100% of SMS usage for me last N+1 years is for OTPs and such

Yes those ones.

Like the IS Government? Fuck 'em

I am not looking for software alternatives.

Ok then

Is the best method still to dual boot?

No, the best method is Windows or Mac…

i didn’t want to do that, so just i changed to Darktable. It’s more ppwerful then LR but that power brings a bunch of differences.

Everything ? I though MS Office woukd fail becase no one will want to close source their data files, i was using an Amiga at the time at home and the file format was standard and you chose the app to use

It started there and just progressed, Apple was a big one, people won’t buy into their closed wall’d shenanigans. Wrong again.

Messaging, what a debacle that has turned into. I assumed the system would be standardised and the fight would be over the front end for interoperability, wrong again.

So the takeaway here is we need to invade the US , batter them into submission before they’ll become reflective and apologetic ? Similarly Russia, and Israel i guess

But never the stories about the “acceptable” public.

Plumbers, electricians, weapon factory supervisors, miners, grocery store managers.

And I’m learning it by experiencing it now.

I’d not say I get opinions from but some experts I watch, read, listen to to form opinions.

Professor Kevin Anderson, James Hansen and Will Steffan (RIP) (climate change)

Professor Brian Cox and Richard Feynman RIP (physics amd astro pbysics. I can listen to Richard all day :)

Sam Harris “philosophy” (he’s also a neuroscientist)

James Galbraith, Yanis Varoufakis and Thomas Piketty (Economics)

General medical podcast with Dr Norman Swan

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport

General science podcast

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ockhamsrazor

There’s a bunch of others in biology, earth sciences etc as well.

So, technically, with a lot of word pushing, there are socialist speed bumps

And so is the road

Heck! Human meat tastes like pork

If the TV show Whitechapel taught me anything , it’s that human meat does NOT taste like pork.

Short version - there’s too many elderly people in China and not enough working age so the economy is suffering

More children is never the answer becase all that does is kick the can down the road, in 30 years time they’d have 3 billion and a shit ton more elderly, so wjat then doibke down and make even more kids ?

We can already see if we empower women and let them choose they’ll mostly have 0,1 or 2 kids. The only other solution is to force women to breed and have no choice (religious scum fuckery). Even the nordics with way better supoort for women and childbirth etc are still less then 2.1

We’re better off learning lessons from xenophobic counties like Sth Korea and Japan and seeing what solutions work in regards poulation degrowth, becase every country will eventually face this issue

This contlstat framing of less people on the planet as a bad thing is ridiculous, should we have 1000 billion and all stand shoulder to shoulder ? How tobdecide ? there is some sort of sustainable level, why not let those expert in the area advise us ? if you do that, the number is less then a billion. Classical and neo liberal Econonics should play no part in the debate.

Not rich enough

it was one of the most important breakthroughs to date in fusion

What ? It was not really. Here’s a physicist discussing why.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/

In the end, the NIF fusion accomplishment might be called a stunt. Stunts explore what we can do (often after an insane amount of preparation, practice, and failure), rather than what’s practical. Stunts hide the pains and present an appearance of ease and grace, but it’s a show.

The “more energy out than laser energy in” equation masks several fundamental problems. NIF’s doped glass lasers have an efficiency of about 0.5 percent, meaning that they would have sucked in roughly 400 megajoules of energy from the grid in order to produce the 2.1 megajoules of light energy…

To be fair the hype machine was from the press not the scientists

Let’s pause to say: well done! Honestly. No sarcasm. What they did was ridiculously hard, and it finally worked after more than a decade of trying. They actually produced a significant number of fusion events! There’s no faking that, and I’d like to see you try. So let’s be clear that I’m not knocking the accomplishment in itself. My major beef is how we interpret the implications for society.

Started year 5 on this one, if the batteey was user replaceable, I’d so that and keep using it.

I come from a long line of immigrants.

As are nearly all of us.

If you don’t shit, you die!

Well, that was a read ? Soinded like an awesome experience though.

Good news!

To give this some context, to be in the richest 1% for income, you need to earn about $80k USD equivalent per year or have a net wealth of about $1.2Million USD equivalent.

https://daadscholarship.com/how-much-money-need-to-earn-to-join-top-1-of-the-world-in-2025/

Our annual emissions per person for a sustainable emsiions budget is aboit 2-3t per year. Mostly were relying on the poor to do their bit eg the average Ethipoan emits aboit 0.2t per year. The average American about 15t.

Anyone who owns a large dog, or flys, or eats lots of beef, or drives a car is emitting morw then theiir share

We could start by banning all flying.

As Professor Kevin Anderson has talked of often, if we had the richest 10% live like the average European we could cut emissions by 40%, not enough but a good start and could be easiely implemented in a month.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

Kind of the opposite, it can be depressing recognising the lack of shits given.

Tesla is the most popular car purchase in Norway for eample and is extrmely popular here in Australia. People still use Reddit, X, iMessage, Facebook erc etc. My neighbour uses Stralink when we have a local 400/80 service available. 90% literally don’t give a shit.

But thats the same with everything, Mastodon and X as well.

Hell, even Governments like mine here in Australia use that shitty platdorm. Why there is no gov.au Mastodon server I don’t know.