TeddE

TeddE , 4 days ago

Pascal was a famous thinker of their time, particularly in mathematics.

Two of the ideas they're remembered for are Pascals Triangle and Pascals Wager.

Their triangle is a helpful tool for combinations of things. Their wager is a (kinda bad in my opinion) argument for why you should believe in the Christian God.

The xkcd comic is a combination of both ideas

TeddE , 9 days ago

You can review blocked instances here:

https://lemmy.world/instances

As for why? You're absolutely right, this is often over political issues(drama, censorship, values, etc), sometimes technical ones, and there's no guarantee that your instance's mods goals are aligned with yours. In a healthy instance, you can search for the name of a blocked instance and find a relevant post about why it was blocked.

There are also blocklists:
https://gardenfence.github.io/
I don't know offhand if Lemmy.world makes use of them.

You can, of course, go to the blocked instance as a guest, to investigate or validate your mods' claims, but a blocked instance will not shoot up on your page.

TeddE , 11 days ago

A demon core was part of early nuclear bomb research. The type of reaction they were studying would emit blue light and a ton of radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

It's been a meme to imagine the demon core as an available weapon in medieval fantasy, since it looks somewhat like a mace.

TeddE , 17 days ago

Me too, but the pessimist in me thinks that the fine will work out to a 0.1% cost of doing business tax. Then publicly pinkie promise that they'll never do it again, while not stopping and showing no signs of stopping. 😓🙄😮‍💨

TeddE , 24 days ago

A slightly less naive take is that we're getting these statements on public record, so that we can take action on them later (assuming that day ever comes 😓)

TeddE , 24 days ago

Impeachment by a future Congress was what I had in mind loosely. But I'm just one(1) person and not an expert on the subject. I suspect there may be options I do not see, but keeping a record is important to any future action on the matter.

TeddE , 1 month ago

Top comment from the linked page:

"Looks like the book only included the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Those two amendments were not specifically excluded. This is rage bait. "

https://lemmy.world/comment/10079708

TeddE , 1 month ago

This one features the number 19.

TeddE , 1 month ago

Reliable public transport with a robust interstate passenger railway system coupled with a well designed intracity bus system, along with well maintained biking paths everywhere else would go a long way to getting bad drivers off the road.

We can't get bad drivers off the road when basic everyday living requires driving. There are cost effective alternatives in use across the world. America just has to learn to accept good ideas that others have pioneered.

TeddE , 2 months ago

Agreed, the author simply asserts that brains are interactive as if that's some big gotcha. The whole idea of the vat is that the machine is complicated to handle these things, at least well enough for your own system.

Sanderson's short story 'Perfect State' actively explores the edge cases of what a simulation world would have to do to deal with 'i survived this thing that normally kills everyone'.

TeddE , 2 months ago

Correct. That or any number of similar things is the subtext of the Charlie Brown football gag meme. Lucy always, always yanks it away.

TeddE , 2 months ago

Checked post history. Shocking lack of noods.

TeddE , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Let's start simple: You should consider hoping from Linux Mint to LMDE if you haven't already.

As a user, you have no obligation to participate in the politics between the Ubuntu and the Mint Development team, but if you've followed the controversy and agree that Ubuntu is being a bully, this would be a small yet material way to show support.

what am I missing?

Every Linux distribution has a purpose - a reason its author thought it was worth the effort of creating it. Some are grand, others are silly, etc. When you explore distros, you're telling the community which ideas resonate with you. Popular ideas will replicate, unpopular ideas will be abandoned.

Also, switching distributions makes it harder for business to 'capture' the Linux demographic. The mere act of switching occasionally means that tools to import/export/manage your data stay relevant. This literally fights enshitification.

Finally, and this is a matter of personal taste, but I like trying different versions of Linux for the same reason I try different flavors of ice cream: It's fun; and even if now and then I get a bad flavor, I feel enriched by the experience.

(Edit: it's to its)