if your local politician lives next door, they’re easier to hold accountable on a personal level.

Of course intel will collapse within the next 10 years.

They have focused exclusively on high-end, very expensive processors in the past. Now that moore’s law is no longer true, that doesn’t work anymore, because ARM chips are catching up in performance, at 1/10 of the price.

I’m actually wondering how much of this has to do with the climate, i.e. the physical weather patterns. something like: living in northern countries historically meant that you had a tougher time getting through the winter, because the winters are harsher and longer, so you need to store more food and make sure it doesn’t spoil, which requires extra planning. so as a historical consequence, northern countries end up with a higher degree of organization, including bigger states, more organized tax systems, overall more organized structures.

You can see many examples of this. all big empires historically have had their center on the northern hemisphere, including england, US, europe, USSR, china. there’s (almost) none on the south.

yeah it’s not about actually fighting crime. it’s to make the blue states understand how important it is for states to be independent from the federal government, i.e. “state’s rights” in other words. it has been a core demand from texas for 200 years, and now it’s finally coming true. though not because of trump’s direct executive order (which would probably be undone by the next dem president in office) but by making the blue states understand the very real danger if states don’t have independence.

Sadly, this kind of trash is far more important to the average person than the things that matter (and this is hardly just an American phenomenon). It’s mainly because the things that actually matter are much more complicated, and require effort to understand

bike-shedding

From bikeshed +‎ -ing. The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp[1] and has spread from there to the software industry at large.

yeah i think it’s more about the quality than the quantity

like, there can be a thousand comments but all of them pointless, which is what happens when your social media platform only tries to grow in user numbers. we should strive for quality over quantity, i think.

i think “no objections” is a bit tongue-in-cheek maybe, or at least that’s how i use the phrase. like if you say “let’s go on a trip and have fun, no objections” :P they can obviously object, but it’s a figure of speech that they shouldn’t object because you think it’s fine or sth. maybe that’s a matter of dialect and local slang though :D

oh at some point smartphones were new and unfamiliar, and still they captured people’s attention. this means that something else can capture people’s attention as well, in the future.

he’s doing it intentionally to convince the libs that a strong central government is a bad thing and to make everybody demand state’s rights - which is one of the most important requests from republicans.

i’m kinda hoping that social media gets less interesting over time to many people. the reason why everybody spent 15 hours a day in front of their smartphone for the last 2 decades was mostly because of the novelty of it all. once we’ve seen it all, it’s less interesting and people will stop using it so much.

what i’ve learned from history is that the killing doesn’t stop after the revolution, it just continues. if there’s no more nobles to decapitate, then suspected “supporters” of nobles get executed, then just people suspected of being counter-revolutionary (whatever that means).

the killing doesn’t stop after the revolution, that is why it’s best if the revolution itself stays as bloodless as possible.

I should add that even if the states get a right to secede, but don’t use it, that improves people’s lives.

Because the states can constantly pressure the federal government to be nice to the states or the states will secede. This way, the federal government is forced to treat states somewhat better, if it wants to retain power.

They can try but they will fail. It’s not that easy to build a functioning society, and i don’t think they can make it.

Consequence of people needing income from research grants without actually having the qualifications to write good research papers.

On the lower end of estimates, Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since the start of the war. That’s the equivalent of roughly six Hiroshima bombings on an area less than half the size of Hiroshima, but with six times its population.

The ecosystem is so hollowed out that higher-up the foodchain species like beaver have a tougher time feeding themselves, while lower-down species have to re-populate an underpopulated environment. of course you’d rather be a mouse than a beaver in these days.

lemmy has 30 K users by now worldwide btw, it started in late 2019 iirc. maybe we can get a million by 2030.

i think lemmy skews older because of the more complicated sign-up process and people being more tech-inclined around here and a bit more mature than the general public. and i love that, btw. less shallow “entertainment” and more memes and especially based arguments about things.