vipaal

joined 2 years ago
[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The pleasure of being understood is underrated

  • Simon Baker portraying Patrick Jane in The Mentalist
[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

TIL of IronFox πŸ‘ Any chances F-Droid or FFUpdater can list it as well? Also, ironically, with enhanced tracking protection, JShelter, privacy badger, uscript origin on Fennec, https://ironfoxoss.org/ opens a blank page.

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I tried arguing along similar lines. Failed and fell flat on my face when it came to history. There's so much chat history on WhatsApp for instance that without a way to port it all over to Signal, near impossible if that to bring people over.

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-calls-for-managed-retreat-from-beachfront-properties-20250124-p5l6xp.html

I see that the available land area is shrinking at an increasing pace. Pretty sure water resources are dwindling similarly too. I see zero reasons to so much as congratulate pregnancies these days. The gains, which are codified in laws in the form of rights, to me, look basically like promises made by lawmakers to their citizens. Lawmakers are people too. And people keep their promises on a best effort basis. With dwindling resources, I see the ability of lawmakers to uphold rights shrink and dwindle too.

Like I said at the start, verboten, and I'm fine being alone on this. Though would be good to have company.

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

πŸ’― I used AI as a placeholder for any tools or methodologies we might use

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Australia alone cannot repeal those laws and expect to make a scratch if that. I was referring to every government across every jurisdiction all over the planet. I doubt that low birthrate would be seen as being so painful when businesses are not required to keep delivering growing profits every quarter.

No civilization ever studied is known to have survived its own localised climate catastrophe or some other catastrophe. Every one of them either perished or, accepted the limitations imposed by land, air, water and lived within those limits. We might want to look inside ourselves for refusing to accept this.

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone -3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I can think of two things that are utterly verboten yet will force us to do some soul searching.

One is to repeal every law across the board that requires businesses to keep delivering growing profits. Those laws have done their job splendidly and are causing harm as their expiry date goes farther into the past.

Two is, repeal every law across the board that requires parental leave, daycare rebates and such other things. You just cannot continue to congratulate those who bring infants into this gas chamber of a planet.

What laws to have instead of these two? What to do with our own lives after repealing these two laws? I don't know. I'm merely hoping that the collective intelligence of 8 billion aided by AI and whatnot will see a way forward after these roadblocks are removed.

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Reminds of

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal

By Henry Kissinger

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TIL πŸ‘

The first thing that came to my mind is perhaps October Surprise is something pleasant and giving a feeling of relief after Eternal September

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Addictive tobacco has reinvented itself. Vaping, gummies, and probably more.

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

New Shepard (of Blue Origin that dick shaped space flight in which Jeff Bezos took off for his first mission)

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Answering the question with a counter question

Why do we ask a question whilst already knowing its answer?
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