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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All of these are individual actions. I'd add organizing with other folks trying to make a difference. Direct action or political advocacy can have a much more significant effect than an individual acting alone.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

It's estimated 27 million Russians died during WW2. OP is saying that number is attributable to Hitler. The best estimate given the revealed USSR archives, emigres, and informants puts deaths directly caused or the result of neglect attributable to Stalin is 6.5 million.

Basically the first half of the meme is anticommunist, misinformation that ignores the deaths caused by fascists.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I think it has more to do with all that evaluation being propped up by the idea that AI will be massively profitable. All the things you mention were true five years ago when their evaluation was less ridiculous. When Nvidia's stock evaluation falls they'll be fine. I think the rest of the market is going to take a big hit and I expect a recession is inevitable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My partner's iPhone is six years old. We're going to replace it soon because it stopped receiving security updates. She'd keep using it until it completely bricked otherwise.

I appreciate they're some of the best around for longevity but I wish they'd push further. I have a Fairphone and their firmware support is the same so it's frustrating that there's not really an alternative here.

I wish more devices would move in the Framework laptop direction, where hardware can be upgraded and old hardware can be repurposed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

That doesn't help you understand his supporters though. You have to wade in the shit they call news. You have to hear what they say to begin to understand them.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 7 months ago (9 children)

You're in a media bubble. It feels like there's no way anyone could see it differently. The people who disagree with you are also in a media bubble and don't understand how you could believe what you do.

For everything you said they

  • don't believe happened
  • think it was a deep state plot
  • believe it's good actually and believing anything else means you want to kill babies or destroy the economy
  • have never heard of it

Reality may have a leftist bias but most people don't live in reality. Most people live in a reality constructed by corporate media. Social media is largely derivative of it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago

"I don't even know you. You're not the man I married 5 years ago."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

China's energy grid is about 80% fossil fuels. Assuming their energy mixture remains unchanged (a bad assumption as their coal usage is on the decline) it would take about 65,000 miles for an EV's carbon output to break even with an equivalent ICE vehicle.

The waste and suffering involved in carbon intensive fuels is ongoing instead of being single event. One benefit of renewable tech is the recyclability of it's components. Once we're made the battery it can be recycled and died not require ongoing extractive mining forever.

EVs have a place in a just future and can do some good at this time. Alternatives to cars are still a far more important and uncomplicated solution to our climate problems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Direct action gets the goods

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Basically.

For example, tens of thousands of people die every year in the US because of inadequate access to health care. Universal payer would be cheaper and result in fewer preventable deaths. Centrists do not support the policy and thus are willing to let people die in order to support the parasitic insurance industry.

The genocide in Gaza, homelessness, prison industrial complex, climate change, etc. all get people killed in preventable ways. But we have to protect the owner class so we're not going to do any of the clear solutions. Letting people die needlessly is an acceptable result.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Explain Like I'm Five

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Libro.fm for stuff not at the library

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