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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in programmer_humor · 1d ago

And letting the US government spy on you helps with that? In reality, people are just a little out of their depth with technology. Unless there’s some visual indicator of the spying their normal social instincts don’t kick in.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in programmer_humor · 1d ago

Well this feels like bait.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · 2d ago

Somehow, people seem to find it plenty clear.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · 4d ago

I was agreeing with you, FWIW. They’re not puppets run by some shadowy group, and what they actually do is very public, if you bother to look. My country televises parliament, and publishes all legislation. The US does something similar. Over the long run, conditions have improved, in spite of representative democracy being a cluster-fuck.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · 4d ago

Then that’s not a problem with the law, but with enforcement. If there was whatever glorious socialist revolution tomorrow, that law would stay.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · 4d ago

Yup. I actually know and work with politicians. It’s a sales job alright; the legislation is pretty secondary regardless of who it benefits. You can see laws that fuck everyone rich or poor being passed sometimes, if they sound good in a speech.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 10, 2026

Me? I’m pretty heavily involved in politics and have been for years.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 10, 2026

Yup, the green and yellow people look very convinced.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 10, 2026

Hmm. Maybe I’m just in a bubble there.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 10, 2026

Per chip is a bit misleading - the technology started running into barriers, so they just added more cores and increased die sizes. On top of that, clock speeds stopped going up, because energy dissipation from non-reversible switching became insurmountable. Not everything can be done in parallel, and software hasn’t really kept up with what can be done, so yeah old computers still work fine once you pull the bloat off. Meanwhile, good luck running Windows Vista on a computer from the mid-90’s.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 09, 2026

To people who don’t want to do politics, it’s helpful, and you can’t force them to care. I guess you could just say “fuck them”, but isn’t the point of politics to help people who actually exist, flaws and all? People who aren’t really into politics are possibly a majority, and people that will put any serious effort into it are a (frustratingly) definite tiny minority.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 09, 2026

Slow technological progress compared to the fast-paced changes during the 1990s. The 2010s picked up the pace What do you mean? Moore’s law died in the 10’s. You’re being reached by a device from early in them and it’s fine.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 08, 2026

Besides politics it’s mostly technology, and humour. That’s basically because only a very specific person has chosen to be on Lemmy at this point. Here’s a couple at random that are humour: antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world And here’s a couple that are something else: liminalspace@lemmy.world old_maps@mander.xyz You’ll notice it’s mostly .world, because it’s by far the biggest instance, and also not very political.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 07, 2026

If the army and police are protesting are on our side, why bother with demands?

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today · Apr 06, 2026

In the sense humans are "better" or "greater" or something? Well, consider the global biomass of bacteria compared to humans - they seem to be doing okay. Or that there's more bacterial cells in you than human cells. Single-celled yeast evolved from mushrooms, barnacles evolved from something like shrimp or crabs, and there are eukaryotes that lost eukaryotic features like mitochondria because they didn't need them to survive. Buuut that's besides the point. I'm not sure how to make it more clear, but I meant subtractive as in selection is just about who dies. Random mutation is what adds features and new species.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today · Apr 06, 2026

Plants are selected to *not* be great to eat, basically. Cellulose in particular is almost impossible to biochemically break back down (but not completely), and is a pretty good structural material, too. Seeds are often still palatable once you get through the shell, basically because turning into a baby plant is an already tough design constraint. Some plants still have tricks - notice that it's the spiciest part of a hot pepper.

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@CanadaPlus@futurology.today in asklemmy · Apr 06, 2026

That random mutation didn’t happen, basically. Evolution is a purely subtractive process. It doesn’t design things in, it just subtracts away poorly-designed creatures, and all hypothetical offspring, until things equipped to survive are left. Obviously, there are things to eat that aren’t grass.

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