HiddenLayer555

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Christ was an asshole too. People who haven't read the bible give him way too much credit.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He's gonna be real surprised when YHWH sends him to hell for violating the commandments (thou shall not kill and don't take the lord's name in vain).

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Two Australians go to North Korea to get a hair cut while debunking Western propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

The US itself is a risky and inefficient project.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ironic how US kids cartoons commonly portray "digging to China" as something americans can hypothetically do, to the point where a good portion of American adults just assume it to be true. Yet the only place where that's possible is South America.

Usually the people debunking the notion focus on the fact that the Earth is molten in the center so you can't dig all the way through it in the same way you can't dig to the ocean floor from the surface (which is reasonable don't get me wrong), but they rarely mention the fact that China is not actually on the opposite side of the Earth to the US.

This isn't a political comment. I just find it interesting that this is something literally anyone can disprove with a dollar store globe but no one bothers to do it and instead just assume the cartoons for children are factual.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

God I wish my network in Canada still supported Fairphones. My last Fairphone just stopped connecting to cellular service one day, which I probably should have expected given it's European bands only.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Arguably that's because they were basically conquered and made a vassal of the country that dropped bombs on them.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

The cool thing about this is you can just arbitrarily pick which part of the cycle you consider the "start" of the conflict in case you want to selectively accuse one side of being the aggressor.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do they have DRM or something? I hope not. But if it doesn't, what's stopping anyone who bought the asset from uploading it somewhere else?

This is an issue with open source app/resource stores that to my knowledge no one has solved. If you stay true to the Free (as in freedom) software philosophy, then you can't really put anything in to enforce paid access to something, and even if you do, anyone with a text editor can just take that code out. But if you just let anyone who buys it redistribute it for free, you're not going to attract many sellers because they wouldn't trust their content to remain paid access only. Add to the fact that paid content is inheretly proprietary, or at the very least, the author certainly wouldn't choose to put Free as in freedom licenses on their content because that would literally legally allow anyone to redistribute it for free.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It's the correct amount of paranoia. The issue is society has normalized completely not giving a shit about your own privacy to the point where any attempt at preserving it is seen as abnormal.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Reading it back I can see how I might have come off as arguing with the OP. I had just intended to add some context in general around why "straight pride" isn't a generally accepted thing but gay pride is, because whenever this comes up you usually get at least one person asking "what, so we're supposed to be ashamed of being straight now? That's just discrimination in reverse!”

 

For context, Water Street in Vancouver looks like it was taken straight out of Paris or Amsterdam. It's one of the oldest parts of the city and one of the few streets that were developed before cars. It should be an absolute no brainier to make it car free permanently, but carbrained North American city council gonna carbrain. This is less than the bare minimum and is absolutely not praiseworthy.

More importantly, they're proposing it to be car free on the day with the least transit service and what little there is randomly gets delayed or cancelled without notice. Great idea!

Seriously, as someone who exclusively uses transit in Vancouver, the weekend service is infuriating and basically unusable if you're under any sort of time pressure. You show up at a bus station, transit app says the next one is in 30 minutes when it would be 5-10 minutes on weekdays. So you resign yourself to a 30 minute wait only for the bus to not show up with zero announcements, even though they're pretty good at notifying you of these things on weekdays. So now you have to wait for the next one in an hour, which might not show up either, and when it does, it's packed to the brim because it's carrying three buses worth of passengers and the driver puts on the "sorry bus full" sign and refuses to let you on even when several people get off at the same stop. It's genuinely like they want you to drive on the weekend.

Calling it now: when car free Sundays inevitably flop because no one wants to bother with the shitty weekend transit, city council will go "see? car free streets never work!" And it will be used to shoot down every subsequent car free initiative. Wonder if that was their plan in the first place.

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