If you’re talking about the chicken and egg problem in the abstract, i.e. how do you determine “what caused what” in a system that feeds back into itself… the answer is that in feedback systems, determining blame or ascribing one or the other as the cause is simply meaningless, and you need to examine how the system behaves as a whole, and how the different parts contribute to the output of the system in various configurations.

Overly simplistic. Lots of things are the abuse of anxiety.

Objectively false my friend.

How would animals have morals if that was the case? Why would they have a sense of fairness baked into them if it came from a religion they couldn’t possibly comprehend?

The reality is that morality as we perceive it, is mostly just the natural rules that let us work together. This little known scientific concept called ‘apes strong together’, meant that the people who possessed a basic sense of morality could work with others and accomplish more, then those without it, and those without it, died off.

That’s all morality is. It has nothing do with any magical creature.

LA is also just a car culture city. When you’re poor in LA, you drive a shitty car, when you get rich in LA, you drive a fancy car.

When you’re poor in New York, you get driven around by public transit. When you’re rich in New York, you get driven around by a car service.

It’s obviously not so black and white, but the percentage of rich people driving sports cars in LA vs rich people getting driven in luxury cars in NY, is probably similar to the percentage of poor people driving in LA vs poor people taking transit in New York.

Wouldn’t the same exact rationale also work for creative media, whether it’s corporate or civilian?

No.

What you make is just as self-autonomous to you too, or so I would think.

No it’s not, in any way shape or form. You’re comparing impersonating a person and lying about what they’re saying or doing, with copying or retelling a story you heard.

If you pirated a movie and edited to say something the original film maker or actors didn’t want to say, and pretended like they said it, then it might be comparable.

Fuck the US. Let it wallow and die. Talking more closely is just more likely to get its shit on you as it goes.

Nope. You can literally just send them the exact fields needed for processing a transaction.

The dev of Lemmy is an asshole, full stop. He’s also incredibly pro Russian and pro Chinese, but first and foremost, he’s an intolerable asshole.

You’ll get banned from his Lemmy instance if you dare to suggest that Russia or China issue propaganda.

And he is a large part of the reason why all the “tankie”, i.e. pro-communist Lemmy instances, have cultures of such obnoxious anti-intellectualism.

That doesn’t actually sound like they intend on producing usable helium though. That sounds like they intend on doing a really difficult and expensive fusion reaction to produce helium 3, which they will then use in a cheaper and easier to do fusion reaction, and the end result of all of that should be electricity and no net new helium since it’s expensive and rare AF and they need it all to make the whole process remotely plausibly profitable.

Can I remind everyone that it is impossible to produce helium in a practical way?

It is literally only produced through a fusion reaction, and that happens in stars and in incredibly tiny quantities in fusion reactors.

Whenever it’s released, it basically just floats away into space and is lost forever.

Their assessment of the charter of rights and freedoms is nonsense.

We have one of the stronger constitutions in the world, one that actually provides positive rights for it’s citizens, not just negative ones

I.e. American rights are all framed as the government not doing something to you, Canadian rights also include ones that force the government to do things for you, like provide health care and clean drinking water. It doesn’t mean the government always does, but our courts are far better at holding our governments to account for functioning the way that normal people expect them to.

The notwithstanding clause is problematic, but it is not the death knell that post is making it out to be.

In the US they do. In Canada it’s illegal.

Does sweethome allow you to make plans in 2D?

I think what you’re after isn’t technically 2D vs 3D but ‘Perspective View’ vs ‘Orthographic View’ (but tl;dr: no).

Perspective view emulates your vision, but orthographic is what you would use for engineering / architecture drawings. Looking top down like this, for instance, in perspective view you can see both the top of the wall and the bottom of the wall (what’s shown), but in orthographic view those would appear as a single line like in architecture drawings.

All that being said, I don’t think Sweet Home 3D can do orthographic views, though don’t have it in front of me to check.

Microsoft’s been pretty open about using Linux for at least the past decade or so.

They kept building it into Windows which eventually resulted in WSL, largely because they use Linux servers but Windows workstations.

It was about 5 years ago that they publicly released Common Base Linux Mariner (now called Azure Linux).

Given Ubiquiti’s Russian connections, and TP Link’s Chinese connections, this honestly isn’t surprising.

It’s not always the case. Sometimes people believe in truly vile and harmful political policies but are actually decent supportive parents.

Personally Hegseth doesn’t seem like that type to me, and seems like he’s probably also an off the hinge dick at home, but you never know.

Because most articles you see online are written to get clicks, not to actually inform you, and no one particularly cares to defend meta, so no one bothers correcting them.

But saying that meta spent $80B on the metaverse and is now shutting it down because they’re shutting down horizon worlds is flat out disingenuous.

First of all, let’s be clear, the $80B number is the accumulated losses of the entire Reality Labs division over the past 6 years. Reality Labs includes not just the Oculus teams that cover AR and VR, but also other teams like the cancelled Portal hardware / software, and their Facebook Spark AR (closer to snapchat filters).

Second of all, those losses include

• all the R&D costs of developing the Quest 2, Quest Pro, Quest 3, the various Ray Ban collab glasses, and their unreleased future headsets / AR glasses.
  • The R&D costs related to the controllers and input devices.
  • Some of the R&D costs for the display technology used.
  • The R&D costs for developing machine learning based 6DOF inside-out tracking, and hand tracking.
  • Developing and customizing Android into a viable operating system for all their devices.
  • Subsidizing the cost of every VR headset they sold to grow the market (and they sold more Quest headsets then Microsoft sold Xboxes)
  • Developing VR utility apps like the browser, the Link system, the HDMI in / capture card system, the desktop link apps, etc.
  • Buying a bunch of VR studios and games like Beat Saber, that mountain boxing game, etc
  • developing multiple top quality VR games like Assassin’s Creed, Batman, and a Resident Evil 4 remake
  • And yes, developing and supporting their social VR app, Horizon Worlds, which has never been as popular as third party alternatives.

Out of all of that, they have shut down just Horizon Worlds, and the VR studios / games they bought. All of the hardware and platform work is still ongoing.

And what does it buy them? The potential opportunity to be Google or Apple once AR glasses become light and powerful enough to be common place. Do you know how many billions of dollars Google and Apple have made from being the dominant mobile OS companies? Microsoft rode the Windows train for decades before switching to Azure. Meta is buying a chance at becoming that for AR.

Neither are they on the instances that defederate from them.

It’s also not like it’s an ideological thing. The instances that get defederate from are just filled with obnoxious tankies.

Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x

This is literally how he always acts. There’s a reason that many instances do not federate with lemmy.ml, his instance.

He’s incredibly pro communist, pro Russia, pro China, and will ban you for even mentioning that something could be foreign propaganda.

At the end of the day, hopefully your instance builds their server code from source and inspects it to make sure there’s nothing nefarious. It would be nice to use a decentralized Reddit like platform not coded by him, but no one else has the time, resources, ability, and/or dedication, to step up.

I would still rather use Lemmy over Reddit, though I did switch to donating to piefed, the Canadian instance runners, over donating to him.