Anything is better than nothing. This is true. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t wasting your time on something that does the bare minimum.

Duolingo keeps doing mass layoffs, so the bird is overworked. You can help him out by switching to a language learning app that actually helps you learn a language instead of endlessly throwing flash cards at you without teaching you anything! Win win.

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You mean no manageable workloads because they will be fired so we can have the studio just pick a style from a list instead of making any kind of artistic input wooo

How can we make anime look even generic than we’ve gotten today?! Oh, okay, generative ai! At least then, we won’t have to pay those dastardly animators to animate anime

I’m okay with them going away. The existence of that one particular company is not a net benefit to society.

I’ve been around open source for 20+ years and can tell you right now that it don’t work that way. An issue tracker and a wiki is not a community.

Most older open source communities were built on irl connections and irc, with some mailing lists thrown in. Hell, we even funded conferences just around the software, not to sell a product but just because it’s good for everyone to be talking to each other.

The issue tracker tracks the status of things, the wiki is generally user focused. It’s not where development happens or thinks get built.

that works for me, but I want to have good conversations with others, that’s kind of the point. Blocking terrible people doesn’t get that to happen

People here are blaming politics. I don’t think that’s it. The quality of comments and discussion here has taken a massive nosedive for the past four months or so, no matter what the topic is.

I think it’s pretty simple, the terrible won. Everyone who wants good quality discussion left quickly when people started to act terrible. They didn’t come back. So now we’ve created the toxic enabling environment that is enabling it hard today.

You can fix it with moderation, but that’s a lot of work, and people get really angry.

I’m pretty close to just cutting my losses on lemmy. It’s heading in the same direction as reddit but with less moderation, and simply because it’s smaller, the awfulness is more visible.

no, heat pumps are rated for and work most efficiently at a specific temperature range. You’re pumping energy from outside in, so the outside temperature matters a lot.

you can have all the insulation in the world and it won’t matter if the heat pump can’t transfer that energy.

My point is that adults are different, are going through a totally different stage of their life, different responsibilities, different level of agency over their own life, adults aren’t transforming into a different person, adults have experience to deal with things, adults have normal hormone levels.

Adults are different, the only thing that changed is you became one.

The older I get, the more I empathise with teenagers. It’s far and away the most difficult era of your life.

You’ll have incredible pressure to not ruin the entire rest of your life, you’ll be constantly told to make decisions that will have a massive impact on your future (with little help or course correcting, I hope your three years of interest in that one subject lasts a lifetime).

your body starts mutating like a slow version of an American Werewolf in London, you’re thrown into a school that often resembles something out of Lord of the Flies, and adults aren’t there to support you, they just want you to be that 8 year old innocent child or a full blown adult with no inbetweens.

You don’t have to, you don’t have to work up to the revelation that a society might be unjust. We all know and live that, we recognise what someone being disenfranchised in a world that apparently had fixes for the problem means.

Our tools today are absolutely up to the task. Of those deaths, how many of them do you think are in rich countries vs. the rest of the world.

Seventeen of the twenty-two countries that account for 80 percent of the world’s TB burden are classified as low income (GNP per capita of less than US$760, World Bank 2000). Within countries the prevalence of TB is higher among the poor, and other vulnerable groups such as the homeless. Studies in both high income and low-income countries (USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Vietnam, Mexico and Philippines) reveal significantly higher rates of TB in poor populations (Davies et al. 1999; Grange 1999; Barnes 1998; Tupasi et al. 2000).

The costs for people in low income countries are so high that often they are unattainable

TB patients and households in sub-Saharan Africa often incurred high costs when utilizing TB treatment and care, both within and outside of Directly Observed Therapy Short-course (DOTS) programs. For many households, TB treatment and care-related costs were considered to be catastrophic because the patient costs incurred commonly amounted to 10% or more of per capita incomes in the countries where the primary studies included in this review were conducted.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570447/

This helps the disease spread and fester in these countries. Whereas so called developed nations reap the benefit of something that does not need to be a problem for anyone.

Modern medical aid negates many diseases and disabilities including some blindnesses. But we still have people with these problems.

This is an opportunity for worldbuilding and comments about society. You’d be a fool to look at any fantasy setting and think it’s an equal society.

We have the ability to make Tuberculosis not exist and have for half a century. At least 1.6 million unnecessary deaths occurred because of it in 2022. Anyone who can’t think further than the first point has the thought capabilities of a gnat.

How is enjoying music “pointless”? I don’t understand your train of thought at all. Benefit from it? I just like music

To be fair, I think most media fits the definition of lost media. Most things aren’t sold anymore, and often aren’t on streaming services. News broadcasts, music shows, talk shows, everything

At least it’s not actually lost. Just not easily available

99.999% of people have never heard of this guy before and won’t even hear this news, the face of the company is chatgpt