backgroundcow

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[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 238 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's On Me, I Set the Bar Too Low

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Something utterly meaningless, like a bag of generic candy, from the closest corner store "wrapped" only in that store's type of plastic bags, clearly purchased last-minute on your way over to them. As they unwrap it you slip an "oh, I forgot to take that" and snatch up the receipt that you've forgotten in the bag, but only after they've seen that the item was on sale for $0.99.

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Reading.

We need everyone to read more books. A wide variety of stories on a wide variety of topics by a wide variety of authors, all with different backgrounds and ideas. We must read stories that let us temporarily step into the mind and experiences of other people, who aren't us, to train our brains the ability to understand the plights of others. Books of human stories, as opposed to movies, doom-scrolling TikTok, etc., seems uniquely suited for this kind of training of empathy, because the stories are executed inside our own brains.

I'm willing to bet that these why-are-the-leopards-suddenly-eating-my-face? the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion type people have read distinctly less, or at least far less varied, stories than us who look at them and wonder how it is possible to be so unable to put themselves in the shoes of anyone but themselves.

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Ubuntu user here. Swapped away from Debian in its early days when Ubuntu made a real effort to stay current with the desktop environment (even coordinating their releases after GNOME), and back then it mattered. Nowadays my few attempts at other distros suggest that the hardware driver situation (especially proprietary) seems better on Ubuntu, for example to get everything working on fairly new laptops.

There are of course other things I'm less happy about. The snap installs via apt drives me crazy; not that I necessarily hate the technology, but sometimes I need a non-containeraized browser (for example to run inside another container), so I need to be allowed to choose what is being installed.

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Ukraine don't want to give up territory. Russia demands territory to end the war. Trump has offered to resolve this in 24h. The conclusion seems clear: Trump has to offer Russia some parts of the US in exchange for releasing the occupied regions in Ukraine?

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Doesn't North Koreans fighting in Ukraine mean that North Korea now is at war with Ukraine? Wouldn't that legitimize a Ukrainian invasion of North Korea? Could we ship some Ukrainians to North Korea and have them do a lot of damage there; including offer asylums to anyone who wants to get out?

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I made this the other day.

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Would it work for you to drive to a larger parking garage (or even better, use public transport to a larger subway or bus station) and then use some form of battery operated micro-transport type vehicle fit for your type of limitation to move around the sidewalks/bike lanes in what can then be a more compact city center?

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone want to team up to build a time machine and travel the future until the perfect utopia is achieved?

How about we team up and try to make this world better instead?

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nope, this redefinition isn't necessary, it is a choice SI made. Nothing would have broken by keeping an exact relationship between amount of substance and mass, it would just have retained the interpretation of Avogadro's constant from before 2019 (experimentally determined vs a defined constant).

 
 
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