[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You're unrealistically optimistic. The earth will cook us off the face of the planet along with 90% of species. It's starting now and will take a few years to really get moving.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, we don't have long enough left to institute an insect food delivery system of any note. Pretty soon the bugs will be eating us.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's been common parlance at least since Apple wanted to implement CSAM scanning of all iCloud saved images through a hashing technique. The backlash was so strong Apple now opposes CSAM scanning. This was two years ago-ish.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Like an episode of Alone, but without the planning, support and logistics.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Porque no los dos?

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not save money on office space by letting those employees to work from their home?

Because they can't control them at home.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fix was in on our climate by the 90's, the Co2 levels are above 450 ppm. This doesn't have an equivalent in many millions of years. The effects of heat building is cumulative, the earth still has plenty more room to store heat energy, and we've already put more than enough Co2 in the atmosphere to warm well past 2C. We've got years left, not decades. Wait till food distribution systems break down, that's when it'll hit everyone that this is already a done deal. Things will begin to break down rapidly in the next few years.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it's not a fucking city dude, the comments are addressing the hyperbole in the comment.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I wonder kind of damage it's obscuring.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How do you clean your ears, bellybutton, toes? And hopefully in that order. Some stuff needs extra attention, and some people have different skin types than you. Go scrub out your toes.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

I remember watching a black comedian many years ago and his bit started "Why don't white people use washcloths?", and it got me thinking. I started using washcloths and noticed I came away cleaner, soap on a hand doesn't cut the skin oils and dirt like soap and gentle abrasion can. I also noticed, because I'm hairy, that I get lots of ingrown hairs, especially on my legs. Switched to one of those "poofs" and now I vigorously scrub my hairy bits and no ingrown hairs. Exfoliating helps.

Use a washcloth and don't forget to brush your tongue, you filthy animal.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oil production and distribution is an international operation, and oil markets are just that, Markets. Very few if any countries drill, produce, refine and consume their own petroleum sources. Most countries may have only one or a couple facilities that can extract or refine oil. All crude oil is assessed by its grade and given a value on the international market. Extractive economies (Russia for example) have to either refine and consume their own product which they can't use to put currency in their economy or they sell raw crude to, say, India for US Dollars. India will either refine it for it's own needs or sell it at market. Canada extracts it's oil from oil sands, sends it down to the gulf coast for refining and transshipment to other markets. This is classically a Capitalist supply and demand market, and oil producing countries use oil proceeds to buy foreign currency reserves, regardless of their political system. The entirety of it is Capitalist from beginning to end.

That you're even attempting to try and deflect the various excesses of Capitalism with specious reasoning like "Communist countries produce oil too so not Capitalism" is puerile and an argument in bad faith. You're trying to work back towards your hypothesis "Capitalism good" without doing the work of actually building the argument. Your ineffective points are useless and wholly unconvincing. You're just a shill without an intellectual understanding of what you are attempting to put across. Your ham-fisted defense of Capitalism is simple refutation, you haven't posited anything yourself, you're just attempting to refute what other's have responded to your bait question. Saying "nuh-uh" isn't a defense or a rationale.

I've wasted more time on this than I cared to.

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The Ballpark app requires a ton of personal information, way more than I expected. To wit: Full name, Email address, Password, Street address, Telephone number(s), Birth date, Payment data, IP addresses, Location data, Contacts (as stored in your wireless device), Demographic data, Device data, Usage data, Voice recordings, Audiovisual recordings, Information about your interests and preferences, Data specifically requested in relation to an activity or an event (e.g., emergency contact information), Data provided by Other Companies if you choose to connect your use of our services through the Other Company’s service, Personal information of a child if and only if a parent or guardian provides the child’s personal information; and

  • Sensitive personal information*.

This is all required in order to go to a game, all tickets are distributed through the app. There are workarounds, I said I don't have a smartphone, and they allowed it using an mlb.com account. It's tedious. Perhaps this is an indication of what our future looks like, it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate modern life without giving up all your data to prying apps, corporations and data brokers. This is just to go to a game, there's no opportunity to print out tickets, show a generated QR code, bar code, nothing. You must have the app to attend a game.

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