cartoonworld (u/cartoonworld)

cartoonworld commented on The Internet Archive is back online arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Wingy

I see no reason to believe this is a false flag. If there's no evidence for it, why should we believe it to be so?

Attribution is not super easy. But here's what IA says: (tl;dr false flag)

"They’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.” [Jason] Scott said, referencing a post made by an account named SN_Blackmeta on Telegram claiming responsibility for the attack and hinting at another one planned for Friday.

cartoonworld commented on Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres ft.com/content/00776191-b... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

Moldoteck · a year ago

yes, but why not pour even more $ in those then since if it's cheaper = you get more kw for the same $?

cartoonworld · a year ago

"Everybody" doesn't say solar, wind, or batteries is cheaper than nuclear. The question of what is "cheaper" at any given time isn't really relevant at this scale -- its cheap.

Price and availability of electricity and power is more or less global, however datacenter customers are in the situation where they need to power a city with electricity in a location where there is neither an existing city nor its generation capactiy.

cartoonworld commented on Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/fortran77

galdosdi · a year ago

Sigh, it's probably because, for cannabis-naive people, it's far harder to tell if someone is super high than if someone is super drunk. There's not a lot of difference between a high person who's trying not to let on, and someone who's just rather tired or a bit dumb. It's not like with alcohol where past a few drinks it's pretty easy to tell. But that doesn't mean the effects are harmless.

Legalization was one thing, but valorization is another.

THC potency levels are going through the roof and availability of analogues is too. I feel like there will eventually be problematic societal consequences and a pushback a generation from now, much as happened a few decades after cheap hard liquor distillation was invented, or a few decades after we hit peak tobacco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane

Also, here's an ad from a century ago selling whiskey, claiming it is a medicinal cure all for any and every condition, much as is common today with cannabis

https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer...

cartoonworld · a year ago

I belive your statement, "... claiming it is a medicinal cure all for any and every condition, much as is common today with cannabis" is really off base. Nobody who is serious thinks medical marijuana can cure any specific disease.

In any medical state, there is a list of specific conditions for which you must have a medical diagnosis in order to get medical cannabis. No doctor will tell you it is a "cure" for anything and nobody is permitted to advertise this either.

People tell each other that everything from homeopathy, to crystals, to keto diets to meditation can cure specific diseases all of the time. I do not believe that you could lump probiotics, to make another example, in with the absurd patent medicines of the 1920s.

Additionally, there plenty of promising peer review regarding cannabis. We've had high potencey weed for decades.

cartoonworld commented on California Tested Different Minimum Speed Limits for Lanes. It Didn’t Work thedrive.com/news/califor... · Posted by u/onychomys

PraetorianGourd · 2 years ago

> German cars don’t have cup holders because you’re suppose to be focused on driving.

Every BMW, Audi, and Mercedes that I've driven has had cup holders. This seems like one of those tropes like "Russian cosmonauts just used pencils!" that is easily debunked with even the most rudimentary of searches, but somehow lives on in the zeitgeist.

cartoonworld · 2 years ago

the Sacco era Benzes mostly lacked cupholders. (maybe the 500 series or SEL had them)

cartoonworld commented on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain economist.com/by-invitati... · Posted by u/benrmatthews

dffdsa432 · 2 years ago

I don't get it. The USPS has lost billions due to government policies and can't enforce prices due to government policies. They are forced to deliver to unprofitable routes and have prices set to inflation due to government policies. Private delivery services like Amazon and Fedex are generally profitable and don't have these issues. Why is a government alternative better?

cartoonworld · 2 years ago

None of the competitors offer a similar service to USPS.

Among other core competencies, USPS has nationwide daily coverage of the entire United States and centuries(?) of experience interoperating the the respective mail services of every country in the world and then some.

Amazon wont even take MY package one town over.

cartoonworld commented on EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel eveonline.com/news/view/i... · Posted by u/zdw

Technotroll · 2 years ago

EVE Online has the nickname "Spreadsheets in Space" for a reason, though. There are many aspects of the game where you don't need a spreadsheet, so you're not forced to play this part of the game. However, if you want to do anything serious within research, production or sales, then spreadsheets quickly become your friends. And API calls and scripting.

cartoonworld · 2 years ago

Very true.

I just wanted to add how much farther that the "Spreadsheets" analogy goes with a few examples:

There are actually custom ERP and management resources that have been developed by the eve community like the Alliance Auth project and a large group has even a issued a cryptocurrency to automatically manage in-game payouts for certain types of ship losses. There are the requisite and copious discord, irc, and xmpp integrations, but there are also automated mapping projects, and large scale data analysis projects. There are projects which seek to analyze ship losses for intelligence and counter intelligence purposes. There are background checks, escrow services, automatic billing service for eg logistics (trucking services) and in fact there have been several functional _casinos_.

The excel plugin looks to add a lot of additional capability to the spreadsheets, since now you can integrate all of this information into whatever analytics you would like to create with excel, which is of course quite powerful.

cartoonworld commented on EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel eveonline.com/news/view/i... · Posted by u/zdw

Sohcahtoa82 · 2 years ago

I love the idea of EVE Online, but the execution is just...boring.

This 14-year-old video sums it up: https://youtu.be/4c6jafaiPh8?t=66

cartoonworld · 2 years ago

The game is much, much different now. If you require matchmaking, its the wrong game.

There is nothing in it that is stopping anybody from choosing the worst and most boring activities, unfortunately.

cartoonworld commented on Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone apps to competition reuters.com/technology/ja... · Posted by u/mirthlessend

ulfw · 2 years ago

Wow you must be important. Hun, I don't buy my iPhone with cash at some underground dungeon. I buy it with my credit card with my name on it at an Apple Store. They already know "who I am". And then I associate my Apple ID with my name with said phone. Oh look, they "know who I am" again. Now what? I'm a nobody. And not paranoid to the extreme. Neither am I some important spy guy like you.

cartoonworld · 2 years ago

I get the sentiment but I don't really like the denigrating tone that people commonly levy towards this issue.

I don't think its unreasonable to have a strong skepticism and even hearty distrust of these platforms which have been invited into our lives, ostensibly for the benefit of mankind, only to be treated rather callously in the best instances and negligently in the worst.

No, the op is not important. I am not important and on a grand scale individuals are rarely influential in general. I reject that somebody needs to have some kind of spy's double life to demand basic decency wrt their literal moment-to-moment physical status and location.

cartoonworld commented on Nirvana fallacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir... · Posted by u/tomodachi94

AlbertCory · 2 years ago

You said, "Quality dates are a big part of spoilage in the food service industry, so the quality departments in all of these organizations try to min-max the dates to best represent their required quality, and of course their requirements are longevity, palatability and mostly sales.

If an otherwise reputable food retailer begins serving a secondary market with what is definitionally substandard products, it opens a large and murky doorway to liabilities extending far beyond a mere lawsuit. What if the next kitchen mishandles the food and serves gross food to people in need? Even hungry poor people will dislike week old, vinegary tomato slices."

"the food service industry" : that term doesn't seem limited to prepared food retailers, if that's what you meant.

as for "week old, vinegary tomato slices" : Second Harvest, at least, would outright reject those.

cartoonworld · 2 years ago

Sorry to be misleading. Thank you for the information.

cartoonworld commented on Nirvana fallacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir... · Posted by u/tomodachi94

AlbertCory · 2 years ago

You are misinformed about donated food.

I've helped a food bank guy load donated food from the Safeway. It is not substandard. Bananas, for instance, are donated if they have any spots. Bread is donated after a day, when it's perfectly edible. Also a lot of milk.

Second Harvest is a good place to research, and they oversee my food bank. Strict food safety rules are enforced, and they donated a refrigerated van to us.

cartoonworld · 2 years ago

I am not misinformed, I was instead describing my experience with one corporation's reluctance to provide the food to food banks.

One thing they were able to do is freeze their precooked egg patties that would have been thrown away for texture reasons for later use in a protein stock for a charitable kitchen's cafeteria in some way that I was not informed of.

This corporation was a prepared food retailer, not a grocery store in case I have been too unclear. In their case they used nitrogen-packed presliced tomato pans to streamline food prep for their line, which is why I chose tomatos as the example.