So, the people who were contempting of the “insignificance” of all those leaks … were actually correct?

How startling!

/s

It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.

Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way…

while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don’t want…

Remember, it isn’t only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.

Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I’m not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.

I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.

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0.0000000021g/kg

or 0.0000000000021kg/kg, if you wanted the same units both sides…

( I’m presuming this was your last-line’s request )

IF you’ve a high-efficiency charger, then I’d say it’s probably more-efficient to use that charger.

The warmer you run your computer, the less-efficient it becomes, & the shorter the lifespan of the hottest chips in it ( this effect shouldn’t be significant )

e.g. increasing a CPU by 10Celsius should cut its lifespan in half.

by having more heat-generating-stuff going on in your computer, you impair the cooling of your CPU & GPU ( slightly, probably ), & that may affect your computer’s time-to-failure.

Fan-bearings may dry-out sooner, too.

hth, eh?

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We’re already IN the 6th great extinction: humans ARE exterminating the marine & terrestrial ecologies.

The amount of power you could pull from a single square metre of solar on the roof wouldn’t increase your range meaningfully.

What it would do, is that you could possibly keep your starter-battery from going dead-flat if you left your car alone for a 1/2 month, in the summer ( snow would cover it, obviously ), & since bringing a lead-acid battery to dead-flat permanently-damages it, this would prevent costly problems for the car-owners.

( this happened to a friend with a Prius: had to replace the battery, and the damned thing was inside the rear wheel-well??? in a little compartment.

Origami-engineering’s … simultaneously incredible & stupidly-frustrating )

I’ve held for years that they should be doing it to keep the starter-battery trickle-charging, but … why make the customers have fewer costly/frustrating problems?

some brain damage: malnutrition tends to aggravate or cause brain damage.

I’m a brain damage survivor: it sucks, it takes decades to undo ( neuroplasticity takes time to do rewiring ), and life is never going to be what it could have been.

Don’t damage people’s brains.

'tis a good rule, eh?

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Canuck is what we call ourselfs, eh?

: P

Space-suits must operate this way, if inadvertently…

The number of decibels at the rocket-nozzles is waaay higher than what it would be “at the top of the candle”, but … there’s pretty-much nothing in Nature as loud as those things are, except meteorites, maybe some volcanoes, being inside of lightning, etc…

Keep in mind that some people just have brain-defects.

I’m defective for social-process ( if I could live somehow where I never had to meet another human-being, or never had to even be within 100km of any human-being, only interacting online, … for the rest of my life … lower stress … yeah : )

but not defective for some other things, maybe.

Some people are color-blind, some dyslexic, some are screwed for spelling, some for grammar.

Diversity’s more real than I’d ever understood, when I was young…

Evolution’s concerned with getting the average right, right?

The individual can be … chaotically a mixture of better-at-this & moar-worser-at-that, while still keeping the average … average.

: )

The “stubby” bottles were replaced with tall “classier” bottles in a surge of … fashion-moment, or something.

I remember somebody did a news vid, or documentary on it, & the industry lost usable-storage-effectiveness when they went with the taller bottles, and there’s more glass in them, too…

They said if they’d known what the actual results would be ( it didn’t alter the market to increase the percentage of the population which is always buying beer, for some reason… ), they wouldn’t have done it.

Well, Duh…

“never believe your own hype” IS a rule, because when you’re believing your own marketing-bumf, then you’re not competent at calculating any sort of project balance-sheet, right?

Poor guy:

His health’s likely irrecoverably-fucked, now.

NASA did a twins-study, with 1 up there, & 1 down here, to discern, better, the costs of being up there…

there’s plenty of evidence: it eats your health.

wishing him well…

They are creative, though:

They put things that are “near” each-other into juxtaposition, and sometimes the insights are astonishing.

The AI’s don’t understand anything, though: they’re like bacteria-instinct: total autopilot.

The real problem is that we humans aren’t able to default to understanding such non-understanding apparent-someones.

We’ve created a “hack” of our entire mental-system, and it is the money-profit-rules-the-world group which controls its evolution.

This is called “Darwin Award territory”, at the species-scale.

No matter:

The Great Filter, which is what happens when a world-species hasn’t grown-up, but gains adult-level technology ( nukes, entire-country-destroying-militaries, biotech, neurotoxins, immense industrial toxic wastelands like the former USSR, accountability-denial-mechanisms in all corporate “persons”, etc… )

you have a toddler with a loaded gun, & killing can happen.

“there’s no such thing as a dangerous gun: only a dangerous man”, as the book “Starship Troopers” pushed…

Toddlers with guns KILL people in the US.

AI’s our “gun”, & narcissistic-sociopathy’s our “toddler commanding the ship” nature.

Maybe we should rename Earth to “The Titanic”, for honesty’s sake…

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And if she can’t yet draw, then please get her to invest in:

• “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition”, by Betty Edwards
• all the tools recommended in that book
• a charcoals assortment ( I’ve no idea why Betty Edwards doesn’t understand how much easier it makes it to learn?! )
• “The Simple Secret To Better Painting”
• “Mastering Composition”

and then dig-in.

The 1st book many know-about.

The 2nd, much-fewer do, so the advantage that someone has, when they’ve earned the meanings of both, becomes noticeable…

The 3rd? That’s University-level better.

Nobody who’s earned the meanings of all-3 is likely to remain at the bottom-of-the-heap in artwork…

The 1st 2 books, however, are required for competing well.

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There was a subreddit … something like “hits worth turking for” or something like that??

“worth turking for” was part of its name, iirc…

There might be other communities identifying higher-paying items, perhaps a Lemmy devoted to that?

Perplexity may be able to find something of the sort…

just hoping that their right-answer finds them, is all!

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I understand both you position, and the position of those who attacked you with downvotes…

Please read some of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales…

written in the late 1300’s…

Different classes were fighting over the validity of the word “ain’t” back then.

That is STILL an ongoing class-war!

As for “anyway” vs “any way”, there is a consistent force pushing simplification of terminology that is most-commonly-used, hence what used to be separate words, becomes hyphenated, then fused, as a natural progression in language…

( my hyphenation has nothing to do with that: its simply that having to translate between thoughtshapes & English mouth-words is sooo damn limiting, & I’m trying to communicate the closeness-of-relation between groups-of-words, & show how some are more interwoven, but others aren’t.

Inescapable translation can suck, & be exhausting. )

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PS: I’d left this implied, but it ought be explained…

IF the current-powers-that-be can just print money to make a fake “good economy”,

THEN why can’t we do so, too?

You might know that nearly-all of the US currency was created very-recently…

You might know that when you double the amount of currency, you halve the value of each unit of that currency ( this is the essence of “inflation” )

The money printer is essentially how the US has been “managing” its economy: print money REALLY fast, & hope that nobody notices while the shell-games go on, changing ownerships, rigging corporations, etc…

but when it all comes crashing down, then … accountability will just go POOF!, same like usual, with institutional-authority…

https://forexsignalsystemtrading.blogspot.com/2020/11/100-years-of-debt-in-half-year.html?m=1

Scroll-down a bit, & see the graph with the pale-blue color on it… look at that graph, which shows how the amount of US money in circulation nearly-doubled in 2020…

The lead line in that article is important, too: 100y of debt gained in 1/2y.

Corrupt authority, both private & public, won’t ever tolerate either accountability or responsibility…

it’s the others who will be forced to pay, of course…

However, misregulation, disregulation, & bald-faced corruption do make the damage happen faster.

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The opposites might be:

• centered-in-appearances/distractions
• centered in one’s profoundest-fundamentallest-awareness

Framing it that way, then yoga-practice augmented meditation would be as IRL as one could get, for meditators…

and RMind-mode sentience, a sentience where words-communication doesn’t even exist as an appendage of one’s mind , where ONLY what-is is real, and this is reachable through working-through the exercises in Betty Edwards’ “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition”, but use charcoals, I’ve no idea why she doesn’t understand how much better they work to help facilitate the hemisphere-dominance-shift into right-hemisphere-dominance-mode…

that timeless sentience is … inexpressible in symbol-streams, which is what the “online” experience holds reality to itself be…

The people who proclaim that RMind is just pop-psychology bunk have never done the experiment , AND won’t do the experiment , AND they refuse to differentiate between scrawlings done in LMind & the actually-visible-different-results of RMind

https://www.drawright.com/before-after

allows you to use the “prev” & “next” buttons to scroll through a gallery showing the sentience-difference, the what-actually-is centrism of RMind.

Those horrid scrawlings that used to populate New Scientist magazine, back when I subscribed, had nothing to do with right-hemisphere-dominance-mode.

Those who “debunk” RMind do so using Scientism’s method of substitution-of-the-actual-question:

they test scrawling, measure that it isn’t different from normal LMind, then pretend that that “proves” RMind doesn’t exist.

See those image-pairs, in that gallery, though: that is EVIDENCE, which is supposed to be the basis of real Science.

Do the experiment, & it’ll open an entire dimension of meaning in your life, that “education” had blocked-out from most lives, quite effectively.

( I’m autistic: what her “killer class” can do with a neurotypical in 5 days, took me 3 YEARS to equal, because sentience-mode-shift made me want to scream.

I dropped it.

Now I’m trying to re-learn, and it’s grindingly slow.

Better grindingly slow than dead, however, eh? : )

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Remember Feynman’s criticism of NASA’s producing of the space shuttle disaster?

~ engineering culture is founded on … you have to prove it is safe.

business culture is founded on … you have to prove it’s dangerous.

NASA, in adopting business culture, guaranteed that something of this kind would inevitably happen.

it did. ~

You can play the same recording, and all the organizations which are so “institutional mentality”, ie their heads sooo far up their institutional asses, that they “need to do a reality-check”…

and nothing is going to change, until we’re gone.

We WON’T learn, right?

Universe, therefore, has the obligation to continue escalating the damage, until our collective-unconscious “changes its mind” about won’t-learn.

Or we become extinguished, whichever…

given how ClimatePunctuation’s escalating all the political-ideology-rabies & all the religious-ideology-rabies, AND throwing-in food-insecurity, survival-in-insane-temperature-waves, chaotic megadroughts, floodings, extra hurricanes, etc…

I’m not expecting the “ok, we’ll learn now!” option to happen in time.

You have to want to earn unconscious-mind learning, to have earning of it, right??