PupBiru

i’d say that we need a way of communicating and making group decisions, but government is an organisation that makes the decisions of the group… a government isn’t a process; a government is an entity… if your group decision making is a process rather than delegated power, then you don’t have a government but you may be able to effectively run your society

a healthy democracy requires others to have privacy. people like investigative journalists need to be able to blend in with the crowd and expose government wrongdoing

blending in the the crowd is the important part: if everyone cares about privacy, nobody sticks out for caring about privacy… but if nobody cares about privacy, the investigative journalist suddenly looks really obvious and can be targeted much more easily

if someone doesn’t think they have anything to hide, that’s fine (wrong, but fine) however they can help to make sure the government acts appropriately simply by not splashing data around everywhere for all to see

lemmy.world may have an impact on lemmy, but there are a lot of much bigger mastodon instances. in fact, lemmy.world is #9, and every other instance ahead of it is mastodon (except 1 which is misskey)

https://fedidb.org/network

if it were profitable to remove carbon from the atmosphere, we’d do it where it’s a lot more concentrated: on exhaust outlets from power plants, etc

which is not to say carbon capture is a bad idea, but it ain’t gonna be profit-driven unless you force companies to pay for their emissions through offsets or something

of course, but they are complex problems and you shouldn’t poo poo a potential mitigation to 1 because it negatively impacts another

the solutions to complex problems shouldn’t require being solutions to every complex problem

the plastic problem is separate from the carbon problem though… we don’t ban plastics because we’re concerned about climate change; we ban them because we are worried that microplastics are causing significant health effects to both humans and most other animals

only sort of correct: the GDPR applies globally (see this comment: https://jlai.lu/comment/4089576), however if you don’t ever plan on visiting or doing business in the EU it’s probably one of those things that people would ignore because it’d be too difficult/impossible for the EU to actually follow up on

i think this is the perfect time for the phrase “thanks i hate it”

inhabiting a boston dynamics robot would probably be the best option

i’d say it could probably use airtasker to get people to unwittingly do assembly of some basic physical form which it could use to build more complex things… i’d probably not count that as “human assistance” per se

to add context there aren’t too many reliable sources for this… the original came from tweet that justine musk tweeted, seems to have been deleted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/18dadqy/justine_musk_on_elons_claim_about_his_firstborn/

https://torontosun.com/news/world/elon-musks-first-ex-wife-challenges-his-account-of-sons-dying-moments

https://nypost.com/2022/11/28/elon-musks-ex-wife-disputes-his-claim-he-held-son-when-the-boy-died/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11478481/Elon-Musks-ex-wife-refutes-claim-held-dying-newborn-son-arms-died.html

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-ex-wife-pushes-052845910.html

afaik activitypub/fediverse doesn’t have to be fully open… there’s private messages and followers only profiles on mastodon… sure, any server admins of your followed would be able to see anything you post (and thus in this case for threads for example, if you accept any follower from threads then meta can see your stuff) but this also doesn’t grant them a license to use the content

also, bluesky will eventually be the same: it only doesn’t have those issues now because they haven’t opened up their software… it’ll have federation in the future, which means it has to be somewhat programmatically open to others

thus the term “energy mix”… nobody arguing in good faith says PV is all we need