Posts by freakazoid@retro.social
(DIR) Post #AjanWnASa1qZWTqh9s by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-07-04T16:31:42Z
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@ajroach42 Restarted Pachli again and now it's showing a 50k character limit. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #Ajb0BbMEaqzuDXa9w0 by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-07-03T16:15:20Z
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@mekkaokereke I don't see any inkling of the stop using fossil fuels part. Our fossil fuel consumption hasn't peaked yet.
(DIR) Post #Ajb0BcPSgLAnTq6FbU by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-07-03T18:39:15Z
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@mekkaokereke Meanwhile, China brought 47.4GW of *new* coal fired electric generation online last year. We give them kudos for having installed more solar capacity than the rest of the world (217GW!), but it's not enough to satisfy even just the growth in their demand. Average lifespan of a coal plant is 46 years, so it's still plausible they'll shut down by 2060, but to be on track they have to build way more carbon-neutral generation capacity than their demand growth from here on out. Which would mean a peak this year, not 6 years from now.
(DIR) Post #Al1wPGr7VWf8ZEyKMy by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-08-15T17:13:26Z
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All of my follows on tech.lgbt somehow got removed. Not sure what would cause that, but folks there still show as following me. Not sure what's going on, but instead of re-following folks I'm just gonna go ahead and remove all my followers there. Feel free to re-follow once you've moved to an instance not run by racists.
(DIR) Post #AnhmT8zVzcCp4BI8ES by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-11-04T16:41:39Z
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Was trying to figure out how to protect stuff that's plugged into the wall from geomagnetic storms and realized I can just subscribe to geomagnetic storm alerts and unplug them before one hits.Doesn't help for HEMP except maybe for the E3 component, but that's just a matter of keeping my Baofeng HT and a shortwave radio and spare batteries in a foil-wrapped cardboard box inside a cardboard box inside a galvanized bucket with a tight-fitting lid.
(DIR) Post #Ao0Hvxha1kC4GhL4vQ by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-11-13T15:08:14Z
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@aral I love how when Israel blew past Biden's deadline for improving aid to Gaza his only response was to reiterate his steadfast support for them.We now know exactly who he and the Democrats are.
(DIR) Post #AoDMdbSV0uOEtZpTge by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-11-19T22:32:14Z
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@aral Time to stock up on roller skates.
(DIR) Post #AoiVoaKVmw53sCuwq0 by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-12-04T16:11:50Z
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@SpaceLifeForm Phone number is only used for the initial authentication. The safety number is supposed to help catch if someone's account gets hijacked, but nobody really pays attention to that, so there's no substitute for setting a password.Even if someone were to manage to hijack your account with a SIM swapping attack or something, they wouldn't get any of your chat history. I think they do get your contacts, though.@thegibson
(DIR) Post #AojefIxa5pkS8nnl7A by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-12-05T12:25:27Z
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@jimsalter I agree with this 100%. Do his kids deserve to inherit his money?We get lots od things in life we don't deserve. His victims are more important to me than his rich family.@lattera
(DIR) Post #Aol3eNjfXn16ftuXGC by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-12-05T22:04:45Z
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How come no mainstream media seems to have picked up on the fact that the photos the NYPD (ACAB) have released show guys in two different jackets? Seems like they're just finding other surveillance footage of people who vaguely look like the shooter.This is why mass surveillance is bad: it enables fishing expeditions like this and dramatically increases the chance innocent people will end up getting charged with crimes just because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong thing.
(DIR) Post #Aol3eOnbadl9yOlC2C by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-12-05T22:10:52Z
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No article even seems to show the different sets of photos together. They just focus on the "unmasked" photos with a guy wearing an obviously different jacket than the guy in the "masked" photos.
(DIR) Post #Aol3ePY2nyuGIQUHQ0 by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-12-05T22:21:38Z
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The guy whose face they show has:1. A different hood2. A different color jacket3. Breast pockets on his jacket4. A different color bag (which appears to be a duffel or messenger bag, not a backpack)5. A differently shaped nose6. Different eyebrowsNYPD are flat out lying.
(DIR) Post #Aol3eQJBygcWeeXvuK by freakazoid@retro.social
2024-12-05T22:25:28Z
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I suppose it's remotely possible that these are the same person, but by what means could anyone possibly conclude that they were? They have nothing in common.
(DIR) Post #ApugjGN0bjdEySNnRg by freakazoid@retro.social
2025-01-08T21:03:30Z
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The great filter: the intelligence level necessary to wipe out the species is significantly lower than the intelligence level necessary to not wipe out the species.
(DIR) Post #Aq3WWafyY6LP4IDE3M by freakazoid@retro.social
2025-01-14T00:11:16Z
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@tedu Wait, is Gates responsible for chemtrains in addition to this "global fog" thing?
(DIR) Post #At3agzh6FdagInxAYa by freakazoid@retro.social
2025-04-13T17:06:46Z
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Company towns are back in vogue.https://newrepublic.com/article/192741/trump-freedom-cities-company-towns
(DIR) Post #At3ah0kgJo39aCdXmK by freakazoid@retro.social
2025-04-13T17:14:52Z
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There is a striking parallel between these "freedom cities" and the "fortress cities" some fascist was predicting on John Robb's Discord. The idea is that the wealthy and their slaves will retreat behind walls in order to protect them from the people whose lives will get continually worse as civilization collapses.And given the ~20% true un(der)employment rate in the US and skyrocketing home prices, there will be plenty of incentive to go *be* a slave in one of these cities. Never mind that you have no protection if you are fired, and especially if you quit. At least people will have something *today*.
(DIR) Post #At3ah225YZZHYTmxY8 by freakazoid@retro.social
2025-04-13T17:18:30Z
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The article talks about scrip and points out that it's illegal, but that doesn't stop it from being used anyway. US tech widely pays its workers in scrip called "Restricted Stock Units" or "stock options". It can be more than half of a worker's compensation.
(DIR) Post #At3ah34xfNSang8lfM by freakazoid@retro.social
2025-04-13T17:50:12Z
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The flaw in at least the *fortress* city idea is that it's nearly impossible to make a city self-sufficient, as walled cities throughout the ages have learned the hard way. A city is only as secure as its supply lines.
(DIR) Post #At3uXeiMsiK9iEN4Ge by freakazoid@retro.social
2025-04-13T20:23:56Z
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Dark patterns are part of the shift of capitalism from profits to rents: get people to pay for things because of inertia or because they're not paying enough attention rather than by providing anything of value.Capitalism provides less value at a higher price (in labor) every year. This used to be partially offset by improvements in technology, but tech has leveled off. AI provides next to zero value at tremendous cost.