Den Bogen etwas weiter gespannt kommen wir zur AfD mit ihrer “alternativen” Wahrnehmung von Realität, und anderen Formen der Wissenschaftsleugnung.

Diese realitätsfremden Haltungen machen jegliche Auseinandersetzung zu Sachthemen wie z.B. Klimawandel, unnötig schwer bis unmöglich. Dabei bräuchten wir gerade da Einigkeit und Handlungsfähigkeit.

Bei Homöopathie geht es so weit, dass alternative Zulassungsverfahren etabliert wurden, weil sie einer medizinischen Prüfung nicht standhalten würden. Das vermittelt Beliebigkeit, und suggeriert Seriösität, wo keine ist. Es macht die Errungenschaften der Aufklärung rückgängig und bringt uns intellektuell wieder ins dunkle Mittelalter.

I needed this explanation for "L'Engle":

References A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Characters cross great distances by "tessering", moving via a tesseract through a higher dimension which essentially brings the two ends of the journey together from the perspective of the traveler. The image shows the two ends of the gap being brought together, with the gap apparently crumpled in between them.

I'm in favor of simplifying the signup process with auto-assigning an instance. [Edit: For users coming from https://join-lemmy.org/]

For people who start using the fediverse or lemmy, the concept of federated instances is hard to understand. It also does not matter that much at this part of their journey. How about randomly assigning new users to instances which are open? This could also help with load balancing between instances.

The idea is to make entry as quick and easy as possible. Once users familiarized themselves with content and communities, they can reevaluate their 'decision' which instance they want to make their home. At this point, they have a better idea what this is all about.

Choosing an instance right from the start should still be possible, just not be the default mode. Make it a small link at the bottom 'advanced mode' or whatever, just don't scare or burden newcomers with unecessary complexity.

To answer the question directly: I think each instance can make that decision for themselves, and open or close registration accordingly. Both is fine.

More mildly put, people are diverse, which is a great resource.

I want to follow communities about a wide variety of topics. Some appeal to intellectual, tech-savvy people, others don't.

If the platform is deterring to the later group, my experience suffers because I lack content in these areas.

People can use their brains in many more ways than understanding technology. Just because a person is not good in navigating technology does not mean they have no brain.

For example, I'd love to see more going on in communities about performative arts, philosophy, activism, regional cultural events. Occasionally, I like to peek into bubbles which are completely different from my own.

With power comes responsibility. I see it as the responsibility of people who understand technology to make it accessible to those who don't.