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  1. Comment on British astronaut cleared to become first disabled person to join space station mission in ~space

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    I’ve often read that most folks don’t consider glasses-correctable vision to be a disability because we as a society have decided to accommodate that disability: what would any other disability...

    I’ve often read that most folks don’t consider glasses-correctable vision to be a disability because we as a society have decided to accommodate that disability: what would any other disability look like if raised to that standard?

    5 votes
  2. Comment on Download and transfer for Kindle books discontinued on Feb 26 in ~books

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    My experience with emailing a file has been consistently worsening over the past few years. Recently, I use it only when I’ve misplaced the Kindle’s cable and I’m in a rush to throw a new book on...

    My experience with emailing a file has been consistently worsening over the past few years. Recently, I use it only when I’ve misplaced the Kindle’s cable and I’m in a rush to throw a new book on it via Calibre.

    2 votes
  3. Comment on Greece to ban thousands of Airbnb accommodations with new regulations in ~society

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    Good. This seems rational: banning non-home places as accommodations, locking down new places from being able to register, fees to benefit the local community, rules for extant properties in...

    Good. This seems rational: banning non-home places as accommodations, locking down new places from being able to register, fees to benefit the local community, rules for extant properties in regards to safety.

    17 votes
  4. Comment on Ryanair sues passenger for €15,000 after flight was diverted due to ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in ~transport

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    The article was tagged with damage so I do wonder.

    The article was tagged with damage so I do wonder.

    3 votes
  5. Comment on Teddy Stiga took a breakaway pass from Zeev Buium and beat Petteri Rimpinen between the pads to give USA the gold medal against Finland at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in ~sports.hockey

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    The sport is hockey, for those who would click merely to figure out what the title is referring to. (It’s me.)

    The sport is hockey, for those who would click merely to figure out what the title is referring to. (It’s me.)

    3 votes
  6. Comment on AI and ethics - CP in ~talk

  7. Comment on What is wrong with our thoughts? A neo-positivist credo. in ~humanities

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    😒 I hate sentences like this with a passion. This sort of Enlightenment-fixed thinking— Oh, hello! 🤭 Thank you for the little excerpt. I will now read the whole thing. 😅

    Those four things, in their turn, are sufficiently representative of what human thought, in its highest reaches, has been.

    😒 I hate sentences like this with a passion. This sort of Enlightenment-fixed thinking—

    My four examples, however, are also examples of thought gone hopelessly wrong.

    Oh, hello! 🤭
    Thank you for the little excerpt. I will now read the whole thing. 😅

    4 votes
  8. Comment on Never forgive them - On digital platforms vs users in ~tech

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    The fact that you went through the process of insulating yourself says that something happened to you, some tripwire was set off, which indicated to you that you needed to get out while you still...

    The fact that you went through the process of insulating yourself says that something happened to you, some tripwire was set off, which indicated to you that you needed to get out while you still can. Canary in the coal mine, sort of thing.

    The part that resonated with me was the early mention of feeling like the plot’s been lost with what the internet is. I too went through the process of putting up barriers to keep the sick of the internet at bay, to the point of not really being able to understand what folks AFK were talking about with their experiences of being online.

    8 votes
  9. 180bpm+ music recommendations?

    Hey, y’all. I’ve been listening to basically the same song on repeat while I do my emails job, and have found that listening to something with a good tempo of 180bpm or higher really helps keep my...

    Hey, y’all. I’ve been listening to basically the same song on repeat while I do my emails job, and have found that listening to something with a good tempo of 180bpm or higher really helps keep my energy high. Unfortunately finding music solely by bpm isn’t easy.

    Any recommendations? I’m open to pretty much anything (though I’m not really a fan of “screamy” metal). My usual playlist is basically just EDM and remixes. 😅

    14 votes
  10. Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? in ~tech

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    I would be very interested! It’s out of my price zone, but I’d be interested to see if it’s really as good as everyone says.

    I would be very interested! It’s out of my price zone, but I’d be interested to see if it’s really as good as everyone says.

    1 vote
  11. Comment on Z-Library helps students to overcome academic poverty, study finds in ~life

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    There’s an academic book I wanted to read recently, related to my graduate research. My university is incapable of getting it. It costs 120% of the minimum monthly salary to purchase it and have...

    “Living in a 3rd world country, 1 book would cost like 50%- 80% already of my daily wage,” one Redditor wrote.

    There’s an academic book I wanted to read recently, related to my graduate research. My university is incapable of getting it. It costs 120% of the minimum monthly salary to purchase it and have it shipped here. Or I could spend five minutes online and get a nice quality OCRed PDF.

    When I was in undergrad, every single thing I needed to read for class, be it books, articles, essays, monographs, came to me from a xerox. There was a xerox station in the school where I would go, tell the xerox man what document for what professor’s class, and he would xerox the document and hand it to me fresh for a small fee. This has been the case, as far as my understanding goes, since the arrival of xerox in the country. I don’t honestly know what was done before that.

    The “necessary evil” bit of this is exactly right. If there was regional (or even fair) pricing, the need for piracy would diminish.

    12 votes
  12. Comment on Are we all capable of being slaveowners or nazis? in ~humanities

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    Thank you for sharing this. What a fascinating man!

    Thank you for sharing this. What a fascinating man!

    4 votes
  13. Comment on Regarding – and, well, against – Substack in ~tech

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    What an appallingly self-centered point of view. My god, he just said it out loud: it doesn’t matter to him what happens to anyone else, only himself and his comfort. If other people are...

    I’ve never once seen a whiff of anything even vaguely right-wing, let alone hateful. Not a whiff. If it’s there, I never see it. If I never see it, I don’t care.
    I feel the same way about social media platforms. Are there people I find objectionable on Mastodon, Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads? Definitely. On YouTube? Even more definitely. Do I care? No, because I tend never to see their posts, and when one pops up, I can block or mute them, and I never see them again. That’s in contrast with X, the former Twitter, where the top replies to many posts are from first class shitbird trolls. More and more I simply find X an unpleasant place to devote any of my attention, and so I go there less and less. I don’t eat at restaurants whose food I dislike, and the food at X tastes bad and is only getting worse.

    What an appallingly self-centered point of view. My god, he just said it out loud: it doesn’t matter to him what happens to anyone else, only himself and his comfort. If other people are suffering, well, his burger is fine, so what does he care?

    Often, on the corners of the Fediverse I’m on, there are discussions of the various failings of mastodon, the usual complaints about the responsibilities of moderation, and the burden this places primarily and disproportionately on moderators of POC or trans-centered servers. The discussion invariably breaks containment and white/cis people start chiming in with bewilderment: they don’t see racism/sexist/etc so it can’t be that bad or prevalent. So it goes.

    “If I don’t see it, I don’t care.” For christsakes, man, take a look outside your own navel for a half a second.

    11 votes
  14. Comment on ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in ~society

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    The US is not a signatory on this agreement and has no obligation (even on paper) to comply. AFAIK only Argentina has so far declared it will not comply, to the surprise of no one.

    The US is not a signatory on this agreement and has no obligation (even on paper) to comply. AFAIK only Argentina has so far declared it will not comply, to the surprise of no one.

    4 votes
  15. Comment on Brazilian police arrest five officers over alleged coup plot and plans to kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva following the 2022 elections in ~society

  16. Comment on Brazilian police arrest five officers over alleged coup plot and plans to kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva following the 2022 elections in ~society

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    Can we maybe change the headline to reflect these are arrests for older events? (I nearly had a heart attack thinking this was today. 😅)

    Can we maybe change the headline to reflect these are arrests for older events? (I nearly had a heart attack thinking this was today. 😅)

    5 votes
  17. Comment on Marius Borg Høiby, the 27-year-old son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in her 20s in ~news

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    It apparently isn’t the case in Norway that royals are exempt from prosecution, as they are in the UK.

    It apparently isn’t the case in Norway that royals are exempt from prosecution, as they are in the UK.

    8 votes
  18. Comment on US Food and Drug Administration to pull common but ineffective cold medicine, phenylephrine, from market in ~health

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    Over the counter: they just give it to you, aka it might as well be on a shelf. No protections, freely accessible (think paracetamol). Behind the counter: a pharmacist is protecting this. It...

    Over the counter: they just give it to you, aka it might as well be on a shelf. No protections, freely accessible (think paracetamol).

    Behind the counter: a pharmacist is protecting this. It requires either a prescription (higher tier; need doctor/insurance authorisation), or simply can’t be bought without them making sure you’re not buying enough of it to LARP Breaking Bad.

    🎶~ idioms are fun ~ 🎶

    9 votes
  19. Comment on Fossil fuels aren’t the biggest source of surging methane emissions in ~enviro

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    This article feels disingenuous in its mystified lack of conclusions. Bolding mine. 🤔🤔🤔 Hm, something’s missing from this second list of where these mysterious “microbes” might be coming from…...

    This article feels disingenuous in its mystified lack of conclusions.

    But microbial sources—such as wetlands, cattle, and landfills— are an even more significant source of methane, accounting for more than half of global emissions.

    Bolding mine.

    It remains unclear whether the increased microbial emissions came from natural sources like wetlands or human-driven sources, such as landfills and agriculture.

    🤔🤔🤔 Hm, something’s missing from this second list of where these mysterious “microbes” might be coming from…

    Meanwhile every other science says, “Hey, it’s animal agriculture, it’s cows, it’s cattle, it’s bovines.”

    What a mystery!

    9 votes
  20. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    Oh, lovely. Thanks for the context!

    Oh, lovely. Thanks for the context!

    1 vote