rektdeckard

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[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

...and this chart stops at 2012

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

I may be wrong and lack any historical knowledge on the subject, but I think author is sarcastically self-identifying as a tankie?

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Author is one step away from the realization that Capitalism is the culprit, and technology is just the vector.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The further you look in the sky, the further back in time you are looking as well -- there is no way to see what far way looks like "right now". This image shows the visible universe as it appears from our perspective in spacetime, which necessarily smears together the "where", "what", and "when" of it all, but also shows the evolution through time of some of the larger structures.

The tendril things that converge into single celestial objects are clouds of gas condensing to form galaxies and clusters over billions of years.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with this interface, but it looks to me like it is saying Google was doing the tracking. Could this be tracking attempts made from a web view opened while using Sync, and not the actual Sync app itself? I want so badly to believe they are more privacy conscious than that. Love the app, been using it since it first came out for Reddit. Solo dev IIRC.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pay it because if you don't pay it they might come and make you pay it? Poor argument.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's a native restaurant near me that is kinda like the equivalent of Chipotle for American Indian cuisine, and it's fantastic. The owners are members of the Osage Nation and have had a few restaurants since the 90s. Really happy for them that they recently expanded to also have a food truck and catering business, as well as a little satellite location at a nearby ski mountain.

I can't do much to help undo the genocide and cultural erasure, but I damn well take everybody I know to that restaurant.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Easy, they're the powerhouse of the cell.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry but no? "Voters" means the same thing in both cases, that's how statistics works. You take a small subset of people and try to control for as much as possible to make it an accurate representation of the greater population. Nobody actually knows what Voters in the abstract think if they don't vote or answer polls

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yes. And the original poll estimated that 41% of voters under 30 approved of Mangione's actions. My point is statistics are more valuable and informative when you try your best to compare apples to apples.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yes but a more direct comparison would be to voters under 30. Around 46% of 18-29 yr. olds supported Trump.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am not in academia but did participate in published research both in college and in a job as a lab assistant afterward. I don't really think your analogy holds up. There is literally no cost to such a change; scientists just need to start READING and CITING papers from free, alternative journals for them to be legitimized. The profit incentives of the universities, private industry, and government that fund the majority of research are not affected by the choice of the medium of exchange of ideas. Only the journals' pockets.

 

Having never owned a house or really had a yard of my own, I got pretty excited and decided to do some ad-hoc landscaping. Built some raised beds for vegetables, and just laying in some organic shaped in-ground beds for low water decorative plants. Gonna fill the rest in with gravel. Any pointers?

 
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