Don’t do what this person says it will damage your computer, computers are delicate electrical devices therefore much more akin to fish and should be submerged completely

Wow your country sounds horrible and toxic, I hope things get better and it evolves to the point where people can live their own lives without needless bullying and abuse for trivial things.

About 27 bees, assuming we’re talking the new spring of 2024 giant bees

Yeah I could never get into everything being spread around and jumbled up, I have my own rapid and jumbled stream of intrusive and inane thoughts, I don’t need to see everyone else’s.

Really though I just hope the people who enjoy it find a good replacement, because if those idiots start shitting up the rest of my internets I’ll be pissed.

Conspiracy loons are wild on Facebook so I know what you mean, it’s so hard not to poke them occasionally. I like that the feed is so broken you just start getting the most insane things - block as many shitty pages as you can, like all the ones that post about how a guy with one leg drove a truck 19 hours a day to pay for his grandsons double cancer so that means poor people shouldn’t get hand outs. Then you start getting into the real weeds, oh and block the bot farm ones, you’ll recognise them they post pickles comics and no human could bring themselves to do that.

When you start seeing Indian mechanical engineering memes like ‘how to design flat roof pitch common mistake 💯 slope degree 13.5° ☑️’ you’re getting close, you’ll start seeing things like ‘today it takes us two years to build a family home but ancient people could do it in three weeks’ the comments will be full of people who know every facet of whatever conspiracies the post is somehow referencing, which is normally a lot.

‘normies don’t realize how much easier life was when we had sonic resonance construction tools, if they did they’d rotate the sixth tower of Thomas Tesla to reopen the Elizabethan Toltec free energy portal’ and you think they’re just in their own world but everyone will be replying ‘yeah, robin Williams was killed because if you watch Mrs doubtfire at the same time as eyes wide shut the dialog syncs up and they warn biden will cover up the free energy machine’

Except of course they can say it in 20,000 words if they feel like it.

Exactly, and thousands of other highly educated and skilled people - I can’t think of anything worse than having to put up with Elon then getting told your life’s work is rubbish just because he’s associated with the company you work for.

SpaceX has been doing incredibly well at rockets, just because you only know about tests that ended in explosions doesn’t mean that’s how everything goes

You hate musk, I get it but that doesn’t mean everything he associated with is automatically bad

This is a common confusion though when people say serfs worked only half the year that is working for their owner and doesn’t include all the other work they need to do to live - to actually eat and have a basic life involved a lot of toil.

Of course not for rich people but that’s never changed.

Will humanity ever stop repeating tired old jokes from monty python and Douglas Adams?

If yes I can die happy that things get better, if no I can welcome oblivion with joy

If you’re trying to say the way ryker throws his leg over a chair is the cause of me becoming a communist programmer then I have to tell you that you are sorely accurate.

Babylon 5 is our last best hope, or we could look further afield - Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive far, far away, amongst the stars.

Jesus, just call me out by name if you’re going to be so specific

I think you’re selling freedom short, yeah convenience and momentum are hard to beat but Lemmy is where the open source Devs are and the first adopters, I think we’re gonna go see a lot of interesting things emerge here which will draw a lot of users into trying it out - especially if all the other social media sites are closing their doors to people without accounts from viewing information.

What Lemmy needs is it’s own version of place, not the same thing but things that are fun and novel and community building. The basic stuff is still getting finalized but as things get established we’ll see plenty of tools made to help moderation, to enable new features and useful ways of interacting with information. Hopefully some fun games and toys too.

I’ve got a lot of work to do on my main project at the moment but I’ve also got a lot of ideas for Lemmy stuff I want to play with when I’ve got the time, I’m sure theres a lot of other people cooking up ideas and watching things develop and stabilize waiting for the right time.

Yeah people have painfully simple thinking about it, but the same is true for what you say about a slow green transition - yes we should go faster and put more effort in but we are actually moving impressively fast in most areas.

Debt is ok if it translates to more income later, in national terms income really means production potential and that increased ability to produce things should result in a better standard of living for the people who make up the country. This is why it’s such a problem when the rich just take it all for absurd luxuries.

The current rate of green technology transition is better than it looks for a similar theoretical reason, most the real effort is currently being spent on developing technology and building infrastructural backbones like the huge grid connection cabels out to areas suitable for large scale renewable projects. Plenty of turbines and solar farms are getting built of course with new supply chains, tooling methods, and working principles being developed as we go. The price, both economic and environmental of putting in wind and solar has dropped dramatically and continues to.

There’s a lot of research projects that should be getting more funding and a lot of oil, coal and gas money that should be going to building renewables but there is a lot of funding going to great projects and as we get better tooling to manufacture the parts and install them the rate of adoption is going to skyrocket.

If we invest in building the tools then we’ll be making wind turbines out of sequestered carbon and putting them up quicker then you can count them. If we invest everything in increasing capacity it’ll end up in a whole load of low quality things getting made in processes that do more harm to the environment than of we hadn’t bothered.

Of course consumer adoption is a huge thing and we should all get solar panels end whatever else we can but we also need to acknowledge the good things being done, praise them and call for more.

Only if you like cold barren rock, there’s plenty of those already - isn’t it nice to have an interesting one with lots of stuff happening?

That’s such a myopic view, it’s given everyone the chance to speak and learn from each other which has resulted in a lot of shared understanding and growth.

You just want to sweep all the social problems back under the rug simply because you don’t like seeing them.

I wonder if you’d carve out an exception for yourself, like you’re using social media now - are you banning this conversation too?

Are you really trying to deny reality here? I understand you hate China and am even willing to belive it’s ideological and not entirely racist but pretending they’re not a global manufacturing powerhouse is next level nuts.

Yeah they’d be shocked that someone rich enough to run for president could be accused of rape ‘why didn’t he just have the girl committed to an asylum to keep her quiet?’

Give them a gay son marrying his partner, really blow some heads.

It’s an interesting one, the Tom Swift series from around 1910 has him in rocket ships using wireless photo telephones, electric rifles, and all sorts of sci-fi before world war one - it doesn’t have many female characters, certainly no gay characters.

There is a suffragette character arguing for the right to vote in the 1910 novel, a right women wouldn’t gain for another ten years in the USA - so a hundred years ago they were in an era where the start of social change is beginning but to what extent people would expect that to continue is hard to say.

Metropolis is an interesting example too because they did have more advanced AI than we currently have - the maschinenmench Maria; an often submissive, vulnerable, emotional, manipulative, motherly and generally very stereotypically (for the time) feminine character.

I think people in the 1920s expected in the next century technology to advance a hundred miles and social issues to change maybe an inch. I can think of sci-fi from that era with black characters but none with an expectation of civil rights for those black characters.