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Cake day: January 24th, 2024

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  • This has happened to me before as well, there’s so many reasons a site or anything on your end or in-between could be down or have issues, that’s why mirrors work so well for resiliency! Glad you’re back up to speed now.

    Deb-src is the source code repository iirc. Unless you regularly download and read source code, you do not need it.


  • Yeah, why would I click the link? The article text is in the post. Your post. Lol.

    So I have read the text before commenting actually, and even if it’s not the complete text, the general summary seems to be sufficient to determine the content and positions of this article.

    Do feel free to prove me wrong though.

    I have great respect for peeps on the sdf instance for SDF teaching me about the pubnix and old VAX/PDP systems, though of course you could be a boomer who’s nostalgic (rather than a young person interested in older tech, which are kind of opposites if you think about it), and therefore statistically a homeowner.

    That would probably mean you are acting in your class interests by posting an article that seems to imply that decreasing the price of housing is anything but a good thing and that housing should have any value beyond being homes people live in.

    I could be wrong though ofc.











  • We cannot prove a negative, there is no way to say that something has absolutely zero risk, and no burden of evidence is ever enough for many (for instance of this: see the puberty blockers & trans HRT debates or any vaccine safety debates).

    Therefore the burden of proof is on those who claim there is a risk. We can do our best to rule out what harms we can, as you said - as a precaution, but we cannot simply ban everything until proof that literally cannot exist arrives that something is risk-free.

    The question is whether the risks outweigh the rewards. And the rewards of being able to use plastic everywhere are actually massive, there are so many medical and scientific applications that just wouldn’t be possible without the wonder of plastic. So much QoL enhancing stuff like access to internet and food and water in most deprived places got so much more accessible thanks to the physical and economic properties of plastic, and no I don’t mean corporate profits I literally mean it is cheaper even by labour value theory terms.

    If anything is unscientific. It’s your, we have no conclusive proof so let’s keep flying to the sun and see what happens. I value health over profit though. I guess that might be where we differ.

    Flying into the sun to see what happens is how we find out what happens. That’s actual science. Best we can do is rule out some risks based on what we know, which we have done and continue doing to this day.

    I don’t value profit whatsoever, I’m as leftist as you and probably more so, please chill with the condescending tone, I’m on your side, but your line of argument is flawed and a one way street to reactionary thinking and stifling of human progress.


  • You’re missing the point. If asbestos didn’t do any harm, we wouldn’t have had to ban it.

    It’s possible that microplastics do not actually do any harm. You must consider this possibility to maintain a sharp and sound mind capable of critical analysis and a healthy scepticism and scrutiny.

    Jumping to conclusions that anything unnatural must be harmful like asbestos because some substances like asbestos have harmed us in the past is anti-intellectualism.

    The real issue right now is that we do not know if any humans without microplastics in them, making it impossible to gather evidence from a control group population to actually be able to attribute any observed things to microplastics.





  • I guess I can see the appeal, though for me this seems mostly like an issue with the home setup.

    For me, I don’t really care about price, it’s not that expensive.

    But what kills it for me is I can’t vape or pause the movie or rewind or flip on subtitles or control the volume, I can’t take a break to take a piss and I can’t comment on the movie with anyone I’m watching it with and I get to pay 20 bucks plus waste my day on travel so I could hear random strangers munch popcorn while I am forced to watch military recruitment ads and trailers for movies that somehow outslop actual AI slop that are always called some shit like “$80s_intellectual_property_name” or “shit world: dominator” and they always seem to have that one lady from the avengers in them.

    At home I watch web-DLs (and BDRemuxes for special occasions) on a 24 inch computer monitor with somewhat dodgy 2.1 Logitech speakers (basically classroom ones but with a subwoofer unit) from over 6 feet away and I lounge on the chespest IKEA couch. It feels like paradise to me honestly. But thanks for the perspective.