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Kalcifer

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Kalcifer , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer
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Those micrometeors aren’t mostly aluminium.

Do you have a source for that? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I've found a number of sources that show that meteorites contain aluminum:

To be fair, I don't think any of those claim that any meteorites are "mostly" aluminum. But is that a true requirement?

Kalcifer , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer
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Natural Gas rockets? What a small step for man, massive step back for mankind.

Why do you dislike methane as a fuel? Also, in case you were unaware, as a side note, SpaceX's newest rocket, which is currently under active development, Starship and Super Heavy, uses methane as a fuel.

Kalcifer , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer
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Best be hoping Tesla collapses

Why?

Kalcifer , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer
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That's an interesting idea to consider (if I understand you correctly in that you are stating that there should be a central research authority that regulates what companies are allowed to do). Though, I wonder if it's still better to sue for damages after the fact and create regulations to cover the oversight. There's also the issue of data — you can't exactly study an issue before it exists. If you are instead inferring that a company should conduct this sort of safety research themselves, it creates a sort of prisoner's dilemma: companies wouldn't be to keen on sharing their research with others, and if they are forced to, a company wouldn't want to be the one to waste the money on it for others to profit off of.

I'd also like to note that this sort of regulation has no business being the decision of a single country, but, instead, it should be the decision of a global government, as it is an issue that affects the whole planet. How such a global government should be structured, though, I am not yet certain. The UN doesn't exactly cut it.

Kalcifer , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer
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I question the potentially sensationalist title. Why specifically target "Elon Musk"? Would it not be more accurate to pin the responsibility on the entirety of SpaceX? I could certainly be mistaken, but I feel that the decisions made at SpaceX are not only Elon's.

Kalcifer , (edited ) to Lefty Memes in Education
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That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.

You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .

Did you not read my previous message? Or did you, perhaps, misinterpret it? My original thesis was "under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.", which you claimed was impossible. I then provided a simple example for why it was not impossible. You seem to perhaps take issue with the example's idealistic nature, but the original thesis was idealistic, so I'm not sure why there would be an issue with that. This is purely a conceptual discussion — my statement wasn't making a claim about how effective regulation is at ensuring adequate competition. So I'm not really sure where the issue lies.

And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.

Monopolies appear to be the natural end result of a true free market — that is, a market with no regulation. Capitalism simply describes a competitive market. To that end, note that a monopolistic market — ie an anticompetitive market — is, by definition, not capitalist. In practice, to ensure fair competition, a central governing body is required.

Kalcifer OP , to General Discussion in When responding to a comment with multiple points, should one create a new thread (new comment) for each point, or should one make a single large comment containing individual responses to all points?
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I generally try and pick few of the strongest points and reply to those.

This is one possibility, but it's quite flawed, as you end up losing portions of the conversation.

It’s impossible to debate someone who replies back as you demonstrated above.

It may require more effort, but it's far from impossible. And that's precisely the reason why I outlined the second alternative that has atomic comments.

Kalcifer , to Solarpunk Farming in Questions about rain water collecting
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One thing that's important to be aware of is that some regions have laws that prohibit the collection of rainwater. So be sure to check the laws that apply to your region.

Kalcifer , to Asklemmy in What's your favorite underrated band?
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I'm not sure if they count as underrated, but the band that immediately comes to mind is The Dear Hunter.

Kalcifer , to Ask Lemmy in What is your favourite poem, and why?
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Yeah, Alison Tifel wrote the episode "The View From Halfway Down", which is what this poem is from and shares the same name with.

Kalcifer , (edited ) to Ask Lemmy in What is your favourite poem, and why?
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"The View From Halfway Down" by Alison Tifel has always resonated with me:

The weak breeze whispers nothing
The water screams sublime
His feet shift, teeter-totter
Deep breath, stand back, it’s time

Toes untouch the overpass
Soon he’s water bound
Eyes locked shut but peek to see
The view from halfway down

A little wind, a summer sun
A river rich and regal
A flood of fond endorphins
Brings a calm that knows no equal

You’re flying now
You see things much more clear than from the ground
It’s all okay, it would be
Were you not now halfway down

Thrash to break from gravity
What now could slow the drop
All I’d give for toes to touch
The safety back at top

But this is it, the deed is done
Silence drowns the sound
Before I leaped I should’ve seen
The view from halfway down

I really should’ve thought about
The view from halfway down
I wish I could’ve known about
The view from halfway down

Kalcifer , to Lemmy in Lemmy v0.19.4 Release - Image Proxying and Federation improvements
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Local Only Communities

Local communities are an interesting concept, though I am concerned about unintended side effects. I have noticed many times that people from other instances chime in to meta-communities to provide some alternative viewpoints and context when instances are discussing interactions with the rest of the network. I worry that some will become too isolated/sheltered. But I suppose, in the end, that's ultimately up to the individual instances to decide.

Lemmy can now federate with Wordpress, Discourse and NodeBB.

Increased federation capabilities is always awesome to see!

In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts. The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to /c/lemmy will automatically have the hashtag #lemmy. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.

This is a clever solution. I think this is a good way to go about it.

RSS feeds now include post thumbnail and embedded images.Security

I really appreciate the continued attention given to keep RSS alive.

A security audit was recently performed on Lemmy.

Awesome! And congrats!

  • Added Community local_subscribers count
  • Support for custom post thumbnail
  • Indicate to user when they are banned from community
  • Added alt_text for image posts

Great features for improving the polish and user experience on Lemmy!

Kalcifer , to You Should Know in YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
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There is no issue with either. I fully support civil criticism and discussion. And I also support users moving to a place where they feel a better sense of community. I think it's wrong to force people to interact with those that they don't wish to. This is why the fediverse exists — to remove centralized control over the discourse.

Kalcifer , to You Should Know in YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
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the devs have absolutely no say over how the software being used

According to some recent posts, ML admins (and maybe even mods?) have the ability to erase any record of mod actions, for example disappearing critique of the CCP's brutal actions in Tiananmen Square that were posted on ML. That left no record in the public mod logs, and the users were never informed that their contributions had been (completely) deleted.

That isn't an example of them having a say over how people use the software. That's them using their own property as they wish.

Kalcifer , (edited ) to You Should Know in YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
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I have Lemmy.ml blocked and I still see them in other communities all the time.

If that's the case, then that may be a bug. I advise you to report that.

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